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Friday Night Winter Track Racing
Dunc Gray Olympic Velodrome, August 23, 2002
Blues Brothers combine to set up win in Wheelrace
19 riders contested the division two Handle Bar Tavern Wheelrace on Friday night. In one of the fastest and most thrilling Wheelrace events held this season Blues brothers, Hugh and Jim Gray combined with Dennis Fahey (St George) to set a cracking pace from the outset not giving the backmarkers a chance of bridging the gap.
Fahey having his first ride of the season rode strongly rounding up the front markers with 2 1/2 laps to go, tucked on his wheel were Jim Gray, Hugh Gray and Michael Popplewell. As they turned with 1/2 lap to go Hugh Gray launched with the support of his vast army of fans, launched his bid down the back straight, finally getting the better of Fahey in the finishing meters to record the narrowest of victories and a well deserved win. The dual between Gray and Fahey continued throughout the evening with both riders finishing with equal points and joint leaders in Division 2.
Shaun Hopkins Parramatta was back to his brilliant best taking maximum points in Division 1 to be the first rider to earn more than 500 points for the season. Only 7 points separated the next five riders of Robert Upton, Phil Dixon, David Browne, Chris Young, Patrick Naughton and Grant Law.
Division 3 saw a return to form by two our regular stalwarts in Geoff Worthington and Adam Christopher. 1 point separated the pair on the evening, Geoff getting the nod over Adam with a victory in the final Points race event to take top points by a solitary point - 43 to 42 points. Michael Thompson (Bankstown Sports CC) continues to impress winning the miss & out race and placing in two other events on the night.
A small field of 8 contested the Women's events. Rebecca Ellis continues to show her class by taking maximum points once again moving her to within striking distance of a top 3 series finish. Sophie Cape (St George) showed grit and determination scoring 38 points moving her closer to Tanya Newton (Bicisport) 27 points and Sqeels McNamarra (St George) 17 points. Sqeels maintains her series leader position just ahead of Tanya Newton. Sandra Beaumont (Southern Highlands) rode strongly picking up 24 points moving her to the top of Division 2 Women.
Next Friday night (30/8) promises to be one of our biggest nights this season with the return of many of our road riders with a break in the road calendar.
Spectators are welcome. Racing starts at 7.10pm. All inquiries to Race Promoter - Kevin Young, phone: 97385850
Results
Wheelrace
1 Hugh Gray (Waratah Vets CC) 2 Dennis Fahey (St George CC) 3 Alex Simmons (Sydney CC)
Other results
This week Cum. Total
Division 1
1 Shaun Hopkins (Parramatta) 60 501
2 Steve Fitzpatrick (St George) 0 393
3 Peter Fitzpatrick (St George) 0 364
4 Phillip Stokes (Penrith) 0 311
5 Chris Young (Parramatta) 21 281
6 Stuart Millar (Bicisport) 19 257
7 Robert Upton (Harlequin) 27 250
8 Phil Dixon (Bicisport) 25 234
9 David Browne (Bicisport) 24 221
9 Michael Stokes (Penrith) 20 188
10 Patrick Naughton (Bicisport) 8 181
11 Grant Law (Illawarra) 12 128
12 Michael Lewis (Hunter Districts) 0 109
13 Justin Quinton (Bicisport) 0 100
14 Peter Carscadden (Sutherland) 0 76
15 Jono Davis (St George) 0 65
16 Alex Sommer (Bicisport) 0 62
17 Brian Appleyard (Trek) 0 51
18 Campbell Kerr (Sutherland Shire) 0 43
19 David Willmott (St George) 0 40
20 Paul Bayly (Bankstown) 0 37
21 Josh Wall (Illawarra) 0 33
22 Carlo Barendillo (Mid;land CC WA) 0 31
22 Ben Smith (Goulburn) 0 31
24 Adam Rourke (Illawarra) 5 29
25 Chris Brown (Illawarra) 0 28
26 Gunji Yntuka (Bankstown) 0 25
27 Peter Jones (Illawarra) 0 20
28 Martin Vinnicombe (St George) 0 16
29 Paul Mcdonald (Bicisport) 0 15
30 Kial Stewart (Canberra) 0 4
31 Warren Scott (St George) 0 2
32 Geoff Stoker (Harlequin) 0 -4
Division 2
1 Mick Kejda (Illawarra) 22 281
2 Dave South (Waratah Vets) 0 270
3 Jeff Smith (Penrith) 0 240
4 Steve Gilmore (Liverpool Leppington) 0 176
5 Andrew Grant (Southern Cross) 15 163
6 Justin Worthington (Parramatta) -5 132
7 Ross Harding (Southern Cross) -10 127
8 Clay Batt (St George) 5 106
