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Friday Night Winter Track Racing
Week 14 - Dunc Grey Velodrome, Sydney - September 14, 2007
Dunc Grey heats up
The end of the FNWTR season is drawing near. In fact, next week is the last week for 2007. Once again, this week was a crucial night for the riders at the top end of the series point score. Point score aside the night was one of the best ever on its own merit.
The huge feature race of the night was the final round of the Hillbrick series. The final race saw the top 10 of the series line up in a do or die one kilometre handicap. The winner would take home a Hillbrick – Ryan Bayley signature Track bike valued at $950.
One rider, Jason Roberts, lined up on the scratch mark, giving away a massive 145 metres to Ray Gorrell. Ray started firmly and took an early lead. He turned around after the first lap and realised that he had gapped the other three division four riders. This determined the rabbit for the race as Ray continued out in front.
Jason Roberts had made a brilliant start, and caught the division two riders quickly weaving his way through the group however, he only passed three of them. One of the division twos had flown the coup. Garry Mandy had possibly the best start of his career and had joined Ian Aitkins in the chase down of Ray Gorrell. With the scratch markers seemingly out of it, all eyes turned to Ray who was still well clear of the div 4 chase group and the chasing duo of Gary and Ian.
As Ray received the bell, Ian and Garry made contact with the chasing three of Kierin, Emma and Phillip. With half a lap to go Ray was swallowed by the group who had fanned out across the track four high. Coming into bank three it was Kierin Heffernan on the inside with Phillip Mullany on his hip. Ian Aitkin and Garry Mandy were left no option but to go high and we were treated to a four up drag race.
Kierin came into the finishing straight first however Garry, who was about two metres back, had the roll off the bank and came around the quartet to take the victory. Garry didn’t hold back the emotion punching a fist in the air and screaming simultaneously.
Paul Hillbrick from Hillbrick racing was on hand to make the presentation of the track bike to Garry who indicated he will be giving it to his club as a development bike. Hillbrick spoke of the great qualities of the entry level track bike and of how proud he was to be involved in the FNWTR serries.
Paul then presented the minor place getters with their prizes and invited all FNWTR patrons to come along to cheer on the riders at next weekend’s Goulburn to Citi Classic. Paul has been a driving force in the running of this upcoming event.
Round three's racing was a brilliant conception of a handicap race over 500m whereby riders would start at the top or the bottom of the track. Amazingly this resulted in very close racing in almost every heat. Every heat, except for Shaun Hopkins. Shaun has just come off a world Championships campaign and is in sterling form. He annihilated the riders in his heat (and so he should).
Round four on Friday was a weird one, with the annual running of the Poker race. In this event riders win a card upon winning a sprint. If they win a second sprint they earn another card to add to their hand. The winner of this race is the rider with the highest card. This race is won on ability, tactics and luck (but remember you make your own luck).
No more was the luck element more evident than in the Division one event. In this event Jackson Law went out hard early winning two sprints and this gave him a high card of the 10 of clubs. Shortly after Jason Roberts launched his sprint on laps six and seven and took the lead with the Jack of Diamonds. Stewart Campbell won the next two laps receiving a two and three of clubs (suffer). On the final sprint Jason watched intently to see if his Jack would hold up. Mitchell Stock won the final sprint receiving a Queen of Hearts and was declared the winner.
