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Relaxed, Fun, Awesome Value

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About

Proudly presented by Canberra Off-Road Cyclists

• Format: Dirt Criterium
  
• Location: Stromlo Forest Park, either main car park or western carpark as advertised prior to the event on CORC Facebook page
• Grading: Handicaps & Graded (depending on age)

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New to Racing? Not new to Racing?

Great, dirt crits are for you.

Dirt crits are kids & novice friendly, but also offering enough challenge for experienced riders to ping against the rev limiter. We hope that the 2020/21 CORC Dirt Crits will be held on most Thursday afternoons from 8th October 2020 to 4th March 2021, although from previous years we anticipate that around 6 events will be cancelled due to inclement weather, heat waves or lack of organisers. To calculate overall results we count your best roughly 75% of races, according to the formula in our results sheet (available after round 1).

Due to the unusual situation this year, all entries must be pre-entered to ensure we comply with COVID restrictions. We will open up entries in blocks of 5 races to ensure that we remain current with any restrictions.

For the Dirt Crit series, all participants must be MTBA members. This includes all juniors. MTBA membership ensures all riders are covered for personal accident and public liability insurance (including when not at Dirt Crits). MTBA does have an eight week free trial which allows members to experience MTBA membership. Details of the MTBA free eight week trial can be found at: http://www.mtba.asn.au/membership/free-trial-membership/

Grades

The CORC Dirt Crits are broken into six categories as follows:

A/B grade = normally 5 or 6 laps long course: This year this will be a handicap race with riders starting at allocated times according to previous results. Fastest riders leave last.

C/D grade = normally 3 or 4 laps long course: This year this will be a handicap race with riders starting at allocated times according to previous results. Fastest riders leave last.

E grade = normally 1 lap long course or modified short course, suited to novice juniors or younger more experienced juniors looking for a challenge.

F grade = 2 laps short course

Number of laps may be changed to suit course lengths. Anyone can enter any category. However, each participant can only race one category. The organisers reserve the right to request riders to change categories.

Scoring and call up

A rider’s best 12 results count towards their season score using the following point system:

Result Points 1st 20 2nd 17 3rd 14 4th 12 5th 10 6th 8 7 th 6 8 th 5 9 th 4 10 th 3 All finishers 2 As with last year, riders will be called up to the start line before each race. The order of call up will be based on current running point scores, and handicap for the A/B and C/D grades.

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Pricing

Australia's best value race series:

$5 per race, with $15 capped pricing for each bracket of 5 races in the series. Just enter and pay, and once you hit the price cap for the eligible races, your races are then free. Easy.

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Dates and Times

This bracket of racing covers every Thursday Night for 5 weeks from Nov 12 - Dec 10

Course set up from 5 pm. Organisers will be setting up course and available to chat. Look out for the Dirt Crit flags and check CORC Facebook for updates.

Grade	Start Time
F-grade:	5.50 pm
E- grade:	6.00 pm
C/D grade:	6.15 pm
A/B grade:	6.30 pm

Please note that we will try to stick to time, but these are indications only.

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Make yourself even more awesome

Volunteer. We love all and any help. Set-up & pack down is super quick with many hands. Lots of little jobs during the event. Race & vol no problem.

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COVID

• If we need to cancel for any reason, all riders will be given a 100% refund.
  
• We'll make every effort to notify riders the event is cancelled.
• If in doubt, please check this race listing for a notice.

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Contact Info

Tara Sutherland 0406 295 432 Mike Dunlop 0438 662 611