Australian Speedway legend to ride in Gillman classic meeting

October 21, 2018 by Gillman Media

One of Australia’s Speedway Sidecar legends, Dennis Nash, is one of the early nominations for the annual Gillman Classic Speedway Championships meeting in Adelaide.

Western Australian Nash rode from 1968 to 1992 and was the first rider to win the Australian Championship five times, breaking the long-standing record of another legend, Jim Davies.

Davies won the title four times between 1947 and 1951 and that record stood alone until Nash equalled it in 1988, and then broke it the following year, 1989.

His first Australian Championship win was in 1975 when he was proud to be the first rider from WA to win the Title.

As well as 5 Australian Titles, Nash also won 3 Australian Best Pairs Titles, and a record 9 Western Australian Titles. He was also second twice and third five times in the WA Championship.

Nash’s passenger at Gillman will be Denis Mortimer, who was his passenger in two of his Australian Title wins, and two of his WA Title wins.

The Classic meeting, featuring multiple classes of Solos and Sidecars, plus Three Quarter Midgets, will be held on Saturday night, 3 November, and will gives fans the chance to enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of the bikes of yesteryear before the modern-day summer season starts with an international Solo meeting on 17 November.

Top photo: Dennis Nash and the late Ray Barber in the centre of Bill Mitchell/David Weaver (left) and Neil Munro/Rod Lang during the final of Australian Championship at Rowley Park in 1973. Photo by David Brock.