Results
Junior Development Demonstration 1 Nick Edwards 2 Sean Oaten 3 Dillon Oaten 4 Paige Mandy Junior Development Demonstration 1 Nathan Chan 2 Kelly Mackie 3 Hayley Mandy 4 Jade Reynolds Round 1 Warm up scratch race Div 5 1 Jenny Vaughan 2 Claire Calquhoun 3 Jayme Paris Div 4 1 Manny Cachia 2 Emma Sprouster 3 Wal Mullany 4 Brie Moloney Div 3 1 Ross Hayter 2 Jim Veal 3 Bruce Masson 4 Garth McInerney Div 2 1 Tirian McManus 2 Michael Hawkes 3 Nathan Germaine 4 David McMaster Div 1 1 Shaun Hopkins 2 Scott Law 3 Stewart Campbell 4 Mitchell Stock Round 2 Hillbrick Wheelrace 1 Gary Mandy 2 Kieren Hefferman 3 Ian Atkin 4 Phillip Mullany 5 JasonRoberts Round 3 Handicaps Junior Development- Handicap 1 Sara 2 Nick 3 quick Nick 4 Sean Junior Development- Handicap 1 Kelly 2 Holly 3 Jack 4 Nathan DIV 5 Scratch race 1 Clair Coloquhoun 2 Jaymie Paris 3 Jenny Vaugha-Floyd Div 4 Handicap heat 1 1 Mathew Hynes 2 Llewlyn Jones 3 Emma Sprouster 4 Tim Llewelyn Div 4 Handicap heat 2 1 Wal Mullany 2 Jeff Vaugh Floyd 3 Alistair McCausland 4 Phillip Mullany Div 4 Handicap heat 3 1 Manny Cachia 2 Alex Walker 3 Ray Gorrell 4 Kieren Hefferman Div 3 Handicap heat 1 1 Jim Veal 2 Bruce Masson 3 Alex Duyckers 4 Peter McCrystal Div 3 Handicap heat 2 1 Grahame Heap 2 Brett Hanson 3 Christian Homann 4 Jessica Griffths Div 3 Handicap heat 3 1 Garth McInerney 2 Michael Docker 3 Grant Fahey 4 Greg Obrien Div 3 Handicap heat 4 1 Ian Aitkin 2 Peter Holly 3 Greg Ryan 4 Simon Walsh Div 2 Handicap heat 1 1 Daniel Moit 2 Nathan Germaine 3 Kieth Oliver 4 Alex Tomlinson Div 2 Handicap heat 2 1 David McMaster 2 Brian Radcliff 3 Ross Harding 4 Matt Guggisberg Div 2 Handicap heat 3 1 Ben Harvey 2 Michael Hawkes 3 Nosh Mystery 4 Stephan Sanders Div 2 Handicap heat 4 1 Gary Mandy 2 Steve Chapman 3 Anthony O'Conner 4 Peter Verhoven Div 1 Handicap heat 1 1 Scott Law 2 Ben Isaksen 3 Alex Carver 4 Andrew Herrman Div 1 Handicap heat 2 1 Shaun Hopkins 2 James Schneider 3 Jock Murray 4 John Deane Div 1 Handicap heat 3 1 Grant Law 2 Geoff Hokins 3 Stuart Lane 3 David Browne Div 1 Handicap heat 4 1 Gavin White 2 Raynold Smith 3 Paul Conner 4 Alex Frame Round 4 5 lap h'cap Div 5 1 Jaymie Paris 2 Clair Coloquhoun 3 Jenny Vaugha-Floyd Point'a'Lap Poker Div 4 1 Ryan Bernasconi 2 Manny Cachia 3 Gordon Bradshaw 4 no place Point'a'Lap Poker Div 3 1 Garth McInerney 2 Peter Holly 3 Michael Docker 4 Ben Harvey Point'a'Lap Poker Div 2 1 David McMaster 2 Ben Harvey 3 Tirian McManus 4 Scott Harding Point'a'Lap Poker Div 1 1 Mitchell Stock 2 Jason Roberts 3 Grant Fraser 4 Jackson Law Round 5 Fast group Combine 1 Alex Duyckers 2 Manny Cachia 3 Ray Gorrell 4 Simon Walsh Faster group Combine 1 Keith Oliver 2 Jim Veal 3 Brian Radcliff 4 David McMaster Fastest group Combine 1 Jackson Law 2 Alex Carver 3 Scott Law 4 Mitchell Stock Series points after week 14 Div 1 riders 1 Jason Roberts (Marconi) 220 pts 2 Gavin White (Marconi) 208 3 Mitchell Stock (Penrith) 185 4 David Browne (Bicisport) 185 5 Geoff Hopkins (Bicisport) 177 6 Alex Frame (Sutherland) 174 7 Stuart Lane (Bicisport) 169 8 John Deane (Bankstown Sports) 167 9 Jack Bennett (Lidcombe) 166 10 Scott Law (Illawarra) 156 11 Glen Elton (Central Coast) 144 12 Grant Law (Illawarra) 132 13 Simon Llewellyn (Dulwich Hill) 132 14 Shaun Hopkins (Marconi) 129 15 Paul Connor (Penrith) 128 16 Andrew Herrmann (Lidcombe) 123 17 Nathan Saunders (Eastern Sub) 121 18 Ben Elliot (Randwick) 114 19 Jock Murray (Central Coast) 109 20 Jackson Law (Illawarra) 105 21 Grant Fraser (Central Coast) 105 22 Alex Carver (Lidcombe) 100 23 Dean Preddy (Caravello) 96 24 Andrew Burne (Bicisport) 95 25 Mathew Anderson (Lidcombe) 91 26 Michael Mellish (Bicisport) 87 27 Matthew M-Dennis (Canberra) 79 28 Anthony Bennett (Lidcombe) 78 29 Aaron Donnelly (Illawarra) 74 30 Peter Barnard (Bicisport) 73 31 Alex Bird (Canberra) 70 32 Tom Palmer (Canberra) 70 33 Stewart Cambell (Eastern Sub) 69 34 Niel Skipper (Tugranong) 64 35 Jules Galli (Randwick) 63 36 James Schneider (Bicisport) 61 37 Mark Copeland (St George) 57 38 J-L Rathbone (Penrith) 56 39 Ian Gardner (Eastern Sub) 55 40 Chris Brown (Illawarra) 54 41 Martin Millwood (Randwick) 53 42 Ben Simonelli (Broncos) 51 43 Joel Stewart (Canberra) 51 44 Ben Isaksen (Lidcombe) 50 45 Rob darley (Ffast) 48 46 Daniel Ellis (Canberra) 47 47 Raynold Smith (Peloton) 46 48 Antony Bishop (Canberra) 46 49 David Willmott (Bicisport) 42 50 Jayson Austin (Bicisport) 41 51 Graeme Allbon (Goulburn) 40 52 Wayne Anderson (Sutherland) 40 53 John Forrest (Canberra) 35 54 Justin Tomlinson (Southern Highlands) 33 55 Paul Butler (Ffast) 33 56 Joseph Northey (Goulburne) 32 57 Peter Coleman (Warratah) 32 58 Michael Aisbitt (Tugranong) 30 59 Kris Collins (Parramatta) 30 60 Matt Bazzano (St George) 30 61 Alan Townsend (Bicisport) 30 62 Paul Bayly (Bankstown Sports) 30 63 David Walton (Parramatta) 30 Div 2 riders 1 Ben Harvey (Bankstown Sports) 217 pts 2 Keith Oliver (Parramatta) 197 3 Gary Mandy (Illawarra) 197 4 David McMaster (Illawarra) 190 5 Tirian McManus (Southern Cross) 185 6 Jeff Smith (Penrith) 177 7 Andrew Herlihen (Sutherland) 163 8 Michael Hawkes (sutherland) 162 9 Stephen Sanders (Waratah) 152 10 Nosh Mistry (St George) 150 11 Callum Docker (Lidcombe) 135 12 William Loxton (Northern Syd) 134 13 Adriano Maradini (Bicisport) 127 14 Scott Harding (Central Coast) 124 15 Steve Chapman (Central Coast) 115 16 Alex Tomlinson (Southern Highlands) 114 17 Jim Gray (Waratah Vets) 113 18 Anthony O'Conner (Tuggeranong) 106 19 Hugh Gray (Waratah Vets) 105 20 Ross Harding (Central Coast) 103 21 Neil Land (Lidcombe) 101 22 Matt Guggisberg (Alice Springs) 94 23 Jim Brough (Penrith) 90 24 Joel Chant (Parramatta) 80 25 Gary Aisbett (Tugranong V) 74 26 Brian Radcliff (Hunter Districts) 70 27 Nathan Germaine (Peloton Sports) 70 28 Paul Meehan (Bicisport) 70 29 Kaarle McCullock (St George) 66 30 Tony Unicomb (Sutherland) 62 31 Brian Crawford (Korragang) 62 32 Jason Webb (Randwick) 60 33 D Shuttleworth (Penrith) 56 34 Andrew Mills (Central Coast) 49 35 Griff Davis (Ffast) 47 36 Michael