2007 RACT Insurance Challenge
A great success!
Words: Gary Adderton & Nigel Preston. Images courtesy of Energy Education Australia

The third annual RACT INSURANCE CHALLENGE has been declared a great success by the organisers, and whilst it rained again the track soon dried and the rest of the day mainly fine!

With the awards spread between the locals and Victorian contingents throughout the classes, there was some close attention at the front of the field between some of the front runners.

Event Organiser, Gary Adderton, has emailed through the results and a quick overview of the day:

"The many congratulations, comments and feed back from the visiting interstate teams, the public and many, many others certainly justifies the months of planning, preparation and coordination of an event like this."

A comment from one of the visiting Victorian teams …"to see our school grow and develop from being one of the worst in our state to one in which we can be proud and then to cap it all off by coming down to Tassie and the students having such a ball... is the ultimate in any teachers experience... thankyou Rosny, we’re already planning next year…."

It was ‘accident-wise’ quite an uneventful day (thankyou everyone once again for riding with other’s safety in mind!), the Hobart Private Ambulance woman had little to do all day, though I did see her cheering on some of the teams, thanks HBA.
 

Results:

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Division A Secondary
1st - Churchill H2 #20 - 206 laps
2nd - Woodbridge #13 - 206 laps (27seconds behind)
3rd - Campania Team 1 #109 - 205 laps
4th - Churchill H1 #19 - 197 laps.
5th - Mannum Team A #14 - 196 laps
6th - Campania Team 2 #61 - 194 laps
7th - Mannum Team B#15 - 184 laps
8th - Community #81 - 47 laps (demo vehicle only).

Division B Senior Seconday
1st - Rosny College Swipes #62 - 193 laps
2nd - Geilston Bay High (team of mainly boys – placed in Senior Secondary) - 129 laps.

Division C Open Secondary
1st - Rosny College VET #4 200 laps
2nd - Rosny College Raging Bull #61 194 laps
3rd - Hobart College # 18 DNF 29 laps.

Division D Open Community
1st - Ex Pats #11 274 laps
2nd - HP Racing #69 256 laps
3rd - Community #10 251 laps
4th - Bicycle Tasmania (men) – 245 laps
5th - Bike Tas (women) – 189 laps.

Special thanks for such a fantastic day and well done everyone including:

• those who helped set up,
• prepared vehicles,
• the riders,
• marshals,
• the RACT,
• Tasmanian Port Authority,
• Hobart City Council,
• Events Tasmania,
• the Lord Mayor – Rob Valentine,
• Hobart City Council Alderman – Jeff Briscoe, Ron Christie, Marti Zucco, Helen Burnett,
• A big thankyou to Pat Bosco and Peter Sawley from SA for their scrutineering, advice and experience in setting up the track, their encouragement and highly experienced professional support.
• A big thankyou to Andrew Heard for his feedback on initial planning issues, David Buckingham, Dale Carney and the Southern Vets Road racing guys for the use of their transponders and timing system. It seems that all transponders were returned – fantastic!
• Packing up was brilliant – thanks riders, parents, teachers, friends and especially a big thankyou Chris, Phil, Jan, Pete, Miranda and Geoff (our MC) all Rosny Staff who are some of the main people behind this event.
• Also to Robin Fox, Rosny’s principal for giving us his support and signing off on all of the legal documents and the Department of Education and Andrew Finch for their full support.
• and the list goes on and on!

The fourth RACT INSURANCE CHALLENGE is to be held on April 27th 2008!

Planning is already underway and the first thing that will help to make it an even better event in 2008 is for participants and spectators to give the event organisers some feedback or comments as soon as possible.
They would appreciate just a short statement or two on issues that you think are important, what can be improved or added.

For more information, contact:
Gary Adderton
RACT Insurance Challenge
Event Co-ordinator
M: 0411 964 413

Links:
- View the full 2007 Calendar of Human Powered Vehicle events across Australia

Images on this page are courtesy of Energy Education Australia.