NAS-TRACK
TEAM RACING

For Immediate Release
Contact: Dale Hughes, 248-961-3705

Junior Rider (Luke Cavendar) Rockets into Lead with 5 to Go!

Rochester Hills, MI -- With a 100 lap Madison yet to go, it looked as
though the evening’s powerhouse Team Pink of Ronnie Sink and Andre Champoux
were
unbeatable, winners of two 1-mile sprints and the miss-n-out and finishing
sixth in the first 50 lap Madison. At the start of the 100, they were a
solid 10 points out front and had the legs to win it.

Then the unthinkable.

As all eight teams -- 16 riders in all - rode under the mandatory
control of the first 15 laps, one rider slipped off the 44 degree banking and
out
Sink went , and ½ of Team Blue, Dave Teall.

The bike race, Race #4 in the NAS-TRACK Team Racing Friday Night Series,
suddenly became anybody’s contest. With Sink and Teall gone, their partners
- Champoux and Blue’s Pio Apostoli - were paired together as Team Pink but the
momentum was gone as every team reconsidered its strategy to win.

The action happened July 16 at the 1/8 of a mile Velodrome at Bloomer
Park in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Teams earn points in five separate events,
but can pick up the most points in NAS-TRACK’s featured competition -- the
Madison -- a 2-man team race where 8 teams race at speeds up to 42 mph while
exchanging places with their partners, relay style, about every 40 seconds.
The
Madison became an Olympic sport at the 2000 Games. In Michigan, the racing
continues this Friday, July 23 and next Friday is NAS-TRACK’s LEAGUE
CHAMPIONSHIPS - July 30 at 7 p.m. at the Velodrome at Bloomer Park .

As Friday’s 100 lap event unfolded, Team Pink held onto its lead through
the half-way sprint. But Team Tan -- Steve Maluchek and Cullen Watkins, was
closing in as was Team Purple, Nick Laughton and Jim Houston. Going into
final sprint , the point spread was so tight that any one of the top six teams
could win NAS-TRACK #4 if they won the Final Sprint.

At 5 to go, flying out of the field was NAS-TRACK’s youngest racer
16-year-old Luke Cavendar for Team Neon. In an instant, the wonder kid who
placed
7th in the Nationals, gained a ¼ lap lead on the field and held the distance
until the hand-off to partner, master of the velodrome Dave Koesel. Koesel
glanced back and upped the pace as Purple’s Laughton came in for the final
sprint and surged past several teams in his chase of the leader. In the end,
Koesel won it, finishing the night’s race a scant two points ahead of Team
Purple.
Team Pink ended up fourth, behind Team Tan .

"That was the best bike race I think I’ve ever seen," said long-time
NAS-TRACK fan, Harriet Walden of Royal Oak. Mrs. Walden, widow of cycling coach
Mike
Walden, knows bike racing and says the team race on the small velodrome is,
by far, the most exciting to watch. "It’s so exciting; and these racers are
just great."

NAS-TRACK TEAM RACE #4 - Final Results
1st Team Neon 67pts Dave Koesel/Livonia & Luke Cavendar/Troy
2nd Team Purple 65 Nick Laughton/Rochester Hills & Jim Houston/Lake Orion
3rd Team Tan 64 Steve Mylucek/Rochester Hills & Cullen Watkins/Royal Oak
4th Team Pink 64 Andre Champoux/Garden City & Pio Apostoli/Toledo,OH
5th Team Red 58 Taylor Martin/Hamilton,Canada & Ray Dybowski/Waterford
6th Team Orange 58 Tony Bruley/Rochester Hills & Eric Chase/Royal Oak
7th Team Black 45 Steve Geerligs/Ann Arbor & Rob Good/Toronto, Canada

NAS-TRACK INDIVIDUAL POINTS (after Race #1,#2,#3,#4)
1st Pio Apostoli 271pts
2nd Andre Champoux 265
3rd Dave Koesel 254
4th Rippin Ronnie 246
5th Tony Bruley 245
6th Jim Houston 225
7th Ray Dybowski 224
8th Rob Good 210
9th Nick Laughton 195
10th Cullen Watkins 183
11th Dave Teall 169
12th Taylor Martin 168
13th Rob Akers 142
14th Luke Cavendar 126
15th Eric Chase 90
16th Steve Geerligs 80
17th Steve Mylucek 64
18th Paul Jaqua 63
19th Julia Bradley 31
20th Luis Bernhardt 28
21st Jon Hughes 21

Looking ahead:
Detroit 6 Day - August 10 - 15th.
7pm. Velodrome at Bloomer Park

For more information on NAS-TRACK, visit www.nas-track.com or contact its
chairman, Dale Hughes, at 248-961-3705.


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