11/08/2007 ROB VERNON MEMORIAL 112K 143 ENTRANTS 123 RIDERS
- Scratch: David Pell, Mark O’Brien, Sean Finning, Matthew Chessum, Shaun McCarthy,Damien Turner, Murray Spink, Daniel Braunsteins, Peter Barnett,Trent Stevenson, David Tozer, Cameron Carlyle,Brendan Rowbotham,Alex Machin, Jacob Lea, Chris Steffanoni, Mark Hooper, JoshGundry
DNS Brendon Sharratt, Kyle Marwood - 6 min: Ian Blackie, Ron Burgess, Jamie Crass, Matt Davis, Travis Edwards, Wayne Evans, Jamie Goddard, Stuart Grimsey, Sebastian Guiney, Todd Huggard, Sean Hurley, Ray Jarratt, Peter Johnstone, Christian McDonald, Stuart Payne, Andrew Weightman, Cam Winton
DNS Daniel Bellis, Brad Clark, Silas Fisher, Edward Vawdrey - 11 min: Alan Adams, Tim Bennett, Ian Boyd, Daniel Doherty, Joel Fahy, Anthony Fitzpatrick, Mark Flood, Shane Freer, Lewis Fulcher, Trevor Griffiths, Stephen Hickey, Daniel Hull, Shayne Kirby, John Macague, Andrew McKellar, James Mowatt, Craig Robertson, Rudolf Schmidt, Kevin Simmons, Terry Stacey, Jo Stoltz, Alister Stuart, Brad Thomas, Reece Van Beek, Ewin Williams DNS Ken Ford, Kathy Watt, Leigh Westcott
- 15 min: Luigi Abbisogni, Chris Allemand, Rowan Birch, Steve Cunneen, Dave Fairburn, Glen Grebsa, Russell Hunt, Andrew Hutcheson, Luke Jones, Scott Keating, Luke Knox, Brett Loney, Shane Lowe, Damien McDowell, Leigh Murphy, William Murray, Simon Pettit, Ryan Pontelandolfo, Sean Pontelandolfo, Lachlan Ritchie, Darren Roberts, Brendan Sait, Gary Simondson, Neale Sturt
DNS Shane Edwards, Conrad Exton, Peter O’Donnell, Timothy White,Cam Winn - 19 min: Jess Berry, Philip Bramich, Paul Carnibella, Gordon Donaldson, Paul Evans, Tim Farley, Nathan Gardiner, Cameron Gillies, Justin Leske, John Marcan, Adam Nicolson, Warren Osborne, Katherine O’Shea, Gavin Rowbottom, Troy Sait, Darren Sayers, Noel Sens, Philip Tehan, Shane Thompson, Jayden Van Dort, Jo Wall
DNS Lisa Friend, Wayne Gebert, Andrew McDowall, Zvonko Siklic - 26 min: Radele Berriman, Leila Bunnett, Paul Dynon, Adele Garwood, Michael Guiney, Jodie Johns, Glen Kettle, William Kettle, Gregory Lane, Colby Madill, Cindy Magro, Dave Mannix, Angela McClure,Ric McIntosh, Robert Pagey, Darren Pearce, Ray Rhodes, Mark Williams
DNS Lorraine Meinke, Lawrence Naughton
Placings
1ST Peter Johnstone ( 6 ) 2:40:55
2nd & F/T Dave Pell (scr)
3rd Shaun McCarthy (scr)
4th Darren Roberts (15)
5th Matt Davis (scr)
6th Mark Hooper (scr)
7th Scott Keating (15)
8th Craig Robertson (11)
9th Lewis Fulcher (11)
10th Murray Spink (scr)
1st unplaced female Leila Bunnett
1st unplaced Bendigo rider John Macague
The race started in mild conditions with a fresh South Easterley breeze. It was only a question of how soon scratch would close it down .That is, until Elphinstone. As the bunches cleared the 3 tier hill they hit the wind which soon freshened wonderfully for a lovely ride home.
The gap from limit to scratch, after Metcalfe, stopped closing & a real contest developed. With scratch not under 60 km/h through the Eppalock hills the gap was under 2 min at the red brick church, with a headwind. 5 k’s to go the race was over with just over 20 survivors hitting the line in the sprint finish. With the benefit of youth, Peter Johnstone managed to gain a couple of lengths to beat the more fancied scratchies.
The Rob Vernon Memorial Road Race - Juniors.
Results from this weekends race at Emu Creek, 46 juniors took part in Race conditions were cool and windy making the races very difficult.
In the Under 13,s Andrew McIntosh saluted the judges for a fine win from Emily Wordie-Thompson from Ballarat with Melanie Clarke from Albury-Wodonga in third place, fastest time was taken out by local rider Robert Oakenful.
Under 17,s raced over 50km, James Crawford from Shepparton took line honours from Tim Fitzpatrick, Echuca, third place went to Macedon rider Ryan Hargrave, Fastest time was taken out by Matthew Clarke from Albury-Wodonga.