Fatty gets another win AND his upgrade!

Fatty is now a PHat cat 2 on the track. Here's how it happened:

I was looking forward to hitting the track last night after skipping last Tuesday night and lots of training in the hot, baking, oppressive sun this weekend. The highlight was that Rob Hacker got his well deserved cat 3 upgrade after dominating again last saturday, so he came up to T-town for some playtime last night too. We asked how each other felt... "pretty good, I think".

Event 1: 15 lap points race - Rob attacked from the gun and some very ornery riders jumped all over him after chasing for a couple laps. This set me up perfectly to take the first sprint win, then we snagged some 2nd sprint points and finally some 3rd sprint points. Overall I took the top spot and Rob was in a 4 way point tie for 2nd. The tie breaker was placing in the final sprint and I think they screwed it up and gave him 4th. Should have been 3rd.

Event 2: Win-Out - I had little interest in going for the first sprint (win) as a couple guys were all geared up for it. Regardless, coming into that lap I had good position and hit the line 3rd with a gap back to the rest. Front 2 guys swung up and I buried myself for the next 3 laps and took the 2nd place sprint solo. Rob was in solo chase for 3rd and nearly hung on until a hard charging rider nipped him in the 3rd turn leaving Rob with another hard-earned 4th.

Event 3: Miss-Out - Sit in and don't be last. Rob and I took turns sitting on the front staying out of trouble. At one point I was caugh inside/low (worst spot) and had to back off, swing around the last rider and sprint out of turn 4 with everything to not be last. A few laps later Rob found himself caught at the back with nowhere to go. Damn. Finished about 6th I think. I managed to stay safe until the final 3. Then we had our free lap and final sprint. I was stuck on the front leading it out, so I swung up to the boards and rode it like a match sprint. On the 4th turn I lit it up with 2 riders in tow and gave a full final lap sprint and managed to hang on
to the win.

End results: I needed 1 point to get a cat 2 upgrade. I got 13 points. Rob rode a great night and will be joining me shortly in the 2's. He's definitely the new cat 3 tuff guy. Now we need to get Nicoll and Leech to tuedays and we'll have a heck of a MG-GPOA track showing. We both skipped the feature event because it wasn't going to start until about 10:30 and we have jobs and wives and stuff.

Good job Fatty!