Yes! Bendigo Youth Racing (BYR) has won the 2009 Australian International Pedal Prix. Seven laps ahead of ‘Trisled Fresh Racing’!
Winners of the 2008 edition ‘Tru Blu Racing’ lost their grip on second place late in the race and eventually finished third, 9 laps behind BYR.
We finally cracked the 1000 kilometre mark (but only just), having completed 466 laps of the 2.15 kilometre course. (We did the sums - 1001.9 kilometres)
Our new trike,
BY-09, managed to survive weaving through the traffic of 229 vehicles for 24 hours as well as we could've hoped.
I've tried to capture the general vibe from the weary boys:
We’re stoked, excited and relieved to have won this 24 hour race again. We raced clean, our pace was consistent throughout the race and across all of the team members and we won in a trike we built ourselves. It doesn’t get any better than that.
It’s very surreal. We have been designing, building and training for this since last October and now to have achieved our goal is extremely satisfying. We had a great time over the whole weekend – which included getting our bus bogged on the way there!
In what we believe will be Bendigo Youth Racing’s final outing it is fantastic to finish on a high note.
Special thanks to:
- Tim Ralton of Decked Out Coaching for helping us toughen up on the wind trainers,
- Pit Master Crowey, Moo, Tippet, Milky, Joe, Joe, Gav, Matt and Rowan,
- all of our parents who travel interstate to cheer us on,
- all of our awesome sponsors who gave us most of the materials we used to build the vehicle for free or really, really cheap.
Just for the record, our sponsors are:
McCullochs Hydraulic Engineers, L.W. Nankervis Performance Boats, Polymer Daystar, Warehouse Sales Electrical, PTR Engineering, Jimmy Recard Racing Components, Lorraine Lea Linen, Heavenly Threads and Decked Out Coaching.
We’ll produce a more detailed race report with plenty of pictures over the next couple of days, but in the meantime check out the overall results here: http://www.hpvresults.com.au/live/overall.html
