Results 2017

November 2017

Nov 26th 2017

The Colac Vets had a field of fourteen riders for their club race.

Riders were lucky with the weather after having rained all during the night.

Starting on wet roads the race ended in dry and warm conditions with little wind.

The field was split in to five groups with the five man scratch bunch giving a 29 minute start out to lone limit rider Sue Theodore.

The race turned out to be one of the closest in several weeks.

The second scratch four-minute trio took a wrong turn early in the race which possibly could have cost them the win.

With 8Km remaining the two second limit riders had caught the limit rider.

The back three bunches were still separated at this point.

With 6km to go the second scratch trio and the third scratch trio had come together with the scratchmen bearing down on them.

Turning into the home straight the field was with in a few hundred metres.

With 400 metres to go scratch had caught the combined second and third scratch riders.

But the two 16-minute riders managed to hold them off by just seven seconds with Noel Symons taking his second win for the year ahead of Tom McBroom.

Ralph Iselt just edged out Gavin O’Brien to take third place and fastest time.

Result: 49Km Club Race

Scratch

1 Ralph Iselt 3rd & Fastest Time

2 Gavin O’Brien 4th

3 Tony Prytz 6th

4 Damian Luppino 8th

5 Steve Hamling

4 Minutes

6 Heather Hamling 5th

7 Larry Nocera 9th

8 Mark Purdie 10th

7 Minutes

9 Rebecca Luppino 7th

10 Gerard Hickey

11 Peter Theodore

16 Minutes

12 Noel Symons 1st

13 Tom McBroom 2nd

29 Minutes

14 Sue Theodore

Nov 19th 2017

The Colac Vets had a field of fourteen riders for their club race.

Riders raced in warm sunny conditions with light winds.

With three of the usual scratchmen away, Gavin O’Brien was put off with four riders from second scratch to form the scratch bunch.

These five riders were chasing four minutes to the next bunch of four riders and 25 minutes to the two limit riders in Bernadette Rowbottom and Sue Theodore.

The four-minute bunch, after losing Peter Theodore, caught the two riders from the 11-minute bunch and Terry Robinson from the 20-minute mark.

With seven kilometres to go the two limit riders were caught by the four-minute group and co, with scratch hitting the lead shortly after.

Steve Hamling led the field around the last corner and for the next few hundred metres.

Then with 700 metres remaining Gavin O’Brien jumped away followed by Tony Prytz.

The inform O’Brien had enough left to hold off Prytz to take his second win in three weeks and his third win for the year as well as fastest time.

Arno van der Schans followed next to take third place.

Result: 51Km Club Race

Scratch

1 Gavin O’Brien 1st & Fastest Time

2 Tony Prytz 2nd

3 Arno van der Schans 3rd

4 Ralph Iselt 5th

5 Steve Hamling 6th

4 Minutes

6 Heather Hamling 4th

7 Larry Nocera 7th

8 Mark Purdie 10th

9 Peter Theodore

11 Minutes

10 Bruce Roberts 8th

11 Gary Legg 9th

20 Minutes

12 Terry Robinson

25 Minutes

13 Bernadette Rowbottom

14 Sue Theodore

Nov 12th 2017

The Colac Vets had a field of fifteen riders for their monthly medal.

Riders raced with the same south easterly winds as last week only stronger.

The middle and front marker bunches have been depleted over the last couple of weeks.

With ten riders making up the back two bunches and with the windy conditions the riders out in front were going to find it hard to keep the back markers away.

The second scratch bunch hit the lead with 16Km to go.

The scratch bunch then caught second scratch with 7Km to go.

At the bottom of Lineen’s hill with 2Km remaining Gavin O’Brien, who was having his first race from the scratch mark, was unlucky to drop his chain putting him out of contention.

A couple of hundred metres later Grant Oates attacked with Tony Luppino jumping across to his wheel.

These two cleared away with Luppino out sprinting Oates at the finish to take his fourth win and second monthly medal for the year.

David Lunn led the remaining riders in to take third place.

