Deer Valley Race Report

Deer Valley Norba National Series Race * Park City, Utah * Thursday July 6th thru Sunday July 9th, 2006

Congratulations to dhReno rider Eric Opperman who had the race of his life on the gnarly Pro/Expert DH course. Eric turned in a blazing time of 3:17 for a 4th place finish out of sixty nine Semi-Pro Racers in this hotly contested National Series Race.

 

Eric (in the middle) with Jason and Nancy after his race run.

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Congratulations are also in order for podium finishers David Bright (3rd Expert) and Davey Robison (3rd Jr) who both had smokin races in their own categories! Everyone is especially impressed with Davey who has really stepped up his racing this year in the competitive Jr group.

   

1. David 2. Davey 3. Steve & Scotty  4. Nancy

Some of the “old farts categories” weren’t as well attended at this race so these dhReno racers made it to the podium because most of their competition retired or died off!

There were also some dashed hopes as crashes and flats took their toll on other dhReno racers:

• Jason B. was on his way to a to a great finish in the Semi-Pro race when a flat in the “Barney Rubble” section cost him the race.
• Adam (in his first Jr Expert race) and Randy were both flying on their race runs when “over the bars” crashes took a bucket load of time to recover from.
• Bernie raced hard, all the while suffering from severe allergies and taking multiple allergy meds. To top it all off, on her race run she got stuck behind a much slower rider that she couldn’t pass on the tight, technical single track of the Sport course.

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Race Pics

    

1. Eric  2. Jason  3. David

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4. Randy & Davey  5. Nancy  6. Adam

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Adam uses the big covered porch to do bike maintenance.

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Park City, Utah

“Git in ma belleee!”  L2R: Steve, Nancy, Randy, Debbie, Scotty, Eric, Davey, Adam, Bernie, Curtis, David

Hey what kinda car is that anyway?

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Links:

• Photos at Yahoo 120 pictures
• Official Norba Race Results
• Professional Photos by Kris Haderer
• Deer Valley Video well done, 118MB