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