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Weather Watch

Well it certainly was well timed. We’ll be keeping an eye on the weather tomorrow. Right now it’s slightly more in favour of it raining up until about 4pm. Even at 20 degrees, that’s still a bit iffy as to how much the track will dry, so we’ll keep you posted throughout the day and endeavour to give a definitive answer by 5pm. But even then nothing will happen unless we get some …..

Volunteers

Spreadsheet is empty at the moment. Click here to add your name. Also Dave is away, so anyone who could cover sign on is welcome to take it up. Otherwise you’ll have to fend for yourselves and anyone who needs to enter on the day may have to wait until the end of the evening when I’m free to take the payment.

Post Season Drinks

Don’t forget post season drinks are at the King and Queen at the bottom of the road after the racing (if there is any). If we have to cancel, I will pop a post on our racers forum on Facebook where people can flag if they are still up for coming down.

Race Numbers

Don’t forget to give back your number this week after we finish please. All league members will receive an email shortly giving them options for returning outside of a Wednesday evening.

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Volunteers

Could still use a couple more volunteers for marshalling this week. Please add your name to the spreadsheet here.

Numbers

If you are not intending to race after this week please remember to hand in your numbers at the end of the night.

Those of you already done for the season, please email registrations@scrl.co.uk for a return postal address.

Any numbers not returned have to be replaced and this is an extra cost the league could do without.

Move or refund an entry

All entries from last week have now been moved to week #17. If you can’t make it this week and/or next week, here is a quick guide on how to either move them to the “holding event” or refund the entry.

  • Log in to Rider HQ
  • Go to https://www.riderhq.com/mydetails
  • Scroll down to find the entry
  • Click View Details
  • Click on the “Action” menu
  • Click on either “Move….” or “Refund/Cancel”
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Week #10: Sprint Champs

This week is the highlight of the season for many people, our Sprint Championship.

How this works is different for youth riders from senior riders, so please read the notices below.

Youth Minor/Major

Youth riders do not have to do anything different at all. All youth riders are automatically entered into the youth sprint champs and they also still ride other races. Essentially like a normal week with their sprint champs running alongside.

  • When you arrive there will be a notice posted on the notice board by the finish line with your heats. Find out your heat number and be ready to race.
  • Youth competition consists of one round of heats and then a major final.

Senior Riders (inc. Youth riding up)

Unlike our other championships, the Sprint Championship is elective entry. That is, you must decide if you want to race the championships, or race the “regular” races instead. You cannot however, do both. There is a provisional schedule here which shows the sprints and the races for non-sprinters. This may be altered depending on the amount of sprint entries.

All riders regardless of choice must enter week #10 on RiderHQ as normal to pay their entry fee.

  • If you want to race in the sprint championships, you must register a separate entry here. Entries close Tuesday 21st June 6pm.
  • The competition will start with a timed 200M flying lap for each rider. The starting order will be posted to the notice board by the finish line.
  • The competition will then progress to elimination heats. See table below (1A is fastest TT time, 1B is second fastest etc.).
  • Heats will run from the nearest amount of riders available to complete a full heat i.e.
    • If we have 18 riders, 16 will qualify from the TT, two will be eliminated, and we start from the 1/8 finals.
    • If we have 12 riders, 8 will qualify from the TT, four will be eliminated, and we will start from the 1/4 finals.
  • Points scale runs from 9th to 1st.
    • 9th = 2 points
    • 8th = 4 points
    • 7th = 6 points
    • 6th = 8 points
    • 5th = 10 points
    • 4th = 12 points
    • 3rd = 14 points
    • 2nd = 16 points
    • 1st = 18 points
STARTERSSYSTEMEVENTCOMPOSITION1st/2ndOTHERS
161/8 Finals11A–8A–9A–16A1B/5BNote 1
22A-7A-10A-15A2B/6B
33A-6A-11A-14A3B/7B
44A-5A-12A-13A4B/8B
81/4 Finals11B-8B1CNote 2
22B-7B2C
33B-6B3C
44B-5B4C
4½ Finals11C-4C1D11D2
22C-3C2D12D2
4Finals11D2 – 2D23rd (bronze)4th
21D1 – 2D11st (gold)1st (gold)
Note 1: Ranked 9 to 16 according to 200 m TT Qualifying
Note 2: Ranked 5 to 8 according to 200 m TT Qualifying
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Week #9 Racing

Regardless of what I said last week, this is actually the halfway point of the season. Looks to be a scorcher! No rain in sight!

This week we will have a new race: The Snowball.

This is like a tempo race but with increasing points. So first over the line on lap one gets one point. First over the line on lap two gets two points, and so on. Tied points are decided on final lap placings.

See the schedule here.

Sprint Champs

Week #10 will be sprint champs week. We can’t publish the schedule in advance until we know how many riders we have for the competition, but sign up is now open here.