Result: 52Km Monthly Medal

Scratch

1 Tony Luppino 1st & Fastest Time

2 Grant Oates 2nd

3 David Lunn 3rd

4 Gavin O’Brien 9th

4 Minutes

5 Heather Hamling 4th

6 Ralph Iselt 5th

7 Tony Prytz 6th

8 Arno van der Schans 7th

9 Steve Hamling 8th

10 Larry Nocera

10 Minutes

11 Rebecca Luppino 10th

12 Gerard Hickey

13 Gary Legg

23 Minutes

14 Terry Robinson

29 Minutes

15 Des Read

Nov 5th 2017

The Colac Vets had a field of seventeen riders split into six groups for their club race.

Riders raced with reasonably strong south easterly winds.

The middle and front markers were made up of only five riders from three bunches.

With twelve riders making up the back three bunches.

The five riders from the 4-minute bunch caught the four riders from the 6-minute bunch at the 32Km mark.

This combined group went on to reel in the middle and front markers.

Coming around the last corner in to Factory Road with less than 2Km to go, Tony Prytz made what looked like a winning break.

But Arno van der Schans started the chase followed by Gavin O’Brien and Simon Redford.

O’Brien was rewarded for a strong ride to take his second win for the year and may have booked himself a spot in the scratch bunch.

Redford took second place with Prytz hanging on for third place.

The three scratchmen came in one and a half minutes behind the winner with Tony Luppino taking fastest time over David Lunn and Grant Oates.

Last week Geelong held their open race with only three Colac riders taking part.

Larry Nocera, Gavin O’Brien and Arno van der Schans finished in eighth, eleventh and fourteenth place respectively in a field of 98 riders.

Result: 49Km Club Race

Scratch

1 Tony Luppino Fastest Time

2 David Lunn

3 Grant Oates

4 Minutes

4 Gavin O’Brien 1st

5 Heather Hamling 6th

6 Steve Hamling 7th

7 Ralph Iselt

8 Damian Luppino

6 Minutes

9 Simon Redford 2nd

10 Tony Prytz 3rd

11 Arno van der Schans 4th

12 Larry Nocera 10th

10 Minutes

13 Rebecca Luppino 5th

14 Gerard Hickey 9th

15 Minutes

15 Bruce Roberts 8th

16 Gary Legg

27 Minutes

17 Des Read

October 2017

Oct 22nd 2017

The Colac Vets had a field of fifteen riders split into five groups for their club race.

Lone limit rider Bernadette Rowbottom went one place better from last week to take the win riding off the 30-minute mark.

Rowbottom finished 53 seconds ahead of the four riders from the 13-minute bunch.

Gerard Hickey led this group in to take second ahead of Peter Theodore in third place.

The 5-minute foursome were a few minutes further back with Arno van der Schans leading in this bunch.

The scratch duo caught the second scratch 3-minute trio to come in another 2 minutes back with David Lunn leading in Grant Oates to take fastest time.

There will be no club race this week with Geelong hosting their open at Paraparap.

Result: 46Km Club Race

Scratch

1 David Lunn 10th & Fastest Time

2 Grant Oates

3 Minutes

3 Heather Hamling

4 Steve Hamling

5 Damian Luppino

5 Minutes

6 Arno van der Schans 6th

7 Gavin O’Brien 7th

8 Larry Nocera 8th

9 Mark Purdie 9th

13 Minutes

10 Gerard Hickey 2nd

11 Peter Theodore 3rd

12 Gary Legg 4th

13 Len Murfitt 5th

14 Bruce Roberts

30 Minutes

15 Bernadette Rowbottom 1st

Oct 15th 2017

The Colac Vets had a choice of two races over the weekend.

On Saturday six Colac members were among a field of 102 riders competing in the Camperdown to Warrnambool 70Km Veterans race.

Two riders from the front limit bunch held off the rest of the field.

Colac’s David Coventry riding off the 11-minute mark, which was bunch five, led a big group of riders in next to take third place and also was the first rider in his bunch.

In Sunday’s race a field of eighteen riders tuned up, including three who had raced the day before, as well as Simon Redford, who made a return having last raced with the Vets five years ago.

