NZ MTB Cup - News So Far

picture thanks to Aaron McGroover's facebook page

Stormin' Norman (Leighton) Kirk, had a fantastic result at the Dunedin round of the MTB Cup.  Leighton's winning time in the senior men was the 2nd fastest time of the day, ahead of many world cup seasoned racers (124 DH entrants, not shabby mate).  Leighton's new V10 carbon making easy work of the wet and slippery signal hill course....should make up for his result at Queenstown.  Leighton seeded 2nd in the Queenstown, but a crash on his race run meant he ended up in 39th.
Nick McConachie took 2nd place, to make it a V10 carbon podium hog in Dunedin.
Jake Boylett took the open class win in Queenstown, proving that the old alloy V10's still work well.
Vero Sandler got some nice constant result with a 3rd in Queenstown and 4th in Dunners.

Results and reports can be found here for Qtown and here for Dunners.

Dunedin may not have had the best weather, but with all new DH and XC courses, which are challenging without the rain.
Dirk Peters came in a very credible second place, he was unable to match Carl Jones pace, but they both put a big gap on seasoned Aussie racers Chris Jongewaard and Paul van der Ploeg.  Anywho, you can check out Dirk's thoughts on his blog.
Interesting to note some of the elite XC racers are opting for Highballs, one piloted by Tom Bradshaw & Melissa Newell.
You can check out results and report for the Dunedin XC here.

Vero on the hot line, photo thanks to Andrew Bias fb page.

This weekend it will be Christchurch's turn to host the 2012 NZ MTB cup.