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Friday night winter track racing
Dunc Grey Velodrome, week 5, July 14, 2006
Junior Development kicked off the night with young Brendan sporting his favorite riders, favorite jersey, that of course is Robbie McEwen and the green sprinters jersey. Just like his hero, Brendan stayed hidden till one lap to go where he started a side by side drag race with Tom Boonen (William). In the front straight Boonen mentally cracked and McEwen cruised home.
The feature race of the night was the Rocky Pt Rd Cycles 1.25km Wheelrace, featuring division 1. First prize was a Dura-ace Track Sprocket set valued at nearly $300. For Once we had a clean start, with all riders and more importantly holders waiting till the whistle blew.
All eyes were on the scratch-man Kial Stewart who immediately showed his class by crossing the initial gap to join the rest of the back markers. Up front it was Stuart Lane who was making the most of his 120m handicap employing the tactic of "go hard and don't look back". This tactic worked well for the first four laps however the last lap was not for the Bicisport rider. Seeing the demise of Stuart the crowd's attention turned back to Kial who was at the back of a long train. At this point Kial's brother Joel launched his final lead out for his superstar sibling, with 200m to go Joel (Kial's Brother) noted that he had no-one on his wheel and correctly chose to go into hammer time. Joel (Kial's Brother) looking resplendent in his black and blue Canberra skin suit showed that fast twitch fibers run in the family as he sprinted over the top of Andrew Herrmann and Geoff Hopkins with almost a meter to spare.
One of the many great points about FNWTR is the amount of riders that it introduces to the exhilarating fun that is track racing. This week we signed on 11 first timers, 7 of which had never ridden track previously. Division 5 is the perfect introduction for these riders. This week we had 14 riders sign up for this division so it was necessary to split the grade into two fields. The idea of this division is to introduce riders to the Dunc Gray Velodrome and all its tricks. It is not necessarily the slowest grade, just the grade with the least riders and simplest races. Thus riders can learn how to race with room to breath.
This week was of course the second Friday of the month which means the Derny comes out to play. Many thanks to Alex Simmons, who rode the derny for 17 races with no complaints (which is a compliment).
Round 3's Kierins were as exciting as they always are but it was round 4's Miss'n' out point scores that excited the field and the crowd. This is an amazing tactical race that has to be ridden to be completely understood. Last Friday's program will be repeated again in week 11 on August 11.
The CNSW, Maersk Logistics Time Blaster is a Fortnightly event that excites the riders and the audience to equal levels. This week the magic time to beat was 9minutes and 09 seconds. After the first 10 laps of the 30 lap event the peloton was down by 2 seconds on the record time. After the next 10 laps they had dropped 1 more second to be 3 seconds down. However in the final 10 laps three riders consecutively sacrificed themselves to ensure that the remaining 2 riders had an adequate shot at the $200 prize.
The final two riders, Richard Vollegbregt and J-L Rathbone buried themselves as the count down begun on the final lap. J-L came around Richard in the final straight with a well timed sling from the lead rider to win the race. The crowd fell silent as it waited for the official time. 8 minutes 08.87 seconds! Amazingly J-L had won the $200 by 0.13 of a second. That final push by Richard made the difference.
J-L was extremely humble in his acceptance speech, thanking all that had contributed to the 49.2km average speed and was only too happy to split the prize money equally with the final 4 riders.
By Paul Craft
Results
Junior Development Demonstration 1 Robbie McEwen 2 Will Power 3 Princess 4 Cassandra Round 1 Warm up scratch race Div 5A 1 Andrew Glenn 2 Victoria Meadth 3 Marika Kohle 4 Chad Doering Div 5B 1 Chris Hunt 2 Steve swain 3 Michael Krobs 4 Andrew Green Div 4 1 Tirian McManus 2 Tom Harvey 3 Myfanny Gallaway 4 Scott Harding Div 3 1 Neil Land 2 Tony Unicomb 3 Donna Meehan 4 Andrew Herlhen Div 2 1 Matthew M- Dennis 2 Keith Oliver 3 Liam Melville 4 Paul Connor Div 1 1 Pat Bolan 2 Kial Stewart 3 JL Rathbone 4 Phil Stokes Round 2 The Rocky Pt Rd Cycles 1.25km wheelrace Div 1 1 Joel Stewart 10 metres 2 Andrew Hermann 70 3 Geoff Hopkins 65 4 JL Rathbone 15 Round 3 Kierins Div 5 heat 1 1 Marika Kohle 2 Andrew Glenn 3 Victoria Meadth 4 Ben Grant Kierin Div 5 Heat 2 1 Chris Hunt 2 Steve Swain 3 Andrew Green 4 Caitlin Todd Kierin Div 4 heat 1 1 Tirian Mc Manus 2 Myfanny Gallaway 3 Scott Harding 4 Stephen Sanders Kierin Div 4 heat 2 1 Daryl Moylan 2 Peter Christensen 3 Graham Heap 4 Timothy Mararik Kierin Div3 heat 1 1 Ross harding 2 Mark Glenn 3 Richard Easter 4 Ben Trojko Kierin Div 3 heat 2 1 Michael stokes 2 Darren Kelly 3 Tony Unicomb 4 Laura M-dennis Kierin Div3 heat 3 1 Andrew Herlhen 2 Neil Land 3 Adriano maradini 4 Donna Meehan Kierin Div 2 heat 1 1 Matthew M-Dennis 2 Cameron Irwin 3 Paul Connor 4 Duncan Miller Kierin Div 2 heat 2 1 Neil Leifels 2 Liam Melville 3 Simon Llewellyn 4 Jack Bennett Kierin Div 2 heat 3 1 Andrew Burne 2 Keith Oliver 3 Ben Elliot 4 Alan Townsend Kierin Div 1 heat 1 1 Joel Stewart 2 JL Rathbone 3 Phil Stokes 4 Michael Hickman Kierin Div 1 heat 2 1 Michael Mellish 2 Stuart lane 3 Kial stewrat 4 Anthony Bennett Kierin Div 1 heat 3 1 Patrick Bolan 2 Alex Bird 3 geoff Hopkins 4 Anthony Herrmann Round 4 Miss'n'Out Div 5 1 Michael Krabs 2 Andrew Green 3 Jacyn Mellish 4 Chad doering Div 4 heat 1 1 Howard Gallaway 2 Tom Harvey 3 Paul Miller 4 Timothy Mararik Div 4 heat 2 1 Graeme Heap 2 Scott Harding 3 Stephen Sanders 4 Myfanny Gallaway Points Miss'n'out pointscore Div3 1 Neil Land 20 pts 2 Tony Unicomb 15 3 Trevor Wait 10 3 Darren Kelly 10 Miss'n'out pointscore Div 2 1 Matthew M-Dennis 17 pts 2 Paul Connor 16 3 Keith Oliver 15 4 Liam Melville 13 Miss'n'out pointscore Div 1 1 JL Rathbone 16 pts 2 Phil Stokes 14 3 Patrick Bolan 13 4 Kial Stewart 12 Round 5 Fast group Combine 1 Tirian McManus 2 Ben Trojko 3 Daryl Moylan 4 Stephan Sanders Faster group Combine 1 Paul Connor 2 Keith Oliver 3 Neville Scott 4 Mark Scribbins The CNSW Maersk Logistics Time Blaster Challenge Target time 9min 09 sec for Prize $200 Div 1 +Div 2 Scratch 30lapper 1 JL Rathbone 9.08.87 2 Richard Vollegbregt 3 Michael Hickman 4 Phil Stokes
