Racing at Muzz

Most Saturdays throughout the year, Balmoral hold racing at their famous Murrarrie Criterium track.

This track has seen stars from the junior ranks through to World Tour riders race on it, and has plenty of grades for people with less experience as well. Murrarrie is a 1.4 kilometre circuit of closed road located on Wynnum Road at the Murrarrie Recreation Reserve.

If you wish to race at Murrarrie you must first have a Cycling Australia racing licence http://www.membership.cycling.org.au/ and a Balmoral club grading, which you can acquire from Gino Comacchia at balmoral.management+handicapping@gmail.com.

If racing is cancelled due to weather or calendar conflicts, the news page of the Balmoral website and the club facebook page will be updated to signify this.  Please check before leaving for racing on Saturday morning.

The Entry fee for a Murrarrie race is $15, or $10 for juniors*, regardless of grading. The new Masters Grade is for Masters of any grading, who are 40years or older, if you wish to race this grade you will have to email Gino about changing your Balmoral grading.

*Only Juniors who have completed the Junior Development training (link to junior development) and been approved to race in senior gradings can race in the Muzz crits.  Juniors must also comply with CA tech rules (including rollout) to race in senior gradings.

Men and women race together in all grades. Club crit gradings are designed so that you can be competitive in your grade, if you do not feel that this is the case please contact Gino. Your Balmoral crit grading will not necessarily reflect your CQ open grading. We also occasionally change format (eg: Teams racing).

Champion of Champions:

Each year, during the summer when the locals racing in Europe have returned home, Balmoral hosts the famous Champion of Champions event.

This is a Saturday morning race with entry restricted to A grade riders who have raced at Murrarrie during the year. The winner on the day receives a commemorative champions jersey and bragging rights until the next year’s Champion of Champions.   The Champion of Champions race began in 2012 and the winners are as follows:

2018: Malcolm Rudolph

2017: Nick Schultz

2016: Jay McCarthy

2015: Jordan Kerby

2014: Sam Volkers

2013: Josh Prete

2012: Jay McCarthy