The Sunday Morning Crew took on the Bendigo 6 Hour event on the 23rd May. It was a perfect day for a 6 hour event, brilliant sunshine, nice and warm in the sun and very little wind.
Brett, Ros and Steve raced under the newly formed Naughty Jills Racing Team Banner and combined brilliantly to come home in 1st place in the Mixed triples class. Tony, David and Phil joined forces to debut the Sunday Morning Crew name in an official event in the Men's triples and come 8th out of 11 which was a good result considering a less than ideal start to the race.
It was a pretty close tussle in the mixed event for the first 6 laps but the class of the NJRT came to the top after that and thanks to another quick lap from Brett near the end the result was never in doubt. Ros was very disappointed at not being able to go out and complete an extra lap but it wasnt needed and the guys ended up in first place with a buffer of 9 minutes over the 2nd placed team.
It was a slightly different story for the boys in the other team. Tony headed off in a confident manner and controlled his natural urges to go out hard, settling into a nice rythym in the first few kms however his lap was derailed by a flat tyre and a faulty pump. Phil and I went through a range of emotions waiting for him to arrive in transistion. First of all we were excited wondering how close to Brett he would be, then we were confused as housewives and school kids crossed the finishing line with still no sign of Tony and then we were worried when we realised that every one and I mean every one had been through and that we were officially in last place. We were thinking of all the bad things that could have happended when Tony appeared in the distance and rode his way towards the transition area. He appeared to riding OK as he approached the final corner, maybe a little too fast, maybe with too tight a line but for some reason he ended up on lying on the ground in sight of the finishing line as a result of his front wheel losing grip. Covered in blood and dust he remounted and made it across the line. After a one hour first lap our challenge for the day was to make sure that each of us could fit in 3 laps for the day which we achieved. Phil rode very consistently and did 3 very close lap times and Tony recovered very well from his 1st lap disaster to do a really good last lap.
Overall it was a really enjoyable day and we are all looking forward to our next team event which looks like being the Castlemaine 6 hr in August.
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