VDHS Round 3 - Narby -

Troy Brosnan looks down track through one of the first berms.

Welcome to Round 3 of the VDHS, hosted by Narbethong, a track that’s probably been around longer than you have. Not too far away from our last round at Granton, Narbethong promised to be a great track with plenty of good times to be had by everyone! The sun was shining and the track was slick, but as riders began descending the hill the sheen disappeared of the dewy ground the the magic sticky dirt came out to play.

Fabian Bill looking focussed aboard the new steed.

Matt McCorkell dips into the same first part of the track.

All the riders were enjoying their time on track, with plenty of smiles at the finish line. Everyone was reporting the track was amazing fun, with the high speed sections pushing them as to how much they want to be wide eyed and let the brakes go. The track consisted of plenty of roots, small tree stump booters and drops, along with some solid, confidence inspiring berms.

Harry Ewings throws in some style through the woods.

Angus Jackson pushes through the sun drenched fern forest.

As the sun set on Saturday there were smiles all round, with the track getting a thumbs up from all. Sunday rolled in with another cracking day, Practice started, and then rather quickly closed due to an injury down track that requried an ambulance, this in turn caused a sizable delay which meant event organisers took the step of cancelling seeding for all categories, this meant that practice would run a little longer to allow everyone to get a bit more track time, this would of worked fantastic if there wasn’t another injury soon afterwards, the track wasn’t entirely closed, it was left open on a yellow caution, however many riders on track opted to push and section the track as they rode down, this reduced the risk of missing further shuttles due to the ambulance being on track.

Ben Hill appears in a scene that could easily come from Life Cycles.

After the rider was cleared and the track re-opened to finish practice it all came to an end with plenty of the riders feeling a little odd with all the extra energy usually reserved for a qualifying run still in the tank. This meant for close racing, but Troy Brosnan was a step above the rest; putting in a sizable 10 second margin o his closest competitor. At the end of the day the podiums looked like this: