Hellyer Velodrome Thursday Night Results

What a night for racing! Short sleeved weather and a strong wind to keep the riders honest. Thanks go out again to Joe Fineman for rounding up the Clif Bar Product and Peets certificates. Now that I have 5 weeks worth of prizes we know that we have Peets certificates for the first three riders in all three races and enough Clif Bar product for all riders. Thanks to Jen Coler for making the brownies! Enough for the top three places in each of the three groups. Thanks to Marc Franklin and Mike McDonald for flipping cards tonight. Thanks to Billy Innes for donating the quart of Bushmill Irish Whiskey. Thanks to Ben Jacques-Mayne for trading it for more Peets certificates because the whiskey ended up with the AMD-Discovery Channel team (how did that happen? read more below)

As always at the Hellyer Track juniors race for free! Two juniors and six women in total tonight with Jen Coler storming to 2nd in the Cs and Shelley Olds claiming 3rd in the Bs. Good news in that we have a volunteer promoter for August 30 while I am playing at Masters Nationals. So, we are good for every Thursday through September 27. That's 7 more weeks of Thursday Night Racing!

Miscellany- average miles per hour is not a good indicator of sprint speeds and lulls in the race, it is simply an average of the whole race. Duh. I tend to keep track of these things so that I know how we are doing on time. Thanks to everyone for coming out to race! Lastly, a green tool bag was left at the track and is in the container.

C Group Results- 11 starters, 70 laps in 37:00 for a rapid 23.6mph average

Highlights- Darryl Smith (ICCC), Jen Coler (Trumer Pils) and Tim Bisson (FFBC) were the class of the field as they sprinted for points, took laps and duked it out for the overall.

1st - 31 points- Darryl Smith (ICCC) - 5 victories
2nd - 12 points- Jen Coler (Trumer Pils)
3rd- 0 points- Ron Clementi (Summit Windows) 2 victories and then lost a lap right at the end of the race
Also- Mike McDonald (4 points)(Jaeger), Vance Sprock (5 points)(LGBRC), Beth Newell (3 points)(unattached), Jonathan Racine (2points)(SJBC), Clare Sprock (LGBRC), Ron Clementi (unattached), Sabine Dukes (Velobella-Kona). Taylor Meilahn (ICCC)

B Group Results- 12 starters, 70 laps in 34:00 for a quick 25.8mph average

Highlights- This was the race of the evening! With this rapid pace no one took a lap and 4 different riders took sprints so we had a close race right to the end. But, it was a bold move by Stanfords Brian Percival made a bold move with 15 laps to go and soloed away to victory. Very nice bit of riding there.

1st - 23 points- Brian Percival (Stanford) - 3 victories
2nd - 19 points- Andrew Nevitt (Safeway)- 2 victories
3rd- 13 points- Shelley Olds (Proman)- 1 victory
4th - 11 points- Blake Anton (Davis Bike Club)- 1 victory
5th - 5 points- Dan Adkins (Metromint)
6th - 4 points- Mark Patten (VOS)
7th - 1 point- Bob Parker (Alto Velo)- David Allbut (Team Bicycle Business)
8th- 1 point- Ken Sato (Santa Cruz)
Also- David Puglia (LGBRC), Sean Gabiorek (Team Tailwinds), Grant Foster (unattached), Kelly Silbenberg (Spine)

A Group Results- 12 starters, 100 laps in 48 minutes is a 26.1 mile per hour average

Highlights- Motor pacing with local professional and NRC points chaser Ben Jacques Maynes! Fun to watch, for sure! Painful for the riders, you bet! (repeat headline from last week)

1st - 41 points- Ben Jacques-Maynes (Priority Health)- 7 sprints
2nd - 20 points- Dave Bailey (AMD-Discovery Channel Masters)- 2 sprints
3rd - 19 points- Billy Innes (AMD-Discovery Channel Masters)
4th - 8 points- Rob Evans (BPG)
5th- 1 point- Sean McBride (BPG)
Also- Steve Reaney (12 points) (Giant Strawberry), Don Langley (7 points and 1 victory)(Morgan Stanley), Michael Hernandez (2 points)(Safeway), Rich Del Valle (Morgan Stanley), Dave Nelson (Lombardis), Keith Miller (Giant Strawberry), Giovanni Rey (BPG), and George Meilahn (ICCC)

See you next week! Larry Nolan, AMD-Discovery Channel Masters Cycling Team