Tue 30 May 2006
Amiel Cavallier
Jared Rando
US Open was held at the Diablo Freeride Park it was won by NZ John Kirkcaldie with a time that was almost 10 seconds better than his qualifying time,Australias Jared Rando came in 2nd and someone by the name of Geritt Beytagh finished of the podium.Joel Bain remained consistant qualifying 32nd with a 3.20.021 and in his race run placed lower but improved on his time finishing 36th with a 3.04.443,I havent been able to get in touch with Benny Bell but Matt tells me his Mum has spoken to him and he’s darker than Kamal,basically he got to the top and discovered that his cluster had somehow come loose and was unrideable so with little time to fix it he jumped on the chairlift headed to the pits and borrowed Amiels Giant,got to the top again and realised that Amiel rides clips and Ben rides flats!oh well he does his run but finds it almost impossible to keep his shoes in places on the slippery clips and he ends up 67th at 3.29.467 in qualifying which by the look of it he didnt qualify because the cut of is 60!but dont quote me on that Iam only guessing but I cant find his time on the final run sheet so it may be right.Same thing with Mitch delfs his qualifier was 65th at 3.28.514 but I dont know the story with him.
Damn sounds like Ben and Mitch are doing it tough lets wish them good luck with their next race.
1st John Kirkcaldie 2.48.193
2nd Jared Rando 2.52.215
3rd Geritt Beytagh 2.52.409
4th Evan Trpen 2.52.868
5th Luke Strobel 2.53.852
6th Amiel Carvalier 2.54.589
7th Sanjay Shanbag 2.55.123
8th Curtis Keene 2.55 .283
9th Justin Havukainen 2.56.051
10th Derrick Nobman 2.56.455
36th Joel Bain 3.04.443
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