A snapshot of the 2008 RACV Energy Breakthrough

Well mostly through boredom, here is the 2008 RACV Energy Breakthrough in pictures. Excuse any biasness. Click on image to produce a larger version

Left:The Winning Team from Flora Hill.

Right: Rain made qualifying an interesting affair.

Run A Muk ran into a barrier mid way through qualifying, crushing both aluminium rollbars onto the rider. They were up until 3am fixing the damage, with the vehicle looking better then new come 1.30pm Saturday.
Highview's "Flying Scotsman 2" featured very innovative wheel spats that moved with the turning wheels. The external rollbar cost the team plenty of time off the track, trying to keep the thing stuck there with tape!
Highview's "Boris Monster" had the first rollover of the race, locking the rear and sliding onto it's roof on slippery turn 2. The team finished 2nd overall in HPV B2 to Flora Hill's "BRUM".

Left: Boris, Flying Scotsman 2, Old Bearded Mate and P-Knuckle. These teams made up the top 4 from lap 1.

Right: Highview seemed to be controlling the race in the first 3 hours, until the heavens opened one last time. The Bendigo teams faired much better in this period, coming out of the rain without any incidents.

The race featured a couple of red flags throughout. This picture (kind of) shows the bottleneck created by the barriers blowing across the road, blocking the entire track after "Dunny Corner". Several vehicles rolled in the chaos, with the red light on for several minutes.

Left: "Old Bearded Mate" came out of the night in great condition, leading BSSC's "P-Knuckle" by up to 18 laps at some stages.
Right: Meanwhile Highview had experienced more dramas, allowing Padua's "Boris" to finally take 3rd from the "Flying Scotsman 2" on Sunday morning.

Left: Weeroona's "Bullet Head" finished 3rd in HPV B1 whilst "Silver Bullet" finished 4th in the trial, along way off the pace. More impressive was how Team Pecos brought a vehicle across the line that barely looked like it had ran a race!
Right: Woodleigh's "Helter Skelter" showed enough speed to secure 2nd in the trial, yet suffered overall to finish 3rd in class. The quickest corflute fairing on the Maryborough grid.

With 30 minutes to go a lather of shaving cream was applied to the Old Bearded Mate.

Left: With 10 minutes to go the oversized Mach 3 razor entered the equation.

Right: Meanwhile Daryl King, BYR's design coordinator, former FH and BSSC rider and 2IC of Flora Hill's Pedal Prix program, starts to get a little emotional. Mike Turnbull, the main man, is mysteriously unavailable....

Literally under a hundred metres away from the checkered flag Daryl steps out onto the track so as to gift an Old Bearded Mate with a fine shave.

And so Flora Hill Secondary College wins the 2008 RACV Energy Breakthrough! One of the youngest teams to do it in the race's history. Well done for all your hard work throughout the year.