It’s Brown’s second NSW 1650 title in a row, but like a fine Hunter red the 51-year-old is getting better with age winning his pet class but also outgunning the unrestricted engine class category for his first open title across the five-race series.

Brown has been racing buggies for 35 years with Tony Burgess his navigator for the past 28.

The car that he won the series in is 30 years old but with the help of his pit crew Karen and Mark Elliott, Tracy Burgess, Lev Johnson and Tony Schafer it is still at the top of the field.

“It keeps getting upgraded as it’s needed,” Brown said of his vehicle in which he clinched the two titles at Nabiac earlier this month.

“This year there were only five races, the Warialda race was cancelled due to the dry conditions with the drought.

“Off-road cars tend to blow a few flames so the last thing we need is a fire.”

The final race at Nabiac was looking like a dusty affair until an overnight storm dumped almost 40mm of rain on the area.

“It went from being dusty to pretty much a soup,” Brown said. “They don’t call off off road races you just get bigger wet-weather tires.”

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