Results for 30th November 2010

by Glenys Taylor | Dec 2, 2010 | Event Reports

Track Cycling Feilding

An excellent nights racing between the 23 riders that rolled up tonight. It was a stellar night for weather and the by the time the four riders went for their respective flying one lap records the wind had dropped completely. The highlight of the night was the breaking of three track records. First was to Lachie Ferguson who shaved 0.07 seconds off his own under 17 boys record by travelling the distance in 27.33sec. Second up was Kate Stewart who took 0.18sec off her under 15 girls record, riding 32.54sec and then Megan Blatchford completely smashed Catherine Cheatley’s senior women’s record, taking off a massive 1.8 seconds to record 27.92 sec. Well done to all 3 riders!!!

In the under 17 and under 15 grade races three riders stood out on the night, Liam Barber showed improvement and used his good handicaps well to record a 1^st and a 2^nd Kate Stewart rode well to record two 2^nds and sprinted particularly strong to sprint the bunch home for second in the long 7 lap handicap. Josh Kendall rode well off the scratch mark on his own to pull the field in the 4 lap and 7 lap handicap races showing his strength and will be a rider to watch in the future.

In the A and B grade the feature race of the night Matiu Kaihau showed his class, just recently returned from Oceania Track Cycling Championships in Australia, to ride from scratch and to win ever so comfortably. Damien Lardner, who gave his finest performance ever on the Feilding track, being the only rider to go with Matiu for 3 laps only to be dropped with just over 2 to go, but managed to hold on for 2^nd: while Megan Blatchford capped off a fine night by sprinting the bunch home for third.

These are the results:

Rider of the night as selected by John Stewart was Lachie Ferguson for his effort to break his flying lap record.

A Grade 7 Lap points race

1^st Matiu Kaihau 10 points

2^nd Jaycob Humphreys 6 points

3^rd Megan Blatchford 4 points

4^th Sean Whitehouse 2 points

B Grade 6 lap race

1^st George Roberts

2^nd Jonty Hapeta

3^rd James Hutton

4^th Damian Lardner

Under 17/ under 15 6 lap scratch race

1^st Josh Kendall

2^nd Kate Stewart

3^rd Kelsi Eccles

4^th Ruby Perry

Flying Quarter Mile

Lachie Ferguson 27.33 Under 17 record old mark 27.40

Megan Blatchford 27.92 Senior womens record old mark 29.73

Jonty Hapeta 29.67

Kate Stewart 32.54 Under 15 girls record old mark 32.72

A Grade 4 Lap Handicap

1^st Sean Whitehouse

2^nd Jaycob Humphreys

3^rd Matiu Kaihau

4^th Marcel Hollenstein

B Grade 4 Lap Handicap

1^st George Roberts

2^nd Brent Zimmerman

3^rd Damian Lardner

4^th Barry Gilliland

Under 17 / 15 4 Lap Handicap

1^st Catherine Young

2^nd Liam Barber

3^rd Brittany Ingram

4^th Josh Kendall

3 Lap Olympic Team Sprint

1^st Jaycob’s team 1.35.54

2^nd Matiu’s team 1.35.58

3^rd Brent’s team 1.38.42

4^th Lachie’s team 1.38.95

A team of Sean Whiehouse, Jaycob Humphreys and Matiu Kaihau completed the 3 laps in 1.29.36

U17 / 15 7 Lap Handicap

1^st Liam Barber

2^nd Kate Stewart

3^rd Josh Kendall

4^th Campbell Stewart

A & B Grade 16 Lap Handicap

1^st Matiu Kaihau

2^nd Damien Lardner

3^rd Megan Blatchford

4^th Jonty Hapeta

Road bikes have another great night

by Glenys Taylor | Nov 24, 2010 | Event Reports

1 km time trial

1. Cameron Worboys   1:43.98
2. Jayden Bond           1:57.89
3. Fergus Bryan            1:58.32
4. Sarah Humphrey      2:35.29
5. Levi Bryan                  2:56.45

