THE Pines Enduro on September 22-24 celebrates 40 continuous years of off road racing through the Tantanoola Forest.
The Millicent Sand Buggy Club have organised a big screen which will broadcast live action from its home in Teagles’ Quarry.
There will also be helicopter joy flights, lots of choices for food and beverages, and off road racing action as some of the best off road machines and racers from across Australia converge on Millicent.
Event naming rights partner Teagle Excavations, have been busy with their heavy machinery doing earthworks in the quarry, reducing the possibility of standing water in a wet event.
This year’s event could attract a record field with the Australian Off Road Racing Series outright title wide open and only a few of the classes titles already decided.
The Millicent Sand Buggy Club, last year announced a change in the event format with short course laps to be raced on Saturday.
However, wet weather saw the cancelling of Saturday’s racing last year.
This year the club are once again excited to launch the new format which will provide plenty of action for the spectators.
Friday afternoon will see competitors unloading their vehicles for scrutiny from 5pm and a public display continuing into the night at Teagle’s Quarry.
The on-track entertainment will start at 10am on Saturday with the Prologue held at Teagle’s Quarry right on the outskirts of Millicent.
The one lap sprint around the 6km track will see buggies, trophy trucks and 4WD’s flying over the natural terrain and manmade jumps that are all visible from the main arena.
This area is a favourite of competitors and spectators and is second to none in Australia to witness all the thrills and spills of these amazing machines close up.
After the Prologue has been completed competitors will be grouped into heats of 12 to 14 cars based on their qualifying time.
Each heat will have cars starting in pairs with gaps of 30 seconds between each pair.
The competitors will complete three laps of the 6km quarry circuit, and with the overall time counting towards their total race time for the event, this will ensure more track time on Saturday for
the competitors and allowing spectators to see more of their favourite drivers throughout the day.
The main race will see the field head off to forest from 8.30am on Sunday with the grid reversed based on Saturday’s results.
This will mean the smaller and less horse power vehicles will get first use of the forest tracks and the faster cars will have the track swept clean as they take on the six laps of the 75km circuit that winds through the Wattle Range Council roads, OneFortyOne Plantations and Forestry SA tracks.
