Three wins for Jet Fuel at the Winter Track Nationals

This weekend directly following two hard days of training at the CCA Development camp, we raced the Winter Nationals at the forest city Velodrome. Joe Veloce, Jet Fuel's new Sprinter entered the Match Sprints on Friday, Ryan Aitcheson Dave Byer, and myself (Daniele), entered the Pursuit, Points race and Scratch races Friday and Saturday. In the end, we came home with a sack of precious medals!





First off Joe Veloce ate up the competition winning the Sprint competition! Joe didn't enter the second Sprint Competition on Saturday since it was his mothers 50th birthday! Happy Birthday!

On Friday night the rest of us raced a 138 lap points race. We all qualified into the final, and it looked good. Ryan, Myself, David Boiley and Stevie Meyer lapped the field about 40 laps into the race, but David was winning a lot of early points by going off the front of the group. Then David and I lapped the field again near the end of the race. All while sprinting for points every 20 laps. Dave byer also made a strong move to get up a lap, but ended up hanging 1/2 a lap off the front for a long time, and not able to gain the lap by himself. In the end I won the final sprint over David Boiley from Quebec, but still lost by one point over him. His early points in the race were too much to overcome.

Saturday was another good day of racing seeing JetFuel on the Podium again. I won the 3km Elite Pursuit in a time of 3:39. Ryan won the Junior category in a time of 3:42

In the feature 138 lap Scratch race, A huge cheering section come out to cheer on Jet Fuel (THANKS GUYS!!!) The race was FAST from start to finish. It was so fast, that we were slowly just dropping riders one by one from the field. In the end with 40 laps to go, David Boiley with some help from his teammates slipped away from the group taking a lap and locking up the win. I won the field sprint with Ryan on my wheel to take 2nd and 3rd, and Dave Byer was just behind taking 5th.