SA State Series - Fox Bowl -

As Inside Line heads into its 20th race season for round 2 we headed to good old Fox Creek and the infamous Bowl track. With the weather in Adelaide during the week being wet everyone was bracing for another wet Fox race (surprise surprise!). However, Mother Nature smiled kindly on us with excellent weather over the weekend, by finals Sunday some riders were saying the track conditions were as good as they had experienced. Check out some of the images below from RF Photographics (www.facebook.com/rfphotographics – head over and give them a like they do great work).

Slightly ominous on the drive up to Fox but the good weather prevailed.

In fact the weekend conditions turned out almost perfect!

The track was similar to it has been for any years so riders knew what to expect.

Angus Maddern on the hunt, Angus is always a contender at Inside Line races.

The training rig was out, things are getting serious..... — The training rig was out, things are getting serious…..

Everything was green due to the winter conditions.

There was a good spectator turnout, it must have been everyone treating their mums to a day out of racing for mothers day!

There were probably a lot of mums worried about their off spring ending up like this! Fortunately nothing was too serious... — There were probably a lot of mums worried about their off spring ending up like this! Fortunately nothing was too serious…

Connor Fearon was always going to be the man to beat, you don't argue with World Cup speed! — Connor Fearon was always going to be the man to beat, you don’t argue with World Cup speed!

There were a lot of trail/enduro type bikes at this race and in fact 2 of the top 5 elite riders were on them!

In the end, Sunday afternoon in sunny conditions the finals kicked off, as always there was good racing across the classes and the spectators were there to cheer. In the under 19 men it was Drew Gartery 2.28 seconds clear ahead of Darcy Grooby followed by James Chambers. Elite women was taken out by Cami Miller 3.91 seconds ahead of Moira Love followed by Simone Cameron. In the elite men’s class it was the favourite, Connor Fearon, who took the win by 4.82 seconds. His time was 2.16.47, interestingly enough Connor himself said he was chasing sub 2.15. Second was Angus Maddern followed by Cam Ryan on the first of the enduro bikes, Steve Gebert 4th and Simon Buzzacot rounded out the top 5.

Never really in doubt if he kept it up right Connor Fearon took the win.

Next race in the series is Eagle!

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2 thoughts on “SA State Series – Fox Bowl”

Chersterfield St. hubbins says:

May 13, 2014 at 8:12 pm

A good day, some great riders. Too bad RFPhotographics can’t be bothered sorting or uploading their photos of the Sport/Novice riders. Just remember without the riders you’d be out taking nature snaps. Give the kids (and big kids) the chance to show off some photos.
1. Downhill247.com says:
  
  May 15, 2014 at 5:23 pm
  
  Hi! Thanks for the note, valid points but unfortunately when you have done a whole weekend of shooting and you have 100’s of images to go through sometimes you have to prioritise. In this case the majority wish to see the faster riders/elite classes, if anything it gives you something to aim for! Thanks for the comment and we always try and vary our coverage. Regards.