There is information on the event in RiderHQ, but for those who have not raced our Sprint Championships before, here’s a quick rundown:

  • Senior riders (and youth riding in senior categories) must elect to enter the sprint champs OR race the regular league schedule. They cannot do both. Sprint riders can only race the “non sprint” league races once the sprint final has completed.
  • Senior sprint riders ride a qualifier 200M flying sprint to seed the heats.
  • Youth minor and major do not need to sign up separately. All riders are automatically entered and seeded for sprint heats with their league entry.
  • All riders must still enter week #10 on Rider HQ as usual to pay their fee.

Free Track Time This Friday

We have another accreditation session this Friday. We always need some experienced riders to give the new riders a proper feel of riding in a bunch, so please come along and have some free pedal time!

If you know anyone who might want to join the accreditation, they can still enter here.

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Weather Watch

Forecast currently at 30% chance of light showers in Brighton for 6 and 7pm. So the odds are favourable and with the higher temperature a (very) light shower may well be tolerable to racing. The forecast has changed a few times though so we will be keeping an eye on it.

If the forecast stays the same and the track is still actually dry enough at 5pm we will be trying to race.

As usual, keep an eye on Facebook, Twitter and the website.

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Points Champs Winners!

After an iffy looking weather situation it stayed dry and the champs went ahead. Congratulations to all our winners! Youth rider parents there will be an email to you shortly with a private link for photos.

Senior C
Senior B
Senior A
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Racing Cancelled Tonight

Tonight’s racing is cancelled as it is still raining on and off at the track and it will not dry.

This weeks entrants will be rolled over to next week. If you would rather roll it over to another week let me know on promoter@scrl.co.uk.

The Scratch Champs will now be next week and the schedule will be updated soon.

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Week #4: “Angry” Scratch Champs

“Is it that time already?” as one committee member mentioned.

Yes we are already at the first of our four championship evenings.

For those new to the league, we host four championship evenings a year, where triple points are on offer for each of the usual top six places, along with podiums and medals for the top three. This is part of the normal racing schedule and requires no extra action on the riders part, just enter the event on rider hq as usual.

This year the scratch championships are sponsored by Angry Pablo, an up and coming on and off the bike clothing range co-founded by ex-PPYCC and SCRL rider and now Olympian Felix English.

Angry Pablo will be providing some prizes for the podium spots as well so there’s even more to play for! They are also promoting a ride-out on May 28th to The Brewhouse Project in Arundel, where they have partnered with the Arundel Brewery to launch their own Angry Pablo Pale Ale. You can read more about the event here.

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Friday: Riders Required (and other stuff)

Friday Riders Required

It’s the last of our accreditation sessions this Friday (April 29th) and we need to get some regulars to turn up to increase the bunch size.

It’s a free session, from 6 to 8ish (track booked to 9) so if you haven’t managed to swing a leg over a fixed gear yet, get down there and give yourself some track time. No sign up required.

Sign On

From next week riders must return to manually signing on in the hut, whether pre-entered or entering on the day. Your co-operation is appreciated.

Race Day Staff (again)

Radio silence on volunteers for race day staff for the summer series, so this is a last call. If we don’t get some in a couple of weeks the summer series will be called off. Read the original post here. Note that this may well apply to track league too next year, so have a good think about it. If every adult involved was capable of being an organiser/sign on volunteer, probably only about half of them would have to do it once a year …..

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Almost there …

It’s nearly time. Weather looks good. We’re all set! Just a few notes prior to the big day.

Mixed Racing

As numbers are so low for the first week (Easter Holidays?) we are going to merge the Senior A and B riders (and possibly C) and have the second part of Fridays cancelled accreditation running concurrently. Accreditation riders will use the track in the gaps opened up by merging the senior races.

Some of them will have completed their accreditation that evening so we might even get to bring them in for a race or two!

Race Numbers

As usual you can pick up your numbers when you get there. These are still being tweaked so we can’t advise of which number you are until tomorrow.

Speaking of which, we have a LOT of missing race numbers. If you still have last years please bring it back or contact promoter@scrl.co.uk to return it by mail if you are not intending to race.

If we keep having to replace numbers, it costs us money, reduces any profit we might make, and brings us closer to considering things like doubling the registration fees as a form of deposit.

Registrations/Entry

There are still quite a few that have registered but have not sent us the required proof of membership/race licence as per the accreditation page. We are now way past the official cut off point, but if you get it sent in you might get lucky and I’ll approve it prior to the week #1 entry cut off time (3pm on race day).

THERE WILL BE ABSOLUTELY NO IN PERSON REGISTRATION ON THE DAY – NO IFS – NO BUTS – NOT REGISTERED = NO RACE

Calendar and Schedule

If you take a look at the calendar page, you will see that this years schedule is much simplified. We have just two week variations, Week A and Week B, and the running order is always youth minor, major, seniors C, B and A. Each week has a “slot” for one feature race which we will vary each week. To allow us a bit more flexibility, we will also be only publishing weekly schedules about four weeks in advance.

This makes things much easier to run on a week-by-week basis and ensures that everyone (youth especially) get more practice at the races which will almost always feature in other competitions.

Volunteers

As usual, if anyone knows they will be there to marshal, please add your name to the spreadsheet. Link here.