VOL. 52 ISSUE 3 JANUARY 20, 2015 P85
Briefly...
The hotly-contested Troy Bayliss
Legends race saw multi-time Austra-
lian Dirt Track Champion Chris Wat-
son top the points on 63 with 1-2-5
results ahead of former AMA Super-
sport rider Damon Buckmaster on
58 with 4-4-2 finishes. Third place
went to motocross legend Stephen
Gall on 53. Shawn Giles and Jeff
Leisk rounded out the top five.
Michael Kirkness took the 'hard
dude' award after suffering a sus-
pected broken left ankle in the open-
ing TBC heat race. Kirkness came
together with Jack Miller and Jay
Marmont, both Marmont and Kirk-
ness hitting the deck. Then Damian
Cudlin was next on the scene and
took a full hit from Kirkness' flying
Honda, breaking his clutch lever off
but thankfully not sustaining any per-
sonal damage. Kirkness also sepa-
rated his shoulder in the crash but,
"popped it in; it comes out pretty
easy these days…" he said. He tried
to continue on, fronting the grid for
BY RENNIE SCAYSBROOK
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KEITH MUIR
T
he current AMA Grand Na-
tional number one, Jared
Mees, showed the style
and speed that took him to the
2014 championship by clinch-
ing the 2015 Troy Bayliss Clas-
sic (TBC) in front of over 6000
spectators crammed into the
Taree Motorcycle Club's oil track
at Taree, Australia.
The third running of the TBC,
already Australia's premier dirt
taking out the
although he didn't
MASTER
MEES
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