HAWKESBURY ski pair Cameron Osborne and Jack Harrison claimed a Hawkesbury 120 victory in the under-19 boys class at the weekend, while in the outright, the Superman team won by over a minute.
Osborne and Harrison, towed behind the Temper boat, driven by Andrew Davis with Mark Wallington observing, managed to set a new record for their age group.
Osborne said the team had a shocker on Saturday in the shoot out, but recovered well to win on Sunday afternoon.
“Saturday wasn't the best for us. We just didn't have a great run,” he said.
“Two weeks ago we spun out at the first race of the year so I was a bit nervous on Saturday and I think that is what got to us a bit, but our heads cleared on Sunday.”
Osborne said his combination with the members in his team, including fellow Hawkesbury skier Harrison, saw them speed to a record win.
“Everything seemed to fall into place,” he said.
“We have a good connection with our driver, we all just came together. We always aim to go out there and have fun and we definitely had that.”
Osborne said it was not an easy class to win, with some pretty good competition behind them, including his partner’s younger brother Luke.
“We gave it all we had and we came out on top,” he said.
In the outright class, it was the Superman team yet again claiming the honours.
Superman skier Daniel Graziano said the 120’s speed and distance was always a tough race to kick off the ski racing season.
“The start of the season means everyone is a bit fresh, you find things you didn't think needed work until now,” he said.
“We were extremely happy with the way we went. We were originally a bit concerned about how we might go but we sat down as a crew and had a chat about how we would go and worked out a plan.
“I was a bit tired toward the end there because it is something I haven't done for quite a while.”
Graziano admitted to being nervous before the race, but in the end he need not have been, after the Superman team of driver Darren McGuire, observer Brett Armstrong and other skier Daniel Cotton came home a minute ahead of second place.
Both Graziano and Osborne said their focus would now shift to the Grafton Bridge to Bridge in October.
Graziano said Grafton was one of the harder races on the ski racing calendar, and in the past was one he dreaded competing in.
He said he had since won the race for two years in a row, both times breaking the record and it had since grown on him since tasting success at the difficult course.
