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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                                                  

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