Day 2 B Group Hybrid and Giant Slalom The day began under grey skies and stayed that way all day in contrast to the sunshine the previous day. Set up was rapid and so the B Group Hybrid was soon underway. Note to self when racing from the timing table make sure you take your reading glasses off first it helps to see the course! (“Senior moment” alert!). As ever there were some good close races. In the final John lost to Jani’s eldest son Dimitri after DQ’ing his second run. As soon as the Hybrid was over one of the ramps was turned around 180 degrees and timing connected to allow the Giant Slalom practice session to begin. The strong headwind made a huge difference in times. But going it to the last few runs it was if a switch had been flicked and like the start ramp earlier the wind had done a complete 180 and was now a tail wind. In the battle for the top spot this proved a critical factor. Mmedo’s clean run time of 23.20 earned the World Amateur number 3 his first Hog Hill GS top podium spot. Louis came close with his raw time of 23.22 but with one cone penalty too he had to settle for 2nd. Visiting Swede Victor Martensson took the remaining podium place his time of 23.74 having led for much of the way. Big thanks as ever to everyone at Redbridge Cycling Centre for having us. Thank you to Timmy Peters and DAS Industries for all of your hard work in getting things organised, to Michael Stride and Octane Sport for supplying the ramps, timing and logistical support. My thanks to Mark Phelps for helping out with the timing and doing the pen work at the time table, to Paul Coupe and Gavin Palfrey for all of you help, To Edwin for your invaluable assistance and voice in the cone counting dept. and to Louis and Mmedo for the courses. Thank you to all of the events sponsors including Kryptonics, Octane, Lush and Skate Warehouse. Finally a big thanks to you all that came and raced and supported the event. Results Hybrid B Group 1st Dimitri Soderhall 2nd John Nicholas 3rd Tiago Fanha 4th Gavin Palfrey 5th Rob Ashby 6th Alfie Osborne 7th Trevor Hickey 8th Alexi Soderhall 9th Alec Brown 10th Dill Hill Giant Slalom (Final times with any cone penalties added) 1st Mmedo Duffort 23.200 2nd Louis Selby 23.420 3rd Victor Martensson 23.740 4th Jose ? 24.120 5th Jani Soderhall 24.440 6th Kaj Gustafsson 25.320 7th Chris Charalambous 25.610 8th Paul Taylor Crush 26.000 9th Paul Coupe 26.200 10th John Nicholas 26.510 11th Alex Ireton 26.920 12th Richard Searle 27.020 13th Dimitri Soderhall 27.210 14th Alexei Soderhall 27.200 15th Trevor Hickey 28.580 16th Gavin Palfrey 29.010 17th Dill Hill 29.300 18th Alec Brown 29.410 19th Alfie Osborne 29.530 20th Paul Burrell 31.430
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:22:33 +0000
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