It was a long day (4:00pm – 10:00pm) of Virginia State Track Racing at Southside Speedway Saturday, August 28, 2010. For Tom Doyle’s age group, he was up against five track racers from the Tidewater area. All five came in hopes that one of them would win the championship on their own track bike, but they failed to tell Tom. Pete Swann’s wife, Sally, felt sorry for Tom, told him he had his number on the wrong side and repined it for him. Tom had been loaned a fast, but tricky CSK track bike. The first chance he got to ride the bike was in the 500m race (which required a 1.3 lap all out sprint) and he did okay, but he was a little scared by how fast it went trough the corners and still held a tight line.Before his next race he got to adjust the saddle height, do some fast practice laps and started to relax on the bike. For the 2000m (5.3 laps) Tom showed how relaxed he had become on the CSK by winning the race by almost 1/4 of a lap. The final race was a 15 lap Points Race in which the entire age group are on the track and racing as a group. Every five laps there is a sprint to the finish line and the top five were scored points. Tom placed 2nd, 1st and 1st. By winning the final sprint Tom got double points and was declared the Omnium Winner and Virginia State Track Age Champion by one point. Tom feels Track Racing is so much fun, quite safe and hopes more of the Rostello presented by Fiorucci/CyCor members will give it a try because nothing else improves acceleration and sprint ability like Track Racing.

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