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Friday Night Winter Track Racing Week #11
Dunc Grey Velodrome, Sydney, August 27, 2004
By Paul Craft
Participants and patrons alike experienced a fantastic night of top class racing, with a few laughs along the way.
The feature race for the night was "The Div 2 ZeroRH 1km Wheelrace". Cycling Projects representative Felice brought along 3 pairs of ZeroRH sunglasses for the top 3 place getters of this prestigious race. With the prize pool now exceeding $600, the anticipation for the 1km Wheelrace could be felt by both spectators and competitors. The handicaps for this race were extremely tight with Roland Lang off Scratch and Hugh Gray off limit at a mere 75m. Immediately after the start, two bunches formed. By the end of the third lap it was all together with Graham McClymont (40m) leading out the mass sprint. In a dramatic final lap Adelaide sprint star Gavin White muscled his way to the front ahead of Matt Smith and Jason Roberts.
Felice from Cycling Projects was on hand to proudly present the prizes. ZERORH is the fastest growing sunglasses brand in Italy. The Fassa Bortolo team including Alessandro Petacchi use ZERORH+ sunglasses together with the "Lion King" Mario Cipollini. Visit ZeroRH+ at www.zerorh.com
The third round Divisional Italian Pursuits brought out some fantastic team efforts. However it was the Division 2 race that ended in controversy. Coming into the final lap Alex Simmons had a slender lead over Roland Lang. Miraculously, Simmons seemed to experience some form of mechanical difficulty and slowed dramatically. It was quickly determined that Simmons had just given up out of sheer exhaustion. After a threat of throwing the visibly shaken Simmons out of the Velodrome, a disgusted team mate Ross Harding grabbed the Microphone to state "I just want to make one thing clear, there was no mechanical difficulty, and there was no broken seat. There were 8 of us in that team and only 7 of us doing the job!" We are sure to hear more about this controversy in coming weeks.
On the tails of Australia's success in the Olympic Madison, FNWTR's monthly Madison was an unbelievably fast display of skill and prowess. The 7 teams showed no respect to each others wellbeing in setting a 50+km/hr pace from the early stages. The duo of Hopkins/Spencer scored the victory, however they were forced to chase the attacking teams of McLaughlin/ Dixon and Mellish/ Bennett.
In a night that had so many highpoints the final race topped them all. The NSWCF+NSWIS Time Blaster is a fortnightly race for a cash prize so long as they beat the previous record. This week the record stood at 9min 25 sec and the cash prize was up to $100. The majority of the contenders had just ridden an exhausting Madison and came in to this race a little drained from previous activities. After 10 laps the intact bunch was 3 seconds down on the target schedule. After 20 laps the bunch was depleted to just 4 riders however they were now 3 seconds up on the schedule. With 4 laps remaining the young Justin Tomlinson cracked followed by Phil Dixon 1 lap later. This left two promising U19 riders, Bennett and Spencer, to battle the clock and each other for the $100. In the final lap, the two visibly distressed riders challenged each other for the victory, however it was Bennett who could suffer the most and hang on to take the victory in a time of 9minutes and 10 seconds at an amazing average of 49.1km/hr
Next week, as is every week at FNWTR, is one not to miss. The feature wheelrace for Div 3 will be sponsored by the super fast hand-made Velofex tyres. This wheelrace will reveal the next 3 qualifiers of the final night 1.5km handicap. Round 3 will include the always popular 1 lap drag race, 270m of explosive power.
Hope to see ya there.
Results
