Kickstarters Gascoyne Dash

[NissanGQ4.2]

The Kickstarters Gascoyne Dash® is a genuine desert race.

It is an awesome challenge across some of the harshest and remote country in Australia. Situated between the seaside town of Carnarvon and Gascoyne Junction WA - the desert by the sea.
The Dash is a motorsport event that pits car against car and bike against bike and then the quickest of each against each other to determine who the King of the River is.
Kickstarters is in memory of local identity Neville Brandstater who tragically drowned in the Lyndon River in 1995.
Gascoyne is a mighty river of sand where a lot of the race is conducted.
Dash refers to the first races which were boat events down the flooded Gascoyne River. Unfortunately the Gascoyne rarely flows so move over boats and come in cars and bikes.
Comparison has been made between the Dash and the Finke Desert Race. Both races are a true test of machine and competitor, both are races that promote the unique Australian outback. The Dash is a point to point race over a hugely varied landscape, a cross country course extensively consisting of natural desert and outback terrain. In excess of 500km over two days the Dash is long and tough; it is an ultimate challenge.
Day One Racing

The Day one track is 187km across the full range of Dash country; medium and fast paced station tracks, sandy river crossings, red sand dunes, a 10-15km of rocky hill climbs and a fast run to the finish. Competitors’ intent should be to survive day one.
Day Two Racing

Day two brings 324 km’s of awesome country and high speed sections. The race starts with 10km of reasonable paced station track then 30 km of tighter corrugated flats between rugged rocky outcrops and hill climbs then drop into the Lyons River and then into the mighty Gascoyne River for 140km. The river brings flat out end of throttle sections interspersed with 3 metre drop offs, rough as crab hole sections and tight rocky sections. If you have time to look you pass calm billabongs complete with black swans, big timber patches, our feral friends goats, dingoes, roos, emu and cattle.
You come out of the river after a compulsory stop at Rocky Pool East for a refuel and re inflate of tyres then onto a blisteringly fast 120km flat out Dash to the finish at Carnarvon Race Course where competitors give the spectators a taste of extreme racing through a series of tight turns and jump ups in the race course in field.


http://www.gasdash.com/

[Woof]

Video of some of the action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10yHacRIhek

[NissanGQ4.2]

Video of some of the action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10yHacRIhek

Thanks for the link mate, forgot i even posted this event, great 2 see sum footage of it

[Woof]

This is coming up again this October, hopefully I will make it this year.
There are some videos on the website.
http://www.gasdash.com/

[TheFlyingBadger]

This is coming up again this October, hopefully I will make it this year.
There are some videos on the website.
http://www.gasdash.com/

doggy, myself and a mate are intending to go up and volunteer. I'm going to see about getting it put up as a WPC trip up there...

[the godfather]

I sponsored a car in this even once. Definitely a good race and worth the trip.

[TheFlyingBadger]

Definitely a good race and worth the trip.

it just looks like it could be a fantastic few days out.

[UKKiwi]

doc evil put a thread up about it a while ago. I'm interested too-I say this every year! The finke was this weekend-I missed that one as well!!

[TheFlyingBadger]

doc evil put a thread up about it a while ago. I'm interested too-I say this every year! The finke was this weekend-I missed that one as well!!

I had a brief chat with the doc a few weeks ago about it. I should really get on the website and register, it would then commit me to going (at least in my own mind).

[Dusty]

hey all WPC people.

If you could make it a club trip ya won't regret it. The Dash is an awesome event and the country around the gascoyne is truly breathtaking. The whole town of Carnarvon gets involved and nature of the race will change this year because of the floods the gascoyne area has recieved recently and its a good way to support flood effected regional WA.

I'll be heading up again this year. Can't wait.