Carters Lake Series Finals
ATLANTA, Georgia (derailedonline.com) - 2008 SoFA Carters Lake MiniDH Finals took place over last weekend under sunny skies, perfect temperatures, and lots of people having fun. A total of 45 racers entered the event, the largest turn out to date in the two years of operation of the SoFA Carters Lake MiniDH series. Some individuals drove 6+ hours to attend the event. Participants for the event came from all the neighboring states: Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, South and North Carolina, even Indiana.
Sunday morning was brisk temperatures in the 50's and a heavy dew had fell overnight. The dew fall created perfect traction conditions. Shuttle ran constantly with all the participants having a good time. This race was the best riding conditions ever seen at Carters on a race day. The course gave a few people difficulties over the weekend with one of the newly modified jumps, accounting for a few injuries during the day.
Competition was stiff in all these categories with only seconds delineating the leaders of each category. The open/pro/expert course for the weekend favored longer travel bikes compared to the course of the second race. Open/Pro/Expert category was won by Ethan Quehl of Georgia with a time of 1:31.30, Chris Wyatt of Georgia in second with 1:32.87, and Mike Gruhler of Floriday in third with a 1:34.46.
Results and the series points are all posted here on SoFA's website. SoFA has already begun plans for next years Carters MiniDH Series so stay tuned to the website.
More photos can be found here in the photo galleries. Photos are courtesy of Cory Reddy! Thanks Cory!
Posted by Brady on November 5, 2008 10:35 AM
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