COFFS Coast Festival of Motor Sport 2022’s first event has been run and won.

Kempsey Sporting Car Club officials and members produced a great event, introducing RedPoint, the series sponsor, to the first round of the RedPoint Hillclimb Series at its Cooperabung Track on Sunday, 6 November.

With a field of 39 cars from Kempsey, Grafton and Coffs Harbour clubs, plus some from the Gold Coast Tweed Car Club, Bathurst Light Car Club and MG Car Club in Newcastle, some great times were achieved.

“The weather was good and the track almost perfect,” Coffs City Rotary Club executive Bob Carle, Chair of the Coffs Coast Festival of Motor Sport, told News Of The Area.

The following results are for the fastest time of the day:

First Outright: Dave Morrow from Coffs Harbour in a Krygger Suzuki with a time of 25.721secs.

Second Outright: Les Maloney from Kempsey in his Ford Focus with a time of 28.501secs.

Third Outright: Michael Boaden from Wauchope in a Mitsubishi Evo with a time of 28.970 secs.

Fastest Lady: Elizabeth Simpson in a VW Golf GTI with a time of 32.644 secs.

Fastest Junior: Thomas Oram in a Subaru Impreza with a time of 31.143 secs.

Coffs Harbour driver John Kelly was unlucky not to be in the outright results, finishing in his Subaru WRX with a time of 29.017 secs.

The second event in the Festival’s first weekend was the Burnout Competition at Raleigh Raceway.

A huge thanks goes to Steven Michell for his assistance in putting this show together.

“A lot of smoke and burnt tyres kept the many spectators entertained all afternoon,” said Bob.

“Some smart, very powerful visiting drivers outperformed the locals much to everyone’s approval.

“They were exciting to watch with lots of manoeuvers and plenty of smoke and noise.”

First was Logan Shore in a VR Commodore Ute, finishing second was Jett Trappel in a VN Commodore Wagon and third was Blake Bolton in a Falcon XR6 Turbo.

The action continued with Round 2 of the RedPoint Hillclimb series at Raleigh Raceway at Raleigh.

This event was run by Coffs Harbour and District Sporting Car Club and took place on Wednesday, 9 November.

More on that next week.

The following weekend on Saturday, 12 November sees a massive Motorcycle Show at Coffs Harbour Race Club in Howard Street.

This show will have vintage, classic, special and new bikes from local and out-of-town motorcycle dealers, motorcycle clubs and private collectors and restorers and is being run by Coffs City Rotary.

The Coffs Harbour Motorcycle Club is having its Champions of the Dirt Competition.

“This free two-day event will have many visiting riders mixing in with our locals and will have excitement for everyone,” said Bob.

Saturday will be on the Flat Track and Sunday will be on the Motor Cross track.

“The excitement here is if you want the Champion of the Dirt title you have to ride both tracks.

“How interesting will that be?” posed Bob.

“On top of all that we are at Raleigh Raceway for a two-day, Saturday and Sunday, NSW Rallycross Championship event.”

This is an exciting spectator sport with great vision of the track.

The final round of the RedPoint Hillclimb Series will be held at Grafton Sporting Car Club’s Mountain View Motorsport Complex off the Glenn Innes Road on Sunday, 13 November.

“There will be some serious racing for the points, trophies and prize money being the final round of a great locally-sponsored RedPoint series,” he said.

Food is available from the Club’s canteen and entry is free.