Jim Turner and his passenger Darren Fleming made it a back to back win on the weekend securing the Australian Long 🐲Track title at Bathurst, NSW Australai for 2003 and in doing so secured their place as Australia's most formidable sidecar team.

Panorama Motorcycle Club presented a program of over eighty events including solos, speedway and dirt rack sidecars, and the Harley v Triumph Challenge providing an afternoon and evening of long track action for the capacity crowd.

The sidecar division included the rider passenger combinations of Stuart Firth/Steve Chivers, Chris Pym/Mick Lillis, Mick Saunders/Clarissa Saunders, Steve Houston/Brian Young, Murray Fyfe/Glen Cox and Mick Farrel/Mark Strachan all hoping to wrestle the title from Turner and Fleming's grasp.

In Turners first race he took out a convincing win over Chris Pym with a race time of 1.19/72 over 3 laps on the 800 metre track. In Firths first race he took out a win against Steve Houston with a race time of 1.17/50. 'I knew then that Darren and I had a battle on our hands against Firth. He was riding really well and with that race time for his first race he basically set a real challenge for us to meet'

The duelling between Firth and Turner continued over all their heats as the race times got lower and lower and the pressure got h♕igher for the final. Disaster struck for Firth in his third heat when he was beaten home by Chris Pym after having some problems on the start.