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So we are back in training ready for another term, building our racing skills in preparation for the 24 hour event in Week 9. Our mechanics team have spent many hours improving the handling and safety of our training and racing vehicles and one of the biggest improvements has been the introduction of heavy duty training tyres, as the road surface at Ravendale is very abrasive. It was awesome during today’s training session to have three vehicles available to ride as well as a number of bikes bought by students who have been able to ride to school. This is giving us a great opportunity to be more aware of other riders on the track and perform steering maneuvers to avoid collisions. For the actual race there will be around 170 vehicles involved over a 1.7km track. We have just started roll over drills as well so that we are more familiar with how to stay safe if we find ourselves in this position. The Murray Bridge event is sneaking up on us now, being just 8 weeks away. The question is … Will we be ready? Lots of the logistical organisation for our travel to the event is progressing well with bookings for the bus and Adelaide accommodation stop over now confirmed. Sponsorship opportunities for the cars have now closed and this has enabled us to purchase a new racing vehicle as well as uniforms for the whole team. It has been awesome to see so many members of the local community put their hand up to be involved in sponsoring Navigator’s involvement in the event. We will travel to Adelaide by bus on Thursday 21st of September and then travel on to Murray Bridge on Friday morning. The Year 8/9 team will be involved in setting up our camp at the reserve, whilst the Year 6/7 students will be involved in an educational excursion. We are possibly looking at this being to the Monarto Zoo. On the Friday we will all meet back up again at 4pm which is when the track is open for practice laps until 6pm. This will give us a fantastic opportunity to familiarize ourselves with the layout of the track and consider points where steering and negotiating other pedal prix traffic may be challenging. Racing kicks off at 12pm sharp through for 24 hours until 12pm on Sunday. Throughout the Sunday morning we will be involved in packing down our campsite in preparation for the conclusion of the race and final presentations. Our travel back to Port Lincoln will commence following the finalization of the presentations and we plan to arrive back home around 9.30pm. All of the students who have been participating in training now have to make a final decision about being involved in the Murray Bridge event. Notes have been sent home advising that our final rider numbers for Year 6/7 will be capped at 20 and our final rider numbers for Year 8/9 will be 14 students. Thanks to Mattisse Fuller for putting together the dot points for this blog post. Another awesome video from Stella Cozamanis with a backing track from Simone Morgan! We are blessed to have such an enthusiastic and creative 6/7 media team!
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September 2017
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