Results

2012 Frank Papp Memorial Handicap - Somerset Dam

44 riders entered the 100km Division 1 race with 6 handicapped groups all leaving 6 minutes apart. I started

in what turned out to be the winning group, but as I only lasted 10km I can't give much of a race report sorry!

 

Full timing results as an Excel file (thanks to Richard and Angus for manning the iPads)

 

Lots more photos on our Facebook page (currently members only)

 

Division 1 Frank Papp Memorial (2 laps)

1st Jack McCarthy   2h37m42s

2nd Adam Robinson S/T

3rd Shane Wharton

4th Simone Grounds

Fastest Time Chris Williams 2h24m54s

Here's some shots of the winning sprint!

Divison 2 (1 lap)

1st  John Birtwhistle

2nd Michael Maguire (Fastest Time of 1h21m51s)

3rd Ron Young

4th  Alan Rielly

Ron Young and John Birtwhistle

Special thanks go to all our officials and volunteers for helping out and effectively giving up their entire day so we can all race. To Terry Bourne for the difficult job of handicapping everyone, to John Madigan for commissaire dutys, and all our other volunteers - (edit) Paul Dahl, Angus Eale, Darren Evans, Bruce Edge ,Bruce Gray, Cam Hill, Helen Young, Richard Brownhill, Gary Alcorn, Laurie Kelly and Phil Gibson. We were struggling to get enough rostered helpers, but a quick call for help meant we had more than enough.

1 Darren Condon HPRW

2 Jordan Kirby FFAST

3 Hadley Milligan UNI

4 Simon Meyer MBCC

1 Ian Collins FFAST

2 Darren Croad HPRW

3 James Jackson HPRW

4 George Southgate LIFECYCLE

1st Lady Hayley Jones Balmoral

1 Adam Pelzer MBCC

2 Gerard O’Brien HPRW

3 Paul Worroll HPRW

4 Nick Simonelli MBCC

1st Lady Melanie Parker Balmoral

1 Ted Alexander HPRW

2 Brad Tamer HPRW

3 Martin Wright HPRW

4 Scott Smith HPRW

1 Ric Svanberg HPRW

2 Louis Broadfoot HPRW

3 Andrea Alexander HPRW

4 Alex Dougall FFAST

This is how I saw it from the lead car. Soon after half way through the first lap after the turnaround, 2 riders got away over the hills on Powell Rd, getting up to 40 seconds ahead along Twin View Rd where there was a heavy and windy shower. 3km later it was down to 20 secs, and then by the turnaround at the end of lap one they had 10 seconds. Soon after the turnaround they were caught, the lead bunch now consisting of  around 12 riders.

The third group who left 4 minutes behind GO had caught the two leading groups and formed a strong group including  Paul Worrall and Brittany Dutton from the 2 min group. This group stayed together and looked like most were pulling turns. There were a few stragglers riding on their own and then 3 minutes behind was the 5th group (9 mins) and the combined chopping block and scratch group were 7 mins behind the leaders.

On the second lap there were a few more showers and windy conditions, at at the last turn around (46km mark) there were 2 riders 1m30 behind the lead pack of 12, then 8 riders mostly from the 9 minute group at 2 mins behind, a few solo riders or 2 together and then scratch/chopping block 5 minutes behind.

The first 4 all came from the strong group of 12, Paul and Brittany doing very well to finish strongly with them. The 9 minute group finished around 1m50s behind the winners with scratch arriving 3m14s with a fastest time by Gary Kristensen.

1 Howard Cameron (4 min group)

2 Jason Walters (4 min group)

3 Stephen Watson (4 min group)

4 Paul Worrall (2 min group)

First Lady Brittany Dutton (2 min group)

Fastest Time Gary Kristensen 1h39m50s

GO (15 min handicap)

Richard Herklots

Bruce Gray

Gail Singleton

Lisa Dineen

Steve Froome

Scott Smith

Brad Tamer

Stephen Hay

Tinelic Jepkemm

2 mins (13 min handicap)

Peter Allonby

Rob McConaghy

Graeme Woolnough

Paul Worrall

Peter Reggars

Andrew Charles

Jim Collins

Brittany Dutton

Phillipa Hendren

4 min (11 min handicap)

Howard Cameron

Stephen Watson

Ian Murdoch

Jason Walters

Bryan Ferris

Joseph Hughes

Kim Flesser

John Chapman

Tony Bolter

Trent Forrest

6 min (9 min handicap)

Brnley Abad

Shane Wharton

Andre Adins

Paul Brennan

Chris Print

Brian McCarthy

Brad Dutton

Donna Fyfe

9 mins (6 min handicap)

Paul Willett

Warren Forbes

Michael Archer

Francois Audibert

Lee Robson

Nathan Boschma

Brendan Smythe

James Jackson

Jack McCarthy

Scott Petterson

12 mins (3 min handicap)

Nigel Hardie

Joris Van Der Tang

Alex Lange

Steve Grieg

Alan Jones

Anthony Zahra

Chris Carrigan

Scratch 15 mins

Simon Meyer

Toby Hood

Gary Kristensen

Shane Hendren

John Murazak

1 Ted Alexander

2 Glenn Dexter

3 Lyn Bridge

Fastest Time Ted Alexander 1h00m32s

Bob McIntyre

Helen Young

John Birtwhistle

Vince Amos

Ric Svanberg

Lyn Bridge

Peter Alexander

Terahk Clements

Peter Campbell

Ron Young

Glenn Dexter

Martin Wright

Ted Alexander