Hickman (Waratah) 43 37 Michael Rand (ADFCC) 43 38 Liam Melville (Peloton Sports) 43 39 Peter Verhoeven (Parramatta) 42 40 Gill Carver (Lidcombe) 42 41 Neil Leifels (Macarthur) 42 42 Richard Mulberry (Bicisport) 41 43 Mark Scribins (Southern Cross) 30 44 Richard Makin (Peloton Sports) 30 45 Anthony Cole (Goulburn) 30 46 Paul Worby (Central Coast) 30 47 Andrew McClean (Parramatta) 30 48 John Paul Orchison (Tuggeranong) 30 49 Theo Theol (Eastern Sub) 40 50 Julian Yuen (Lidcombe) 40 51 Brad Hooker (Marconi) 40 52 Philip Arias (Lidcombe) 40 53 Steve Darracott (Hunter district) 36 54 Matthew Brown (Central Coast) 34 55 Matty Johns (Korragang) 34 56 David Stevens (Lidcombe) 31 57 Timothy McMillan (Southern Cross) 30 58 Damien McGarry (Marconi) 30 59 Ivan Colig (Waratah Vets) 30 Div 3 riders 1 Ian Atkin (Peleton Sports) 205 pts 2 Michael Docker (Lidcombe) 200 3 Garth McInerney (Randwick) 195 4 Greg O'Brien (St George) 192 5 Grahame Heap (Northern Sydney) 191 6 Daniel Moit (Northern Syd) 182 7 Brett Hansen (St George) 172 8 Greg Ryan (Sutherland) 159 9 Peter Holly (Central Coast) 157 10 Andrea Beer (Penrith Panthers) 151 11 Stephan Joyce (Waratah Vets) 151 12 Tom Harvey (Bankstown Sports) 141 13 Pete McCrystal (Lidcombe) 140 14 Rick McArdle (Peloton Sports) 122 15 Jessica Griffiths (St George) 115 16 Duncan Miller (Bicisport) 109 17 Alex Verdi (Illawara) 101 18 Carl Smith (Northern Syd) 93 19 Graham Tierney (Central Coast) 92 20 Jim Veal (Tuggeranang Vic) 84 21 Grant Fahey (Lidcombe) 83 22 James Vangelder (Lidcombe) 83 23 Alex Duyckers (Northern Syd) 80 24 Christian Homann (Lidcombe) 76 25 Scott Carver (Lidcombe) 76 26 Simon Walsh (Waratah Vets) 73 27 Donna Meehan (Bicisport) 72 28 David Toland (Bankstown Sports) 70 29 Huw Morgan (Dulwich Hill) 66 30 Rebecca Ellis (Canberra) 63 31 Terry Freshwater (Waratah) 63 32 Narelle Hards (Canbera) 63 33 Michelle Ferris (St George) 61 34 Paul Shaw (Central Coast) 60 35 Ross Hayter (Hunter Districts) 55 36 Dean Benedetti (ADFCC) 55 37 Brad Craft (Centra Coast) 54 38 Trevor Wait (Parramatta) 53 39 Bruce Masson (Hunter Districts) 51 40 Leonie Burford (Illawara) 43 41 Matt Worley (Hunter Districts) 41 42 Nick Bregolin (Dulich hill) 41 43 Brenton Anthony (Macarther) 40 44 Peter Gumbley (HPRW) 38 45 Andrew Hellmich (Central coast) 33 46 Taite Beetson (Southern Highlands) 31 47 Keisha Northey (Goulburn) 30 48 Julie Barnett (Broncos) 30 49 Grant Bond (Dullich Hill) 30 50 Steve Dixon (Bicisport) 30 51 Tanya Bosch (Sydney) 30 Div 4 riders 1 Mathew Hynes (Randwick Botany) 190 pts 2 Wal Mullany (Illawara) 178 3 Ray Gorrell (Bathurst) 176 4 Emma Sprouster (Lidcombe) 174 5 Phillip Mullany (Illawara) 169 6 Alastair McCausland (Central Coast) 159 7 Gordon Bradshaw (Waratah Vets) 156 8 Rob Parbery (Manly) 154 9 Manny Cachia (Marconi) 154 10 Katrina Lane (Bicisport) 152 11 Jack Edwards (Lidcombe) 150 12 Brian Hopkins (Bicisport) 140 13 Mike Pugh (Waratah Vets) 138 14 Jeff Vaughan-Floyd (Illawara) 132 15 Nathan Chan (Lidcombe) 115 16 David Russel (Illawara) 