TUESDAY NIGHT HEFFRON 2019/20 • WEEK 6 • 12 NOVEMBER 2019

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Week six • 12 november 2019 • Volume 74

Champion system summer series

CHAMPION SYSTEM SUMMER SERIES WEEK six • 12 november 2019

LEO YIP WINS FROM B GRADE ON A SCORCHER NIGHT Sydney was blanketed in smoke haze and dust from the devastating NSW

bushfires on Tuesday and while everyone’s thoughts were with those at the fire front, racing still went ahead in dry, testing conditions.

Numbers were a little down but the racing was as intense as ever as the 35

strong B grade bunch started under eerie skies with an unfavourable 50kph Westerly wind sweeping across the course.

A grade still had a solid field of 24 and would normally eat up the handicap deficit on a windy night but when Crit Dawgs and ZCC launch Rylee Field

and Dan Bonello up the road the chase takes on a new dynamic. Tom Bolton joined the duo but 3 against 35+ was never going to work.

Even C grade split apart with Jacob Van Egmond, Baz Doosey and Will

Heffernan setting off for overall glory before the wind and a fired up B grade got the better of them with 3 to go.

The race continued to fragment further in the closing laps with only 12 B and C grade riders making it to the bell lap to contest the finish. Randwickduo

Robbie Allen and Jaxon Italiano thought they had lead out perfectly covered until Italiano pulled his foot in the last 500m which gave Leo Yip the perfect chance to sprint for the win.

Yip grabbed second the previous week in his first Tuesday Night race and his well deserved win this week has rewarded him with a start in A grade next

week. Jack Renshaw pipped Italiano on the line for third after another solid race and Ben Ware was right in the mix to complete the top 5.

Jacob Van Egmond was way too strong for the rest of C grade even after his earlier breakway and although he’s new to Heffron Parkand crit racing he’s proved he’s ready to take it up a notch with a start in B grade next week.

Tom Bolton has matured a lot since his C grade win as a 15yo six years ago and easily accounted for his 2 breakaway companions to win A grade while the rest of A grade were left to wonder what might have been.

Congratulations to everyone who braved the conditions to conduct, race and support the event.