Thomas Wins Round 1 of the National DH series in Adelaide

Thomas' Take on the track; The track was heaps of fun to ride with a few jumps and a couple of cool bridges and a heap of good burms and a teco rock garden. The track was great for the loads of cheering spectators that lined the track all the way down, they also had the music pumping which made for an awesome atmosphere. The race was really well organised and ran like clockwork.

Friday and Saturday were jam packed with practice runs and sectioning of the track.

Sunday, we woke up to the sound of rain which fortunately cleared after breakfast. After a couple of cruisy inspection runs of the track which was now nice and tacky after being blown out and dusty all weekend. Thomas kicked back in the luxury of the Wicked Van to wait for his start time at 2.45pm.

Seems that the practice combined with pre season bike and fitness training paid off.

Race run went according to plan with Thomas pinning down the hill and recording a time of 2;12.54 much to the delight of Nathan Rennie who was commentating at the finish. This time won him the U15's by 19 seconds. To put this time in perspective here are some other stats:

his time was the 35th fastest out of 247 riders, he placed 3/32 U17's 7/44 U19's and 27/73 in Elite men, not to bad for a 13 year old.

Check out the track and keep an eye out for Thomas in the first few minutes.

http://www.pinkbike.com/video/46093/

Next Race is at the Gold Coast on 30th November.