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Friday Night Winter Track Racing week 9

Dunc Gray Velodrome, Sydney, August 13, 2004

Bring out the beast

By Paul Craft

The Keirin series always brings out the beast in everyone.

The feature race for night was "The Div 4 Australian SportsBook 1km Wheelrace". Up for grabs was $170 worth of betting vouchers from Australian Sportsbook. The Handicap belonged to the limit markers. Although scratch-man Paul Worby tried hard, the effort of catching the leaders took its toll and he was unable to place in the final sprint. Starting from 120m Josh Dolan went out hard but was pursued by the experienced Brian Hopkins (105m). Brian overcame the youngster with one lap to go and maintained a steady speed to claim the $100 prize. Josh struggled home to hold out Warwick McAlpine who won the middle markers bunch sprint.

Warwick from Australian SportsBook was on hand to make the presentation and to inform FNWTR patrons of the wide range of betting options. He invited everyone to view the odds for themselves on www.sportsbook.com.au . I would like to thank Australian SportsBook for showing their support.

Janelle Lyndsay was polishing her tandem sprinting before heading to Athens. For the first time to my knowledge patrons were treated to a tandem Kierin. The Tandem racing has proven to be a crowd pleaser and I would like to thank Tom Skulander for his efforts in co-ordinating this display.

Tank Dougherty, who was a driving force in keeping Ben Kersten on form, rode the derny for the keirins. All up he rode 17 races for the night. As always each event was hotly contested.

An awful crash in the Div 4 Miss'N'Out wiped out three of FNWTR personalities. Penny Rowbothem scored herself a huge shiner and 6 stitches to a cut below her eye. Warwick McAlpine is shopping for a new helmet and Paul Worby is nursing a very stiff shoulder. The odd thing about this crash was that the participants all seemed more concerned about each others injuries than their own. It has been reported that Penny and Paul were both spotted racing again on Saturday.

Jason Roberts continues to show his improving talent by winning the Div 3 + 4 combine. In the process he scored himself a dinner for two at Bankstown Sports Club. Many thanks to Graham Lawson for passing on this wonderful prize.

Unfortunately due to the late conclusion of the night the final round NSWCF+NSWIS Time Blaster had to be canned. But that means that the next edition will be worth $100.

Next week will be huge with a new sponsor Veloflex supporting the Div 1 Wheelrace. Also stay tuned to this weeks news letter. I have a huge announcement about the winter program.

Till next week, Paul

Interesting Olympic facts: The first break of the road race contained Virenque, Backstedt and Bodrogi wearing numbers 19, 91 and 127 respectively. The sum of each of these numbers is 10. It's a bit freaky that this trio got caught at the start of lap 10.

Results

Mortgagemaker Junior Development demonstration. 
 
Demo 1 Joshua Funston                                                     
Demo 2 Adriano Miaradini                                                 
 
Round 1 
 
Warm up scratch race winners 
 
Novice Hayden Taylor                                                     
Div 4 Paul Worby                                                          
Div 3 Jason Roberts                                                       
Div 2 Dale Scarfe                                                        
Div 1 Peter Spencer                                                      
 
Tandem Sprint 
 
1 Dixon/Townsend                                                          
2 Lindsey/Skulander                                                       
 
Round 2
 
The Australian SportsBook 1km Wheelrace Div 4 
 
1 Brian Hopkins (105m)                                                    
2 Josh Dolan (120m)                                                       
3 Warick McAlpine (75m)                                                   
4 Teagan Hines (80m)                                                      
 
Group Handicap Novice 
 
1 Hayden Taylor (10m)                                                     
2 Sean Gleason (Scratch)                                                  
3 Rolf Greather (20m)                                                     
4 Michelle Brown (30m)                                                    
 
Group Handicap Div 3 
 
1 Alan Townsend (20m)                                                     
2 Big Trev (20m)                                                          
3 Micheal Leech (20m)                                                     
4 Mark Rowling (Scratch)                                                  
 
Group Handicap Div 2 
 
1 Matt Smith Smith (20m)                                                  
2 Jim Gray (20m)                                                          
3 Dan O'callaghan (20m)                                                   
4 Hugh Gray (20m)                                                         
 
Group Handicap Div 1 
 
1 Shaun Hopkins (Scratch)                                                 
2 Michael Mellish (20m)                                                   
3 Andrew Carter (Scratch)                                                 
4 David Brown (20m)                                                       
 
 
Round 3 
 
Heat 1 Kierin div 4+ Nov 
 
1 Peter Flinn                                                             
2 Warwick McAlpine                                                        
3 Brian Hopkins                                                           
4 Paul Regattieri                                                         
 
Heat 2 Kierin div 4+ Nov 
 
1 Chris Murray                                                            
2 Neil Leifels                                                            
3 Darren Kelly                                                            
4 Hayden Taylor                                                           
 
