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Our Sponsor, FRF Couriers
entered two teams in the Jayco Bay Crits. The Colnago Caravello team
which contested the main event and the FRF/Randwick Botany team which
contested the A grade support event. |
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The FRF Randwick Botany
Team from left Chris "Spongee" Jenkins, Dave Tracey, Josh Marden, Ben
Isaksen and Pat Naughton. |
The Colnago Caravello team
from left Jose Rodrigeuz, Jaaron Poad, Brett Lancaster, Graeme Brown and
Pete "The Machine" McDonald |
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Stage one and we found a
great vantage point, a pub right on the course. Frank Fortuna and I enjoy a
"frostie" whilst watching the racing, whilst Tanya and Pat enjoy a nice
meal. |
Talk about comfort and
close to the action. Here's a shot of Pat and Frank enjoying the
racing. There's Robbie McEwen racing past over Frank's left shoulder. |
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I scream out, "Go Machine"
and Pete flashes me a cheesy grin for the camera. Pete rode like a
machine over the whole five events and I think that he was the only one to
finish all five rounds for the Colnago Caravello team. |
Round 1 and Robbie McEwen
kept a close eye on Colnago Caravello's Jaaron Poad. Jaaron led out
the sprint in the end and McEwen came flying past to take round one victory
with Jaaron second. |
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Dave was looking strong in
the first race. Dave had a bit of trouble with a fall in round 2 and then a
gear cable broke in round 3. |
Ben Isaksen was really
motoring in round 1 but unfortunately 3 riders got away. The rest of the team
hadn't quite found their legs at this stage and couldn't do much to assist Ben. Ben settled in and took the bunch sprint for 4th place |
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Round 2 and we get a taste
of the lovely Geelong weather. Here's Josh, Spongee and Dave
negotiating a corner, the surface of which could best be described as "Black
Ice" |
Don't know how many riders
went down, Dave unfortunately being one of them. Fortunately he was not hurt
and was able to rejoin the race. |
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Round three was a hotdog
circuit with light gravel which kept washing out on the top of the bitumen
in one of the tight corners.
Needless to say it took it's toll with both Ben and Josh coming down.
Fortunately our resident Medico, RBCC's Tanya Newton was there to patch the
boys up. |
Both got back up quickly
with Ben taking 4th place and moving up to 3rd overall. The whole team was
pretty happy at the completion of round 3. |
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The Start of Stage 4 and
Ben knew he had a chance of overall victory. He was the absolute
picture of concentration and focus. I was his room mate so I knew that
he was getting plenty of sleep and was totally focused on doing well in the
series. |
Round 4 saw Ben shadowing
the Yellow Jersey and staying near the front. All the previous rounds
had been won by breakaways and we needed a bunch gallop for big Ben to show
his sprinting power. |
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Josh had a fabulous ride
in round 4. Here he keeps the pace high to try to stop any breaks
happening. The yellow jersey chases him while Ben sits in comfortably
further down the line. |
Bell lap and Josh
absolutely buried himself to pull Ben to the front of the peleton. You
know Josh is going 10/10ths when he has his head down. Two riders unfortunately got
away but Ben was able to take third place and held on to his third overall
placing. |
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Spongee was looking very
stylish taking the tight fast downhill left hander in round 3. |
Round 5 first lap and Pat
Naughton flys the RBCC/FRF colours by leading 100 plus A grade riders into
the first corner. |
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Ben in the thick of the
action in Round 5. Lots of breaks tried to get away but were gathered
back in. |
Spongee and Josh worked
fantastically for Ben in round 5 giving their all. Here Spongee leads
Ben around the bottom corner. |
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About 2 to go and Spongee
and Josh go to the front and bury themselves, swapping off turns to ensure
the pace is too high for any breaks to get away and ensuring a bunch sprint
for team mate Ben. Fabulous job guys. |
All goes to plan with Ben
blasting home to take first place in round 5. Above Ben rockets in to
take the checked flag. |
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Left, excellent results for
FRF/Randwick Botany team with Ben Isaksen taking first in round 5 and 2nd
overall in the final classification.
In the Colnago Caravello
team, Jaaron Poad was 9th and Peter McDonald 14th in the final
classification. Jaaron Poad got to wear the green jersey however
finished second overall in the sprint series to Mathew Rex.
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