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Friday Night Winter Track Racing Week 16

Dunc Grey Velodrome, Sydney, October 1, 2004

The final countdown

By Paul Craft

The final night was a great celebration of a fantastic series. The newly crowned dual World Champion David Willmott made his first appearance after returning from Manchester. The Red Bull girls were there supplying energy in a can, along with our two major sponsors Ross Harding from Velo Sportz Shortz and Felice from Campagnolo were on hand to contribute to the impressive prize list for the night which totaled in excess of $6000 worth of cash and prizes.

The feature race for the night was "The Campagnolo 1.5km Wheelrace". This race was the pinnacle of the season, with riders from each division qualifying into this event over the last 4 weeks. First prize for this handicap was a pair of Campagnolo Pista track wheels and a RIDE Cycling Review subscription. Many expected scratch man Shaun Hopkins to overcome the 18 competitors in front of him to take the victory however the middle markers, especially the division 2 quartet, had other ideas.

The race started with Teagan Hines being the hare starting off 235m in a gallant effort to hold off the field. She did well until Chris Murray (190m) and Richard Pettigrew (175m) came bursting out of the pursuing bunch in a repeat of the move that won the pair their wheelrace 3 weeks earlier.

At the tail of the field Hopkins had skillfully crossed the gap to the rest of the Div 1 riders, but found no friends in this group willing to sacrifice themselves to allow Hoppy to take the spoils. Hoppy was forced to do a lot of uncharacteristic work in an effort to reach the leaders. With one lap to go he realised his efforts would be fruitless and swung up.

This left the door open for a surprise victor. When Murray and Pettigrew began to fade the opportunity was seized upon by Parramatta's Matt Smith who showed his growing class in taking an impressive victory ahead of fellow Div 2 rider Dan O'Callaghan.

Cycling Projects representative Felice was there to make the presentation to the delighted riders.

The night also had a host of battles for the point score series. In the battle of the two Neil's, it was Neil Land who held onto his slender lead over Neil Liefels. The three-way battle for third place in Div 2 was won by the in-form Matt Smith. Alan Townsend snuck home ahead of Richard Lang in Div 3. The private Husband and Wife battle between Paul and Donna Meehan was won by Paul and Waratah Vets beat the defending team champion, Bicisport, in the club challenge.

The NSWCF+NSWIS Time Blaster has been a highlight of the year and at 8minutes 55 seconds was not expected to fall again. However no one counted on the determination of the riders in sharing the workload to hurtle themselves around the track at 51.1km/hr. In the end it was Newcastle's Michael Lewis who profited by taking the win in a time of 8min 49seconds.

The big prize draws for the top five of each grade in the Handle Bar Tavern went well with Graham McClymont, Geoff Worthington and Matt Smith taking the minor prizes. The Grand Prize a Team Alex frame valued at $2100 was won by likable junior women's rider Teagan Hines who was almost speechless with joy. Many Thanks to Ross Harding of Velo Sportz Shortz and Mark Rowling from Turramurra Cyclery for their sponsorship and support.

Results

Round 1
 
Warm up scratch Race winners 
 
Div 4  Peter Lewis                         
Div 3  Richard Lang                        
Div 2  Tim Rice                            
Div 1  Phil Stokes                         
 
Round 2
 
Handicap Miss'N'Out All Divisions
 
Cancelled
 
The Campagnola 1.5km Wheelrace All Div
 
1 Matt Smith (125m)                        
2 Dan O'Callaghan (130m)                   
3 Michael Leach (185m)                     
4 Joel Chant (155m)                        
 
Round 4 
 
Div 4 Mystery Race
 
1 Peter Lewis                              
2 Mark Scribins                            
3 Gary O'sulivan                           
4 Neil Leifels                             
 
Div 3 Mystery Race
 
1 Richard Pettigrew                        
2 Scott Mills                              
3 Michael Smith                            
4 Michael Leach                            
 
Div 2 Mystery Race
 
1 Mathew Pettit                            
2 Roland Lang                              
3 Matt Smith                               
4 Richard Vollebret                        
 
Div 1 Mystery Race
 
1 Michael Lewis                            
2 Peter Spencer                            
3 Duncan Crosby                            
4 David Brown                              
 
Round 5
 
Combined 3 & 4
 
1 Micheal Leach                            
2 Peter Harvey                             
 
Scratch Div 1 and Div 2 Combine 
 
1 Michael Lewis                            
2 Peter Spencer                            
3 Richard Vollebret                        
4 Phil Dixon                                

