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Grid Girl hopeful
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GLAMOUR model and motor bike
enthusiast Sally Dowker is hoping
for her first experience of the classic
Tattersall’s Finke Desert Race is as a
Grid Girl.
She is one of eight entrants in the
quest to find the six Grid Girls for
this year’s event.
Sally, who came to Alice Springs
from Mudgee, New South Wales, in
October, said she was really into
bikes though her family has a history in car racing.
She said: ‘‘There is a lot of
motocross in Mudgee where I grew
up and some of my friends from
there are hoping to compete in the
race.
‘‘The Finke is quite a big event.
Not only for Alice Springs but for
Australia as well.
‘‘I am going into the Grid Girl
Quest for a bit of fun and to
experience such a great event first
hand.
‘‘I have done a lot of promotions
work around town since I arrived.’’
Sally was featured in an August
issue of Zoo Weekly as one of the
‘‘top 110 web babes’’ and it
launched a modelling career
which has her signed with AusModels in Melbourne.
She has been to Melbourne a
couple of times for modelling
shoots and has had pictures published in a couple of glamour
magazines since moving to Alice
Springs.
Sally, 25, is the oldest of the
Grid Girl applicants to date.
During the week she works as
the sales and marketing executive with the Alice Springs Turf
Club.
There are two Grid Girls from
previous events among the eight
entrants.
They are Amy Anderson, 20, (a
2009 Grid Girl) and Stephanie
East, 24, (a 2008 Grid Girl), both
from Alice Springs.
Three other applicants are
from Alice Springs — Alicia
Cartwright, 22, Leah McCormack, 22, and Casey
Whitehead, at 19 the youngest entrant who would like to get the full
experience of Central Australia while
she is visiting here from England.
Harriett Falconer, 19, is another
English applicant who heard about
the event in the UK and will travel
here if she is selected as a Grid Girl.
Emily Attard, 20, is a first time
applicant. She is from New South
Wales.
Her dad is a competitor in the race
and her favourite thing about Finke
is the competitive and passionate
teams racing.
Club secretary Kelsey Rodda said:
Sally Dowker yesterday ... it’s all
about experience and fun.
Picture: MARION ERLICH
‘‘This is a great start to the competition, with applications only being
open for a couple of weeks.’’
‘‘We are going to have a hard time
trying to narrow it down to six once
applications close.
For more information and to
download an application form visit
the website www.finkedesertrace.com.au
Applications close Friday, February 26.
Ute beaut Aussie Day
UTE enthusiasts are invited to
celebrate Australia Day by having a
good time and raising money for sick
children.
The Variety Club NT is staging a
ute muster and games day on
Tuesday and hopes ute owners, their
families and friends will come along
and celebrate the big day.
Organiser Flo Edwards said: ‘‘We
want to have a fun, family day and a
ute muster is a great way to do it.
‘‘There will be heaps of
entertainment and competitions.
‘‘We have a ‘‘Best Dressed Aussie’’
prize for the blokes and the women
as well as a ute pushing competition,
a muffler throwing competition and
a thong flinging competition.
‘‘Kids can have their face painted
and there will be a bloke with a guitar
banging out some tunes throughout
the day.’’
Flo said the muster would start at
the Sturt Terrace bridge and then
head out to Pioneer Park
Racecourse.
‘‘Registration starts at 9am and
goes until 11am.
‘‘We leave at 11.30am sharp and
then drive down to the park.
‘‘We’ll travel across Wills Terrace
causeway, turn left at the Kittle Bros
traffic lights.
Registration/donation per is $10
and entry to Pioneer Park is $5.
Children enter free.