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GOLDENSTATES
DELIVERS AMAZING ONE-DAY ACTION
One-day race events are always action-packed from start to finish and the 2018
Goldenstates at the Perth Motorplex was no exception.
When all was said and done on December
1, it was Trent Anthony (Modified Bike),
Chris De Bruin (Super Street), Neil Scott
(Super Sedan), Angelo Locantro (Modified),
Alan Mahnkoph (Supercharged Outlaws),
Chris Roe (Top Sportsman), Justin Townson
(Competition Bike), Jake Chaisty (Super
Stock) and Kyle Putland (Competition) who
would hoist Silver ANDRA Christmas Trees
at the end of the night.
Taking home the runners-up honours were
Gavin Dohnt (Modified Bike), Lee Watson
(Super Street), Matt Gullotto (Super Sedan),
Mark Grieve (Modified), Jodie Mellitt
(Supercharged Outlaws), Amanda Martin
(Top Sportsman), Ross Smith (Competition
Bike), Ralph Lewis (Super Stock) and Sam
Treasure (Competition).
Watson, Mahnkoph, Martin and Treasure
had their hands full at the presentations
too, also taking out the Top Qualifier
Medallions for their brackets thanks to
TileCo-TheShowerPeople and KC Tools
alongside Graeme Goldsworthy (Modified
Bike), Mick Fenton (Super Sedan), Sam
Gullotto (Modified), Phill Paton (Competition
Bike), and Todd Stacy (Super Stock).
In Modified Bike, Trent Anthony took the
win over Gavin Dohnt after having earlier
emerged victorious from battles with Chris
Moore, Bruce Jones, and Chris Allen (round
one) while he enjoyed a bye run in the
second round. Dohnt meanwhile had faced
off against Paul De Klerk, Chris Fryer and
Rob Good.
“We ended up pulling the bike down and
replacing the clutch and any damaged
parts and got it all running again. Then,
when we pulled the bike out of the trailer,
we ran a PB straight up in our first qualifier
of 8.494s!
“From there the bike was running well,
our times were all pretty much similar and
we just didn’t really miss a beat and kept
knocking people out to get through to the
finals. There wasn’t really many hiccups
throughout the day, everything went well.
With Anthony having run into trouble with
his Suzuki GSXR just days before the event,
the victory was a great reward after a
frantic few days of repairs. “I have to thank Auto One in Clarkson and
also send big shout outs to my family, my
wife Jessica and daughter Ivy Rose, my dad
Greg and my mechanic Murray.”
“At the Test ‘N’ Tune (the Wednesday before
the event) we lost a bolt off of the clutch
basket which went through the clutch area
and did quite a bit of damage so we didn’t
actually think we were going to make it to
the Goldenstates,” Anthony explained. Chris De Bruin took out the Super Street
honours over Top Qualifier Lee Watson
after having earlier defeated Joel Trotman,
John Szabo, Paul McNamara and Denise
Downe (round one) while Watson took
on Ashleigh Wroe, Darren Bakranich and