Pearce DH series Round 1 Hopton Results
Mike takes the win in Junior, good results for Tom and Matt and Robin gets second in Juvenile.
After a dry dusty practice day on Saturday the bikes came back to the workshop with only a light covering of dust Saturday night. Hill had done his best to re-shape his rear wheel and Robin's rear derailleur had lost all ability to change gear so we had a little fettling to do to get race ready.
Race day came and so did the rain, hail and wind. Robin had a big off in his first run destroying his brake but somehow sourced a loan brake and went back up the hill to take 44 seconds off his first run and take second place despite getting held up in traffic.
In Junior Matt, Tom and Mike put in good runs to finish 29th, 20th and 1st. Mike set the fastest time in run one and then following the rain went up the hill to take another 2 seconds off his time to hold on the 1st place and 23rd fastest time on the day only 15.5 seconds off world cup racer Mark Beaumont.
A good start to the season for team PHC, bring on round two although we are going to need more team kit if the mud continues.
Race photos provided by Jamie Watts
