Race 3 "Doug Pettingill" Hamilton to Port fairy

In warm blustery conditions the 31st Doug Pettingill road race was held. There were 56 senior riders and 25 junior riders. The day started with 30km northerlies which were perfect tail wind conditions. As the day progressed and the riders got close to the finish the wind changed to North Easterlies which made for side winds. This made the race more difficult and strung out some of the bunches. The front markers were able to hold off the middle and back markers. 1st Cam Hart, 2nd Niel Duncan, 3rd Aaron Bingham, 4th Stuart Robinson, 5th Simon Povey, 6th Kate Winnen, 7th Shannon Malseed, 8th Spek, 9th Michael Bently, 10th Daniel Lehman. Fastest Time went to kieron Schnieder. Kieron was riding on block so that second scratch rode exceptionally well on the day. The points table is starting to take shape now for the 2012 Banks Thargo South West Series, three scratchmen hold the top three positions followed by several regular feature riders that are regular competitors in this series of road races. The Next event in the South West series is the Soldiers Memorial hosted by the Mount Gambier Club and the Mount gambier R.S.L. The full points table is viewable by clicking on comments below.

Race 2 Banks Thargo South West Series

The "Greg Gleeson" memorial was held Sunday March 4th.

This race has a very uncommon result where second scratch was able to ride well enough to hold off scratch. Zac Shaw from Scratch still earnt fastest time.

Cam Shaw from Colac was the first rider to cross the line followed by Chris Kennet hamilton 2nd, Daniel Herrewyn Mount gambier 3rd, Aaron Blomeley Ballarat 4th, Cam Gilles Warrnambool 5th, Peter Rauert Warrnambool 6th, David Serra Warrnambool 7th, Danny Burke warrnambool 8th, Chris Kane Camperdown 9th and Robert Mann Mount Gambier 10th.

Aaron Blomeley from Ballarat was the consistent rider on the weekend securing first place on the Banks Thargo Leader board.

To view the current points table for the 2012 South West Series Click on comments below.

Welcome to the 2012 Banks Thargo South West Series

Hi To all and welcome to the 2012 South West Series.

The Series Started with two great events hosted by the Warrnambool Club.
Race one "The Glenn Cook Memorial" a 68 km handicap event Starting at Wangoom on saturday March 3rd

Placings as follows.

First and fastest Zac Shaw from Colac, 2nd Simon Walsh Port Fairy, 3rd Darrin Jones Warrnambool, 4th Callum Middleton Colac 5th Aaron Blomely Ballarat, 6th Tim Vanderschans Camperdown 7th Hamish middleton Colac, 8th Brain Macnamara Warrnambool. 9th Timshell Knoll-Miller Port Fairy 10th Robert Mann Mount Gambier.

Those top ten are also the leaders of the series after race one of the South West Series.