2024 SPRINTERS LEAGUE SATURDAY RD 9 (Final) (F200 and 3 x 3 up Sprint Ladder)
Report Round 9 (Flying 200 and 3 up Sprint Ladder)
This was our final round of Sprinters League for 2024 during which we ran F200s, 2 Up Sprints and 3 Up Sprints over shorter and full distances, Standing Half Laps and Team Sprint, Keirin, and 1 Lap H/cap. We saw significant improvement in skill and craft and 10 riders achieved F200 bonuses for lifetime bests.The league as always was conducted in a friendly and supportive atmosphere and provided exciting and entertaining racing.
Cillian Owens sealed victory tonight will a dominant display significantly improving his F200 and fastest time on the night. He also won all 3 of his sprints. He was pushed all the way by John Caffrey and we would hope that all his efforts will bear fruit in the upcoming Masters and indeed World Masters. Its was a dogfight for the next few few places with all these riders showing significant improvement throughout the season.
***** Prizegiving (Top 6) and awards will be presented alongside the Endurance League presentation on Wednesday 21st August. We will also host some ‘friendly racing’ on the night from 18.45pm with the Presentation at 20.15 ****
<Results and Table after Final Rounds of the Sundrive Sprinters League>
<Best F200 Times> (updated after Paddy Doran Omnium, Youth, Sprinters League and Senior Champs
Report Round 8
This weeks League was based around our recently repaired Starting Gate with all riders getting two Standing Start Team Sprint opening half laps and then 2 up and 3 up Team Sprint efforts but we only timed to the second changeover. Our final round will be on August 07th and that will be F200 and Match Sprints. Cillian’s lead is only 6 points as he has hasn’t missed any round and the number of counting rounds is 2 less than the total number of rounds so this week he dropped a 10 in favour of an 11. John has a 6 to drop in the next round while Deividas has a 5 to drop to stay ahead of a fast finishing Luke who has no score to drop and Fionn to drop a 5. Clear as mud!!!
Report Round 7
Points awarded for the Top 6 in the Flying 200, and we intended running 3 rounds of 3 ups which didn’t happen due to a crash in the first ride, and then the onslaught of weather. We have awarded an average sore of 5 points extra to all attendees. Extra 5 points to Tadgh Roberts for a new personal Best time.
Report Round 6
We started with a Flying 200 with no less than six riders setting new personal bests and earning bonus points. Most impressive and fastest on the night went to Luke Bernie who executed an exemplary 200 and you could see if was going to be super-fast as he accelerated out of bend 2 a fair way out from the 200 line. Karl chipped away at him time and Evan also posted a new PB with all three brothers having their own ding dong competition.
We then followed up with a ‘derny led’ F200 (although a few of them came round the derny) and we scored riders on improvement from their individual F200 times. Huge improvement for Katie Barry here taking the 6 points while Luke significantly improved on what was already a superb time. Next was Keirin with riders split over the two semi-finals and the top 3 going through to the final. In Semi 1 Fionn took the honours from Luke and Evan, while Cillian took a flyer in Semi 2 fearful of Tom getting the big gear going. Deividas took the Minor Final from Deirble making friends with her new bike. In the Keirin Final Evan went early and hard with Cillian leading the chase which put an end to both of their chances but opened the door for Luke to finish off a great night for him, just edging out Fionn with Karl taking 3rd place.
A very enjoyable night and a format we will repeat!
Report Round 5
This weeks League was based on the Team Sprint event, with all riders firstly doing a held start Team Sprint opening half lap, followed by one out of the gate. We them split teams into twos and threes for Team Sprint with only first two counting towards points. The stipulation was that on the second run teams had to change the order. Hopefully the data recorded will assist clubs in team selection going forward towards the Team Sprint Nationals later in the year.
Report Round 4
We broke the riders into groups of 4 and 3 sorted by F200 times and each rider had of full 2 up 2 laps sprint within their group. Only one rider gained any bonus points in the F200 but quite a few posted season bests and notably Sean and Poppy were mere 100ths of seconds away from bonus points. Despite sprinting over the full two laps, all sprints were well fought tactically and all riders seemed to be executing plans and definite tactics testament to how far sprinting skills have progressed through our Sprint Leagues. We then divided the riders into 2 groups for a 1 lap h/cap from the fence with Tom just holding off Karl and the limit man Cillian. The second race saw our League Leader John Caffrey narrowly beaten by Dmitro with Oscar 3rd. Our final race was a mile, and this race ensured the sprinters finished with sore legs with Sean dominating proceedings in this one.
Report Round 3
Racing started with a F200 to rank and grade riders with both Sean Curtis and Karl Bernie recording new best times to get the 5 points bonus, while Caoimhe further bettered her 2024 time to gain an extra 2 points bonus.
Riders were then grouped to create somewhat balanced teams and points allocated on Team Sprint 1 times, also scoring on level of improvement for the second run. Finally we afforded handicaps based on each teams loosely combined F200 times and we scored teams based on that.
Report Round 2
Racing tonight provided superbly entertaining 3 up sprinting with some well-timed early attacks proving successful and an extra-long range effort from Caoimhe Seymour from over a lap and a half out in the Kilo Dash brought the assembled to their feet only to be caught a metre from the line! Star of the show tonight was Cillian Owens mixing it and getting the best of top class riders on hire bike gears
Report Round 1
This was quite a difficult day with ‘Storm Kathleen’ very much in evidence and this adversely affected attendance and also making the F200 approach quite difficult. We started with a Flying 200 and ranked riders from that. Points awarded to Top 6. We ran a subsequent F200 and awarded 3 points for improvement, and 2 for participation. I didn’t get an exact time for Eric’s second run but his approach speed was significantly faster and technically the best of the day. It however did take it’s toll and it took him quite some time to recover! We were very pleased with the debut performance of Cillian Owens (Spellman DP) who took aboard all advice and rode quite well tactically and learned much from his day. Many thanks to all who braved the elements!