{"id":101911,"date":"2024-06-07T10:07:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T14:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/?p=101911"},"modified":"2024-06-07T10:07:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T14:07:44","slug":"new-zealander-takes-national-title-at-champions-50th-anniversary-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2024\/06\/07\/new-zealander-takes-national-title-at-champions-50th-anniversary-event\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealander takes National Title at Champion&#8217;s 50th Anniversary Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">By Jason Bonsignore &#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">International Racer, Bradley Wilson-Dean, of New Zealand, flew in to take part in Champion Speedway&#8217;s 50th Anniversary Outlaw National Championships, and did not disappoint as he won every race and did not have mechanical failure in over the two-day Memorial Day weekend show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Due to a couple of DNF&#8217;s on Saturday, Wilson-Dean found himself in the B Final \/ last chance, along with current track champion Casey Donholt, Mike Cortese of New Jersey, and Caleb Stewart of Apalachin. Wilson won that event, which moved him into the A Final. He will join Chris Kerr of Northern California, former two-time US National Champion; Aaron Fox, from Southern California; and past East Coast Champions Len McBride, and Spencer Portararo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On the first attempt of the Main Event Kerr got into Wilson-Dean off turn two and he went down hard. After some deliberation the referee ordered a full restart, which many felt was the correct call. Wilson-Dean, riding a borrowed bike, went around the outside off an outside gate to swoop the field and did not look back, taking the overall win for night one!<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_101913\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2024\/06\/Speedway2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101913\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101913\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2024\/06\/Speedway2.jpeg\" alt=\"New Zealander takes National Title at Champion's 50th Anniversary Event\" width=\"500\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2024\/06\/Speedway2.jpeg 500w, http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2024\/06\/Speedway2-300x286.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured is Champion Bradley Wilson-Dean. Provided Photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On Sunday, Wilson-Dean would win his first 3 heats and then throw a chain in his 4th. He would still make the 4 round robin Finals along with Kerr, Portararo, Fox, and McBride.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">To add excitement his bike again tossed a chain in the first Main, which added to Kerr&#8217;s point lead for the title. He would rally back to win Main 2 and then go onto win Main 3 and 4. With 3-point increments between 1st and 2nd place for the Main Event points, he and Kerr would eventually conclude on a tie at 57 points and bring about a runoff for the title!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With both riders being very tired at this stage after an unconventional 4 Main events, they both agreed to do 2 laps for the runoff. Wilson-Dean made the start again and Kerr kept close distance but could not catch him, and as the International rider took the 50th Anniversary OUTLAW NATIONAL TITLE!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Champion&#8217;s next event is the Jagger Roberts Memorial race on June 8.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Overall Finish: Bradley Wilson-Dean, Chris Kerr, Spencer Portararo, Aaron Fox, and Lenny McBride<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">D-2: Kenny Dahlin<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">D-3: Cody Pierce<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">JR D-1: Cody Pierce<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">JR D-2: Jake Kilmer<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Trikes: Chase Archibald<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Champion Speedway is located at the end of Route 434 in Owego on Old Narrows Road. More information can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastcoastspeedway.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.eastcoastspeedway.com<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedwaybikes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.speedwaybikes.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Bonsignore &#8212; International Racer, Bradley Wilson-Dean, of New Zealand, flew in to take part in Champion Speedway&#8217;s 50th Anniversary Outlaw National Championships, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":101912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Zealander takes National Title at Champion&#039;s 50th Anniversary Event - Owego Pennysaver Press<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2024\/06\/07\/new-zealander-takes-national-title-at-champions-50th-anniversary-event\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Zealander takes National Title at Champion&#039;s 50th Anniversary Event - Owego Pennysaver Press\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Jason Bonsignore &#8212; 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