Currumbin Waters Downhill, November 12 2006

Many thanks to Ash for this report on the the Gold Coast crew's outlaw downhill at Currumbin Waters.

A fantastic day of racing kicked off at 9am with a series of 4-rider heats. Names were drawn out of a hat for each heat, and 4 points were given for first place, down to 1 point for 4th.

ROUND 1

Heat 1

1st LEESO (4 points)
2nd DARREN (3 points)
3rd BEN (2 points)
4th AUSTIN (1 point)

Heat 2

1st STEVE (4 points)
2nd ASH (3 points)
3rd KEV (2 points)
4th REEDY (1 point)

Heat 3

1st JEREMY (4 points)
2nd NATH (3 points)
3rd ROB (2 points)
4th PAUL (1 point)

Points tally at the end of round 1:

• 4 points - Jeremy, Steve, Leeso
• 3 points - Darren, Ash, Nath
• 2 points - Rob, Kev, Ben
• 1 point - Austin (left after this round), Reedy, Paul

For round two, whoever placed 1st and 3rd moved down into the group below.

ROUND 2

Heat 1

1st JEREMY (4 points)
2nd WADE (replaced austin) (3 points)
3rd DARREN (2 points)
4th ROB (1 point)

Heat 2

1st LEESO (4 points)
2nd BEN (3 points)
3rd ASH (2 points)
4th REEDY (1 point)

Heat 3

1st STEVE (4 points)
2nd KEV (3 points)
3rd NATH (2 points)
4th PAUL (1 point)

Points tally at the end of round 2:

• 8 points - Jeremy, Steve, Leeso
• 5 points - Kev, Nath, Ash, Ben, Darren
• 3 points - Wade
• 2 points - Paul, Reedy, Rob
• 1 point - Austin

As with the previous round, 1st and 3rd place moved down into the group below.

ROUND 3

Heat 1

1st JEREMY (4 points)
2nd DARREN (3 points)
3rd KEV (2 points)
4th PAUL (1 point)

Heat 2

1st STEVE (4 points)
2nd NATH (3 points)
3rd BEN (2 points)
4th REEDY (1 point)

Heat 3

1st LEESO (4 points)
2nd ASH (3 points)
3rd WADE (24 points)
4th ROB (1 point)

Points tally at the end of round 3:

• 12 points - Steve, Jeremy, Leeso
• 8 points - Darren, Nath, Ash
• 7 points - Ben, Kev (left after this round)
• 5 points - Wade
• 3 points - Paul, Reedy, Rob
• 1 point - Austin

After round 3 we broke for lunch, and rested our legs. After lunch it was onto round 4, which was the decider for who would be in the finals. It was a battle between the lower group as to who would make it through. After two tough heats, Darren and Nath made it into the finals.

Next was the final battle for who would come out as champ. The final race was between Jeremy, Steve, Leeso, Darren and Nath.

The Final Results

STEVE - 1st Place
JEREMY - 2nd Place
LEESO - 3rd Place
DARREN - 4th Place
NATH - 5th Place

After the finals the whole group headed back up the hill for a final fun run. Up until this run, there had been no injuries for the day, but of course, the "one last time" curse kicked in. Ben was overtaking Nath and hit a catseye, which threw him off his board, and he took out both Nath and Reedy. Bens board then continued to fly down the road nearly taking out Ash and Jeremy. Ben hurt his knee and Nath hurt his side, but both are OK.

A big thanks to Jeremy for organising such an awesome event, and for giving us somewhere to stay for the day, and also a big ups to Steve for organising, and donating the prizes and trophies for the day.

Now we know it can be done, there will be more outlaws in the future, and hopefully even sanctioned races. Next up, Lismore.