SA State Series - Race 6

Dust! Finally a dry Fox race after battling mother nature over the past few months. Interesting feet positioning... Due to the lack of water the track started to get blown out in places giving riders another challenge. — Dust! Finally a dry Fox race after battling mother nature over the past few months. Interesting feet positioning… Due to the lack of water the track started to get blown out in places giving riders another challenge.

After a few weeks since the last SA State race we were back at Fox for the next one! With gorgeous weather and fun track there were no complaints though. Fox Long was the location, as this track is open to the public basically all year round plenty of riders were up to speed early, the short turn around on shuttles were helping as well. No big news from the day of practice, a few injuries, get better soon all who succumbed but overall it was Sunday everyone was keen for.

A bit of last minute maintenance? Or was it the two days of riding leading up to your race run? Whatever the case we saw a few riders tweaking in the pits Sunday morning.

Running off the track was bad enough with the blueberry's (spare a thought for marshals and photographers who had to traverse it!) but a this prickly little fella in and an off the track excursion could have been really interesting! — Running off the track was bad enough with the blueberry’s (spare a thought for marshals and photographers who had to traverse it!) but with this prickly little fella an off the track excursion could have been really interesting!

Like magpies to shiny objects, photographers get drawn to riders with colour!

There was good racing across all the classes, with a solid turn out of riders. The big draw card categories for most people are the Under 19 and Elite Men but it was great to see more girls out and racing too. Matt Taylor and Angus Maddern threw down in seeding to keep their form of late going and took the top times for seeding in Under 19’s and Elite respectively.

Of course it is not only just Elite and Under 19 riders that come out for race day!

With Inside Line running everything so smoothly and rider numbers not quite as big as they previously have been racing was done by 2.30pm. It was a very familiar looking podium too!

James Chambers just floating along, two wheels off the ground!

Taking selfies to the next level?! Not quite the Adelaide Independent Racing guys always put out some good footage of their weekend.

There was definitely a few lines on some part of the tracks, inside, outside, high, low it was all there!

Mmm sunlight, good conditions taken advantage of here by Matt Kelly. — Mmm sunlight warm weather is close by, good conditions taken advantage of here by Matt Kelly.

To the racing and Matt Taylor held onto his number one spot from seeding in Under 19’sA�with a 2.13.83, ahead of Connor Clancy and James Chambers. In Elite Women Moira Love took the win from Simone Cameron but both riders were riding well as they went past us. To Elite Men and rider after rider just kept coming through going faster and faster! The top 5 looked like this; Cam Ryan in 5th after battling sickness leading into the race, 4th to the always consistent Ngari Jenkins, 3rd to Steve Gebert another rider who is very professional in what he does, 2nd place went to Will Rischbieth who is “taking the year off riding” and the number one position was Angus Maddern who cracked on with a 2.08.66. There was talk of riders ducking down to the 2.05 which didn’t quite happen but in the end it didn’t matter as the racing was good anyway.

Cal Morrison back form Whistler and into 7th place.

Steve Gebert flew past us near one of the high speed sections before dropping in to continue his run.

The Elite Men's winner Angus Maddern taking care of business. — The Elite Men’s winner Angus Maddern taking care of business.

That is a wrap for the SA State Series for 2013, the next race on the calendar is the State Champs at a different Willunga track, we are keen to see the changes!