THANK YOU:

Commissaires John Buckton & Richard Jenkins.

Thanks to  Bob Bykerk  & Sue Shavikin who assisted Joanne Buckton at the registration desk.

Thanks also to our safety marshals Simon Steel & Nick Triant.  Thanks to Leeann Emery for being our First Aid Officer.  Thanks also to Rocky Fortuna and Richard Jenkins who did the track setup.  Thanks to Anna Fortuna who manned the canteen.

CLUB SPONSORS (see logos right)

Randwick Botany Cycling Club is proudly sponsored by FRF Couriers. FRF Sports is the distributor of products including BH bicycles, Argon 18 bicycles,  Cinelli bicycle accessories, Colnago bicycles & accessories, 3T cycling assessories, Vittoria shoes and Speedplay pedals.  Bike Bug carries all our major sponsors bikes and products such as Colnago, Cinelli and Argon 18.  Bike Bug is offering all Randwick Botany members a 15% discount off parts and accessories.  Go to cyclebits.com for all your cycling consumable needs like tyres, tubes, bar tape, etc, etc.  Order online from an Australian company, and have your cyclebits arrive at your door a day or two later Long term RBCC sponosr DS Labels – Marrackville. Sponsors of our club jersey include Carroll & O'Dea Lawyers,  Tenpoint, Vantage Freight, Sydney Morning Herald.

REPORT

Without Peter McDonald & Robbie Cater chasing, A grade was a little more relaxed this week.  Where was Peter?  Well he was away at the Australian Cycling Grand Prix in Ballarat.  Congratulations by the way Peter for taking out Stage 2.  Without the "Big Guns" the boys set a very leisurely pace and in fact B grade was reeling them in.  Then Hendrik Van Calcar had a big dig and they all had to up the work rate to get Hendrik back.  Hendrik left a little in the tank however and launched off the front again on the bell lap.  All the sprinters looked at each other not willing to use the energy to chase him down and more concerned about sprinting off for second place.

Hendrik was able to maintain the gap and take the victory whilst Matty Lucas and Jules Galli battled it out for the minor placings whilst Frank Fortuna took 4th place.

An amazing effort by Frank as he is getting pretty old and hard of hearing.

Got to question this FRF sponsorship thing.  We are going to have to reconsider this sponsorship deal if Frank wants to keep grabbing back the big bucks every week !!  Above, he proudly shows off his winnings.

Just for something different we let Robbie Cater chase B grade from 2 mins behind this week.  He put the fear of God into them so much so, that they were doing low 3 min laps for the early part of the race and ended up pulling back about 30 seconds on the A grade bunch.  Robbie cracked about half way across to them and I must apologise to Robbie as he seemed to crack right after I told him that he was still 1 min 15 behind.  As soon as Robbie became a spectator though B grade put the brakes on and settled back to 3 min 20 second  laps.  A grade started going away again and in the end the average lap time of both bunches was about the same.  The big news was that Andy Matthews is BACK !!!

Andy has returned to racing after a lengthy time off the bike and has been steadily climbing his way back up through the grades, starting back in D, then C and now finally B Grade where he was a couple of years ago.  Andy has always been a great sprinter and now that he has a bit of fitness back was able to grab a B grade victory yesterday.  He looked pretty happy with the result.

Dave "Knuckles" Crampton looked pretty happy with himself also as he crossed the line LAST in B grade.

E Grade sprint and Camille Reed takes it out. yet again.  Good work Camille.	Matty Hynes has been watching Rocky eat.  He's getting almost as scary !!

START TIMES

As we are outside daylight saving, racing times are now:

Juniors start at 12.30pm. Seniors D, E, & F grades will start at 2pm and A, B & C grades will start at 3pm.

RACING SHEDULE

Scratch races for A, B, C D & E grades. An F grade will be conducted if sufficient numbers in attendance.

For more information please contact the club secretary Joanne Buckton on 02 9315 7801 or email: secretary@randwickbotanycc.com

Web page layout & editing by: John Buckton

Photos by: Rocky Fortuna

Report by John Buckton

Contact:
John:   webmaster@randwickbotanycc.com