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Dragon DH: Abercarn, Wales
This past weekend took myself, my mum, and Jill all the way to South Wales for the Dragon DH in Abercarn. It was kind of fun to be back to my roots, racing out of the family camper van at the local Welsh Series races. The only part that was missing was my Dad who was at the Grand Prix in Italy. Thankfully the weather held out for us all weekend and the camping was great. The track was a lot of fun, really flowy and fast but still rough in places. It was great to be racing again on British soil! I saw lots of people I haven't seen in years.
Saturday (Round 3): I had time to get a few practice runs in before racing started. We started racing by 11am. My 1st race run was pretty smooth with a couple of stops. I ended up with a time of 2:07. The format at Welsh races is best of two so my 2nd run I tried to go faster. I was aiming for the 2:00 barrier but I took off from the start trying too hard, got a little loose in a few turns and scrubbed a bit more speed than I wanted. I did improve my time but only by 1 second. This was still enough to give me a confident win in the Elite Women's class.
Sunday (Round 4): A little bit of rain over night left the track quite greasy. It managed to dry out by racing time though. My 1st run was going well but I got off line in one right hand turn and ended up over the bars in the next left due to a misplaced tree-stump (or wheel). : The 2nd run was a lot better and I came through at 2:07 again, enough to give me my 2nd win of the weekend.
fionngriffiths.com
Special thanks again to all my sponsors especially: Kenda, Joxwear, Fly Racing, Zeal Optics, Marzocchi, Fox Shox, 661, Rich Art-Concepts and Norco Performance Bikes.
This past weekend took myself, my mum, and Jill all the way to South Wales for the Dragon DH in Abercarn. It was kind of fun to be back to my roots, racing out of the family camper van at the local Welsh Series races. The only part that was missing was my Dad who was at the Grand Prix in Italy. Thankfully the weather held out for us all weekend and the camping was great. The track was a lot of fun, really flowy and fast but still rough in places. It was great to be racing again on British soil! I saw lots of people I haven't seen in years.
Saturday (Round 3): I had time to get a few practice runs in before racing started. We started racing by 11am. My 1st race run was pretty smooth with a couple of stops. I ended up with a time of 2:07. The format at Welsh races is best of two so my 2nd run I tried to go faster. I was aiming for the 2:00 barrier but I took off from the start trying too hard, got a little loose in a few turns and scrubbed a bit more speed than I wanted. I did improve my time but only by 1 second. This was still enough to give me a confident win in the Elite Women's class.
Sunday (Round 4): A little bit of rain over night left the track quite greasy. It managed to dry out by racing time though. My 1st run was going well but I got off line in one right hand turn and ended up over the bars in the next left due to a misplaced tree-stump (or wheel). : The 2nd run was a lot better and I came through at 2:07 again, enough to give me my 2nd win of the weekend.
fionngriffiths.com
Special thanks again to all my sponsors especially: Kenda, Joxwear, Fly Racing, Zeal Optics, Marzocchi, Fox Shox, 661, Rich Art-Concepts and Norco Performance Bikes.
Well, we had the perfect weather for what was anticipated to be the biggest Ontario Cup DH race ever and we didn’t disappoint. Canada’s largest DH and 4X race series broke its own attendance record for the most racers ever. I want to thank all the participants and parents for making this happen.
The racing was fast and furious on a new lower course that featured flow that would make the roller coasters at Canada’s Wonderland nervous! The log gap to tree gap to triple drops had mouths salivating and kept the times close.
In the elite men’s final it was a shootout as riders crossed the line, the middle of the pack had 6 riders within 1 second of each other!
Justin Brown (Norco Factory Racing) whipped over the line in a screaming 1:16.462 good enough for 3rd, however his teammate Derek Cowell (Norco Factory Racing) nipped him with a 1:16.329 and stole 2nd, but all awaited Drew Pautler (Sweet Pete’s Racing) the final rider and he showed them who was boss with a 2 second lead of 1:14.218 and secured 1st place.
Source: sirbikealotracing.com
The racing was fast and furious on a new lower course that featured flow that would make the roller coasters at Canada’s Wonderland nervous! The log gap to tree gap to triple drops had mouths salivating and kept the times close.
In the elite men’s final it was a shootout as riders crossed the line, the middle of the pack had 6 riders within 1 second of each other!
Justin Brown (Norco Factory Racing) whipped over the line in a screaming 1:16.462 good enough for 3rd, however his teammate Derek Cowell (Norco Factory Racing) nipped him with a 1:16.329 and stole 2nd, but all awaited Drew Pautler (Sweet Pete’s Racing) the final rider and he showed them who was boss with a 2 second lead of 1:14.218 and secured 1st place.
Source: sirbikealotracing.com