What they said…

Sam Osborne, 4th place at the Tauranga Half and coming off penalties in his first two non-drafting races

“It’s really hard to judge distance and it just takes out the ambiguity. It’s just so definitive. You see the lights change and you can gauge your next move. We need it at every race. Most people don’t intend to draft, they just struggle to gauge it.”

Braden Currie

Men’s Champion

“I was a bit sceptical, wondering how it might work with passing manoeuvres and age groupers coming through but my device all day seemed seamless, it was fantastic. Just really good awareness of where you were at, it’s pretty basic to see if you move into that draft zone, it goes blue instantly, so good clarity. I think it’s a have-to the way the sport’s going, the PTO in particular. It’ll just make the sport and the race more fair.”

Women’s Champion

“I stayed between the orange and red lights, and it mentally took the guesswork out of ‘am I at the appropriate distance’? When Hannah [Berry] was leading, Amelia [Watkinson] was second and I was third, I could see that I was the right distance, but I could also see that ahead of me Amelia was also following Hannah at the right distance. Which showed that we were all doing a fair race.”