Waterford Thursday Night Worlds #1 May 7th 2009

“A” Race (40 Starters)
1st – Chris Bogedin
6th – Jeff Weinert
10th – Ray Dybowski
11th – Brett Beddow
12th – Patrick Robb

Field – John Sammut
John Coats
Matt Baroli
Scott Fabijanski
Cullen Watkins
Tom Kachelmeyer


The skies cleared from the afternoon rain showers just in time to have dry pavement under foot for the start of the Waterford Thursday Night Worlds “A” Race. Our own John Coats started things off fast with an attack from the gun, John quickly opened a gap on the field that he was able to hold for most of the first lap before being brought back by the pack. Many others attempted to get off the front, but nothing stuck until about half way through the race when Jeff got into a 4 man brake that stayed away for 3 laps before Chris and Ray bridged across in 2 separate chase groups, once the group was whittled down to 8, the race was on. This group kept a comfortable lead until the closing laps, then for some reason started coming back to the pack. By the time the pack was winding up it’s sprint we were right on their heels, close enough that we passed 2 of the riders in the lead group before the line. Speaking of close, the race finish was so close that despite having it on video, the officials could not tell who won the sprint for 1st between Chris and Bruce Rivera, so they called it a tie. The first time I have ever seen a tie for 1st.

“B” Race
3rd – Randall Rodd
6th – Ricardo Cotto
9th – Doug McKibbon
11th – Kurt Martin

Field - John Talbot