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Southwick 1978 May NESC expert class

Finally someone else remembers lol and even has pics! These things are like the ghost of christmas past the section they were on stayed (until this year) but they quietly disappeared like a decade ago and nobody ever talked about them since. Ive been trying to find some pictures of them but havent been able to. I think I’m gonna have to send a message on the 338 facebook or something and ask why they went away and if they can at least come back now that buckley berm is gone, because Ive never got an answer. Its not like...

Notice any form difference from jojo to me

RIP Andy

Wow, great responses lads, will have a read tonight after i'm finished with the yard. Cheers!

Yup, the original track, I think it was used for 1-2 years, was where the post office was built. They lost the track to build the PO. I have some of the old Cycle Sport Magazine articles, ill dig them out and post.

Heres my dad ripping buckley berm in the 70’s with an open face, sand deep af. He was one of those local guys who would beat up on the national guys when they came to town. Heres another pic, not sure where, maybe capeway rovers.

TP 01 Stew 02 Stew 02 Lusk + Ferry 02 Keith Johnson 02 Keith Johnson 01 ...... + Langston (edit) KW 02

I hated Southwick backwards, something about was terrible, lack of flow maybe. the left handed first turn was terrible, too narrow.

If you want to go way back to the 1970's, the finish line was located where what is known as the 'spectators jump" is. The spectators jump was at least twice as big as it is now. Air cooled 125's would land at the bottom and there were lots of injuries every weekend. John Finkeldey broke his KTM 495 in half off of it at the '82 National. The finish line was moved to the "tower straight "and the jump was mellowed out considerably.

Yea the frog pond was cut out and in turn the section before the finish was added in to keep the length about the same. The frog pond was after the long straight away after the start instead of the left turn after the deegan scrub jump instead they took a right across where the hill is to the start and dropped down into the frog pond then came back in and linked up about where the exit of that left turn is. Then in that drop down where christain craig crashed instead of jumping there it was a left...