6 lap handicap race

1. Cameron Worboys
2. Jayden Bond
3. Fergus Bryan
4. Sarah Humphrey
5. Levi Bryan

3 lap handicap race

1. Fergus Bryan
2. Jayden Bond

2 lap handicap race

1. Sarah Humphrey
2. Levi Bryan

Rider of the night Fergus Bryan with a water bottle prize from Pedal Pushers

Results for 23rd November 2010

by Glenys Taylor | Nov 24, 2010 | Event Reports

Track Cycling Feilding

Another dry clear sky greeted the riders but the cool South-westerly ensured the bikinis and board shorts stayed out of sight. The stellar appearance tonight was left to a restored war plane humming away in the sky above resplendent in camouflage livery and red nose cone. While the wind was a factor in preventing Lachie Ferguson’s gutsy effort to break his own under 17 flying lap record it was not enough to impact significantly of the nights results.

We had another good turn out of 22 riders with a few being new for the season but not new to the track and still we had riders away, so we certainly do have a solid core of riders and potential to move into the 30 plus category. If this line sounds familiar, you are right as it was the same in last weeks report but still valid.

The racing started with graded warm up races of 4 to 6 laps followed by Lachie’s record attempt that came up a second short on the time he set last season, but with the right conditions or an indoor velodrome Lachie has the ability to set a very challenging record. The warm up races are used to give the handicapper, Ian Gray a guide in estimating the respective handicaps for the nights handicap races. The riders competed in 2 to 3 lap and 1 lap handicap races in their grades followed by longer 10 to 12 lap handicap races. The handicapper performed the magic required to treat the spectators to some superb tight finishes with riders spread 4 and 5 wide across the narrow track dragging all power and speed from their tiring legs and warming the spirits of the cold and hypothermic spectators.

These are the results:

Rider of the night was Sean Whitehouse with a strong and dominant performance with 3 wins and a third, all from the scratch mark. The third was in the best race of the night when he finished within a wheel width to the winner Cameron Gibbons.

Under 15 girls/ under 13 4 laps

1^st Campbell Stewart

2^nd Kate Stewart

3^rd Robert Stannard

4^th Liam Barber

Under 17 5 Laps

1^st Damien Lardner

2^nd Jonty Hapeta

3^rd George Roberts

4^th James Hutton

A & B Grade 6 Laps

1^st Sean Whitehouse

2^nd Megan Blatchford

3^rd Lachie Ferguson

4^th Barry Gilliland

Under 17 flying lap record attempt

Lachie Ferguson 28.53 sec (current record 27.40sec)

Under 15 girls/ under 13 2 Laps handicap

1^st Liam Barber

2^nd Kate Stewart

3^rd Campbell Stewart

Under 17 3 Laps

1^st Jonty Hapeta

2^nd Damien Lardner

3^rd George Roberts

4^th Kelsi Eccles

A & B Grade 5 Laps

1^st Sean Whitehouse

2^nd Brent Zimmerman

3^rd Megan Blatchford

4^th Lachie Ferguson

1 Lap Handicap races

Under 15 girls

1^st Kate Stewart

2^nd Elizabeth Stannard

3^rd Brittany Ingram

4^th Ruby Perry

Under 15 boys

1^st Robert Stannard

2^nd Liam Barber

3^rd Campbell Stewart

4^th Takumi Clarke

Under 17

1^st James Hutton

2^nd Mike McMinn

3^rd Kelsi Eccles

4^th Catherine Young

A & B Grade

1st Cameron Gibbons

2^nd Lachie Ferguson

3^rd Sean Whitehouse

4^th Peter Wenborn

Under 13 5 Lap handicap

1^st Campbell Stewart

2^nd Elizabeth Stannard

3^rd Robert Stannard

4^th Liam Barber

B Grade 10 Lap handicap

1^st George Roberts

2^nd Barry Gilliland

3^rd Megan Blatchford

4^th Mike McMinn

A Grade 12 Lap handicap

1^st Sean Whitehouse

2^nd Jonty Hapeta

3^rd Lachie Ferguson

4^th Damien Lardner