THANK YOU:

Commissaire John Buckton. Thanks to assistant Commissaires Joanne Buckton.  Thanks to our safety marshals Emilio Pannaci & Greg Patterson. Thanks to Matt Hynes for deploying and retrieving all the safety equipment. 

Thanks to Joanne Buckton & Richard Jenkins for assisting on the registration table.  Thanks to Anna Fortuna for manning the canteen.  Thanks to David of St John Ambulance for being our First Aid Officer.  Thanks to Rocky Fortuna  for being club photographer.

CLUB SPONSORS (see logos right)

Randwick Botany Cycling Club is proudly sponsored by FRF Couriers, parent company of Excelpro.  Excelpro 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.  Tony "the 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

Well with our top A grader all still "shot to pieces" from last weeks grueling Sydney to Camden, the A open field was pretty well bare and so all of A grade were started together this week.

In particularly windy conditions, It wasn't long (in fact only a couple of laps) before I had more helpers than I knew what to do with.

Young Richard Lang just kept attacking and stretching out the A grade field.

But Tony "The Bug" Corrigan would have nothing of it and stuck to Lang like glue.

In the end it was down to two in the sprint when Matt Lucas and Richard Lang went head to head. Matty unable to come over Richard, sits up and cruises in for second.

	A grade about to start and Sean O'Neil looked pretty confident.  In fact Sean had a brillaintt ride attacking off the front and chasing down breaks coming home with a well deserved 3rd place.
	Sean Bloch looks very fit at the moment.  Sean is a sensational sprinter and many would be unaware of Sean's heritage.  Sean represented South Africa in the Barcelona Olympics and in his hey day was a fabulous Kilo rider on the track.  The experience and the great "Kick" still very evident today
	Sean "puts the hammer down" just enough to blast off the rest of the field and then shut off crusing in to take first place.  Jason Webb certainly had the right wheel and followed him home for a fine second place.
	Jules Galli drives the B grade bunch down the start/finish striaght.  Jules, not long to cycling has benefited greatly from his training rides with Rocky and I.  Jules had a fine ride and was awarded with third place.
	Dulwich Hill's Keiran Laddy drives the C grade bunch down the start finish striaght.
	C sprint (photo courtesy of Steven Foster), and Tim Kerle just edges out Jake Magee. I reckon it could be a little different if Jake were on his other bike.
	D grade on the start line and Matty Hynes looks extremely confident. In the end though it was Mark Strathern who rode of the front of D grade and just kept going.
	Talking about riding away.  Leanne Emery did just that in E grade and was never caught.
	E & F grades on the start line.
	F action and big John Siounis does a turn.  Joe Gatt, eventual winner looked extremely confident, so much so that he raced in his yellow jersey.
See All Rocky's photos here	See Steve Foster's photos here

PRIZE MONEY

Handicap winner receiving $150.  A grade winner on normal day is $120 and we now have a first A club prize of $50.

START TIMES

Randwick Botany Cycling Club conducts racing at Heffron Park, Maroubra NSW each Saturday throughout the year. 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

A handicap race for A B & C grades will be conducted on the first Saturday of every month.  Second,  fourth & fifth Saturdays will be normal scratch races.  On the Third Saturday of every month racing will be longer and conducted in reverse direction.  A grade 25 laps (50 kilometres), B grade 23 laps and C grade 20 laps.  D, E & F will be normal distance

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:
Tony:  communications@randwickbotanycc.com

John:   webmaster@randwickbotanycc.com