I flew in on Friday afternoon right before practice and met up with team SA. I have to say, the South Australia crew had a pretty sweet set-up going for the riders. With Manayta (said man-ay-ta...AKA, Shazza Willoughby) and Col Kitty (AKA Col "the cat...meow" Willoughby) looking after their shredders. With all meals cooked, groceries done, registration, and travel arrangements taken care of for me, all I had to do was.....ride my bike! More states could learn from SA's setup, it was awesome.

The track at Penrith was probably the best all around of all season, good track, tight and technical with deep sections, and plenty of different options on how to ride each straight, not just one distinct fastest way, and the best thing was a nice fast dropping gate for a change.

So to racing, and I was getting good gates, I won my semi, and got a good lane draw for the main with lane 4, Willers had lane 1, so he was probably going to be the biggest threat, with Madill over in 8, it was going to be hard for him.

I got a pretty good lap going from there, and had a comfortable win, Willers got 2nd, Madill 3rd, so some more good country points.

Sam Willoughby was killing it in the juniors all day and had a pretty easy win, after a slow start, but he's well and truly got the gas advantage over the rest of the boys.

Day 2

Felt better today than on day 1, which was unusual but very welcome. Some more good laps were had, chilled a fair bit in my motos, won my semi again, then got lane 7 for the final, between Madill in 6 and Kamakaze in 8. Kama was set for some good results this weekend, he had tons of gas and was handling the track well, but it wasn't to be for him.

About half way through the gate call, I started to loose my balance a bit on the flat gate, so I missed the snap a bit and it messed my first few cranks up a bit, but not too bad, I rode a real good first straight and got a pretty comfy holeshot in the end.

As it turns out this final also decided our Oceania UCI series, Willers and myself were safe in 1st and 2nd, but whoever beat who in the main would win the overall. So Willers got into 2nd from lane 1 again and was pushing hard behind, we had some contact in turn 2 but it was all good, and I got my 2nd win in 2 days and my 5th for the series and took the overall as well.

Brian Kirkham found himself in 3rd down the 2nd straight where the deep rhythm claimed him in a big way, and he was off to hospital where they found he had broken his knuckle, which was lucky considering the crash he had...it was UGLY! This balled up pretty much everyone behind in some way, Alex Cameron has been riding really good all season making pretty much every main, and took 3rd, with Madill in 4th.

Sam once again killed the juniors, and in the process scored maximum points for the series with 7 round wins, he was definitely on another level to the rest of them.

This also made it 4 wins for the new YETI Super X frame from it's first 4 races! Great success!

So I'm back home now, taking it easy for a few days, and back to training on Thursday, just 4 weeks till the supercross round in Adelaide now, and our national BMX champs the week after.

All for now.
Gravey!