Super results across weekend RECORDS
AS THEY say, records are made to be broken.
Two new categories were raced at the Southern 80 on Saturday morning, giving young skiers the opportunity to be the first to ever win their category.
The team from Boystress of driver Mark Boyer, observer Rachael Howe and skiers Ami Davis and Sky Bourke set the record in the new Under 14 Social class in a time of 10:29.
In the second new category, driver Nathan Hedley, observer Samantha Hedley and skiers Senna Hedley and Leilani Cartledge claimed the new Under 12 Social in a time of 10:49 in Hedake.
But they weren’t the only ones breaking records on day one.
Stock 6-Litre Social team Public Enemies, consisting of driver Glenn Rowlands, observer Andrew Morgan and skiers Max Rowlands and Mason Vaughan, destroyed Hollowpoint’s record from only 12 months ago of 8:42, wiping off 15 seconds to record a time of 8:27.
Sunday was highlighted by an overall race record and a new unlimited inboard record, but they were far from the only ones set on the races main day.
The team from Superbad — Brian Farrell, James King, Shantelle King and Michael Boylan — set the inaugural Sportsmans Expert record with a time of 36.01.
F2 Expert saw Esky Mojo’s near 10-year-old record broken — twice.
Showbiz, featuring David Tidswell, Ray Curtis, Paul Phegan and Brayden Harris took six seconds off the record, only to have Team 26’s Brandon Cropper, Jason Dingli, Blake Dingli and Bailey Cropper finish 29 seconds faster than the original — and 23 seconds faster than Showbiz — in 38.51.
Though Esky Mojo member Todd Kelly looked to take a new record home, when his Mojo team of Brad Winter, Gerard Atkins and Troy Barens broke Monopoly’s 5.2 Litre & 6 Cylinder Expert record by 18 seconds.
But the boat is called Monopoly for a reason and the record it had just lost was quickly back in its hands in a matter of minutes as they shaved a further one second from the new mark at 35.15.
Hanka Chief set the inaugural record for the new Under 12 Boys Expert class, with team members Robert Bertram, Cameron Reid, Kade Laub and Jackson Bertram finishing the course in 58.32.
In the Under 12 Girls Expert class it was Solid Gold’s crew of Samantha Hedley, Michael Butcher, Senna Hedley and Leilani Cartledge who would be establishing the first record in 52.37.