Memorial Day dawned perfect and clear for a full day of DH racing. The course was a great warmup for the season – nasty fast loose gravelly doubletrack/fire road down to a big sweeping loose turn onto singletrack. Then a flat, fast pedal through a couple of super fast, wide turns and into the woods. The woods got slow for a few seconds through some tight trees and even a mini climb, then plunged into a legit technical section – big rocks, roots and off-camber corners. The bottom finished up with more pinned singletrack and even a little wooden booter you could style out a bit… if you had any energy left.
Chainsmoke Racing represented well yet again! We even had some racers break into racing for the first time ever, including Cat 2 (awesome for his first race) Grant Baron. Anyway, onto some pics and results:
Josh Rhea: 7th place, Cat 1 30-39 4:32
Grant Baron: 14th place, Cat 2 (AKA sandbagger class – Grant did awesome here) 19-29 4:36
Bryan Safarik: 4th place, Cat 2 40-49 4:42
Carter Lee: 2nd place, Cat 3 13-18 4:31 (SMOKING time and Chainsmoke’s only podium for the day!)
Colin Eichinger: 8th place, Cat 3 19-39 4:46
Grant:
