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Friday September 3, 2021
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CLUB REPORT Mudcrabs
Here it is, the penultimate week. All the hard work a sporting club puts in week in, week out is to realise the dream of running out on Grand Final weekend. On the weekend both the Men’s and Women’s teams played to continue their 2021 campaigns one more week. The Women’s team played valiantly but unfortunately went down to the Southside Crusaders. It was a great year for our Women’s team as we faced adversity through a mountain of injuries to rise together to remain competitive. This will build for an even better 2022. The Men’s team ran out winners against Cairns Wanderers in the reserve grade semi-final. They look to continue the clubs undefeated streak in Grand Finals and add the 2021 trophy to the cabinet alongside 2015, 2019 and 2020 trophies from our As, Reserves and Women’s teams. This year has had its ups and downs but it is all on the line this weekend. The Mudcrabs play rivals Barron Trinity Bulls in a Grand Final that will add another chapter to this now famous local rivalry. To see the mighty Mudcrabs take home the gold come down to Barlow Park this Saturday the of September 4 at 2.30pm Mudcrab’s Rugby Union Football Club Name: Northern Beaches Rugby Union Football Club Founded: 2013 Location: Yorkey’s Knob Number of championships: 1 A-Grade (2015), 1 Reserve-Grade (2019) and 1 Women (2020). Next game: 2022 Reserve-Grade Grand Final What makes this club amazing: The selfless committee that gives up their time all year, the coaching staff that always best prepare the players, the players who are committed and friendly to each other and lastly, the family environment.
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PETER MCCULLAGH TARGA has always attracted motor sport royalty, from Dick Johnson, Jim Richards, Greg Crick and this year TARGA Great Barrier Reef with feature Australian rally legends the Dunkerton family. As a family they are no strangers to all aspects of racing, from designing and building their own cars, tweaking, and tuning for optimum performance, through to pushing the limits in racing. This weekend, this racing family who now call Cairns home, will participate in two categories of TARGA Great Barrier Reef. Lisa and Ross will lead the Tour event of Targa Great Barrier Reef 2021. Ross Dunkerton is a fivetime CAMS Australian Rally Champion, recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2018, dual Asia-Pacific Rally Champion, Southern Cross Rally winner in 1980, and instrumental in the Australian bid to lobby the FIA for a round of the World Rally Championship in 1987. He was awarded life membership of CAMS in 2011, inducted into the Australian Rally Hall of Fame in 2013 and the Australian Motor Sport Hall of Fame in 2016. So, fair to say, he is right at home on and off the road and behind the wheel. Lisa Dunkerton is a former state champion and multiple event winner in her own right. Together they will be a formidable team. Their 29-year-old son,
Aaron Dunkerton is a local barrister and notable legal professional. His brother Flynn, 21, is a fourth-year apprentice electrician. Aaron will be flanked by the very experienced navigator and current Queensland Champion Co Driver, Alan Stean, driving a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 8, in the 4WD Early Modern division. Flynn will be driving with navigator Shane Moes, competing in the TSD division, (Time Speed Distance). Shane, a director of the locally owned Autobarn Cairns and Smithfield stores, who are sponsoring Team Dunkerton for the third year running. Flynn Dunkerton will be driving a unique Subaru WRX 2.5 litre hybrid, personally designed and built by himself, the only one of its kind in the world today. While Ross Dunkerton refers to Shane as ‘a natural’, Shane is focused on the maths of navigation; “My job is to ensure I map out the time, speed and distance right; so that we have the opportunity to compete again next year.” Now in its fourth year, the TARGA Great Barrier Reef event has been embraced internationally as one of the most spectacular racing events, providing drivers of all kinds, usually from all corners of the globe, with an opportunity to test their vehicles and their driving skills on some of the most notoriously challenging roads in beautiful north Queensland.
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