News and Information
2013
For Week 10
16 Aug - 2013
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https://babici.cc/ Week 10 Bring it! Feature Race:
FAT-MANS • This week’s feature race will be the much anticipated Fat–Mans Wheel-race
• First Place: Your weight in $1 coins i.e. 110kg = $110 + Perpetual Fat-Mans Trophy
This week’s Races• Round 1 warm up Scratch
• Round 2 The Zerofive 1.5km Wheel race
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Round 3 Div 1 – 4 Italian Pursuit and Div 5= ½ field sprint
• Round 4 Group Handicaps • Round 5 Round 5 Combines + “CNSW Time Blaster” 8:37 for $300
Explain these races
Italian Pursuit- this team event combines riders of all standards to form two teams at opposite sides of the track. Team captains organise their team so as the slowest riders are at the front of the train. After the end of each lap, the leading rider pulls off completely, leaving the next to fight the wind. Therefore, the first rider has to do one lap, the second, two laps, and the last rider completes as many laps as in his team. Hence, the last rider typically has the best endurance. The pace of this race is continuously building and lead often changes hands between the opposing teams, until the final two riders are left to decide the race. If the handicapper does a good job this can be without a doubt one of the most exciting races as the excitement builds with the pace.
Video’s to watch
• Example Italian Pursuit : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyNGKZewm2c
• Example Italian Pursuit from 2nd last wheel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZt4GawuJV8
Poker Race- ran on the same rules as the Point'a'Lap race however, instead of earning points you earn cards. On the first lap the first rider across the line wins a card, on any additional point won you receive an extra card. The winner of the race is the rider who has the highest ranked card Ace Hearts being the highest and 2 of Spades the lowest. Don't worry you don't have to carry the cards with you, we keep them on the desk. 
Italian Pursuit Procedure • The Italian pursuits will be for div
4 to div 1• The teams will be allocated next to the sign on desk.
• After you sign on you will be allocated a team name (you can not choose your team)
• Make sure you know your team # name when signing on.
• In the event of uneven riders the 2nd lead rider of the smaller team will do two laps
• The team captain will be the rider highest on point-score
• It will be a fence start on the whistle
• The lead rider will do two laps, all other riders will do one lap.
• Members of the wining team receive 3 points
• Don’t forget to cheer on your team after you have finished your turn.
Italian Team# - Name - Captains • Team 1 = Froome = Gavin White
• Team 2 = Quintana = Ben Harvey
• Team 3 = Rodriguez = Brad Heap
• Team 4 = Contador = Jack Schwarze
• Team 5 = Kittel = Scott Mills
• Team 6 = Cavendish = Josh Cornish
• Team 7 = Sagen = David Browne
• Team 8 = Griepel = Alex Yallouris
• Reserve Team captain = next available highest on Point Score
• Team captains do not have to ride anchor
• First Race is off is Team Griepel (Yallouris) Vs Team Sagan (Browne)
The no catch rule. (Italian) • At RAW track we have a no catch rule in Italian Pursuits.
• That is that; no team is to close within 50m of the opposing team.
• Instead the lead rider should maintain a tempo equal to that of the other team @ a 50m gap
• This rule is void when we get to 4 riders per team remaining at this point a catch is allowed.
CNSW Time Blaster massive Jack pot
• This week is the third week for the “CNSW Time Blaster”
• The Time Blaster is worth $300
• The Time to beat this week is 8min 37 seconds
Jack Edwards World Champion 
Point Score info
Last week’s top scorers • Div 1 Orange Team riders 20 points
• Div 2 Orange Team riders 20 points
• Div 3 Orange Team riders 20 points
• Div 4 Orange Team riders 20 points
• Div 5 Orange Team riders 20 points
series • Div 1 Gavin White 132 points
• Div 2 Eric MacDonald 133 points
• Div 3 Kurt Allen 131 points
• Div 4 Nigel Apps 148 points
• Div 5 Broughton Caley 137points
Teams/Clubs Challenge
1 Lidcombe 2858
2 Dulwich Hill 2780
A message from LACC to DHBC Each week The Big friendly Vegan has been posting a cheeky gif on the DHBC forum
At RAW you will not be told what division you must rider • However you may be advised
• So in my most subtle way of advice!
• Well Done to James Orton who advanced up a grade and promptly place 4th in his first ever Div 3 race and was a member of the winning team orange. James is now ranked 2nd in div 3. Wow!
• Troy Martin, actually faked illness to avoid racing in Div 4
• To the rest who didn’t take my advice, seriously, how do you sleep at night?
