Thredbo resort held the 5th and final round of the Red Ass NSW-ACT Downhill State Series 2012 this weekend. Riders inundated the village to ride the legendary Cannon Ball trail and to see who would be crowned the overall champions for 2012.
In the Elite male category, the old hand Ben Corey was victorious this weekend followed by Jack Moir. The young Graeme Mudd came in third place, which was enough to secure him the overall championship title for 2012.
Maybe ita��s no surprise that Tegan Molloy took out first place on her local track, with Sarah Booth in 2nd place and Danielle Beecroft in 3rd. Sarah was crowned the 2012 overall series champion following a consistent performance over the season.
The weekend started out well with the sun shining, everyone smiling, although a little windy. Typical of the Alps, by Sunday the weather had taken a turn back to winter with wind and sleet seeing the Elite males off for their seeding runs.
Thredbo is renowned as the oldest DH track in Australia accessible by chairlift, and also as being one of the toughest tracks in the series. The track measures around 3km in length with over 500 metres of vertical. We could see that the Thredbo MTB crew had worked hard in the lead up to the weekend to build some new features. On show this weekend was a brand new double jump just above the a�?Bunny Walka�� section and a new step down jump at the bottom of the course.
For those of you that know the track, this year the top section of the track that follows the gravel access road was closed for maintenance works. This meant that riders had to take the old Snowgums chairlift up and the race began at the beginning of what is known as the a�?Kareela Highwaya��.
The RedAss Downhill NSW/ACT State Series 2012 is over but we are looking forward for the 2013 edition already!
Article and pictures by Ronnie Grammatica – www.ronniegrammatica.com
Tegan death gripping it! so sick!