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The WA bodyboarding community is currently buzzing with anticipation of the first EBB State Bodyboard Series this weekend. With a solid swell forecast and favourable winds, the opening round of competition is poised to take place at one of WA’s most infamous breaks, the Mandurah Wedge.
The opening round of the three event series offers WA competitors a chance to compete in some of the best waves the state has to offer. Mandurah Wedge is a high performance break that has been a mecca for many bodyboarders lately and will …Â Details
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It’s time for the first off weekend of the season.
Yeah, right. How many of these guys do you think won’t be anywhere near a race track this weekend?
OK, Jeff Gordon for sure won’t be. The guy’s got so much to celebrate and a real neat family unit to celebrate it with, it makes you appreciate what Gordon’s accomplished so far this year, even more. So scratch him off the list.
You know, when you really ponder it you’d like to think that no one would go anywhere near a race track. You’d think they’d go somewhere clean and quiet and peaceful that’ll just blow away all those fears and doubts and pressures from the first four events of the season…. Details
John Bertrand and his crew of Ben Ainslie and Andrew Palfrey (AUS) led the 85-strong 2009 Audi Etchells Worlds fleet from go to whoa in the three-lap windward/leeward Race 3 today, sailed off Royal Brighton Yacht Club, the host for the series.
Bertrand increased his lead marginally at each rounding to defeat Chris Busch/Chad Hough/Chuck Sinks/David Hughes (USA) by around one minute and Stuart Childerley/Robert Elliott/Sam Richmond (UK) and Jud Smith/Mark Johnson/Nik Burfoot (AUS) followed.
The three threw everything they could at crew Bertrand in breezes that averaged 8.2 knots and peaked at 11 knots on Port Phillip today, but to no avail…Â DetailsÂ
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Calvert, driving the 40th Anniversary 2008 Mustang FR500CJ Cobra Jet duplicated the success of the original 1968 Cobra Jet when he won the AA Stock Eliminator class at the 2009 NHRA Winternationals, which finished up today after several rain delays. It is history repeated as in 1968…Â Details