Waipuna Road, Waerenga
Just after the start one of the younger boys (Alexander Macdonald, CRF150, from Te Awamutu) fell off going down a bank. I was right behind him and only just managed not to ride over him. It looked quite painful. The bike rolloed over him a couple of times and he got trapped underneath it. I stopped and picked the bike off him but didn’t hang around because I saw some of the sweep riders coming. He pulled out but wasn’t too badly hurt.
I didn’t have a great day. The track was a bit too fast for my liking. I was riding Brandon Hoskins Husqvarna CR150 again and, even though I didn’t have as much fun as at the last Bel ray, I’m glad I didn’t have to sit around all day waiting for the race to finish.
The main thing I didn’t like about the track was that about half of it was on farm tracks along the side of hills and it felt like you just had to make one mistake, especially early on when the grass was slippery, and it could all go wrong.
I finished very close to the bottom of the field and was a little bit bored but didn’t have any accidents and their were a couple of bits that were quite fun to ride.
At the start of the senior race Charlotte Russ fell off and got knocked out. She was walking around later though and didn’t seem too bad.