Final overall points

Div 1 riders 
 
1 Shaun Hopkins (Marconi)                   251 pts
2 Anthony Bennett (Lidcombe)                215
3 Patrick Bolan (Bicisport)                 204
4 Phil Dixon (Bicisport)                    187
5 Brett Johnston (Bicisport)                176
6 David Browne (Bicisport)                  159
7 Peter Spencer (CATS)                      152
8 Michael Popplewell (Manly Warringah)      144
9 Duncan Crosby (Bicisport)                 142
10 Phill Stokes (Penrith)                   136
11 Ross Harding (Southern cross)            131
12 Michael Mellish (Central Coast)          106
13 Craig Eather (Clarence St)               103
14 Alex Sommer (Bicisport)                   78
15 Michael Lewis (Hunter Dist)               71
16 Daniel Ellis (Canberra)                   64
17 David Short (St George)                   61
18 Rebecca Ellis (Parramatta)                59
19 David Willmott (St George)                50
20 Ben Kersten (St George)                   41
21 James Shneider (Broncos)                  41
22 Dean Preddy (Ranwick)                     38
23 Stuart Miller (Bicisport)                 33
24 Peter Fitzpatrick (St George)             31
25 Mark Jewell (Illawarra)                   29
26 Tyler McLachlan (Southern cross)          28
27 Brad Hooker (Marconi)                     26
28 Chad Shneider (Hunter Dist)               23
29 Shane Perkins (Carnigie)                  22
30 Steve Fitzpatrick (St George)             20
31 Chris Pascoe (Dubbo)                      20
32 Waren Scott (St George)                   19
33 David Walton (Parramatta)                 15
34 David Nelson (Sutherland)                 14
35 Odrian Murphey (Bicisport)                13
36 Andrew Carter (Bathurst)                  12
37 Todd Dawson (CATS)                        12
38 Grant Law (Illawarra)                     10
39 Aiden Hobbs (Marconi)                       
40 Greg McFarlane (Masaratti)                  
41 Ian Gardner (Eastern Sub)                   
 
Div2 riders 
 
1 Roland Lang (Waratah Vets)                284 pts
2 Ivan Colig (St George)                    231
3 Matt Smith (Parramatta)                   191
4 Graham McClymont (Waratah Vets)           187
5 Peter Barnard (Southern Cross)            180
6 Jim Gray (Waratah Vets)                   178
7 Alex Simmons (Sydney)                     160
8 Geoff Hopkins (Southern Cross)            141
9 Justin Tomlinson (Southern Highlands)     136
10 Jason Roberts (Marconi)                  135
11 John Deane (Bankstown Sports)            128
12 Hugh Gray (Waratah Vets)                 115
13 Dan O'Callagham (Sydney)                 112
14 Dale Scarfe (Central Coast)              111
15 Gavin White (Adelaide)                    99
16 David South (Waratah Vets)                70
17 Sky Lee Armstrong (Parramatta)            62
18 Tim Rice (Sydney)                         61
19 Stuart Lane (Southern cross)              57
20 Matthew Pettit (Parramatta)               56
21 Sarah White (Bicisport)                   51
22 Michael Stokes (Penrith)                  43
23 Richard Vollebret (Southern Highlands)    42
24 Mathew Sargent (Parramatta)               35
25 Phil McKnight (Sydner)                    28
26 Leeanne Manderson (Northern Dist)         26
27 David Leekie (Parramatta)                 22
28 Kieth Oliver (Parramatta)                 15
29 Mike Cotes (Bathurst)                     14
30 Julian Yuen (Lidcome)                     13
31 Jim Burke (Bathurst)                      13
32 Tunde Berryhill (Parramatta)              10
33 Shane Wood (Macarthur)                    10
34 Mathew Jones (Hunter Districts)           10
35 Kevin Donovan (Sutherland)                10
 
 
Div 3 riders 
 
1 Joel Chant (Parramatta)                   227 pts
2 Chris Murray (Macarthur)                  203
3 Alan Townsend (Parramatta)                198
4 Richard Lang (Lidcombe)                   193
5 Geoff Worthington (Waratah Vets)          182
6 Michael Leach (Bankstown Sports)          171
7 Steve Dixon (Bicisport)                   155
8 Mark Rowling (Bicisport)                  136
9 Trevor Wait (Parramatta)                  129
10 Daniel Grether (Bicisport)               103
11 Brad Craft (Central Coast)               102
12 Jason Fraser (Parramatta)                101
13 Andrew Grant (Southern Cross)             95
14 Janelle Lindsay (Ranwick Botany)          87
15 Leif Arnebarn (Bicisport)                 86
16 David Ewins (Manly)                       82
17 Matt Brown (Port Stephans)                78
18 Luke Taylor (Penrith Panthers)            73
19 Terry Freshwater (Waratah Vets)           67
20 Deena Faulkner (St George)                56
21 Scott Mills (St George)                   55
22 Richard Pettigrew (Central Coast)         55
23 Peter Ganss (Tuggeranong)                 51
24 Jon Brittan (Bicisport)                   48
25 Mike Lawson (Manly)                       47
26 Simon Vagg (Sydney)                       42
27 Lindsay Munks (Dulwich Hill)              41
28 Ben Trojko (Penrith)                      41
29 Lindy Hou (?????)                         38
30 David Mcmaster (Illawarra)                37
31 Terry Scarr (Parramatta)                  35
32 Will Gray (Bicisport)                     35
33 Bruce Wyllie (Lidcombe)                   31
34 Jeff Morris (Central Coast)               24
35 Kelly Fury (Port Stephans)                22
36 Peter Harvey (Bankstown Sports)           22
37 Kevin Rablin (Gold Coast)                 18
38 Craig Olsen (Central Coast)               15
39 James Gilmore (Marconi)                   15
40 Michael Smith (Central Coast)             14
41 Adrian Craft (Canberra)                   10
42 Cameron Macarthy (Cairns)                 10
43 Peter Feraud (Waratah Vets)               10
44 Kiernan Smitherson (Lidcombe)             10
45 Nathan Rollanson (Bicisport)                
 
