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ASRA Admin Comment by bernie on May 2, 2017 at 16:04

Master Blaster 29^th April 2017-04-30

 

What a great day of racing at the old Masters hardware store delivery road! With a nervous start, the weather, rain and wind were extremely kind and we could race uninterrupted all day.

 

The hybrid course was raced for the majority of the day, which included a personal consistency challenge then closing with a 50 cone challenge snuck in at the end.

 

Hybrid:

We saw some great racing in the Hybrid and with Dan dishing out some awesome setups as loaner boards ensuring everyone had a great board to race. Wedge was smashing it all day earning him third place. Andrew was also smashing out some great, clean and super consistent runs, look out when he graduates beyond his modified vert deck and gets some engineered slalom trucks… woosh!

 

Placings:

Johnny - 14.29 secs

Dan – 14.69 secs

Wedge – 16.18

Merv – 16.54

Andrew – 16.88

Noel – 17.44

Clinton – 22.47

Bernie – 27.49

 

Consistency Personal Challenge:

This is a new concept introduced by Dan that rewards the most consistent rider rather than the fastest riders with some prizes. This way any rider at any level of skill can be rewarded for their efforts. How it worked, at any time during the Hybrid challenge, the rider nominates a max of 2 runs (prior to starting the run) and the 3 riders with the smallest time differences between those 2 runs wins.

 

Top 3 consistency placings:

Merv – 0.05 secs (prize chosen, Hammer Tape Griptape)

Andrew – 0.8 secs (prize chosen, Bones Race Bearings)

Dan – 0.13 secs (prize Macs Tee shirt donated to Darren as reward for Time Keeping)

 

 

50 Cone CLEAN (straight at 1.8 metre spacing):

Being at the end of the day our tanks were pretty much empty when we set up the 50 cone course, but after our first roll we dug deep. We not only raced the clock, each other we were also racing the weather as the grey skies threatened to dump on us at any moment which kept the runs flowing quickly. Dan and Johnny simply take it up to the next level, between them they broke the Vic 50 cone record 8 times on the day. Johnny taking out the fastest time of the day and the Victorian Clean 50 cone record with an incredible 12.35 seconds (previous record held by Dan was at 12.97 sec) with Dan coming in second only 6 hundredths of a second behind.

 

Placings:

Johnny – 12.35 secs (new Vic 50 cone CLEAN record)

Dan – 12.41 secs

Merv – 15.00 secs

Andrew – 15.87 secs

Bernie – 23.97 secs

 

Note: Wedge only had time to do one run and hit 2 cones with a time of 14.90 secs so he does not show in the clean times above, next time we’ll start the 50 cones earlier Wedge.

 

 

Thanks:

Macs Waterski World and Dan Monaghan for the Consistency Prizes, Bones Race Bearings, Hammer Tape griptape, Macs Tee shirt.

Dan for all the race tuned loaner boards.

Merv and Andrew for course cleaning and prep

Darren for timekeeping

All the course setters

All the spectators throughout the day especially Chris and daughter for coming down from Bendigo to cheer us on

Finally to all the riders for making this such a fun and successful, fun and rewarding event.

Premium Member Comment by Daniel Monaghan on April 28, 2017 at 9:24

See you all there. Cleaning the bearings and packaging the car.

Comment by Mark Gorman on April 6, 2017 at 15:33

Hi Folks Hope you have a great day , Sorry I cant make it down this time around , Hopefully at the end of the year , Cheers Mark