August 2, 2012 Penrose Park Velodrome 50th Birthday Bash

Happy 50th Birthday Mr Bumpy Face! What a fun night of racing! and celebrating!

Huge thank yous go out to Brian "Kayce" Shelton for organizing such a great night of racing and birthday festivities!

We may or may not have held the first Keiren in a long time (First rule of Penrose Keiren - no one talks about Penrose Keiren, or at least the driver of the moto).

Tyler was certainly busy all night, with the grilling of burgers and dogs and what-not ;).
Molly made the most amazing cake replica of the track (Look out Cake Boss!!) - it was delicious too!

Special thanks to the Penrose Birthday Sponsors: Big Shark, Stephen Wilkes, Russ & Adrienne Murphy/Mesa Cycles, Schlafly (! For the KEG!!), Joe Stahl and Karl Becker (apologies to anyone I may have inadvertantly left off)

The weather looked uncertain for a while, with some not so pretty, dark clouds moving by. Just as it was time to start racing, a little rain fell but it was as if the track knew we wouldn't accept no for an answer and dried up pretty quickly.  Eva tested it out on her unicycle to be sure it was ready.

We had 31 registered racers and several new-to-the-track people who just gave it a spin between races. I think the spectators for the night stole the show. I don't think I've seen that many people out at the track at one time (the picture here doesn't do it justice!)  Joe Stahl and Karl Becker provided some excellent commentary/track rules and a few history lessons!

The above photos were taken on my iPhone, but we had some fabulous "real" photographers out there:

Photo's from Mike Martin, thevikingstudio.com

Photo's from Tom Bremer


The "Firecrackers" at the end of the night were a nice touch ;)   The cars speeding away on to hwy 70 added to the excitement!

As an aside, we have started to fund raise to maintain/resurface the track. Donations are gladly accepted on race nights at registration.

RESULTS

Keiren - A:

1. 23     Luke Bligh
2. 256   Hayden Warner
3. 52     Zach Slavens
4. 16    Robert Mayfield
5. 15    Devlin McDonough
6. 46    Chak Lattanand
7. 239  Dave Stone
8. 37    David Gray

Keiren - B:
1. 9         Andrew Petty
2. 32       Tom Petty
3. 50       Matt Karnowski
4. 238     Bill Howells
5. 69       Soli Johannes
6. 5         Erik Seaver
7. 41       Dennis Roberts
8. 12       Kayce Shelton

Keiren - C:
Group 1:
1. 4         Todd Nowlin
2. 267     Matt Dale
3. 277     Tom Guttman
4. 244     Brad Gutting
5. 283     Darren Marhanka
6. 241     Kate Hrubes
7. 286     Stephen Rhodes
8. 266     Jeremy Roberts

Group 2:
1. 44    Andrew Mullins
2. 251  Jeff Stein
3. 0     Molly Brady
4. 40   Jim Smith
5. 284 Emmett Wilson


Team Pursuits:
Race 1:

1. "Home" team 2:49:10
Hayden Warner
Luke Bligh
Matt Karnowski
Jeff Stein


2. "Away" team   2:54:59
Zach Slavens
Tom Petty
Dennis Roberts
Darren Marhanka

Race 2:
1. Away team: 2:49:87
Devlin McDonough
Dave Stone
Erik Seaver
Tom Guttman

2. Home team 2:59:42
Kayce Shelton
Soli Johannes
Chak Lattanand
Molly Brady

Race 3:
1. Home team: 2:59:14
David
Jeremy
Todd Nowlin
Jim Smith
Matt Dale
Stephen Rhodes

2. Away Team:  3:00:96
Bill Howells
Andrew Petty
Andrew Mullins
Emmett Wilson
Kate Hrubes
Brad Gutting

Crawl:
1. 256      Hayden Warner
2. 46        Chak Lattanand
3. 52        Zach Slavens
4. 37        David Gray
5. 32       Tom Petty
6. 50        Matt Karnowski
7. 267      Matt Dale
8. 37        David Gray
9. 40        Jim Smith
10. 12       Kayce Shelton
11. 286     Stephen Rhodes
12. 9         Andrew Petty
13. 244     Brad Gutting
14. 266     Jeremy Roberts

Chariot
1. 256     Hayden Warner
2. 32      Tom Petty
3. 52      Zach Slavens
4. 239    Dave Stone
5. 69      Soli Johannes
6. 238    Bill Howells
7. 46      Chak Lattanand




~Steph