Bayliss did not just lay that bogey to rest - he smashed it as he won three in the one day at the Ausmulch Australian Senior Dirt Track Championships staged at the Old Bar track.

Significantly the now Gold Coast resident returned to Taree, where he started riding dirt track in his younger days, to achieve his greatest success in any class of motor cycle competition in his home country.

He raced at the Old Bar track in January over the past three years in a meeting that has evolved into the Troy Bayliss Classic, showing great form on a KTM 450 machine.

For the championships Bayliss added a KTM 250 to his stable and entered three classes - the pro 450, pro 250 and pro open - and he won them all with varying degrees of difficulty against the country's most accomplished dirt track riders.

All looked good for Bayliss on Saturday as he won his first two rounds in all classes, before he went winless in the third rounds on Sunday morning.

All eight championship classes provided thrills, excitement and drama and a touch of controversy in several, before Bayliss emerged as the only competitor to achieve more than one class win.

Bayliss was not always in front after 50 metres, but usually was by the first corner. Even when he did not make the best of starts he stuck to the racing lines that worked so well and he was inevitably soon in control.

The first two attempts to run the pro 450 final were red-flagged with Bayliss leading, when firstly Luke Richards and secondly Joshua Hook fell, before Bayliss finally got to the checkered flag ahead of Jarryd Oram (who only got to the final via the repechage) and Marty McNamara.

Six times pro 250 champion Luke Richards narrowly led Bayliss in the final when it too was red-flagged, but in the re-run Bayliss was a comfortable winner while Richards recovered from a poor start to just beat Jared Myer (who also came via the repechage) for second.

The icing on the cake for Bayliss was the pro open final, this time leading home Michael Kirkness and Ian Hamilton (he too in the final via the repechage).

There was some mixed outcomes among the results as both McNamara and Hamilton failed to shed the tag of 'best never to have won an Aussie title', while Kirkness bravely battled through the meeting just a fortnight after breaking bones in both arms in a track mishap.

Former champion Paul Caslick took no part in racing on Sunday after suffering a broken wrist in a crash on the first day.