Tough sport
pp. 110-111 · Read in the full issue
Tough sports bloom splendidly in the New Guinea climate. Car rallying, motor cycling, go karting and stock car racing are all enjoying boom support this year in the major towns.
Port Moresby at present is the centre of it all and the South Pacific Motor Sports Club has already affiliated itself with the Confederation of Australian Motor Sports (for cars) and the Auto Cycle Union of Queensland (in the case of bikes).
This has enabled the club already to stage a Papuan Safari, which last year attracted several tough Australian teams. This year the event, to be held in mid-September, is expected to be the equal of the East African Safari in road conditions.
The club is also organising for the first time in Papua-New Guinea's sporting history a territory motor cycle scrambles championship in which Aus tralian and New Zealand riders are expected to compete on October 4. (Those interested can write to the Secretary, South Pacific Motor Sports Club, PO Box 4, Port Moresby, TPNG).
Just to give you an idea what a scramble is like here are a selec tion of pictures taken by Denis Fisk and Neil Kendrick at a recent Port Moresby trial. Opposite, current champion John Maclean on a works Yamaha appears to have stopped in mid-air. Underneath, Honda ace, Marshall Paul and Yamaha rider, Norm Mundy, crash together in the same scramble. Right, this is go karting, as dangerous a sport as motor cycle racing. Here South Pacific Motor Sports Club vice president, Nev Hannah, takes his twin engined kart on the Moresby track. Below, Charlie Yabsley wrestles his Yamaha as it fails to make a slope.