Riders raced in mild conditions with a little bit of wind.

The two limit riders had a huge 25-minute head start on the next bunch of four riders, which proved to be too much in the good conditions, with them going on to finish with four and half minutes to spare.

Des Read claimed his second win for the year ahead of Bernadette Rowbottom.

Meanwhile the next four bunches had a close finish.

The 3.30-minute trio had caught the 6.30-minute trio which then caught the 11-minute foursome in the last few hundred metres of the race.

These three bunches just held off the five riders from the 1.30-minute bunch as they crossed the finish line.

Larry Nocera won the bunch sprint to fill third place.

Tony Luppino had another tough day riding solo off the scratch mark and will be looking forward to getting some co-markers back in the coming weeks.

Ralph Iselt took fastest time from the second scratch mark.

Result: 52Km Monthly Medal

Scratch

1 Tony Luppino

1 Minute 30 Seconds

2 Ralph Iselt Fastest Time

3 Gavin O’Brien

4 Damian Luppino

5 Heather Hamling

6 Steve Hamling

3 Minutes 30 Seconds

7 Arno van der Schans 4th

8 Simon Redford 7th

9 Tony Prytz 8th

6 Minutes 30 Seconds

10 Larry Nocera 3rd

11 Rebecca Luppino 6th

12 Peter Theodore

11 Minutes

13 Paul Millar 5th

14 Gerard Hickey 9th

15 Bruce Roberts 10th

16 Gary Legg

36 Minutes

17 Des Read 1st

18 Bernadette Rowbottom 2nd

Oct 8th 2017

The Colac Vets had a field of seventeen riders for their club race.

Riders competed in warm conditions with strong winds.

The club has picked up three new riders in the last two weeks who have all previously raced with the Vets before.

With Bernadette Rowbottom and Tony Prytz last competing over five years ago and Larry Nocera having a short stint racing over ten years ago.

The field was split in to six groups with lone scratchman Tony Luppino having to chase a 2-minute gap to a bunch of five riders and 32 minutes out to the two limit riders.

Three of the second scratch bunch riders must have forced the pace having lost their other two co-markers along the way as well as taking time from scratchman Tony Luppino.

Meanwhile the 9-minute bunch had caught the 14-minute bunch, which then caught the limit riders with just 3km to go.

They were then caught in the home straight by the remaining second and third scratch riders a few hundred metres from the finish.

But 9-minute rider Peter Theodore up staged the second and third scratch riders to take his fourth win for the year.

David Coventry was second also taking fastest time with Gavin O’Brien in third place.

Result: 46Km Club Race

Scratch

1 Tony Luppino

2 Minutes

2 David Coventry 2nd & Fastest time

3 Heather Hamling 6th

4 Steve Hamling 8th

5 Damian Luppino

6 Arno van der Schans

5 Minutes

7 Gavin O’Brien 3rd

8 Rebecca Luppino

9 Larry Nocera

9 Minutes

10 Peter Theodore 1st

11 Gerard Hickey 5th

12 Tony Prytz 7th

14 minutes

13 Bruce Roberts 4th

14 Paul Millar

15 Tom McBroom

32 Minutes

16 Des Read 9th

17 Bernadette Rowbottom 10th

Oct 1st 2017

The Colac Vets had a field of 45 riders for one of their feature races of the year, the Red Rock Classic.

Riders were competing to finish in the first three places in each of the six groups as well as finishing first overall to have their name put on the Red Rock trophy.

Riders raced with drizzling rain and moderate winds over the four-lap course.

The 17-minute bunch reeled in the front markers and went on to finish up the climb to Red Rock with the combined 8 and 11-minute bunches bearing down on them.

Two riders fought out the finish with Warrnambool’s Peter Fitzgerald holding off Geelong’s Darren Williams to take the win with Warrnambool’s Geoff McLaren back in third place.

Gerard Hickey, Peter Theodore and Bruce Roberts were Colac’s best place finishers coming in sixth, seventh and ninth place respectively.

