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A big thank you to Keith and Sherri for organising. Was a very tight schedule to fit 3 events in the limited time we had on the track, and then a 20min delay as the heavens opened, so well done!
      Was great to see Miles's new Quattro for the first time. Slower race looked like fun towards the end of the race a peleton of about ten riders built up. Got stuck on the end of the faster race with Stuart to make up the numbers. Never been lapped so many times by so many riders. Good to see such a strong field of fast riders. Every time Mike B went passed he seemed to be followed by a yellow Ford Anglia?.
      The devil went into confusion towards the end when Andrew S didn't realise he was last man and carried on racing for a few laps, but it all worked out in the end.
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Originally posted by Wyndrake Wyndrake wrote:

As I'll be in France rather tha Reading on the 18th, I would appreciate any feedback on whether visitors (Players or Spectators) turn up as a result of press articles placed this week and flyers in Colleges.....

Thanks,

Alan B.
 
There was a lot of interest at the start from the youths that had been racing at the track in the morning and a few of them hung around for a while to view the array of machinery. The viewing stand was pretty full also but was mostly friends and family sheltering from the rain. But I'm sure your efforts will pay dividends in the end.
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Yes once again many thanks to Sherri and Keith for being selfless and organising for us all whilst not getting the chance to play out themselves.
 
I just have to hope the searing pain in my right calf goes down in time for Pennine X mountain bike marathon in 2 weeks time.
 
Hope to see you all at Hog Hill and apologies for dashing off so quickly but family commitments elsewhere meant I was pushing it on time.
 
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Firstly, thanks to everyone who came along, especially those who helped out. Despite a drenching towards the end of the second race of the second round (at least the spectators stayed dry in the stadium!) all went reasonably to plan.

 

In the absense of the new timing system, the old system was user - thanks to all the lap counters & Sherri! Some of the races were shortened to make this easier, and the results entered manually into the race spreadsheet/software.

 

After much perseverance with the race sortware (including restraining myself from going to the discus part of the athlettics track to attempt a record on throwing a laptop!) and help from Kevin, Andrew and Sherri, the proposed results are now ready. I’m getting a bit of ear-ache from Sherri about the length of time this is taking, so I’ve not been able to confirm rider numbers and classes – let me know if there is anything a-miss.

 

The Flying Lap:
 
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. . . and both races in round 2:
 
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. . . and last but not least, the devil. Note that the time is approximate - the key part is the number of laps and the finish order for the top 3 riders:
 
 
Comments, suggestions, corrections and bribes accepted in the normal manner!!!
 
(and no, I don't have a spelling checker on this laptop!)
 


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Many thanks Keith! Clap
 
Only thing that leaps out is that Sarah was fully faired and so not Sports, Street, or Part Faired, and Derek rode her bike for the 30 minute race, also fully faired... I think he was on the Hurricane for the other two rounds, just to add to the confusion...
 
 

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Also Miles wasn't riding a Quest... Although classes would be the same...

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Originally posted by AlanGoodman AlanGoodman wrote:

  Derek rode [Sarah's] bike for the 30 minute race, also fully faired... I think he was on the Hurricane for the other two rounds, just to add to the confusion... 
 
The ruling on this is that, if you ride machines of more than one class within the same race meeting, your class for the whole meeting is deemed to be that of the "fastest" machine (in other words, the one in the highest in the hierarchy of classes).  Therefore, if Derek rode an Open-class machine in the 30-min race, his class for the entire meeting is Open.
 
This isn't to penalise anyone who uses more than one machine, but simply to keep the job of allocating points feasible!
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Originally posted by AlanGoodman AlanGoodman wrote:

Also Miles wasn't riding a Quest... Although classes would be the same...
err not so! No points in "M class" I'm afraid, only O and MF.... 
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