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| Anoushka and Luka setting a flying lap time on the tandem - in wet conditions. |
Finsbury Park Festival of Cycling – 12th June 2016
Cycling
Club Hackney Go-Ride Grass Track Racing
In spite of some truly awful weather in the
morning there was a good turnout for the grass track racing at the Finsbury
Park Festival of Cycling on Sunday. Well over 50 riders raced, many for the
first time.
The space available at Finsbury Park
provided a surprisingly technical course for a grass track - tight turns,
sloping straights and a bumpy back straight. This combined with a course that
started wet from the heavy rain and was dried through the day by a brisk
north-westerly wind, all made the flying lap and group races a challenging
prospect. This wasn’t a day for slick tyres or track bikes - as one rider found
to his cost crashing half way through his flying lap. Riders on knobbly-tyred
cyclo-cross or mountain bikes were at a distinct advantage.
The main focus was on a flying lap
competition, which was keenly contested, especially in the under 8 and under 12
age groups.
Some real grit was shown by the under 8s
with riders as young as 4 and 5 doing their flying laps in the wind and rain,
but the older riders in the group, Nico Coté (M) and Ella Shaw (F), took the Go
Ride honours.
In the under 12 flying lap, Cycling Club
Hackney riders Robin Steer (M) and Anoushka Minale (F) set the fastest times
with Eva Shard (F) and Louis Davis (M) winning the Go-Ride category. Anoushka
also managed to set the slowest time in this category riding a ski bike
borrowed from another festival stall. A borrowed tandem also allowed for a
brief tandem flying lap competition dominated by Anoushka.
Rudy Warren in the under 16s set the second
fastest lap of the day on a slick-tyred road bike which was only beaten at the
end of the day by Ben Shaw, who took advantage of a dried-out track and knobbly
tyres.
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| Start to handicap scratch race – with a strong wind blowing across the track |
As well as the flying laps, group races
were run including scratch and handicap sprints. The flying lap times were used
to set up a series of handicap sprints allowing riders in different age
categories to race against one another. The faster riders were started further
back and with the right handicap all riders should cross the line closely
together making for exciting finishes to races.
So what looked like it might be a washout
turned into a good day’s racing enjoyed by (nearly) all the riders. If you
enjoyed it and want more have a look at the Cycling Club
Hackney website for details of our Saturday morning child and youth
training sessions run from the Club HQ on the Nightingale Estate just off
Hackney Downs. If you go to school in Hackney there’s also the Young Hackney
Primary School Cycling League to get involved in through your school with
the final event coming up in July.
We
are very grateful for the prizes provided by:
The newly opened Yard Sale Pizza in Finsbury Park - https://www.facebook.com/yardsalepizza/
and
Blighty Coffee a local coffee and food
house on Blackstock Road https://www.facebook.com/BlightyCoffee/
Report - Ben Shaw.
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| Robbie not looking sure about things behind Luka |
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| Scratch race |
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| Award Ceremony! Riders receiving their medals |
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| Award Ceremony! Riders receiving their medals |
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| Award Ceremony! Riders receiving their medals |
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| Winners and their medals |
RESULTS
Under 8s Flying Lap
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Name
|
AGE
|
M/F
|
TIME
| |
Nico
|
Coté
|
7
|
M
|
00:45.0
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Ella
|
Shaw
|
7
|
F
|
00:46.1
|
Tatiana
|
Tucker
|
7
|
F
|
00:52.3
|
Archie
|
Whyte
|
7
|
M
|
00:53.9
|
Matthias
|
Schinkel
|
6
|
M
|
00:54.0
|
Zoe
|
Whyte
|
5
|
F
|
01:00.9
|
Laurie
|
Gregory
|
7
|
M
|
01:04.8
|
Leon
|
TC Edkins
|
5
|
M
|
01:05.4
|
Elliot
|
Pender
|
5
|
M
|
01:06.3
|
Poppy
|
Gregory
|
7
|
F
|
01:08.4
|
Zoe
|
Polit-Jones
|
7
|
F
|
01:15.7
|
Evan
|
Davies
|
4
|
M
|
01:16.7
|
Sofia
|
Hunt
|
6
|
F
|
01:17.3
|
Charlotte
|
Borgeaud
|
6
|
F
|
02:47.8
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Under 12s Flying Lap
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Name
|
AGE
|
M/F
|
TIME
| |
Robin
|
Steer (CCH)
|
10
|
M
|
00:30.4
|
Anoushka
|
Minale (CCH)
|
11
|
F
|
00:30.8
|
Eva
|
Chard
|
11
|
F
|
00:31.3
|
Elliot
|
Marsden (CCH)
|
10
|
M
|
00:32.7
|
Louis
|
Davis
|
11
|
M
|
00:33.5
|
Delilah
|
Stephens
|
11
|
F
|
00:34.6
|
Tom
|
Mead
|
9
|
M
|
00:36.2
|
Amy
|
Shaw
|
10
|
F
|
00:37.5
|
Ashley
|
Hunt
|
8
|
M
|
00:38.2
|
Archie
|
Linden
|
10
|
M
|
00:38.9
|
Louie
|
Burn
|
8
|
M
|
00:40.0
|
Max
|
De Souza-Brazil
|
9
|
M
|
00:42.9
|
Thomas
|
Schinkel
|
9
|
M
|
00:43.4
|
Nikola
|
Polit-Jones
|
10
|
F
|
00:44.6
|
Milla
|
Syslo
|
8
|
F
|
00:48.3
|
Olivia
|
Burn
|
10
|
F
|
00:50.8
|
Gwen
|
Winn
|
9
|
F
|
00:52.1
|
Evan
|
Campillo
|
10
|
M
|
00:53.4
|
Sabina
|
Coté
|
10
|
F
|
00:54.0
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Mickie
|
Borgeaud
|
8
|
M
|
01:01.5
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Grace
|
Pender
|
8
|
F
|
01:08.3
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Anoushka
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Minale (ski-bike)
|
11
|
F
|
01:53.4
|
Under 16s Flying Lap
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Name
|
AGE
|
M/F
|
TIME
| |
Rudy
|
Warren
|
12
|
M
|
00:27.8
|
Matthew
|
Beck
|
13
|
M
|
00:30.1
|
Luca
|
Minale
|
13
|
M
|
00:32.2
|
Nasiriyah
|
Hakim-Anderson
|
13
|
F
|
00:36.4
|
Ryan
|
Burke
|
14
|
M
|
01:06.2
|
Amanuel
|
Ressum
|
14
|
M
|
No Time Taken
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| Anoushka and Robin doing their flying lap on that tandem. |
Flying Lap Tandem
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Time
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Anoushka and Robin
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34.27
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Anoushka and Robbie De Monchaux-Irons
|
40.4
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Anoushka and Luca
|
41.89
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Prosper and Louis Watts
|
45.23
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Over 16s Flying Lap
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Name
|
AGE
|
M/F
|
TIME
| |
Ben
|
Shaw
|
16+
|
M
|
00:26.3
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Nick
|
Mead
|
16+
|
M
|
00:30.3
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Zeki
|
Ayken
|
16+
|
M
|
00:30.9
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Wesley
|
James
|
16+
|
M
|
00:33.6
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Stephen
|
De Souza
|
16+
|
M
|
00:35.0
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Jon
|
Winn
|
16+
|
M
|
00:35.6
|
Kate
|
?
|
?
|
F
|
00:40.2
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Paul
|
Pender
|
16+
|
M
|
00:41.1
|
Peter
|
Maas
|
16+
|
M
|
DNF
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