106 17 Jade Reynolds (Lidcombe) 102 18 Alex Walker (Bankstown Sports) 102 19 Llewellyn Jones (Dulwich Hill) 101 20 Jayme Paris (Penrith Panthers) 100 21 Jason Baverstock (Bicicsport) 100 22 Jacyn Mellish (Central Coast) 97 23 Kieran Heffernan (Illawarra) 96 24 Chris Timson (Bankstown) 94 25 Tim Llewellyn (Dulwich Hill) 92 26 Geoff Worthington (Waratah Vets) 91 27 Craig Pollen (Peleton Sports) 84 28 Brie Maloney (Lidcombe) 83 29 Tony Burke (Illawarra) 80 30 Glenn Meehan (Waratah Vets) 79 31 Rodney Watts (Canberra) 78 32 Ryan Bernasconi (Southern Highlands) 76 33 Tim Murphy (Bankstown sports) 76 34 Gill Lugg (Canberra) 70 35 Kayla Salopek (Lidcombe) 70 36 David Moiler (Bankstown) 68 37 Nigel Eggins (Penrith Panthers) 65 38 Charles Darlymple-Hay (Randwick) 61 39 Edward Daniel (Marconi) 60 40 Pierre Grandjean (Kooragang) 57 41 Brett Douglas (Randwick) 53 42 Grace Meisel Dennis (Canberra) 52 43 Jenni Vaughin Floyd (Ilawarra) 50 44 Joseph Ward (Manly) 50 45 Garry Ng (St George) 48 46 Justin Bagge (Carravello) 46 47 Paul Regattieri (Waratah Vets) 45 48 Brendon Cole (Bicisport) 45 49 Sandra Beumont (Southern Highlands) 45 50 Desirae Cameron (Central Coast) 44 51 Michael Leach (Bankstown Sports) 43 52 Laura Meisel Dennis (Canberra) 43 53 Geraldine Ford (Randwick) 43 54 Peter Christensen (Penrith Panthers) 42 55 Ewan Stewart (ADFCC) 42 56 Peter Tutty (Waratah Vets) 42 57 Richard Powell (MTBA /CA) 42 58 Mark Anthony (Macarthur) 41 59 Kieran Hogan (Penrith Panthers) 40 60 Bruce Richahrds (Day Licence (HVV)) 40 61 Michael Clement (Dulwich Hill) 40 62 Chad Doering (Penrith Panthers) 40 63 Zarra Doering (Penrith Panthers) 40 64 Jodie Nolan (Suthurland) 40 65 Sharon Hughes (Lidcombe) 40 66 Bao Ho (St George) 40 67 Megan Napper (Harlequim) 40 68 Naim Bereroglu (Bankstown Sports) 33 69 Jessica Laws (Albuny/ Wodonga) 33 70 Anthony Cliffard (Southern Highland) 30 71 Matthew Pellow (St George) 30 72 A. Cahir (Canberra) 30 73 Ben Grant (Sydney) 30 74 Craig Hopkins (Lidcombe) 30 75 Nathan Hart (Tuggeranong) 30 76 Graeme Evans (Northern Syd) 30 77 Paul Miller (Tuggeranong) 30 78 Caitlin Todd (Canberra) 30 79 Craig Lewer (Southern Highlands) 30 80 Collin Cartredge (Sydney) 30 81 John Colette (Randwick) 30 82 Patrick Donelon (Southern cross) 30 83 Travis Smedley (Central Coast) 30 84 Clare Colquhoun (Dulwich Hill) 30 Teams Pointscore Challenge 1 Lidcombe 2441 pts 2 Illawarra 1863 3 Bicisport 1844 4 Central Coast 1495 5 Waratah Vets 1313 6 Penrith 1170 7 Bankstown Sports 1041 8 St George 961 9 Ranwick Botany 862 10 Marconi 841 11 Canberra 827 12 Sutherland 800 13 Northern Sydney 710 14 Peloton Sports 610 15 Dulwich Hill 532 16 Parramatta 472 17 Tuggeranong 458 18 Southern Highlands 359 19 Eastern Suburbs 285 20 Southern cross 285 21 Hunter Districts 253 22 Manly 204 23 Bathurst 176 24 Kooragang 153 25 Carrovello 142 26 Goulburn 142 27 ADFCC 140 28 Ffast 128 29 Macarthur 123 30 Alice Springs 94 31 Sydney 90 32 Broncos 81 33 MTBA 42 34 Day Licence 40 35 Harlequim 40 36 HPRW 38 37 Alubury 33
