What the fuck? Isn’t summer supposed to be hot?? Is it January or July??? This has been the coldest Christmas Carnival Series I can remember, it has been SERIOUSLY cold!
The B’n’C carnival results haven’t been that hot thus far either. Kicked off the string of dud results at the Simplot Carnival with a run of 5ths, rolled on to the Roseberry Carnival where I placed 1 outside the podium in every race (argh!) including a points race where I contested all 4 sprint laps and came 2nd in ALL of them >:( ..next was Latrobe, similiar dice there too I’m afraid, all 5th’s and 6th’s.. The two day carnival at Devonport followed.. much the same there again, except for my heat of the 2000m handicap where I rode off 220m and managed to finish 4th beating scratchmen Steve Rossendell, Kam Po Wong, Nathan Clark and Matt Goss! Pretty stoked about that one. Burnie was the most recent carnival, no amazing rides from Bennyboy there either I’m afraid, although I did almost pull off a win using my signature move from last year.
The carnivals have been pretty exiciting with the Malaysian, American, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australian Track Teams all racing. A number of pro teams also turned up alongside the West Australian, South Australian, Victorian and Tasmanian Institute of Sport Teams. Some fast riders in amongst that mob!
Couple of speccy crashes too.. including a corker at Devonport where Jeremy Hills attempted to squeeze through an imaginary gap and took down another rider. Hillsy copped a pedal in the spokes of his Zipp 404 and some skin loss for his troubles.. (check out the broken spokes in the photo below..)
Hobart Carnival will be on this sunday, so if you feel like a little track action, back ya backside trackside!
