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SENIORS
A Grade,
20km
1 Peter McDonald (Caravello)
2 Josh Marden (Randwick
Botany/FRF Couriers)
3 Scott Callum (Eastern
Suburbs)
B Grade, 20km
1 Stuart Ratcliff (North Sydney)
2 Luke Davison (Randwick Botany/FRF
Couriers)
3 Ken Johnston (Hunter District)
C Grade, 16km
1 Matthew Cordery (Southern
Off Road)
2 Chris Wright (Sydney)
3 Peter O'Connor (Eastern
Suburbs)
D Grade, 20km
1 Felix Tucci (Waratah
Veterans)
2 Jason Douglas (Randwick
Botany/FRF Couriers)
3 James Tan (Parramatta)
E Grade, 16km
1 Leeann Emery (Randwick
Botany/FRF Couriers)
2 Nick Bregolin (Lidcombe
Auburn)
3 Grant Roe (Randwick
Botany/FRF Couriers)
JUNIORS
Juniors results
click here
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THANK YOU:
Thanks to Commissaire John Buckton.
Thanks to our marshal Dave Birss and Alan Cohen. Thanks to
Dale Rockell and Rocky Fortuna for
assisting in the deployment and retrieval of all the safety
equipment. Thanks to Anna Fortuna for running the canteen.
Thanks to Lee Anne Emery for being our First Aid Officer.
CLUB SPONSORS
Randwick Botany Cycling Club is proudly
sponsored by FRF Couriers, parent company
of Excelpro.
Excelpro is the distributor of products
including Argon 18 bicycles, Colnago bicycles,
3T cycling assessories, Parentini
clothing and Speedplay pedals. Other sponsors
include Carroll & O'Dea
Lawyers, Tenpoint,
Vantage
Freight, Sydney
Morning Herald,
Cheeky Monkey Cycle Company Clovelly Road Centennial
Park, DS Labels – Marrackville.
REPORT
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This week we were greeted with a "crater" in the centre of the
track near the first corner measuring about 1.5 metres wide
and a half metre deep. As you may recall recently we had to
cancel racing because of a blocked sewer main which had
deposited a pond of stinking sewerage about 150mm deep in
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Well just
when we thought we had seen everything we were confronted with
"The Hole". It would not have shocked me if the infant
Superman had crawled out of it from his crashed Krypton
spacecraft but no, a little investigation and I found out that
it was apparently caused by a burst reticulated bore water
main.
Thankfully, with a bit of constructive barricade placement we
were able to ensure a safe passage past the hole with about 3
metres of useable track. I asked Frank Conceicao for his
feelings in respect of Tues night racing to which he
replied, "Are you blokes wimps or something. Over in
Belgium they race on cobblestones and the track is only 2
metres wide." I guess that meant that Tuesday night
racing was on as we now know that it certainly was Guys and girls.
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Well this week we did have a
photographer, no other than Chris "Brutus" Reynolds and he
seemed to get a lot of shots of his hero and mentor. It's
not hard to see that Rocky has been nominated on the
forthcoming AGM. He was out earning brownie points and
trying to impress everyone |
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Here he is out walking the
track about 1/2 hr before racing blowing all the debris off.
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No sooner did racing start that we
became aware of an irate resident who was complaining of
some maniac who was breaking branches off council's trees in
the park. Rocky the diplomat was over there calming
him down and demonstrating his diplomacy skills (more
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Racing started at 2pm for D & E
grades and although overcast the rain held off. Left
Grant Row takes the E grade bunch through the Squircle. |
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D grade action and Felix Tucci, drives
the break-away. These three won by a country mile and
their exceptional ride was honoured with a promotion to C
grade for next week. |
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By the time we started A, B & C grades
at 3pm the skies had opened up. Race distances were
cut down but Pete "The Machine" Mcdonald still managed to
win by his usual margin in the wet conditions |
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Had to wait a little while for the
second place A grade sprint but it was our own Josh Marden
who took it out with Scotty Callum of Easts who rode a
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MORE INFORMATION
Randwick Botany Cycling Club conducts
racing at Heffron Park, Maroubra NSW each Saturday throughout the
year. Seniors D & E Grade start at 2.00pm
and A, B & C grade at 3pm and Juniors 4pm. For more
information please contact the club secretary Helen Vella on 02 9667
3307 or
email:
secretary@randwickbotanycc.com
Web page layout & editing by: John Buckton
Podium Photos by John Buckton.
Report by John Buckton
Contact:
Tony:
communications@randwickbotanycc.com
John:
webmaster@randwickbotanycc.com
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