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Results for 23rd November 2010

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

1st Campbell Stewart

2nd Kate Stewart

3rd Robert Stannard

4th Liam Barber

Under 17 5 Laps

1st Damien Lardner

2nd Jonty Hapeta

3rd George Roberts

4th James Hutton

A & B Grade 6 Laps

1st Sean Whitehouse

2nd Megan Blatchford

3rd Lachie Ferguson

4th 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

1st Liam Barber

2nd Kate Stewart

3rd Campbell Stewart

Under 17 3 Laps

1st Jonty Hapeta

2nd Damien Lardner

3rd George Roberts

4th Kelsi Eccles

A & B Grade 5 Laps

1st Sean Whitehouse

2nd Brent Zimmerman

3rd Megan Blatchford

4th Lachie Ferguson

1 Lap Handicap races

Under 15 girls

1st Kate Stewart

2nd Elizabeth Stannard

3rd Brittany Ingram

4th Ruby Perry

Under 15 boys

1st Robert Stannard

2nd Liam Barber

3rd Campbell Stewart

4th Takumi Clarke

Under 17

1st James Hutton

2nd Mike McMinn

3rd Kelsi Eccles

4th Catherine Young

A & B Grade

1st Cameron Gibbons

2nd Lachie Ferguson

3rd Sean Whitehouse

4th Peter Wenborn

Under 13 5 Lap handicap

1st Campbell Stewart

2nd Elizabeth Stannard

3rd Robert Stannard

4th Liam Barber

B Grade 10 Lap handicap

1st George Roberts

2nd Barry Gilliland

3rd Megan Blatchford

4th Mike McMinn

A Grade 12 Lap handicap

1st Sean Whitehouse

2nd Jonty Hapeta

3rd Lachie Ferguson

4th Damien Lardner