Dirt Crits Race 8- 3rd December 2013
Junior Event
Tuesday night saw all riders trying to chase down their lap times with Hunter Reeve and Elise Empey successful in achieving new PB’s.
Juniors are also welcome to have a Christmas theme on their bikes or person.
The last event for this season, a pairs race, will be held next Tuesday 10th December- Registration 5:15pm and event start at 5:30pm.
By Kate Empey
Senior Event
On Tuesday 3rd December the eighth event in the Dirt Crits Spring/Summer Series was held at Riflebutts Reserve.
Flynn Bowker and Dave Empey ran the event, Cam Lachal put out the bunting and Katie Bowker looked after the finances and memberships- Great work!
Sixteen riders competed this week. It was seventeen, however Rod Sargeant had a mechanical failure on the start line so was unable to compete- better luck next week.
As many of the riders have been competing regularly, their times are becoming more consistent. Each week Brett Stevens and Mike Davies have a close competition, with only a few seconds separating the pair. Brett crossed the line a mere 8 seconds in front of Mike this week! Rachel Grundy was only 5 seconds behind Mike on paper.
One rider that continues to improve their lap time each week is Will Grundy. Will is now lapping the course over 2-minutes per lap better than he was at the start of the season- Well done Will!
Foley rode strongly this week and looked aggressive out on the course. Kian was riding fast, however he came into the start finish area looking a bit wide eyed after eyeing a species of the slithering variety on the track.
Results-
1st Brett Stevens- 25:45 (4 laps)
2nd Mike Davies- 25:53 (4 laps)
3rd Rachel Grundy- 26:58 (4 laps)
The current points standing to date is-
1st place- Anthony Plummer and Mike Davies- 156 points
2nd place- April Lachal- 142 points
3rd place- Noah Lachal- 114 points
The last race for this season will be held next Tuesday 10th December- Registration 5:45pm and event start at 5:6:00pm (course 2).
Cam Lachal has some plans for the last race of the Spring Season, so it will be good to see this come together.
Duty Roster
Senior event- Dave Empey and Flynn Bowker.
Dirt Crits Spring-Summer 2013-2014 Series Points Table- Races 1-8
|
Name
|
Points Race 7
|
Points Race 8
|
Total
|
|
Place
|
Points
|
|
Matthew Empey
|
11
|
11
|
95
|
|
1
|
50
|
|
April Lachal
|
50
|
12
|
142
|
|
2
|
40
|
|
Ross MacKinnon
|
0
|
0
|
30
|
|
3
|
35
|
|
Andrew Wettenhall
|
20
|
0
|
98
|
|
4
|
31
|
|
Anthony Plummer
|
18
|
31
|
156
|
|
5
|
28
|
|
Jarrod Appleton
|
0
|
0
|
52
|
|
6
|
26
|
|
Bruce Halket
|
0
|
0
|
28
|
|
7
|
24
|
|
Jason Parker
|
14
|
0
|
67
|
|
8
|
22
|
|
Damien Grundy
|
24
|
24
|
77
|
|
9
|
20
|
|
Foley Lachal
|
0
|
16
|
64
|
|
10
|
18
|
|
David Bock
|
8
|
13
|
21
|
|
11
|
16
|
|
Kieren Payne
|
28
|
0
|
103
|
|
11
|
16
|
|
Kian Lerch-MacKinnon
|
0
|
14
|
93
|
|
12
|
15
|
|
Trevor Arnold
|
16
|
22
|
57
|
|
13
|
14
|
|
Rachel Grundy
|
9
|
35
|
82
|
|
14
|
13
|
|
Mitch Greenway
|
0
|
0
|
64
|
|
15
|
12
|
|
Noah Lachal
|
12
|
18
|
114
|
|
16
|
11
|
|
Aaron Sargeant
|
13
|
26
|
111
|
|
17
|
10
|
|
Mike Davies
|
0
|
40
|
156
|
|
18
|
9
|
|
Cameron Lachal
|
15
|
15
|
83
|
|
19
|
8
|
|
Shannon Rademaker
|
0
|
0
|
20
|
|
20
|
7
|
|
Brett Stevens
|
0
|
50
|
107
|
|
21
|
6
|
|
Flynn Bowker
|
40
|
0
|
107
|
|
22
|
5
|
|
Nick Howland
|
0
|
0
|
56
|
|
23
|
5
|
|
Justin Sargeant
|
0
|
0
|
79
|
|
24
|
5
|
|
Brandon Smith
|
16
|
0
|
41
|
|
25
|
5
|
|
Jem Davies
|
31
|
0
|
104
|
|
26
|
5
|
|
Jai Lerch-MacKinnon
|
0
|
20
|
61
|
|
27
|
5
|
|
Andrew Clark
|
0
|
0
|
8
|
|
28
|
5
|
|
Will Grundy
|
3
|
28
|
97
|
|
DNF
|
3
|
|
Josh Payne
|
10
|
0
|
77
|
|
|
|
|
Toby Humffray
|
0
|
0
|
69
|
|
|
|
|
Rod Sargeant
|
35
|
0
|
107
|
|
|
|
|
Jodie Batchelor
|
0
|
0
|
40
|
|
|
|
|
Keoni Brunner
|
26
|
0
|
46
|
|
|
|
|
Dylan Harding
|
0
|
0
|
74
|
|
|
|
|
Nick Watson
|
0
|
0
|
107
|
|
|
|
Memberships
Katie Bowker is looking after the memberships for the Dirt Crits this season. Katie has had a chance to gather all of the membership information together over the last few weeks and is currently compiling a list of current members. Katie spoke to a few of the riders at tonight’s Dirt Crits and asked them about the status of their membership.
It is important that all riders are insured at each Dirt Crits event by the MMBCC in the following ways- ‘Come and Try It’ statues, Day license or Full Membership.
If you are not currently a Mountain Bike Australia member, please join up this week, or you will be required to pay the $20 Day license fee each week.
To find out more about MTBA memberships, and to join up, click the link- http://www.mtba.asn.au/join
