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Friday Night Winter Track Racing #10

Dunc Gray Velodrome, Sydney, August 1, 2003

World champs choose FNWTR over Stuttgart

By Paul Craft

Once again Friday Nights field had more current or former World Champions than you could poke a stick at. Additionally, we were blessed with the presence of Greg McFarlane, who is a member of the Italian national track team. McFarlane told me he had the choice of going to the World Titles in Stuttgart, Germany, or coming to FNWTR. Wisely, he chose the latter.

The feature race for the night was the Nokian racing tyre Women's 1km Wheelrace. Right from the start the limit markers set a blistering pace that looked like it would win the race. With one lap remaining, the call was made that the winner would come from the lead group of Bosch, Oxlade or Howard. But as the leaders sprinted to the line Kelly Furey (scratch) came storming home to take a superb victory.

Nokian sponsored the Wheelrace and Malcolm (the importer) was at the track once again displaying his products.

The 1 lap Drag-Race challenge was a huge success. Four riders drew lots to see which position up the track they would start off. The whistle blew to start the mad dash to the line. All up, we had 14 rounds of this event with some surprising results. For the final round the winners of the four fastest heats lined up for the Champion of Champions event. Alex Sommers won in a time of 20:12seconds for 280m. Alex showed immense patience in coming off third wheel to take victory.

Next week our monthly Keirins (2nd Fri of Month), which have been hotly contested on previous occasions, will be one of the feature events along with the Division 1 1km Wheelrace. As always, the night will have a good spread of sprint and endurance races. All riders are guaranteed at least 5 races to give their lactic system a work out.

Bring on Friday.

Results

Warm up scratch race winners
 
Jnr's: Scott Law
Div 1: David Short
Div 2: Peter Barnard
2b+3: Joel Chant
Wom: Kylie Spencer
 
Group H'Cap
 
1 Greg McFarlane (Scratch)
2 Alex Sommer (Scratch)
3 Michael Lewis (Scratch )
 
Group H'Cap Div 2
 
1 Julian Yeun (Scratch )
2 Michael Mellish (Scratch)
3 Patrick Bolan (90m)
 
Group H'Cap Div 2B+3
 
1 Mike Tremaine (120m)
2 Linsay Munks (120m)
3 Micheal Leach (Scatch )
 
Nokian 1km Wheel Race Women
 
1 Kelly Furry (Scratch)
2 Cat Croghan (40m )
3 Tanya Bosch (80m)
 
Div1 1 Lap Drag Race Challenge Winners
 
Heat 1 Alex Sommer                          20.43 for 280m
Heat 2 Micheal Lewis                        21.22
Heat 3 David Short                          20.86
 
Champion Of Champions
 
Non/PS Alex Sommer                          20.12
 
Div1 2 Lap Drag Race Challenge Winners
 
Heat 1 Patrick Boland                       21.24 for 280m
Heat 2 Peter Barnard                        20.69
Heat 3 Andrew Grant                         22.57
 
Div2B+3 1 Lap Drag Race Challenge Winners
 
Heat 1 Joel Chant                           22.89 for 280m
Heat 2 Mike Tremaine                        22.82
Heat 3 Lindsey Munks                        23.42
 
Womens 1 Lap Drag Race Challenge Winners
 
Heat 1 Cat Croghan                          22.90 for 280m
Heat 2 Tanya Bosch                          23.96
 
Div 1 Lead Sling 20laps
 
1 Stokes Fitzpatrick
2 Gardner Price
3 Hopkins Stewart
4 Team Uruguay
 
Madison Pacer Scratch Div2
 
1 Alex Sommer
2 Grant Law
3 Team Brown/Lewis
 
Winners Race Div 2
 
1 Michael Mellish
2 Jullian Yuen
3 Kieth Oliver
 
Winners Race Div 2B+3
 
1 Joel Chant
2 Micheal Leach
3 Geoff Worthington
 
Winners Race Women
 
1 Kylie Spencer
2 Deena Faulkner
3 Tanya Bosch
 
Div 1 +Div 2 Scratch
 
1 Michael Lewis
2 David Browne
3 Aiden Hobbs
 
Div 2b +Div 3 +wom Scratch
 
1 Big Trev
2 Alban McGuiness
3 Kelly Furrey

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