Australian Postie Bike GP 2019
Now in it's 6th year, the 2019 Cessnock Mitsubishi Australian Postie Bike Grand Prix (APBGP) is a motorcycle race team event held in the streets around the
Cessnock’s Central Business District, the streets utilized will be closed to traffic.
The 2018 event not only attracted local riders, but also world renown riders like Chad Reed alongside riders with previous world motorcycle titles to their name and many “first timers”.
The 2019 event, will again be focused on providing family friendly entertainment with free attendance.
The Australian Postie Bike GP team would once again like to thank Cessnock Mitsubishi for coming on board again for our 2019 event. This will be the fourth year in a row of being the major sponsor of this event. Without the generosity of local Cessnock companies like Scotty and his team, at Cessnock Mitsubishi, we could not host this event.
So if you in the market for a new car, please give some consideration to those who dig deep to support local community events.
Sign On & Scrutineering: Sat 9th November 2019
Race Day: Sunday 10th November 2019
Supplementary regulations are available here
Please read the Sup Regs carefully as there have been some changes for this years event.
Online Entry is available here
When paying entry fee into specified club account detailed in 2019 sup regs, can you please try and keep payment to one transaction per team if possible -
for payment description, please use team number and the surname of the “A” rider only. (ie 22 REED) - team names or sponsors will not be accepted.
Outline of the Event
The inaugural event was held in October 2014 and was deemed to be a “fantastic success” based from crowd attendance, community feedback and media support.
Following on from this success, the event was again held in in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 under a council approved 5-year DA and as in the inaugural year has been well accepted by the Cessnock community.
The 2019 event as in the previous years will be a motorcycle race team event held in the streets around the Cessnock’s Central Business District, the streets utilized will be closed to traffic.
Local cafes and business houses are encouraged to trade al fresco to the crowds that line the course and visit the Vincent Street precinct.
The Honda CT 110 Postie Bike is the ideal platform for such a race as the iconic nature of the machine has attracted high interest from many people, local and interstate, at the relatively low speeds the machine has proven to be capable and will enhance spectator’s vision of the race whilst mitigating risk and liability for the public and riders.
Each team will be made up of five persons being two riders and three pit persons, the total number of teams for the event will be 72. Social Media statistics show that over 8000 views were made of the official Facebook page in and around the month of the 2017 event.
The Postie Bikes used in the Competition:
To qualify for The Australian Postie Bike Grand Prix 2019 the bikes utilized must be genuine Honda brand CT110 step through motorcycle with a capacity not exceeding 110CC.
The bikes are required to be standard as manufactured in basic specification and will be scrutineered prior to Sunday race day. This will be conducted on Saturday 10th November between Peden’s Hotel and the Cessnock Civic Centre, the scrutineering is also open for the public to attend and witness the ever popular ‘Dyno testing of the machines”.
Major items to be verified as standard by the officials are:
- Muffler / exhaust system
- Sprockets
- Wheels
- Suspension
- Tyres legal road approved
- Dyno testing of power (max 6.3HP)
At the completion of the APBGP the power output of the machines entered will be measured by dyno-tune device for the top 10 placed motorcycles. The upper limit set for qualification will be the standard horsepower of 6.3 h.p. If any machines are found to exceed the upper limit, that team will be disqualified from the event, and the placegetter below will move up one position.
This does not constitute the supplementary regulations which are available from the link provided above.
The Program of Events
Saturday 9th November
- Scrutineering / Riders and crew sign on at Peden’s Hotel
- Machines will then be locked under security until Sunday morning
Sunday 10th of November
Parade Lap 9.00am Sunday
- Followed by sighting lap for each rider in the team.
- Each team will contest a 20-minute practice/qualifying heat in grids of a maximum of 36 teams on track at once.
- The team allocation for practice/qualifying session will be printed in program and/or final instructions.
Qualifying:
- 2 Qualifying Heats race of 20 laps will be seeded to make sure a fair spread of abilities across each of the heats.
- Teams must change rider on a minimum of 3 occasions during the 20 lap heat
- A single rider must not ride in excess of 10 of the 20 laps in a heat
- The first eighteen (18) teams from each heat, will contest The Australian Postie Bike Grand Prix 2019
- Teams placed 19 to 36 in each heat will go through to the Cessnock Cup
The Cessnock Cup:
- Conducted over 1 hour plus 1 lap for the teams placed 19th to 36th from each of the heats
Postie Bike Women's Race:
- Limit of 36 entries
- Only competing teams can nominate a female rider on their team bike
- 1 x 15 minute practice qualifying session to determine start positions for the Postie Bike Women's race
- Postie Bike Women's race will be held over 12 laps
The Australian Postie Bike Grand Prix:
- Conducted over 90 minutes plus one lap for the teams placed 1st to 18th from each of the heats
The Course
The course commences with the start line situated in Darwin Street Cessnock.
The track then turns left into the exit of Cessnock TAFE adjacent Hall St.
From here, a couple of bends and corners will enter onto North Avenue where the riders will swing left before turning back onto South Avenue and left again back into Hunter TAFE. From here, the track will exit out onto South Avenue for a quick dash and then back into the TAFE Campus for one right turn prior to turning right back onto Darwin St.
Then head down Darwin St for 100 metres then turning left into South Avenue. A left onto Charlton St will bring the riders behind Cessnock Ex-Service Club onto Charlton Avenue.
A left onto Hall St will see the riders heading into the Hunter TAFE Campus past the Finish line.
Course Layout
The Cessnock Motorcycle Club Inc. welcomes your involvement in The Australian Postie Bike Grand Prix 2019 and wishes all participants and sponsors the best of luck.