Mortgagemaker Junior Development demonstration Demo 1 Brendon Cole Demo 2 Bede Kelly Round 1 Warm up scratch Motor paced Nov John Wickline Div 4 Rod White Div 3 Alan Townsend Div 2 Dale Scarfe Div 1 Shaun Hopkins Round 2 Group Handicap Nov 1 Brian Smedley (Scratch) 2 John Wickline (Scratch) 3 Shane Cole (120m) 4 Kevin Stubbs (55m) Group Handicap Div 4 1 Teagan Hines (120m) 2 Paul Mehan (120m) 3 Niel Land (Scratch) 4 Neil Leifels (Scratch) Group Handicap Div 3 Div 3 1 Chris Murray (120m) 2 Alan Townsend (Scratch) 3 Richard Lang (120m) 4 Joel Chant (Scratch) The ZeroRH Sunglasses 1km Wheelrace Div 2 1 Gavin White (65m) 2 Matt Smith (30m) 3 Jason Roberts (70m) 4 Dan O'Callaghan (30m) Group Handicap Div 1 1 Shaun Hopkins (Scratch) 2 Anthony Bennett (Scratch) 3 Peter Spencer (Scratch) 4 Tyler McLaughlin (Scratch) Round 3 Team 1 Front straight Novice Italian 1 Team 2 Smedley 2 Team 1 Wickline Div 4 Italian 1 Team 2 Blue boy 2 Team 1 Paul Meehan Div 3 Italian 1 Team 1 Leach 2 Team 2 Chant Div 2 Italian 1 Team 1 Lang 2 Team 2 Simmons Div 1 Italian 1 Team 2 Mullet Boy 2 Team 1 Tyler Round 4 Novice Scratch 1 Brian Smedley 2 Kevin Stubbs 3 John Wickline 4 Caroline Smale Div 4 Scratch 1 Rod White 2 Neil Land 3 Neil Leifels 4 Tanya Bosch Div 3 Madi-Lead 1 Brad Craft 2 Alan Townsend 3 Joel Chant 4 Peter Ganss Div 2 Madi-Lead 1 Roland Lang 2 Ivan Colig 3 Matt Smith 4 Dale Scarfe Div 1 Madison 1 Hokins/ Spencer 2 Mclaughlin/ Dixon 3 Mellish/ Bennett 4 Bolan/ BJ Round 5 Div 3 & Div 4 Combine 1 Joel Chant 2 Michael Leach 3 Brad Craft 4 Rod White NSWCF + NSWIS Time Blaster Div 1 & Div 2 Target 9 minutes 25 seconds for $100 1 Anthony Bennett 9.10 2 Peter Spencer 3 Phil Dixon 4 Justin Tomlinson Note: 7.5km in 9min 10seconds = 49.1km/hr Points Score after Week #11 Div 1 riders 1 Shaun Hopkins (Marconi) 156 pts 2 Anthony Bennett (Lidcombe) 136 3 Patrick Bolan (Bicisport) 128 4 Brett Johnston (Bicisport) 124 5 Phill Stokes (Penrith) 116 6 Phil Dixon (Bicisport) 105 7 David Browne (Bicisport) 96 8 Michael Popplewell (Manly Warringah) 90 9 Michael Mellish (Central Coast) 72 10 David Short (St George) 61 11 Duncan Crosby (Bicisport) 60 12 Rebecca Ellis (Parramatta) 49 13 Craig Eather (Clarence St) 48 14 Alex Sommer (Bicisport) 48 15 Daniel Ellis (Canberra) 44 16 Peter Spencer (CATS) 38 17 Stuart Miller (Bicisport) 33 18 Peter Fitzpatrick (St George) 31 19 Brad Hooker (Marconi) 26 20 Shane Perkins (Carnigie) 22 21 Michael Lewis (Hunter Dist) 22 22 Ben Kersten (St George) 21 23 Steve Fitzpatrick (St George) 20 24 David Willmott (St George) 20 25 Waren Scott (St George) 19 26 Mark Jewell (Illawarra) 19 27 Dean Preddy (Ranwick) 18 28 David Walton (Parramatta) 15 29 David Nelson (Sutherland) 14 30 Odrian Murphey (Bicisport) 13 31 Chad Shneider (Hunter Dist) 13 32 James Shneider (Broncos) 12 33 Andrew Carter (Bathurst) 12 34 Grant Law (Illawarra) 10 35 Aiden Hobbs (Marconi) 36 Greg McFarlane (Masaratti) 37 Ian Gardner (Eastern Sub) Div2 riders 1 Roland Lang (Waratah Vets) 162 pts 2 Ivan Colig (St George) 138 3 Alex Simmons (Sydney) 134 4 Jim Gray (Waratah Vets) 129 5 Graham McClymont (Waratah Vets) 129 6 Peter Barnard (Southern Cross) 119 7 Matt Smith (Parramatta) 116 8 John Deane (Bankstown Sports) 102 9 Geoff Hopkins (Southern Cross) 96 10 Hugh Gray (Waratah Vets) 85 11 Ross Harding (Southern cross) 82 12 Justin Tomlinson (Southern Highlands) 76 13 Dan O'Callagham (Sydney) 75 14 Dale Scarfe (Central Coast) 57 15 David South (Waratah Vets) 52 16 Michael Stokes (Penrith) 43 17 Sarah White (Bicisport) 41 18 Phil McKnight (Sydner) 28 19 Leeanne Manderson (Northern Dist) 26 20 David Leekie (Parramatta) 22 21 Sky Lee Armstrong (Parramatta) 22 22 Julian Yuen (Lidcome) 13 23 Jim Burke (Bathurst) 13 24 Richard Vollebret (Southern Highlands) 11 25 Matthew Pettit (Parramatta) 11 26 Tunde Berryhill (Parramatta) 10 27 Shane Wood (Macarthur) 10 Div 3 riders 1 Joel Chant (Parramatta) 143 pts 2 Mark Rowling (Bicisport) 136 3 Alan Townsend (Parramatta) 121 4 Geoff Worthington (Waratah Vets) 111 5 Steve Dixon (Bicisport) 106 6 Jason Roberts (Marconi) 106 7 Michael Leach (Bankstown Sports) 105 8 Daniel Grether (Bicisport) 103 9 Jason Fraser (Parramatta) 91 10 Leif Arnebarn (Bicisport) 86 11 Andrew Grant (Southern Cross) 83 12 Janelle Lindsay (Ranwick Botany) 77 13 Trevor Wait (Parramatta) 67 14 Luke Taylor (Penrith Panthers) 63 15 David Ewins (Manly) 55 16 Matt Brown (Port Stephans) 52 17 Jon Brittan (Bicisport) 48 18 Brad Craft (Central Coast) 41 19 Lindsay Munks (Dulwich Hill) 41 20 Peter Ganss (Tuggeranong) 39 21 Deena Faulkner (St George) 36 22 Terry Scarr (Parramatta) 35 23 Will Gray (Bicisport) 35 24 Gavin White (Adelaide) 33 25 Terry Freshwater (Waratah Vets) 31 26 Lindy Hou (?????) 28 27 David Mcmaster (Illawarra) 27 28 Mike Lawson (Manly) 25 29 Kevin Rablin (Gold Coast) 18 30 Ben Trojkon (Penrith) 13 31 Scott Mills (St George) 12 32 Adrian Craft (Canberra) 10 33 Cameron Macarthy (Cairns) 10 34 Peter Feraud (Waratah Vets) 10 35 Nathan Rollanson (Bicisport) 36 James Gilmore (Marconi) Div 4 riders 1 Neil Land (Marconi) 129 pts 2 Neil Leifels (Macarthur) 122 3 Chris Murray (Macarthur) 118 4 Richard Lang (Lidcombe) 109 5 Teagan Hines (St George) 108 6 Paul Regattieri (Waratah Vets) 105 7 Paul Worby (Central Coast) 91 8 Penny Rowbotham (Waratah Vets) 88 9 Ruth Oxlade (Marconi) 87 10 Brian Hopkins (Southern Cross) 78 11 Peter Flinn (Randwick Botany) 76 12 Rolf Grether (Bicisport) 72 13 Warwick McAlpine (Randwick Botany) 66 14 Tanya Bosch (Sydney) 66 15 David Birss (Bankstown Sports) 55 16 Rod Wagner (Caravelo) 54 17 Caraline Smale (Parramatta) 52 18 Donna Meehan (Waratah Vets) 51 19 Paul Meehan (Waratah Vets) 51 20 Kevin Stubs (Manly) 48 21 Josh Dolan (Lidcombe) 47 22 John Awakian (Lidcombe) 46 23 Tanya Moss (Bicisport) 45 24 Russell Brown (Port Stephans) 45 25 Michael Bentley (Goulbourne) 43 26 Chey Howard (Central Coast) 41 27 Gordon Bradshaw (Waratah Vets) 39 28 Darren Kelly (Carnigie) 38 29 Chloe Hoskin (Canberra) 35 30 Alec Lazich (Waratah Vets) 34 31 Mike Axton (Central Coast) 34 32 Diorne Lia (Marconi) 33 33 Gary Hines (Waratah Vets) 32 34 Darren McNeil (Marconi) 30 35 Peter Rafferty (St George) 30 36 Nick Bregolin (Lidcombe) 29 37 Malcolm Smith (Waratah Vets) 28 38 Gary Conaty (Waratah Vets) 27 39 Jessica Ellis (Canberra) 25 40 Michelle Brown (Port Stephans) 23 41 Rod White (Southern X) 23 42 Tom Skulander (Randwick Botany) 22 43 Hayden Taylor (Port Stephans) 19 44 William Taylor (Penrith Panthers) 18 45 Grant Hanson (Sydney) 17 46 Peter Mangioni (Waratah Vets) 16 47 Graham Tierney (Sydney) 16 48 Noel Christenson (Randwick Botany) 16 49 Graham Jones (Waratah Vets) 15 50 Sian Mulholland (FIT) 15 51 Sean Gleeson (Sydney) 15 52 Ben Trojko (Penrith Panthers) 14 53 Michelle Crawford (Goulbourne) 14 54 Mark Stevens (Sydney) 13 55 Paul Marley (Macarthur) 12 56 Andrew Phillips (Waratah Vets) 12 57 Scott Chapman (Sydney) 11 58 Greg Dunn (Marconi) 11 59 Leesa Carson (FIT) 10 60 Garry O'Sullivan (St George) 10 61 Brian Smedley (LACC) 10 62 Zel Trojko (Penrith Panthers) 10 63 Lorin Jurd (St George) 10 64 Vanessa Hamilton (Bankstown Sports) 65 Eleanor Hume (Marconi) 66 Raymond Potter (Bicisport) Teams Pointscore Challenge 1 Bicisport 1279 pts 2 Waratah Vets 1207 3 Parramatta 754 4 Marconi 578 5 St George 516 6 Southern cross 481 7 Lidcombe 390 8 Sydney 375 9 Central Coast 336 10 Penrith 277 11 Ranwick Botany 275 12 Bankstown Sports 262 12 Macarthur 262 14 Manly Warringa 218 15 Port Stephans 139 16 Canberra 114 17 Southern Highlands 87 18 Carnigie 60 19 Goulbourne 57 20 Illawarra 56 21 Carovelo 54 22 Clarence St. CC 48 23 Dulwich Hill 41 24 Tuggeranong 39 25 CATS 38 26 Hunter District 35 27 Adelaide 33 28 TBC 28 29 Northern District 26 30 Bathurst 25 30 FIT 25 32 Gold Coast 18 33 Sutherland 14 34 Broncos 12 35 Cairns 10 37 Eastern Suburbs 37 Northern Sydney
