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| Ashcombe MUDDYFOX Downhill Series, Round 1, Paintball Course. |
Results Below, click pickures for bigger, better examples and explanations.
Ashcombe Up with the
sun (under canvas you have little choice) we were up in plenty of time for a
hearty breakfast before walking the course again and starting practice.
The course started on the same ramp as yesterdays berms course and followed
the same rout for most of the first section, and indeed kept parallel to the
previous course most of the way down, turning of just before the jump then descended
a steep and treacherous rock strewn section. Early on in the day the rocks were
mostly in a chute down the middle with the line snaking around either side,
but as more riders dislodged rocks and spread them around the harder the section
became. Towards race time the only really fast rout through was to strait line
out of the first corner and hit a jump onto the last part of the section, quite
a ballsy line as there were some killer roots on the landing. After this riders
crossed a fireroad and hit a sharp earth bank just after a tight tree/rut negotiation,
carrying speed round the trees was key otherwise getting over the bank was difficult.
Across a fire road led onto Sunday's version of the steep to ditch crossings.
This course crossed the ditches a little lower and the first two had joined
to make a stream crossing littered with large rocks and only one lone through
meant it got progressively harder through the day. The second ditch was narrow
and hop-able.
The track then turned out onto a fire road and turned down into the centres
paintballing area, looking like a mini war zone the trees were spotted with
paint and all manner of defences and fortifications littered the sections. This
final section started tight sweezing between trees before gradually opening
up with a nice showy jump and some wide sections with good line choice, a drop
onto a bridge, round a signpost and over the finish.
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Practice was put on hold for an hour after yesterday's winner Jim Davage crashed
on a log jump in the paintball section and had to be air lifted to hospital.
The course was adjusted and racing was delayed by one hour to compensate. He
was back on site by afternoon as a spectator.
Loads more riders turned up for Sundays race including Shred Magazine, some
representatives of Nokian and a crowd of youngsters operating under the name
Summerset Bike Company. Junior champ. Ashley Mullane won the Super Cup with
Mark Cornick taking second having been shaken up seeing Jim's crash. Winners
stayed mostly the same as Saturday across the board, changes being Helen Gwilliam
making an appearance for Team Mash and Jims absence from Seniors allowing Darren
Wainwright to take the win with Shred's Peter Drew a close second.
| Catagory and place | Number | Name | team | time |
| Bigfoot Super Cup | ||||
| 1 | 101 | MULLANE Ashley | www.remec.net | 1:28.01 |
| 2 | 2 | CORNICK Mark | Identiti | 1:29.30 |
| Seniors | ||||
| 1 | 43 | WAINWRIGHT Datten | Team Existance | 1:30.18 |
| 2 | 50 | Drew Peter | SHRED | 1:30.95 |
| Woman | ||||
| 1 | 903 | GWILLIAM Helen | Team Mash | 1:54.99 |
| Junior | ||||
| 1 | 101 | MULLANE Ashley | www.remec.net | 1:29.01 |
| 8 | 109 | HEMMINGS Mark | bikehub.20m.com | 2:07.41 |
| Masters |
| 1 | 322 | OLD Chris | Somerset Bikes | 1:35.40 |
| Vetran |
| 1 | 403 | BALL Shaun | Dorset Roughriders | 1:42.77 |
| Youth | ||||
| 1 | 522 | GOULD James | 1:39.88 | |
| 9 | 513 | READYHOUGH Mark | bikehub.20m.com | 1:45.92 |
| JUVENILE | ||||
| 1 | 601 | EVENS Alex | Weymouth Cycle Center | 1:36.19 |
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