9 John Galvin (Gunnedah) 0 105
9 Glen Ion (Waratah Vets) 20 105
11 Alex Simmons (Sydney) 25 99
12 John Deane (Bankstown) -5 94
13 Paul Rohwer (Harlequin) 0 75
14 Steve Savage (Harlequin) 0 66
15 Sean Backers (Parramatta) 0 64
16 Shane Wood (Macarthur Collegians) -5 62
17 Bruce Masson (Hunter Districts) 0 53
18 John Bryson (Northern Sydney) 0 51
19 Stuart Appleyard (Harlequin) 0 49
20 Kevin Donovan (Sutherland Shire) 25 40
21 Sean Block (Randwick Botany) 0 35
22 Glenn Trudgett (Parramatta) 0 33
23 Dennis Fahey (St George) 30 30
24 Adam Lambert (Goulburn) 0 26
25 Dean Thompson (Goulburn) 0 25
26 Andrew Mclean (Parramatta) 0 23
27 Stuart Hughes (Parramatta) 0 20
28 Aaron Jabour (Bankstown) 0 15
29 Peter Bernard (Southern Cross CC) -10 7
30 Colin Reay (Parramatta) 0 -7
31 Ben Bugden (Bicisport) 0 -20
31 Dean Preddy (Eastern Suburbs) 0 -20
Division 2A
1 Scott Williams (Lidcombe) -5 219
2 Jim Gray (Waratah Vets) 20 193
3 Hugh Gray (Waratah Vets) 30 186
4 Mick Leach (Liverpool Leppington) -5 155
5 Michael Popplewell (Waratah Vets) 20 100
6 John Buckton (Randwick Botany) 0 99
7 Peter Harvey (Bankstown) 0 79
8 Bill Cox (Hunter Districts) 10 77
9 Nick Poulos (St George) 0 70
10 Craig Hopkins (Lidcombe) 0 55
11 Leigh Mitchell (Central Coast) 0 49
11 Carl Holeman (Central Coast) 0 49
13 Brian Radcliffe (Hunter Districts) 0 44
13 Michael Mellish (Central Coast) 0 44
15 Alex Bird (Canberra) 0 42
16 Chris Guillan (Southern Cross) 0 26
17 Peter Wheeler (Southern Highlands) 0 25
18 Ron Lloyd (Central Coast) 0 23
19 Jake Adams (Parramatta) 0 18
20 Warwick Roberts (Lidcombe) 0 15
21 Steven Phelan (Canberra) 0 7
22 Michael Meryment (Parramatta) 0 9
23 Kane Macri (Parramatta) 0 5
24 David Leckie (Parramatta) 0 0
Men Division 3
1 Trevor Shields (Parramatta) 21 174
2 Nick Bregolin (Lidcombe) 25 134
3 Trevor Wait (Parramatta) 6 123
4 Geoff Worthington (Waratah Vets) 43 121
5 Adam Christopher (Southern Cross) 42 113
6 Peter Rafferty (St George) 0 109
7 Glenn Wright (Southern Highlands) 0 87
8 Michael Thompson (Bankstown) 35 60
9 Terry Freshwater (Waratah Vets) 2 55
10 Colin Newell (Waratah Vets) 0 54
11 Ken Woodhouse (Randwick Botany) 0 51
12 Rob Hodgson (Southern Highlands) 0 47
13 Adrian Craft (Canberra) 0 45
14 Brian Newman (Parramatta) 0 41
15 Andrew Richardson (Penrith) 0 31
16 Michael Leung (Lidcombe) 25 25
17 Patrick Grant (Southern Cross) 0 24
18 Darrell Cox (Hunter Districts) 0 21
19 Maurice Hager (Koorangang) 0 17
20 Peter Davison (Randwick Botany) 0 15
20 Elliot Stevens (Central Coast) 0 15
22 James Smale (Parramatta) 0 11
23 Jesus Bello (Waratah Vets) 0 10
23 Lance Mcdonald (Waratah Vets) 0 10
25 Eddie Butler (Central Coast) 0 9
26 Greg Deale (Marconi) 0 6
27 Don Talintyre (Southern Highlands) 0 3
27 Chris Bushell (Goulburn) 0 3
29 Graham Jones (Waratah Vets) 0 2
30 Peter Christiason (Penrith) 0 1
31 John Wickline (Parramatta) 0 0
31 Col Perry (Waratah Vets) 0 0
31 David Lane (Lidcombe) 0 0
31 Kerry Moroz (Macarthur Collegians) 0 0
31 Dennis Blunden (Hunter Districts) 0 0
Women's Division
1 Keely McNamarra (St George) 17 396
2 Tanya Newton (Bicisport) 27 387
3 Sophie Cape (St George) 38 355
4 Rebecca Ellis (Canberra CC) 60 302
5 Amanda Whiteman (Bicisport) 0 192
6 Tunde Berryhill (Parramatta) 0 181
7 Catriona Owens (Bicisport) 0 172
8 Rebecca Borgo (Illawarra) 0 137
9 Leonie Aisbett (Parramatta) 0 110
10 Karen Dutton (Sutherland Shire) 11 71
11 Lizzy Georgouras (St George) 0 64
11 Linda Hall (Eastern Suburbs) 0 64
13 Jackie Kejda (Illawarra) 0 55
14 Lucy Stewart (Canberra CC) 0 29
15 Eve Hood (Parramatta) 0 20
16 Sarah White (Bicisport) 0 13
Women's Division 2
1 Kylie Spencer (Illawarra) 0 133
2 Sandra Beaumont (Southern Highlands) 24 130
3 Angela Keys (Lidcombe) 0 109
4 Louise Cooke (Canberra CC) 0 59
5 Kelly-Anne Cox (Bicisport) 0 42
6 Sian Mulholland (FIT) 0 34
7 Leesa Carson (FIT) 0 27
8 Bronwyn Troy (Canberra CC) 0 26
9 Caroline Smale (Parramatta) 0 23
10 Janelle Lindsay (Randwick Botany) 0 18
10 Hilary Foster (Canberra CC) 0 18
12 Tanya Bosch (Sydney) 17 17
13 Wendy Walker (WSMTB) 0 13
14 Melissa Mackie (Canberra CC) 0 8
15 Lisa Fletcher (Penrith) 0 5
16 Isabel Renton (Canberra) 0 0
17 Alex Curtin (Bicisport) 0 -10
