This race was a Friday and Saturday race. Practice on the Friday 
and race runs on the Saturday. I had been crashing at Carls since just before new years so was getting a ride to and from Tauranga each day with him. Driving to Tauranga on Friday morning with the weather not looking too good, we relised half way there we didnt have any muds and was hoping that it had rained too much there and wasnt going to rain at all that day. We were lucky that the weather held off for the whole day and that it was dusty as. The track proberly woulda held up better if there had a been a bit of rain as by the end of the day the track was pretty blown out. The track was pretty much the same as the AKDH track used at the end of last year. The only bits that were different was a bit of retaining at the bottom of one of the steep chutes near the top and some dusty blown out corners after the middle jumps. And of course the end jump section starting with a massive stepup that claim two intense during the practice day. (one was an intense 951 that snapped at the head tube, another was a intense M9 that snapped by the bottom bracket due to too softer spring being used.)
Practice day went pretty good for me, not really any crashes as such. Got up the gutts to hit the big double in the middle after following Carl into it a few times. The jump was a lot easier that i first thought and im not sure why i was so worried about it. I had the track mostly sorted by the end of the day apart from the end section where i kept kinda whipping it out and landing funny on the 3rd to last jump out of a corner which made me to hesitant to hit the last two jumps. so i never got those sorted that day. I also couldnt find out a fast of getting over the step up without actualy doing it (there was no way i was gonna try and do after seeing heaps of the guys struggling to clear it (even some of the faster guys)).
Come race day i managed to get the bottom jumps sorted on the last practice run. On seeding run i had a pretty good run apart from up the top nearly losing it on a off camber line in the first steep chute. I just seemed to get bucked for some reason, Carl saw it happen and didnt know what happened and said the same thing happened to him, so at least i know it wasnt just me. Rest of the run was pret
ty good, i dont remember making anymore mistakes really. I hit all the jumps down the bottom apart from the step up obviously and the last jump as i cased the 2nd to last one and wasnt sure if i would make, i shouldve just hit it. I managed to seed 1st about 4 seconds ahead of Maddy Taylor. Race run went pretty averagely with a stall on a tree at the top of the second steep bit. went to get into the high line and front wheel slipped down just a tad below the tree causing me to lean and fall into the tree. Didnt come off though, so that was good. managed to carry on but nearly crashed trying to make up for time lost there and ended up on a low line when i wanted a high line which i was a bit guttered about. The rest of my run went pretty good apart from that, apart from at the end on the end jumps where i went around the last two jumps due to having a head wind and not wanting to risk crashing now. I ended up with a 1st place and took away $160 with it.
Full results here:
http://descenddh.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/2011-dh1-taraunga-results.pdf
and race runs on the Saturday. I had been crashing at Carls since just before new years so was getting a ride to and from Tauranga each day with him. Driving to Tauranga on Friday morning with the weather not looking too good, we relised half way there we didnt have any muds and was hoping that it had rained too much there and wasnt going to rain at all that day. We were lucky that the weather held off for the whole day and that it was dusty as. The track proberly woulda held up better if there had a been a bit of rain as by the end of the day the track was pretty blown out. The track was pretty much the same as the AKDH track used at the end of last year. The only bits that were different was a bit of retaining at the bottom of one of the steep chutes near the top and some dusty blown out corners after the middle jumps. And of course the end jump section starting with a massive stepup that claim two intense during the practice day. (one was an intense 951 that snapped at the head tube, another was a intense M9 that snapped by the bottom bracket due to too softer spring being used.)Practice day went pretty good for me, not really any crashes as such. Got up the gutts to hit the big double in the middle after following Carl into it a few times. The jump was a lot easier that i first thought and im not sure why i was so worried about it. I had the track mostly sorted by the end of the day apart from the end section where i kept kinda whipping it out and landing funny on the 3rd to last jump out of a corner which made me to hesitant to hit the last two jumps. so i never got those sorted that day. I also couldnt find out a fast of getting over the step up without actualy doing it (there was no way i was gonna try and do after seeing heaps of the guys struggling to clear it (even some of the faster guys)).
Come race day i managed to get the bottom jumps sorted on the last practice run. On seeding run i had a pretty good run apart from up the top nearly losing it on a off camber line in the first steep chute. I just seemed to get bucked for some reason, Carl saw it happen and didnt know what happened and said the same thing happened to him, so at least i know it wasnt just me. Rest of the run was pret
ty good, i dont remember making anymore mistakes really. I hit all the jumps down the bottom apart from the step up obviously and the last jump as i cased the 2nd to last one and wasnt sure if i would make, i shouldve just hit it. I managed to seed 1st about 4 seconds ahead of Maddy Taylor. Race run went pretty averagely with a stall on a tree at the top of the second steep bit. went to get into the high line and front wheel slipped down just a tad below the tree causing me to lean and fall into the tree. Didnt come off though, so that was good. managed to carry on but nearly crashed trying to make up for time lost there and ended up on a low line when i wanted a high line which i was a bit guttered about. The rest of my run went pretty good apart from that, apart from at the end on the end jumps where i went around the last two jumps due to having a head wind and not wanting to risk crashing now. I ended up with a 1st place and took away $160 with it.Full results here:
http://descenddh.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/2011-dh1-taraunga-results.pdf
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