Welcome back to Mt. Buller! This week we are here for round four of the Victorian Downhill Series. With a view like this, therea��s no way you can tell us you wouldn’t like to be here! The weather came to the party the entire weekend! More amazing weather for some more amazing racing.
Round four of the VicDh was held over the weekend and as the track was used for last weeks national round, it was a little rough around the edges, but life wasn’t meant to be easy was it! This made for interesting racing where one small mistake could cost you a serious amount of time.
Due to the track conditions after the National round, we saw riders looking at some lines that were rarely used at that race purely to avoid the roughness. Here is Trent Piribauer taking the high line, removing a proper amount of rocks in the process.Alternatively we see Claire Buchar navigating her way through the rocks, Claire proves that ita��s whatever works for you, as she took out Elite Women, even with this rougher line!Saturday practice fell on the one and only Australia Day, where better to spend Australia Day then at Mt. Buller riding your bike down a hill? It would appear plenty agree with that! There were lots of riders sported our national colours all through practice!Though Ben Hill wasn’t sporting a cape, he showed us he still has the skills to fly, choosing an entirely different line over the top open section of rocks and whoops!
As the track was ridden more and more it became increasingly difficult to navigate, this took its toll on riders and bikes. Unfortunately it took a real toll on Samuel Brownlie who has broken 3 vertebrae in his back and also his nose as far as we know. All of us here at Downhill247.com wish Sam all the best with his recovery and we really hope to see you back on a bike shedding as soon as possible!
There really is no more heart sinking moment than seeing a medivac helicopter hover over head.This Lappiere also decided life was a little too hard and cracked under the pressure.By the time racing came around, the track was ripped up and super loose. There were dabs and feet coming off everywhere, as well as plenty of berm exit spins. Jack O’Hare gets super loose on this corner,Trent Piribauer follows to show us how ita��s supposed to be done!David McMillan gets super loose around the open berm, two wheel driftin’!
Justin Schryver navigates through the rocks and trees on a now non forgiving track.Ben Hill comes through the waterfall section of track which is now extremely rough, unfortunately for Ben he came off during his race run and finished up in 6th.This being the Vic DH Series, there is always shenanigans as the riders come down! Nato gets fully heckled as he drops in for his race run!Along with the standard heckles that the usually large crowd hands out!
The racing in the end was extremely tight, as the course took plenty of riders by surprise, changing run after run. In the end Claire Buchar took out the Elite Womens and Jack Moir took the win in Elite Men.
Elite Men:
1st Jack Moir
2nd Dean Lucas
3rd David McMillan
4th Luke Ellison
5th Rhys Atkinson
Elite Women:
1stA� Claire Buchar
2ndA� Madeline Taylor
3rdA� Tegan Malloy
4thA� Sarah Booth
5thA� Jacqui Lovett
Under 19 Men:
1stA� Andrew Crimmins
2ndA� Zac Moss
3rdA� Aiden Varley
4thA� Max Warshawsky
5thA� Remy Morton
We still have plenty more action to bring you from Buller soon!
Article (including images) credited to our man on the ground Jason Stevens.
