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Friday night winter track racing
Week 3, Dunc Grey Velodrome, Sydney, June 30, 2006
By Paul Craft
One of the coldest nights ever at FNWTR had competitors rugging up in between
races.
As always, the Junior's demonstration race kicked off the night. The demonstration
which is always entertaining, was especially so this week. The race was won
by Will Power until he was promptly relegated for taking a short cut. The video
replay in the Handle Bar Tavern post-race had the crowd cheering as they relived
Will's short lived moment of glory.
The feature race for the night was "The Velosportz + Innova-tech 1km wheelrace"
for division 3. Martin Millwood was our scratch man with a lot of work to reel
in limit at 100m however, an over eager push start had Martin passing Bill Laing
at 10m as the whistle was blown for the start. The commissaire wisely allowed
the race to continue. Out front, Cass Kell (80m) also started fast but not due
to a jump start but instead due to sheer power. Cass launched and within 50m
of the start had hit the front with a clean set of wheels. Her lead increased
as she hurtled herself around the track until 1 lap to go where she folded quicker
than an Italian striker in the penalty box. This left the door open for Andrew
Herehen and Jackson Law who battled each other all the way to the line. Andrew
held off the late challenge from the young Illawarra rider to win an impressive
victory.
A new rider to FNWTR is Bill Laing who had his first taste of Dunc racing last
week in Div 4. After winning a race last week he decided to move up a division
to Div 3. Bill's results for the night were two wins, two second places and
a non place in the handicap off 10m's. Bill clearly has a decent turn of speed
so watch out when he learns some tactics.
Round 4's Madi-lead again proved to be a highlight of the night. In this race
a Madison team acts as a derny performing changes in front of the bunch and
building in speed as the race progresses. This is a great opportunity for riders
to learn a little about Madison changes and how to follow one. The last change
by the team is done with about 7 laps to go and is a full bore attack. The riders
struggle to hold the slipstream of the lead rider until 5 laps to go where the
Madison riders pull out of the race, leaving a decimated field to complete the
last 5 laps.
The Div 2 Madi-lead saw Damien McGarry as the only rider to be able to hold
onto the final devastating attack. With 5 laps to go Damien found himself 70m
in front of a chase group of 5 riders. Damien from this point suffered his way
to a painful victory with World Champion Master Keith Oliver picking up the
scraps for second place.
Division 1 had a slightly different program for the night with round 3 being
the first ever 200m fly. This ran extremely smoothly with all riders bar one
being ready to start as the previous rider was finishing. Well done guys! Shaun
Hopkins laid down the early fastest time however it was Kial Stewart on the
come back trail that stole the victory.
Division 1 then backed up for a Madison. The strongest team was clearly Tomlinson
and Herman who repeatedly attacked the field, consistently blowing teams out
the back however, the smartest team was Hopkins and Roberts who controlled their
bursts of power to contain Tomlinson/Herman and easily out-sprinted them on
the final lap. Huge compliments go to the Carver / Law duo. Both of the U/17's
rode well above their years to continuously scramble back to the lead riders
and they even managed to sprint home for second place ahead of the fancied Tomlinson/Herman
team
The final race of the night was the "The CNSW Maersk Logistics Time Blaster
Challenge". Unfortunately due to the considerable effort put into the Madison
by our Div 1 riders, the 9 minutes 09 seconds barrier was never really challenged.
In the end Justin Tomlinson (the endurance King) finished alone in a time of
9 minutes 18 seconds. This means the $100 jackpots making the next time blaster
worth $200.
Results
Junior Development Demonstration 1 Brendan 2 Princess 3 Tiger 4 Bonnie Grant Round 1 Warm up scratch race Div 5 1 Manny Cachia 2 Marika Kahle 3 Edward Daniel 4 Jacyn Mellish Div 4 1 Paris Chelin 2 Glen Samuel 3 Tirian McManus 4 Simon Ball Div 3 1 Martin Milliwood 2 Bill Laing 3 Andrew Grant 4 Jock Murray Div 2 1 Paul Connor 2 Keith Oliver 3 Damien McGarry 4 Liam Melville Div 1 1 Pat Bolan 2 Kial Stewart 3 Gary Ryan 4 Shaun Hopkins Round 2 The Velosportz + Innovatech 1km wheelrace for div 3 1 Andrew Herehen 2 Jackson Law 3 Graham Tierney 4 Terry Freshwater Round 3 Spint Div 5 1 Manny Cachia 2 Edward Daniel 3 Jacyn Mellish 4 Marika Kahle 1st Half field sprint Div 4 1 Simon Ball 2 Glenn Samuel 3 Phill Hutt 4 Paris Chelin 2nd Half field sprint Div 4 1 Graeme Heap 2 Mark Anthony 3 Daryl Moylan 4 Brian Hopkins 1st Half field sprint Div 3 1 Bill Laing 2 Andrew Grant 3 Adriano Maradini 4 Bruce Wyllie 2nd Half field sprint Div 3 1 Jock Murray 2 Neil Land 3 Terry Scarr 4 Graham Tierney 1st Half field sprint Div 2 1 Luke Davidson 2 Paul Connor 3 Alex Carver 4 Ben Harvey 2nd Half field sprint Div 2 1 Andrew Burne 2 Keith Oliver 3 Alan Townsend 4 Simon Llewellyn 200m fly Women 1 Donna Mehan 2 Sarah White 200m fly div 1 1 Kial Stewart 2 Patrick Bolan 3 Gary Ryan 4 Shaun Hopkins 5 Peter Barnard 6 Geoff Hopkins 7 Jason Roberts 8 David Willmott 9 Michael Mellish 10 David Browne 11 Gavin White 12 Scott Law 13 Brent Dawson 14 Justin Tomlinson 15 Ben Simonelli 16 Stuart Lane 17 Alex Simmons 18 Ross Harding 19 Andrew Herman 20 Michael Popplewell 21 Matt Loupus Round 4 Handicap Scratch Div 5 1 Jacyn Mellish 2 Marika Kahle 3 Ben Grant 4 Edward Daniel Scratch Div 4 15laps 1 Simon Ball 2 Daryl Moylan 3 Graeme Heap 4 Paris Chelin Madi-lead Div 3 15laps 1 Jock Murray 2 Bill Laing 3 Jackson Law 4 Neil Land Madi-lead Div 2 15laps 1 Damien Mc Garry 2 Simon Llewellyn 3 Keith Oliver 4 Paul Connor Keiren for Div 1 non madison riders 1 Patrick Bolan 2 Kial Stewart 3 Gary Ryan 4 Peter Barnard Madison 1 Shaun Hopkins/Jason Roberts 2 Scott Law/Alex Carver 3 Justin Tomlinson/Andrew Herman 4 Stuart Lane/Luke Davidson Round 5 Fast group Combine Div 3/4 1 Bill Laing 2 Adriano Maradini 3 Bruce Wyllie 4 Andrew Grant The CNSW Maersk Logistics Time Blaster Challenge Target time 9min 09sec for Prize $100 Div 1 +Div 2 Sratch 30lapper 1 Justin Tomlinson 220.19.12 2 Alex Simmons 3 Andrew Herman 4 Jason Roberts
