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VIC TITLES MAFFRA 18TH-19TH SEPTEMBER 2010

Tuesday, 21 September 2010 20:48 | Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 September 2010 16:06 | Written by Jake Van Vliet |

The Maffra sale club would have to be one of the best run clubs in Australia. Very organized, well prepared, awesome track and great facilities. One of the best features would have to be their canteen, best chips in the world. I raced at Maffra about two weeks before the Vic titles, for the Gippsland series. The track the was super rough, so it was sweet to ride it smooth at the Vic's. It really increased my speed the second time around at Maffra and being able to get a feel of the track left me well prepaired for Vic's.

I had a pretty good run at the Vic's. I was pretty consistant the whole way through, and thats what counts. There were 5 races all up, and the track was only getting rougher and rougher throughout the day In the 3rd race I made a little mistake, charging a corner in the sand section and rolling over the edge of the berm costing me about a minute in the race. Just before my get off I was coming 2nd in expert batteling with my brother and fellow X-Team rider Mitch Van Vliet.

Our class joined in with the Pro class to beef up numbers, which was really good to race against some of the best racers in Australia. The one thing I did struggle with a little bit was the length of the races. 15 minutes plus one lap felt like forever. I just have to stick to my training on the bike and increase my fitness heaps by going to the gym a lot more.

my results-

race 1- 2nd place

race 2- 2nd place

race 3- 3rd place

race 4- 2nd place

race 5- 2nd place

overall- 2nd place

Overall I had a great weekend. Stay tuned for the last qrcv series race report for the last race of the season.

2010 south Australian titles-

Tuesday, 31 August 2010 10:17 | Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 August 2010 16:10 | Written by Jake Van Vliet |

We left Friday morning for South Australia, it was about 8 hours in our car and it killed us since we are so use to travelling in the bus. We got into Murray Bridge at around 6.30 Friday night. We were going to go have a look at the track but instead just went out for tea and then we went to bed as we were that stuffed. We arrived at the track the next morning, it was a bit wet but nothing the 450 couldn’t handle, the skies were blue and we were pumped and ready for a full day of racing, we set up all the can am pit tents and the front row of the pits had a nice display of the can-am set ups.

It was good to have five races so you had room for error and also it was good to have the manufactures cup just to keep some extra training in. In the manufactures cup both races were very close between myself and team mate Chad McKay there was some awesome riding and it was great to ride with someone at that level, it really helped. The few times I was in front I made some mistakes but learnt heaps. It was really cool at the end of the two days to see not only the Van Vliet family but the whole can am X-team at the top of the podium in pretty much every class. It just goes to show how fast and reliable these bikes truly are and to come out of the crash that Chad and I had in the manufactures cup with just rolled back bars is amazing so not only are they fast and reliable there bloody strong too.

My results for the weekend-

Open class-

Race 1- 2^nd

Race 2- 2^nd

Race 3- 1^st

Race 4- 2^nd

Race 5- 2^nd

Overall- 1^st place

Manufactures cup-

Race 1- 2^nd place

Race 2- dnf due to crash

The racing on the weekend was a really good indication to see where I'm at against some of Australia’s best pro riders. After my pretty decent crash I was in allot of pain, I hit the ski jump after the finish line jump pretty much full noise and landed in a braking bump and it made me bounce over the bars and I went flying and the bike was rolling after me I hit the ground and the bike rolled over me and the bars hit me in the chest doing some damage to my chest, nothing a cup of concrete won’t fix for next week’s Gippsland centre round. I would also like to give a massive thanks to Mic and tiff from 47 industries for the help on the weekend, CRC for the awesome products that had the bike looking amazing and everything running smoothly and also Adam from quad squad for getting the bike up to scratch only the day before we left.

Tri state series round 3

Wednesday, 11 August 2010 20:43 | Written by Jake Van Vliet |

Tri state series round 3

at the tri state series this year I haven't been having much luck to have a dnf due to a crash in the first round in south Australia, and not feeling to comfy in the second round I came into the last one with a really good attitude. I was coming 2nd overall by about 25 points behind Polaris rider Ryan Noyes. I was ready to expect anything, I love the track because its fast and really jumpy. We had the QRCV series a couple of weekends before hand so I was pretty use to this track I just wasn't to sure about all the rain they had but it ended up holding up pretty good

in race one I got a not bad start which put me in about 3^rd I pushed and got passed fellow QRCV rider Jono wade that just came of a pretty big break, I managed to get back up to Larson and held it for a couple more laps but just didn't have that little bit more push to get passed for the win so I settled with a 2^nd for race one, in the second race it was pretty much the same I didn't get the best start, but went as hard as I could for the first couple of laps to get to a good position, and found myself in 2^nd place again, trying to catch back up to Adam and almost had a couple of close calls on some doubles but managed to save, but I found the races very short being a short track 5 minutes isn't really enough so its best if you have a really good start and sprint the whole way to the finish, in race three I was pumped, I was loving the track and I was ready to have some fun I pulled the whole shot and couldn't really pull a gap on a few riders, I ended up with another 2^nd to finish up with an overall 2^nd place for the day.

Overall in all of the rounds I ended up with two overall 2nd 's and a 7th it just goes to show you that consistency does rule and its great to have all the support from Mic and Tiff from 47 industries and the x team and also Adam from quad squad helping me out with the bike the whole time. It was really good to see how many podiums the can-am's got it just goes to show how competitive these bikes really are looking at the amount of work done to them really inst much at all if anything at all

QRCV ROUND 3- 2010

Thursday, 29 July 2010 14:34 | Written by Jake Van Vliet |

Qrcv round 3 – Toolleen

I woke up Sunday morning feeling awesome ready for the day, I was so pumped to race I couldn’t wait; we got to the track and it looked awesome the Toolleen club do a sweet job on looking after this track. It’s more like a supercross track the a motocross track so all the jumps are sweet, but the bad thing is there’s no real place to rest, that makes the 15 minute motto’s pretty hard. I had done a fair bit of training before this event so I couldn’t wait to prove myself against all of the pros and riders from other states including fellow Victorian Adam Larson.

Moto 1- I went out in motto one and pushed for the first couple of laps because I didn’t get the greatest start. I was staying with Adam Larson and pro rider cam wade, it was about 13 laps the 15 min motto plus one lap, not being the biggest track it’s easy to find a good rhythm, about 8 minutes into the race I managed to get passed Adam Larson and was sitting just behind Wadey for the next few. About 2 laps to go wadey came of trying to pass a lapped ridder which left me open for the overall win.

Moto 2- motto two was very similar to motto one I got a shocking start again coming out of the first corner in 5^th I managed to catch back up to third passing fellow x-team rider rick bear and then at about the 10 minute mark I got past Larson as well and then cam wade stalled it on a jump due to bike problems which also left me for the win in this motto as well.

Moto 3- motto three was a huge struggle I had no energy left and was very fatigued I got a pretty good start in about 3^rd and made way to many mistakes early in the race which made me loose to much ground on the front riders which left me to 2^nd in this race.

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