Div 4 riders
 
1 Neil Land (Marconi)                       218 pts
2 Neil Leifels (Macarthur)                  214
3 Teagan Hines (St George)                  187
4 Penny Rowbotham (Waratah Vets)            145
5 Paul Regattieri (Waratah Vets)            141
6 Brian Hopkins (Southern Cross)            120
7 Ruth Oxlade (Marconi)                     117
8 Paul Worby (Central Coast)                117
9 Peter Flinn (Randwick Botany)             112
10 Warwick McAlpine (Randwick Botany)       105
11 Tanya Bosch (Sydney)                     103
12 Michael Bentley (Goulbourne)             101
13 Paul Meehan (Waratah Vets)                99
14 Donna Meehan (Waratah Vets)               96
15 Caraline Smale (Parramatta)               84
16 Rod Wagner (Caravelo)                     79
17 Rolf Grether (Bicisport)                  72
18 Kevin Stubs (Manly)                       71
19 David Birss (Bankstown Sports)            65
20 Rod White (Southern Cross)                63
21 Chey Howard (Central Coast)               61
22 Russell Brown (Port Stephans)             55
23 Chloe Hoskin (Canberra)                   55
24 Garry O'Sullivan (St George)              49
25 Darren Kelly (Carnigie)                   48
26 Josh Dolan (Lidcombe)                     47
27 John Awakian (Lidcombe)                   46
28 Tanya Moss (Bicisport)                    45
29 Brian Smedley (LACC)                      45
30 Michelle Brown (Port Stephans)            45
31 Mike Axton (Central Coast)                44
32 Gordon Bradshaw (Waratah Vets)            39
33 Andrew Phillips (Waratah Vets)            38
34 Gary Conaty (Waratah Vets)                37
35 Graham Tierney (Bicisport)                36
36 Jessica Ellis (Canberra)                  35
37 John Wickline (Parramatta)                35
38 Alec Lazich (Waratah Vets)                34
39 Diorne Lia (Marconi)                      33
40 Mark Stevens (Sydney)                     33
41 Gary Hines (Waratah Vets)                 32
42 Peter Mangioni (Waratah Vets)             31
43 Darren McNeil (Marconi)                   30
44 Peter Rafferty (St George)                30
45 Nick Bregolin (Lidcombe)                  29
46 Malcolm Smith (Waratah Vets)              28
47 Tom Skulander (Randwick Botany)           22
48 Scott Chapman (Sydney)                    21
49 Mick fury (Port Stephens)                 20
50 Bede Kelly (Southern cross)               20
51 Peter Lewis (Hunter dist)                 20
52 Hayden Taylor (Port Stephans)             19
53 William Taylor (Penrith Panthers)         18
54 Grant Hanson (Sydney)                     17
55 Noel Christenson (Randwick Botany)        16
56 Brendan Laughlan (Port Stephens)          16
57 Graham Jones (Waratah Vets)               15
58 Sian Mulholland (FIT)                     15
59 Sean Gleeson (Sydney)                     15
60 Col Goldie (Hunter dist)                  15
61 Adriano Maradini (Randwick Botany)        15
62 Michelle Crawford (Goulbourne)            14
63 Shane Cole (Lidcombe)                     14
64 Neil Schneider (Port Stephens)            14
65 Paul Marley (Macarthur)                   12
66 Greg Dunn (Marconi)                       11
67 Leesa Carson (FIT)                        10
68 Zel Trojko (Penrith Panthers)             10
69 Lorin Jurd (St George)                    10
70 Vanessa Hamilton (Bankstown Sports)         
71 Eleanor Hume (Marconi)                      
72 Raymond Potter (Bicisport)                  
 
Teams
 
1 Waratah Vets                             1828 pts
2 Bicisport                                1759
3 Parramatta                               1274
4 St George                                 840
5 Marconi                                   836
6 Southern cross                            835
7 Central Coast                             649
8 Lidcombe                                  643
9 Sydney                                    628
10 Macarthur                                439
11 Ranwick Botany                           395
12 Bankstown Sports                         386
13 Manly Warringa                           344
14 Penrith                                  321
15 Port Stephens                            269
16 Southern Highlands                       178
17 Canberra                                 164
17 CATS                                     164
19 Hunter District                          139
20 Goulbourn                                115
21 Clarence St. CC                          103
22 Adelaide                                  99
23 Carovelo                                  79
24 Illawarra                                 76
25 Carnigie                                  70
26 Tuggeranong                               51
27 Broncos                                   41
27 Dulwich Hill                              41
29 Bathurst                                  39
30 ????????                                  38
31 Northern District                         26
32 FIT                                       25
33 Sutherland                                24
34 Dubbo                                     20
35 Gold Coast                                18
36 Cairns                                    10
38 Eastern Suburbs                             
38 Northern Sydney                             

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