Hi all,
well what a top weekend this turned out to be. I am biased but i must say it was an awesome sight to see a paddock of green grass full of cars, trailers, caravans and vintage dirt bikes everywhere.
The Saturday was already showing signs of a top weekend with the weather looking perfect and a healthy number of people already setting up camp well before the start of the 11.30am sign in, the day had a very relaxed feeling with no one in a mad rush to get going. Practice took care of itself with riders heading out onto the track at a steady pace with no set time restrictions required all afternoon which seemed to work quite well, around 5.30pm only 1 or 2 where still circulating the grass track as the rest of us started to make our way over to the bonfire and spit roast dinner. The bonfire ended up being the perfect finish to a good day of practice with everyone having their meals and a few cold ones to wind down, the night was full of good bench racing and all involved seemed to be on planet VMX.
Now here comes Sunday morning with a few of us having a panic attack, what is this shit falling from the sky at around 3 in the morning ? Sunday was forecast to be sunny and no rain, well the rain kept up until around 7.30 in the morning with the track and car park now looking like a swimming pool. My thoughts were well we are done now who was going to ride in this soup and how can this dry up enough for anyone to take part, then Rob Kent smiles and says to me have faith mate this will dry up and all will be good. I thought yep bullshit no chance, but i have to admit he was 100% right and although the morning races were slippery the track was starting to come around and by the time the lunch break was finished the track had turned into traction heaven.
The whole day was non stop racing with a stack of close racing in each class and a very big bonus was no one required the first aid guys, it`s always a good thing when the 1st aiders a sitting down all day. The riders from all 3 clubs which included Viper, VCM and the Classic Scramble Club put on a good show all day for the spectators with racing finally winding up around 3.30pm and most people out of the place around 4.30pm.
I have had a lot of good feedback from the weekend which is really good to hear, this to me shows that bit by bit we are heading in the right direction and hopefully all involved went home with a smile on their face. As was said over the weekend we have to thank the property owner and his crew of people for making this race meeting a huge success and providing us with not only a great track and venue to race on but also for the great job they did with feeding all of us on the Saturday night and also all day on the Sunday. I hope we can make this a yearly event that will prosper into a well known and must do race meeting.
Thanks to all who helped make this event as good as it was, it was also very good to see some of the Viper members from years gone by back at the track and having a race and also helping out.
Regards Peter Gruber.
