Wilson takes out final event for year

THE Season’s final event for the Khanacross 2025 Series for the South Eastern Automobile Club (SEAC) took place at the Glenburnie Saleyards Complex with Sister Club Limestone Coast Off Road Club (LCORC) assembling a Khanacross under the director of the day, Heath Weedon, ably assisted by Paul (Keg) Height and LCORC officials.

Entries were a little low, with 21 to try their luck at either improving their points tally for the season, or, out to enjoy the tests on offer.

Newcomer Acie Keane on the first outing, received the dubious honour of Number 1 and drove extremely well all day, not at all fazed by being the first one at each of the somewhat difficult tests, catching out more than the odd one or two of the seasoned drivers.

Course 1 in the forward direction, tackled twice by each driver, saw some interesting results. Scott Bradley set the pace on the first run (24.29) in his immaculate Pulsar Wagon, closely followed by Damien Wilson (25.58), Josh Munn doing the job in his usual wild style (26.78) 3rd, Henry Sims (26.89) 4th, Duke Bradley (27.41) 5th, Rebel Skirving (27.54) 6th, Bailey Perryman (27.57) 7th, Justin Devlin (27.87) 8th, Murray Height (28.00) 9th, Max Viitanen (29.65) 10th.

Same test, second run, Ken Trimnell let loose in “Casper” the Subawoo WRX and his (23.65) run made the top of the list.

Damien Wilson in the “ol” S13 Nissan came in (23.89) 2nd with another well controlled “slide” through the gaps. Rebel Skirving is a “careful” driver and gets most of the courses done without any fuss or bother, this time (24.73) the Focus sitting in 3rd spot.

Josh Munn burnt up some more tyres and his controlled slide through the layout (24.83) used heaps more effort for 4th spot points.

Scott Bradley tried a bit harder this round (24.96) and dropped back to 5th, Bailey Perryman (25.69) 6th, Harrison Bliss (26.20) 7th, Murray Height (26.21) 8th, Duke Bradley having a bit of a go in the Big Ford Fairmont (26.97) 9th and Bruno Vadori giving the shared Commodore heaps (27.85) brought it home in 10th.

Reverse Direction of the layout, Damien Wilson rose to the challenge (23.91) to hold off a charge from Scott Bradley (24.08) 2nd, Rebel Skirving (24.73) also liking the track on offer, 3rd. Henry Sims, getting better at each outing (25.35) 4th, Ken Trimnell (25.68) 5th, Harrison Bliss (25.76) 6th, Murray Height (25.80) 7th, Bailey Perryman (26.21) enjoying the nimble Hyundai Excel in 8th, Bruno Vadori again giving the ‘Dore a big push (26.77) 9th and Justin Devlin, sharing the same ‘Dore (26.81) made 10th points on this run.

Second run at this course, Scott Bradley made the pretty Pulsar dance a little harder and (23.79) put the car at the top of the list, closely followed by Damien Wilson (23.89) in 2nd spot. Ken Trimnell tightened the belt and he trimmed off 1.5 seconds from his first run, (24.05) to get 3rd spot, Geoff Wilson, having an off day in his Magna, finally got one right (24.75) for 4th fastest.

Bailey Perryman (25.10) 5th, Rebel Skirving and Henry Sims, totally different driving styles (slow and steady, fast and furious) put in identical drives (25.27) for equal 6th spot.

Harrison Bliss (25.39) made 8th, Justin Devlin (26.13) got to 9th with Bruno Vadori (26.52) in the same shared car 10th.

With some “subtle” changes to the course, Max Viitanen drove the V8 Commodore well for the (24.73) quickest time, Ken Trimnell (24.86) made 2nd, Damien Wilson (24.93) 3rd, all three on the same “second”, split by 2/10ths 1st to 3rd. Bailey Perryman (25.26) also knocking on the door, 4th, Henry Sims (25.82) 5th, Geoffrey Wilson (26.15) 6th, Justin Devlin (26.79) 7th, Harrison Bliss (27.12) 8th, Rebel Skirving (27.64) with another “clean” run, 9th, Bradley Viitanen, enjoying the Hyundai Getz (29.84) made the top 10 on this one. He is another up and coming Junior that is learning what to do very quickly.

Run 2 at this course, Damien Wilson made it his own (24.63) for top points, Scott Bradley (24.70) 2nd with Bailey Perryman (25.08) hot on his heels 3rd, Ken Trimnell (25.52) 4th, Justin Devlin (26.52) showing that the Commodore can be driven “straight” at times, 5th.

Harrison Bliss, enjoying the “calmness” of his front wheel drive Nissan Pulsar (26.78) made 6th to pip Rebel Skirving’s drive (26.80) for 7th spot. Bradley Viitanen, tasting success on his earlier run, (27.31) made it to 8th spot with another good drive.

Brother Max, copped a “flag” penalty on this run (30.28), dropping him back to 9th, with another “Junior” and first-time competitor, Seth Peberdy putting in a clean run (30.40) for his first top ten finish.

Reverse direction of this course, Scott Bradley liked what he saw and (24.86) put the Pulsar Wagon at the top of the time sheet. Just 0.17 seconds behind (25.03), Damien Wilson did his best to get home in 2nd, Ken Trimnell another 2 tenths (25.23) behind in 3rd.

Josh Munn lit up the track in the long-suffering Datsun 180B SSS, slip, slip, sliding his way around (25.77) for 4th points, Henry Sims next (26.11) in 5th with another well controlled attacking drive in his Celica.

Max Viitanen (26.26) made 6th, Bailey Perryman (26.82) 7th, Murray Height (27.38) 8th, Harrison Bliss (27.42) 9th, Bruno Vadori (27.80) getting the better of this run for 10th spot.

Same run, same way, Scott Bradley again (24.78) owned the test from a big go from Max Viitanen (24.92) in 2nd spot, Ken Trimnell (25.19) 3rd, Damien Wilson (25.37) 4th, Bailey Perryman (25.88) 5th, Josh Munn (26.07) 6th, Henry Sims (26.14) 7th, Geoff Wilson (26.54) 8th, Harrison Bliss (26.56) 9th and Rebel Skirving (26.65) rounding out the top 10.

After a lunch break at the Saleyards Canteen, the director for the day changed the layout a little and led the drivers around to show them where to go from go to whoa.

Course 3, forward direction, Scott Bradley ran the Pulsar Wagon as hard as it would go and set the pace (43.87) for the rest to catch.

Bailey Perryman got close (45.70) for 2nd, from Damien Wilson (46.09) in 3rd. Ken Trimnell (46.36) made 4th, Henry Sims (46.71) 5th, Harrison Bliss (48.15) 6th, Rebel Skirving, again in her “no fuss” driving style (48.27) 7th, Murray Height (48.94) 8th, Justin Devlin (52.01) 9th, Geoff Wilson, with another of those pesky track markers jumping under the Magna (53.74) 10th.

Second pass at this, Scott Bradley made it 2 from 2, (44.13) liking the track and looking for “more speed” from the breathless Pulsar, 1st home.

Ken Trimnell had a bit of a go on this track (44.55) for 2nd, Henry Sims, again driving well, (45.06) made 3rd quickest on this longer track. Bailey Perryman, driving the wheels off his Excel all day, (46.18) made 4th on this run, Harrison Bliss (46.72) 5th, Damien Wilson (47.04) may have enjoyed this skid a bit too much, getting home in 6th. Murray Height, another driver finding the adhesion limits on a couple of runs, (47.62) came in 7th with a well-controlled drive. Bruno Vadori, pushing as hard as the well-worn rear tyres would allow, (50.09) made 8th spot, to just hold off Justin Devlin (50.70) driving the same car for 9th, with another of the upcoming Juniors, Henry Skirving driving the family XR5 Focus, (53.68) made the top 10, enjoying the longer run of this course.

Reverse Direction, Scott Bradley again wound up the rubber band tight and pushed the Pulsar to the top of the time sheet (44.65) to hold off Damien Wilson (45.16) 2nd, Ken Trimnell (46.15) 3rd, Max Viitanen (47.46) 4th, Bailey Perryman (47.62) 5th, Henry Sims (48.82) 6th, Rebel Skirving (50.54) 7th, Justin Devlin (51.45) 8th, Geoffrey Wilson (another *** cone penalty) (52.66) 9th and a wild drive by Josh Munn (53.22) for 10th.

Same layout, same direction, Scott Bradley (44.27) first home, Ken Trimnell (45.49) 2nd, Damien Wilson (45.61) 3rd, Bailey Perryman (46.60) 4th, Henry Sims (46.86) 5th, Max Viitanen (47.22) 6th, Harrison Bliss (48.27) 7th, Rebel Skirving (49.95) 8th, Justin Devlin (51.25) made 9th on what was left of the rear tyres on the shared Commodore, Bradley Viitanen made the Hundy work hard on the last run and (52.07) made another entry in the top 10.

Summing up the day, there were many, many, wrong directions and cone penalties from most of the competitors trying hard to “beat” whoever, or, just enjoying the oversize Motorkhana tests that Heath and Co. assembled for this final round of the 2025 series.

After a big season, both the Limestone Coast Offroad Club and South Eastern Automobile Club competition for 2025 is now complete.

Check each club’s website for activities for 2026, with action to start in February.

PHOTO COURTESY OF DARREN ARCHIBALD (TURN8 PHOTOGRAPHY)