Welcome to beautiful and dry Fox Creek for the final round of the Inside Line South Australian state series.
With another quality weekend of racing done and dusted, we wrap up the South Australian Inside Line downhill series for 2014 with nothing but rad memories and another flawless season under the club’s belt. With overall titles on the line this weekend it was sure to be another wild weekend of racing.
Racing was going to be tight with overall series up for grabs.
Saturday morning came around as the sun shone down baking us and the track. With mint weather and good vibes all around practice got under way. As soon as practice started the talk of the track running at warp speed went through the pits, with big jumps, fast corners and steep flat out sections the track had something for everyone and kept the smiles all weekend!
Dusty and wild, just how we like it!
Practice meant people were keen to hang it out!
After a rad practice day on Saturday, Sunday was set to be a cracker. With riders arriving first thing to get lines dialed, lift lines kept moving all day thanks to the awesome volunteers and patient racers. With sneaky lines to be had and staying off the breaks being the key, there were plenty of solo runs going down in the morning to keep race lines secret. Once morning practice was done all riders and spectators were buzzing with excitement to get up the hill and to watch riders on their timed runs.
Race day and spectators made the most of the beautiful day to come out and enjoy the day.
As the elite and under 19 fields headed up for seeding, the speed at which the track was running was soon even more apparent. It was awesome to see so many junior riders out trying to get amongst the top step in their race runs. Everyone seems to have stepped it up this past season and their looks to be a bright future ahead for our sport.
Seeding for juniors and elite led into the rest of the categories race runs before finals.
As all categories got under way and a few glitches had been ironed out, all eyes were pointed towards the hillside to watch as the pointy end of the field came down.
Racing isn’t just elite and under 19’s with many battles going down over the course of the series.
Elite women came down and it was Phillipa Rostan that came away with the win, followed closely again by Cami Miller and rounding out the podium was Moira Love coming in third. With a tight seasons racing between the elite women’s field state champs is sure to be another close and exciting race to come. In the under 19’s the final results looked like this;A�1. Drew gartery 2. Darcy Grooby 3. Cameron Heading these guys really are the future of the sport so it was good to see them pushing hard.
Weeeeeeee!!!!
With all other categories done it was time for the elite men to charge down the hill and the hunt was on, with tight times from start to finish it was the bearded beast Angus Maddern who came down and smoked the rest of the field. Followed closely by the wallaby himself Conor Clancy, with Cam Ryan, Steve Gebert and the big dog Ngari Jenkins rounding out the rest of the elite podium.A� With only state champs to go to round out another amazing year of racing the fight will be on for someone to steal the state champs stripes away from Troy Brosnan. Who will it be? only time will tell!!
Cam Ryan can scrub, he also managed to take every chainless race category race this year!
Thanks to Inside Line for another awesome season, we will see you all out at the South Australian State championships on the 11/12th of October at Willunga for the shot at the 2014 title.
It was fantastic to see Troy Brosnan back from his stellar overseas season and out at the race.
Troy constantly had people around him eager to chat which he was happy to oblige, he was also basically giving away stuff to the club members (read super cheap). It is great to see Troy remaining so humble.Thumbs up for the series!Dust, whips and sun, life’s good!Next year will see many of the juniors step up to the next level in their racing!All in all another great weekend racing!
Words Aaron Pelttari (Aaron would like to thanks Monza Imports, Bicycle Express & Bouwmeester Composites).
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Hi Ben, thanks for the comments, we would suggest talking to Ryan at RFPhotographics as he may be able to help out as he took the images. He can be found (on Facebook) via the links at the end of this article. Thanks.
hi there just want to say you have some killa shots there. i was just wondering if you have any of me my number is 228 racing in sport. im willing to buy them if you have any of me, thanks hope to hear from you soon. cheers
Hi Ben, thanks for the comments, we would suggest talking to Ryan at RFPhotographics as he may be able to help out as he took the images. He can be found (on Facebook) via the links at the end of this article. Thanks.