Colac’s Grant Oates easily beat his co scratchmen up the 1Km climb to the top of Red Rock to take fastest time.

Result: 54Km Red Rock Classic

First: Peter Fitzgerald (17.00) Warrnambool

Second: Darren Williams (17.00) Geelong

Third: Geoff McLaren (17.00) Warrnambool

Fourth: Vic Mason (17.00) Geelong

Fifth: Natasha Cross (17.00) Warrnambool

Sixth: Gerard Hickey (17.00) Colac

Seventh: Peter Theodore (17.00) Colac

Eighth: Brent Rantall (8.00) Warrnambool

Ninth: Bruce Roberts (25.00) Colac

Tenth: Brett Worrall (11.00) Warrnambool

Fastest Time: Grant Oates (scratch) Colac


				RED ROCK CLASSIC
				1ST OCTOBER 2017
				COLAC & GEELONG & WARRNAMBOOL
				53.6KM 4 LAP CIRCUIT

	SCRATCH 10.30am		40 MINUTES			17 MINUTES 10.13am		23 MINUTES

1ST	1	GRANT OATES	C	29TH & F/T	1ST	35	PETER FITZGERALD	W	1ST
2ND	2	ANDREW GOODWIN	G	32ND	2ND	36	DARREN WILLIAMS	G	2ND
3RD	3	TONY MIRABELLA	EUR	33RD	3RD	37	GEOFF McLAREN	W	3RD
	4	ROBBIE SOUTHERN	G	34TH		38	VIC MASON	G	4TH
	5	DAVID NEWETT	G	36TH		39	NATASHA CROSS	W	5TH
	6	TIM BENNETT	G	38TH		40	GERARD HICKEY	C	6TH
	7	TONY LUPPINO	C	DNS		41	PETER THEODORE	C	7TH
						42	PETER WYNNE	G
						43	ROBERT BOYDLE	W	DNS
	5 MINUTES 10.25am		35 MINUTES

1ST	8	CHRIS CARR	W	23RD
2ND	9	NICK BROWN	G	24TH		25 MINUTES 10.05am		15 MINUTES
3RD	10	DAVID COVENTRY	C	26TH
	11	CRAIG TAYLOR	W	28TH	1ST	44	BRUCE ROBERTS	C	9TH
	12	PAUL RETTKE	G	30TH	2ND	45	JENNY DENOUDEN	G	41ST
	13	ANDREW POWNCEBY	C	31ST		46	ROSS WEST	G	43RD
						47	BARRY WURLOD	W	44TH

	8 MINUTES 10.22am		32 MINUTES

1ST	14	BRENT RANTALL	W	8TH		40 MINUTES 9.50am		LIMIT
2ND	15	NIGEL PEARSON	G	11TH
3RD	16	DAMIAN LUPPINO	C	13TH	3RD	48	DES READ	C	42ND
	17	HEATHER HAMLING	C	14TH
	18	STEVE HAMLING	C	17TH
	19	MATT HAND	W	20TH
	20	KANE AIREY	G	25TH			WINNERS TIME 1:59:55
	21	ARNO van der SCHANS	C	37TH			NETT 1:36:55
	22	LEIGH McCARTHY	W	40TH			AVE SPEED 33.18KM/H
	23	JOHN PEARSON	W	DNS
							SCRATCH TIME 2:04:15
							NETT 1:24:15
	11 MINUTES 10.19am		29 MINUTES				AVE SPEED 38.17KM/H

1ST	24	BRETT WORRALL	W	10TH
2ND	25	GAVIN O'BRIEN	C	12TH
3RD	26	EDDY ZIEDAITIS	G	15TH
	27	CHRIS FENECH	G	16TH
	28	MANDY HOSKING	G	18TH
	29	REBECCA LUPPINO	C	19TH
	30	PETER HUNT	G	21ST
	31	LARRY NOCERA	C	22ND
	32	LAURIE PALTRIDGE	W	27TH
	33	CAMPBELL THOMPSON	W	35TH
	34	MATT PARKS	W	39TH