October 21, 2013 (London, ON) – The 2014 race season kicked off on Saturday night at the Forest City Velodrome.  Fast legs seems to be to area all the racers have been working on as they were all spinning like crazy in all divisions.

There were a good cross section of racers from across the province taking part in the first of 19 race nights throughout the winter.   The 2 top teams from the 2013 road season (Team CHCH & InVita-FCV) as well as Team Attack youth team from the 2013, took turns putting the hurt on one another.  In all divisions, the riders attacked and kept the speed high in all the races during the first night of racing.

There were outstanding performances in several divisions, Ben Perry and Jesse Schultz were the leaders in the “A” division as they captured podiums in the Points, Scratch races as well as the Miss& Out to Scratch.  In the “B” division, Ian Currie, Logan McIntyre, Lucas Taylor were on the podium in the Points & Scratch races, Chris Ernst had a break out night reaching the podium in the Miss & Out.

The Women’s division had 7 ladies racing for top honours during the evening.  Sarah Mason, Saska Kowalchuk, Ruby West and Clare Holton, Naomi Desousa, were on their game in all the events as each of the young women go onto the podium during the evenings races.  The battle at the front all night was between Sarah Mason & Saska Kowalchuck, both women attacked one another all night with Mason winning 2 of the 3 events with Saska capturing the top step of the podium in the Endurance race at the end of the night.  It was a very entertaining evening of racing for our top divisions.

In the Future Star division we had to split the kids into 2 divisions based on ability.  New comer Aiden (oh no, another Aiden) Zeversenuke won all 3 events including the Last man standing event to almost advance directly into the “C” group at next weekends events at the FCV.  also capturing podiums on Saturday night in the Future Stars categories were, Liam Langford, Wesley Hill, Daniel Gregory, Reilly Parteger, Easton Mclean, Liam Goodreau and Shlok Ahuja.

The next event at the FCV is this Saturday night with the featured events are the 2 Madison’s that start and finish the program.  Racing will begin at 7pm.  All categories will have multiple events including the Future Stars.

Full results here.

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