Kelso Ontario DH Cup #1

    Was soo stoked for the first race of the season, but it now feels like it was centuries ago because I am now even more stoked for the second race! Haha.

    Thanks to all the folks that were able to make it the build and set all of us with sweet new,not brand new, course. Saturday's practice turned out to be interesting. Prior to the race we had been having rainless riding weather, however come race weekend, showers were predicted. Pretty much everyone got a run or two of practice on the bone dry course. Unfortunately, but fortunately, at 11 o'clock we got blasted with strong pouring rain for 30 minutes, with some light rain for a bit after. I had actually predicted it exactly, seriously! With the lifts closed for lunch, we went up for an inspection. It was looking pretty slick. Hermo did some but tobagons down the course. At first it was looking like the water just seaped into the ground until everyone started riding it... and it turned out to be even more awesome!!!! Check out a helmet cam of the track:

Thanks to Hermo.

    Sunday was looking like we were gonna get a whole day of showers, but it only drizzled in the morning for a bit and became sunny and hot eventually. The morning was started off with a strange closure of the track. Someone had snapped a tree causing danger for riders which had to be chainsawed off. After delay, practice went on. 

 Brad Zdriluk  (Marc Landry photo)

    

    A new line got revealed or uncovered by
the rock drop. Thus separating the men from the babies.( I was part of the babies...) Reason I say it like that is because at the end of the day most of the top times were on the rock drop. 

Mike Hermanovsky (Marc Landry photo)

     Racing mode became apparent in most during lunch. Everyone was getting nervously stoked for some braapage.  And bam bam bam racing began with sunshine out!

 I was happy with my run. 5th in cadet. (Marc Landry photo)

    After my run, I was walking up to watch some pinning. As I was walking past the last rock garden section I hear a thunderous noise and the ground shook a little. It sound as if someone drove their pick-up truck through a bunch of trees. It happened to be another tree delay... However this time it was a little worse. It was pretty big. Like 14 or 16inch? Thankfully the rider who was racing at that moment was not underneath it when it fell. The chainsaw came back up and the tree was quickly gone allowing the racing to continue. 

 Rob Fraser ( Marc Landry photo)

 Tyler Maass ( Marc Landry photo)

    Everyone's been practicing their scrubs eh! It was a great day for racing. Here are the top 5 fastest times of the day:

1. Kyle Sangers J & J Cycle 1:10.331
2. Brad Zdriluk AdrenalineRacer / TO WheelsBeamsville 1:10.727
3. Harold Woolnough Silent Devinci Racing  1:11.041
4. Jeff Faulds Norco Evolution 1:11.958
5. Michael Hermanovsky BikeSports Racing Team 1:12.032    

    Big props to Kyle Sangers and Brad Zdriluk who are both Junior Expert and having the fastest times of the day! Thanks a lot to Pete Appleton and everyone who was involved in giving us all an awesome weekend!

For race results and more info check out: Sirbikealot Racing

All photos thanks to Marc Landry at: Fast Times Inc.        

 

Video thanks to Josh WoooHill and Rob Carmichael.    

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