This week’s Races• Round 1 Warm up Scratch
• Round 2 no feature race this week!
• Round 3 Win’n’Out (max 15 up over 7 laps)
• Round 4 Madi-Leads + Madison (div 1) • Round 5 Combines
Explain these races Win’N’ Out This is the opposite of a Miss’N’Out race. After a designated number of laps a whistle is blown for the first sprint. The winner of the first sprint is deemed the winner of the race and allowed to carefully withdraw from the race. Each proceeding lap sprint will produce the consecutive places from 2nd to 4th. Tip if you go for a sprint make sure you win it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28iqHThZspM&feature=channel
Madilead- The pace in this race is set by a Madison team (see Madison). The bunch follows the Madison team for ??laps until, with 5 laps remaining the Madison leaders take off leaving the bunch to sought out the winner in scratch race style finish. The Idea of this race is to allow the lower grades to experience following a Madison change (which is a key skill in learning to ride a madison). The pace of this race can often change with the experienced leaders putting in a few hard attacks to stir up the bunch.
Madison- A high speed, two person continuous race relay. Think of tag team wrestling meets track cycling - while one partner is racing the other is resting at the top of the track. This race is named after Madison Square Garden in New York where the event was first held. Two man teams contest the event, which is typically an endurance event. Only one rider from each team is allowed in the race at a given time, meaning that teams must take it in turn each lap (or more) to have a rider in the race. Changeovers are quite dangerous, but impressive to watch when done well - one rider circles around waiting for his teammate, who joins hands and imparts his momentum to the slower rider. At RAW Track we usually ride this on a scratch race format reference www.cyclingnews.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XZ4_QbZJks&feature=channel
Div 1 Non-Madison Kierin style event. Is worth 2 and 1 point only! A nominated rider will lead out the sprint 2 laps from the finish. Lead rider is not allowed to accelerate once the lead out has commenced.
Point Score info
Last week’s top scorers • Div 1 Tim McMillan 16 points
• Div 2 Alan Townsend 18 points
• Div 3 Eric MacDonald 18 points
• Div 4 Sean Brunt 16 points
• Div 5 Broughton Caley 20 points
series • Div 1 Nick Yallouris 30 points
• Div 2 Elliot Stacey + Alan Townsend 29 points
• Div 3 Kurt Allan + Eric MacDonald 33 points
• Div 4 Sean Brunt 34 points
• Div 5 Broughton Caley 28 points
Teams/Clubs Challenge
1 Lidcombe 609
2 Dulwich Hill 515
3 Penrith 284
4 St George 204
5 Parramatta 170
6 Bicisport 167
7 Illawarra 156
8 Central Coast 147
9 Randwick Botany 104
10 Canberra 101
A message from LACC to DHBC 
Again in 2013- No series prize for winners of Div 5 • Div 5 was introduced to be a stepping stone to riding in a higher grade In the past, some riders have not progressed to a higher grade because they were highly ranked for the point series. Even though they had progressed in speed and ability.
• To return Div 5 to its intended purpose and encourage riders to step up, there will be no series prize for Div 5 in 2013 Riders will continue to score points in Div 5 and can take them up to Div 4 (as per RAW Track Constitution)
• As in previous years Trophies are still awarded to the top place getters, along with the season DVD, however they receive no money or tickets for the prize pool.
6 month Licence available • The Cycling Australia 6 month licences are available from July 1
• If you wish to join ATTA-nsw, they have a representative at RAW track that can assist you.
Should I go up a grade? • At RAW you will be never be told what grade you have to ride.
• However your peers may politely suggest you change grades.
• Added to this, I may offer some advice, in an attempt to pre-empt your peers.
• Division 4 and 5 over the past weeks has been anything but the slowest grades making it very difficult for the true Div 4 and 5 riders to get a respectable race.
• In the history of RAW, the “choose your own” grade policy has only been seriously rorted on three occasions, are you interested in being the fourth?
