Nic Waters takes the #1 plate at Gillman - March 2015

March 15, 2015 by Gillman Media

Nic Waters is the #1 plate holder after a dominating display in an entertaining Flat Track Masters meeting at Gillman Speedway on Saturday.

Waters won all five of his heats and the final despite strong opposition from his brother Brodie, and multiple Australian Championship winner Paul Caslick. Waters was one of only two riders to clean sheet in a very competitive meeting across six classes.

The other was fellow Mildura rider Ned Faulkhead in the Under 16 class.

The first final to be decided was the Pre 1985 Solos and this was a clean sweep of the podium positions by the Mitchell family with Luke Mitchell winning from Jake Mitchell and Daniel Mitchell. Jake and Luke dominated the heats, scoring 23 and 22 points respectively (out of a maximum possible 25), and their racing against each other in the five heats and the final was one of the highlights of the day.

The second final was the first of the junior finals, the 65cc Solos for age 9 to 12. Kyle Machin, Casey Marley-Duncan and Jackson Milner provided some exciting scraps during the heats but Marley-Duncan scored a comfortable win in the final from Milner with Liam May beating Machin for third place.

Machin and Marley-Duncan also rode in the 9-U13 85cc class and this time it was Machin who came out on top from Marley-Duncan (who led for the first six laps of the 8 lap final), Sampson Rawle and Brayden Bowes.

The remaining Junior class, the 13-15 150cc 2 stroke/250cc 4 stroke Solos, was dominated by Faulkhead. He not only won every heat and the final, but would have been well in the running, along with Jake and Luke Mitchell in the pre 85 class, and Nic Waters in the Pro 450 class, as the most exciting rider of the day. Mitch Simpson finished second in the final ahead of Brad Lohmann and Brayden McGuinness who had some close races for the minor places behind Faulkhead in the heats.

The Pro 250 Solo class saw a second victory for Jake Mitchell. He was beaten only once in the heats, by Red Bull MotoGP Rookie rider Olly Simpson, then led Simpson, Brock Gates and Dylan McKenzie home in the final. Although Mitchell dominated in the results there was nothing much between him, Simpson, Gates, McKenzie and Cooper Riordan in the heats, although Riordan sat out the rest of the meeting after a second ride crash when dicing with Gates.

The feature event, the Pro 450 Solo class, was contested by 24 riders, with a 15 rider-10 lap final, and it was Nic Waters who took the #1 plate, winning all five of his heats and the final. Most of the 20 qualifying heats saw some shoulder-to-shoulder racing for the major placings but heat nine gave a sneak preview of the final when Waters beat Paul Caslick, Brodie Waters, Brock Gates, Luke Mitchell and Logan Coombe. The final saw the same first four placegetters with Robert Medson finishing fifth.