Davison Keeps His Cool

by Barry Kellett · March 18, 2020

The 2019 Dromara Enduro Championship took place on Sunday 8th March 2020 a few months later than planned.
Enduro generally involves downhill timed sections followed by longer untimed climbs that bring you to the next stage.The winner is the quickest time overall for all the stages.
The venue in the East of the province provided us with 4 trails with competitors completing each trail twice to complete 8 stages overall.

	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3	Stage 4	Stage 5	Stage 6	Stage 7	Stage 8	Overall time	Rank
Drew Armstrong	50s	0m 49s	0m 53s	0m 51s	1m 2s	1m 1s	54s	55s	7m 15s	1
Peter Davison	53s	0m 52s	0m 55s	0m 53s	1m 5s	1m 5s	1m	57s	7m 40s	2
Ben Wilson	50s	0m 51s	0m 54s	1m 7s	1m 5s	1m 5s	56s	57s	7m 45s	3
Scott Nelson	54s	0m 55s	55s	1m 6s	1m 10s	1m 7s	1m	1m 1s	8m 8s	4
Aidan Hawkins	1m	1m 0s	0m 59s	0m 56s	1m 9s	1m 8s	1m	59s	8m 11s	5
Fraser Morrison	56s	0m 55s	1m 1s	0m 58s	1m 12s	1m 13s	1m 5s	1m 1s	8m 21s	6
Paul McLean	59s	1m	1m 1s	1m 3s	1m 15s	1m 14s	1m 6s	1m 7s	8m 45s	7
Richie Carey	1m	1m 0s	1m 3s	1m 7s	1m 15s	1m 16s	1m 6s	1m 5s	8m 52s	8
James Alexander	1m 1s	1m 5s	1m 4s	1m 4s	1m 16s	1m 15s	1m 7s	1m 7s	8m 59s	9
Davey Broome	1m 21s	1m 14s	1m 17s	1m 16s	1m 30s	1m 26s	1m 46s	1m 17s	11m 7s	10
Cameron Mccusker	1m 21s	1m 29s	1m 24s	1m 25s	2m 5s	1m 52s	1m 46s	1m 49s	13m 11s	11
Wannita Broome	1m 32s	1m 45s	1m 38s	1m 41s	2m 18s	1m 57s	1m 59s	1m 46s	14m 36s	12
Chris Harvey	55s								55s	DNF

13 riders took to the start line, all riders were focused keen to see how the winter training had gone as the new season approached. The stages were short but they had plenty of technical sections for those good enough to attack the racing line.
3 Hours after the first Stage started the last rider crossed the finish line. Fastest on the day was former club member Drew Armstrong who was consistently fast all day.
Peter Davison won the Dromara Championship from 2nd Ben Wilson and 3rd Scott Nelson.
Peter proved the most consistent and made very few mistakes, Ben made a mistake on the last berm on stage 4 that cost him time and ultimately 1st place. Scott had a great 3rd spot and showed most of the young lads how it is done.
On international women’s day Wannita Broome flew the Flag and attacked the course the only way she know’s how. Paul McLean and Richie Carey had their own battle all day, with Paul getting the edge by the smallest of margins each stage much to Richie’s frustration.

Everyone was pleased to see Cameron McCusker back in action after a spell injured, he returned with the usual smile across his face. Most importantly he finished the race without any recurrence of the old injury and he put in some good stage times.
Unfortunately as the riders crossed the line on the last stage the heavens opened and everyone scarpered to their cars. The prize giving and the bacon baps were put on hold for another day.