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Friday Night Winter Track Racing
Dunc Gray Velodrome, Sydney, September 9, 2005
The Veloflex 1km Wheel race for Div 4Felice from Cycling Projects once again showed his support to FNWTR, this time in the form of over $400 worth of prizes for the Div 3 Veloflex Wheel race. Cycling Projects is the Australian distributor of Campagnolo, Veloflex Tyres and ZeroRh+ sunglasses.
Our usual handicapper (Peter Barnard) was busy in Manchester trying to win Australia another World Title so we had a couple of guest handicappers, who were scratching their heads at some of the names on the start list. Once they sorted it all out, they placed Cass Kell on Scratch and Riley Sullivan (Hunter District) on limit at 110m.
The Scratchies formed a group early but were never really in the hunt for victory. Up front, Central Coast's Jeff Morris caught all the leaders and hit the front hard. He was enjoying his first FNWTR for 2005 and looked like he had the goods to win.
Unfortunately for Jeff, six months off the bike does weird things to your body, one of which is the lack of endurance needed to complete 1000m at full pace. On the last lap Jeff went backwards almost as fast as he went forward.
It was then time for the middle markers to take over. Led by Ben Elliot, they blasted passed the suffering leader and with 200m to go Bryan Haydon took over and was never challenged. The Rev (Glen Samuel) did his typical "come round everyone at the last minute" to claim third. When this guy learns to start a sprint from the front, he will start winning more.
The Kierin rounds were of course fantastic and many thanks to Phil Dixon and Alex Simmons for riding the derny.
The Miss'N'Out Point score again proved to be one of the most fascinating events ever seen on the track. The Division 1 race was again won by James Schneider who has now ended the 2005 series undefeated in this event.
Next week, Sept 16, is the penultimate FNWTR for 2005. The feature race will be the Hillbrick Racing Frames 1km Wheel race for Div 1. This is one of the last chances for riders to qualify for the Campagnolo wheel race on Sept 23. Paul Hillbrick will be on hand to promote the Goulburn to Sydney race which needs to be supported by the cycling community.
Results
Junior Development Handicap 1 Rasmussen Round 1 Warm up scratch Div 5 1 Michael Wilson 2 Tyson Oakley 3 Andrew Herlimen 4 Sandra Beumont Div 4b 1 Glen Samuel 2 Chris Chapman 3 Cass Kell 4 Riley Sullivan Div 4a 1 Gordon Bradshaw 2 Tim Fehon 3 4 Aaron Donely Div 3 1 Peter Lewis 2 Peter Holly 3 Tony Unicomb 4 Ben Harvey Div 2 1 Joel Chant 2 Alan Townsend 3 David South 4 Grant Fraser Div 1 1 Peter Spencer 2 James Schneider 3 Kial Stewart 4 Justin Tomlinson Round 2 The Veloflex Tyres 1km Wheelrace For Div 4 Sponsored by Felice from Cycling Projects 1 Bryan Haydon 2 Ben Elliot 3 Glen Samuel 4 Tirian McManus Round 3 Kierins Div 5 Heat 1 1 Andrew Herlimen 2 Tyson Oakley 3 Michael Wilson Div 4 Heat 1 1 Riley Sullivan 2 Chris Chapman 3 Simon Campbell 4 Aaron Donelly Div 4 Heat 2 1 Bryan Haydon 2 Liam Melville 3 Tirian McManus 4 Glen Samual Div 4 Heat 3 1 Cass Kell 2 Paul Meahan 3 Teagan Hines 4 Alex Tomlinson Div 3 Heat 1 1 Peter Lewis 2 Jacob Heany 3 Richard Pettigrew 4 Tony Unicomb Div 3 Heat 2 1 Trevor Wait 2 Darren Kelly 3 Geoff Worthington 4 Michael Leach Div 2 Heat 1 1 Nathan Germaine 2 David South 3 Richard Mulberry 4 Grant Fraser Div 2 Heat 2 1 Joel Chant 2 Stephan Chapman 3 Hugh Grey 4 Peter Harvey Div 1 Heat 1 1 Kial Stewart 2 Daniel Ellis 3 Paul Bayly 4 Alex Bird Div 1 Heat 2 1 Patrick Bolan 2 James Schneider 3 Justin Tomlinson 4 Jason Roberts Round 4 Scratch Div 5 1 Michael Wilson 2 Andrew Herilmen 3 Sandra Beumont Miss'N'Out Div 4a 1 Simon Cambell 2 Ben Elliot 3 Liam Melville 4 Gordon Bradshaw Div 4b 1 Donna Meehan 2 Geoff Morris 3 Chris Chapman 4 Alex Tomlinson Div 3 1 Peter Lewis 2 Michael Leach 3 Bruce Wiley 4 Geoff Worthington Miss'n'Out Point Scores Div 2 1 Grant Fraser 18 pts 2 Richard Makin 15 3 Michael O'Brien 13 4 Peter Harvey 12 Div 1 1 James Scheider 17 pts 2 Kial Stewart 16 3 Patrick Bolan 14 4 Peter Spencer 14 Round 5 Combine "Fast Group" 1 Ben Harvey 2 Jeff Morris 3 Glen Samual 4 Sandra Beumount Combine "Faster Group" 1 Grant Fraser 2 Joel Chant 3 Stephan Chapman 4 Liz Georgourus Combine "Fastest Group" 1 Kial Stewart 2 Justin Tomlinson 3 Peter Spencer 4 Phil Dixon