Heat 3 Kierin div 4+ Nov 
 
1 Richard Lang                                                            
2 Paul Worby                                                              
3 Neil Land                                                               
4 Josh Dolan                                                              
 
Heat 4 Kierin Women + Greg 
 
1 Penny Rowbothem                                                         
2 Tanya Bosch                                                             
3 Teagan Hines                                                            
4 Greg Dunn                                                               
 
Heat 1 Kierin div 3 
 
1 Peter Flinn                                                             
2 Warwick McAlpine                                                        
3 Brian Hopkins                                                           
4 Paul Regattieri                                                         
 
Heat 1 Kierin div 3 
 
1 Will Gray                                                               
2 Daniel Grether                                                          
3 Michael Leech                                                           
4 Lindsay Munks                                                           
 
Heat 2 Kierin div 3 
 
1 Alan Townsend                                                           
2 Jason Roberts                                                           
3 Mark Rowling                                                            
4 Jason Frazer                                                            
 
Heat 3 Kierin div 3 
 
1 Geoff Worthington                                                       
2 Gavin White                                                             
3 David Mc Master                                                         
4 Matt Brown                                                              
 
Heat 1 Kierin div 2 
 
1 Peter Barnard                                                           
2 Matt Smith                                                              
3 Ivan Colig                                                              
4 John Deane                                                              
 
Heat 2 Kierin div 2 
 
1 Geoff Hopkins                                                           
2 Justin Tomlinson                                                        
3 Graham McClymont                                                        
4 Dan O'Callaghan                                                         
 
Heat 3 Kierin div 2 
 
1 Roland Lang                                                             
2 Ross Harding                                                            
3 Alex Simmons                                                            
4 Jim Gray                                                                
 
Heat 1 Kierin div 1 
 
1 Shaun Hopkins                                                           
2 Peter Spencer                                                           
3 James Schnider                                                          
4 Michael Lewis                                                           
 
Heat 2 Kierin div 1 
 
1 Brett Johnston                                                          
2 Chad Schneider                                                          
3 James Schneider                                                         
4 Michael Mellish                                                         
 
Heat 3 Kierin div 1 
 
1 Anthony Bennett                                                         
2 Alex Sommer                                                             
3 Patrick Bolan                                                           
4 Phil Dixon                                                              
 
Tandem Kierin 
 
1 Lindsey/Skulander                                                       
2 Dixon/Frazer                                                            
 
Round 4 
 
Novice Scratch race 
 
1 Rolf Greather                                                           
2 Hayden Taylor                                                           
3 Sean Gleason                                                            
4 Michelle Brown                                                          
 
Miss'N'Out Pointscore 
 
1 Chris Murray                                                            
2 Richard Lang                                                            
3 Paul Worby                                                              
4 Penny Rowbothen                                                         
 
Final  Sprint abd' Due to crash.                                          
 
Miss'N'Out Pointscore 
 
1 Gavin White                            18 pts
2 Jason Roberts                          17
3 Mark Rowling                           16
4 Daniel Greather                        15
4 Will Gray                              15
 
Miss'N'Out Pointscore 
 
1 Alex Simmons                           15 pts
2 Roland Lang                            13
3 Ivan Colig                             11
4 Peter Barnard                          10
4 Dale Scarfe                            10
 
Miss'N'Out Pointscore 
 
1 Shaun Hopkins                          15 pts
2 Phil Stokes                            13
3 Anthony Bennett                        11
4 Michael Mellish                        10
 
Round 5
 
Bankstown Sports Div 3+4 Combine 15 laps 
 
1 Jason Roberts                                                           
2 Mark Rowling                                                            
3 Daniel Greather                                                         
4 Michael Leach                                                           
 
NSWCF + NSWIS Time Blaster Div 1 +Div 2 Combine 30 laps 
 
Abandoned due to fear of lights turning off; money Jackpots to $100. 
 
Teams Pointscore Challenge after week 9
 
1 Bicisport                            1028 pts
2 Waratah Vets                          969
3 Parramatta                            600
4 St George                             433
5 Marconi                               426
6 Southern cross                        344
7 Lidcombe                              306
8 Sydney                                278
9 Central Coast                         261
10 Penrith                              217
11 Ranwick Botany                       210
12 Bankstown Sports                     202
13 Macarthur                            195
14 Manly Warringa                       185
15 Port Stephans                         86
16 Canberra                              64
17 Southern Highlands                    58
18 Caravello                             54
19 Clarence St. CC                       48
20 Carnigie                              37
21 TBC                                   28
22 Northern District                     26
23 FIT                                   25
24 Dulwich Hill                          20
25 Goulbourne                            20
26 Illawarra                             19
27 Tuggeranong                           16
28 CATS                                  15
29 Sutherland                            14
30 Cairns                                10
32 Eastern Suburbs                         
32 Northern Sydney