ARB Midland team dominate the WAORC
After a shortened 4 round Western Australian Off Road Racing Championship due to the cancellation of Three Springs, it would be Team Red that would come up trumps at seasons end! Adam Trewhella took another dominant championship win with Koby Grant alongside him, whilst good friend and team mate Mark Cramer piloted his way to 2nd outright with Jay Jankowski calling the shots from the passenger. in 3rd outright and backing up 2nd in 2024 was Matt Dec, the top placed SXS Pro competitor in the outright field. Dec used 2 different navigators this season, which cost Murray Kifer 3rd outright, pipped at the post by Sebastian Pinner who was 3rd outright for the navigators
Looking through the classes, Trewhella backed up his WAORC outright win with the class win ahead of Cramer and Jankowski and newcomers Jordan Bull and Darren Sanders in the #4 Jimco Pro Buggy. Last years outright champion Keith Rance would place 4th with Ken Madeley made it 3 of the Team ARB Midland Buggies in the top 5 in class
Prolite once again belongs to Michael Davis and Matthew Dunstan with their consistency across the season rewarded with the Prolite class win. Ryan Print claimed 2nd in class with newcomer to the class Graeme Bentink locking into 3rd. With several top level machines floating around in WA this class could be one to watch in 2026 for some exciting racing action
Sportslite was a battle of the single seaters with Lee Marsh claiming 1st in class ahead of South Australia’s Luke Erceg and Kalgoorlies Jeremy Lia just ahead of 4th placed man CJ Green. Interestingly, Lia’s SS Racetech prolit was the only 2 seater amongst the field and so his navigator Jamie Tilbrook will take home the state champion navigator trophy for the Sportstlite class
Super 1650 saw just one competitor scoring points with Corne De Wit and father Pieter De Wit claiming maximum points at Perenjori, Bencubbin and Kalgoorlie to lock in for a first Super 1650 title for the young gun
Extreme 2wd would see Paul Boscott just edge Harleigh Uren out for the class win. Boscott’s navigator would take out the class championship for navigators whilst kiwi sensation Boston Morgan-Horan opted to collect points at Kalgoorlie and earnt himself 3rd in the class championship
Performance 2wd was dominated by Steven Scott and Jordan Hobbs taking out the class win ahead of Mathew Beck and Lindon House in 2nd and Daniel Fahey and Sean Beck in 3rd. The big black Hilux proving to be too quick for the WA Off Road Juniory Development Program competitors across the course of a season
SXS Pro was the most hotly contested class all year with a whopping 30 different drivers scoring points through the season. Kristan Pinner and son Sebastian Pinner taking out the class win over Matt Dec and Murray Kifer. 3rd would go to Malcolm Yeardley but with Yeardley using multiple different navigators it would be Bob Smith who navigated for Brad Smith who would claim 3rd in class for navigators
SXS Sport was a shootout between Jason Stone and Rob Clarke for the class title. In the end strong results at Perenjori and Bencubbin gave Jason Stone and Sophie Visser the class win with Rob Clarke and Jase Dolton in 2nd for the naturally aspirated SXS class
Production 4wd was dominated by Simon Jones, with his sons Drew Jones and Brent Jones claiming 1st and 2nd in the navigators points after sharing the seat all year. Jones in the 715 Prado would win the class with Blaze Cowan and Caleb Bradfield taking 2nd and 3rd respectively
In the Extreme 4wd class Max Bradley and Sean Beck claimed another title for the WA Off Road Junior Development Program in the #888 Patrol. They outscored Aaron Cassidy and Adam Lanigan, who narrowly beat out Warren Classen and Luke Dixon to claim 2nd and 3rd respectively. Behind the podium trio lurked the 4wd Trophy Trucks of Travis Robinson, Brett Comiskey & Brent Smoothy with Chris Dawes putting his patrol just behind Comiskey with a good result at Kalgoorlie
The off season is now in full swing with details to be announced soon for the 2026 season including the season launch and awards night. Stay tuned to WAORC.com and our social media for more information through the season
Full Point score can be found here
Photos by Brett Sandells