The Giant Australia sponsored Porsche Drapac team has paid tribute to James Williamson, by winning the Mont 24 hour event in Canberra over the weekend.

The four man team consisting of National Cross Country champion Lachy Norris, Stu Shaw, Joe Lewis and Michael Phelan completed a phenomenal 27 laps of the 19km course on-board their Maestro equipped Anthem X bikes to take the outright event victory by over 1 lap to their nearest competitor.

Prior to race start event directors and key industry figures made the decision to remember the life of James Williamson by dedicating the first hour of the race to James. Beginning with a minutes silence at 12pm, some 2000 competitors then took part in a 4km ‘honor roll’ before racing began at 1pm with the traditional Le Mans start. Symbolically for the first time in ‘Mont’ history this reduced the race duration by 1 hour making this event the one and only Mont 23hr.

Congratulations to the Drapac boys on a fantastic result and also to Giant factory rider Josh Carlson (Giant mixed 6 team) who posted the quickest night lap for the event.