Thursday Night Fireball Crit Series
Thursday Night Fireball Crit Series
This event is a Buffalo Bicycling Club race. You must be a member to participate. Membership categories eligible for this: Full, Rookie, Junior/College, Out-of-Town. Not eligible: Group Ride/Workout or Cyclocross. To join, click here.
Our Thursday Night Fireball series stages on criterium training course on Grand Island. This will be a scored series, separate from the Sunday Series Club Races. Our course is linked below, a 1.9-mile circuit with 3 corners. The A field will do 9 laps for 17.1 miles (about 37-40 minutes), and the B field will do 6 laps for 11.4 miles (about 27-30 minutes). Come out and practice cornering, top end fitness, and race tactics to help sharpen your handling skills and racing craft! It is important, especially for newer riders, to get out to these as much as possible to develop skills.
Parking:
Park at the small parking lot just outside of Beaver Island State Park on West River/West Oakfield Rd. Many members generally ride to this location as free parking is limited.
Meet up at the Finish line at the corner of West River/West Oakfield and Ferry Rd
Course:
Click Here to View the Course Page. A 1.9-mile flat criterium circuit loop with 3 corners, excellent for practicing cornering and tactics! Finish line on the corner of West River/Oakfield and Ferry Rd.
Schedule:
The B field will start first at 6:30pm for a 30 minute race
The A field will start last at 7:05pm for a 40 minute race
What You Should Expect on Race Day:
- Please plan to arrive 30 minutes early to get into your riding clothes and get your bike ready
- Write down your name on the sign-in sheet when it becomes available, head out on the bike get a few pedal strokes in the legs to warm up. SIGN IN IS AT THE FINISH LINE AT FERRY RD AND WEST RIVER
- We’ll start the B group first for a 30 minute race, and the A race after for a 40 minute race according to the amount of race laps noted in the Course Description
- At the end, make sure you know your finishing place and report it to the event organizer
Thursday Night Fireball Individual Scoring:
This race is part of the club’s 10-race Fireball Series. There will be an ‘A’ and ‘B’ field scored at each race, with additional separate scoring below. Points are awarded in each race by finishing place:
1st = 15 points
2nd = 14 points
3rd = 13 points
4th = 12 points
5th = 11 points
6th = 10 points
7th = 9 points
8th = 8 points
9th = 7 points
10th = 6 points
11th = 5 points
12th = 4 points
13th = 3 points
14th = 2 points
15th and after = 1 point
First and Second Half of the Season
The Thursday Night Fireball season will be split into two halves for scoreboards reflecting a first half and second half of the season. This allows for more focused leaderboard competition and a reset mid-season to start over to compete on a new leaderboard!
First half of the Fireball season will be:
Second half of the Fireball season will be:
Your best 4 out 5 races for each of the two season halves will count towards your standing for each half-season.
Master’s Scoring
We are including a version of separate scoring for Masters Men’s 50+ racers! Master’s 50+ will race in the A field and will be scored against the A’s, but Master’s points will be pulled out into a separate Master’s leaderboard. How does this work? If Master’s 50+ riders get 4th, 7th, and 8th in the A race, their 4th/7th/8th place points will go towards their Master’s standings. They’ll be on the Men’s A leaderboard and the separate Master’s leaderboard.
Women’s Scoring
Women racing in the Men’s A field will have the same version of separate scoring as the Men’s Master’s 50+ above. If women riders get 4th/7th/8th in the Men’s A race, their 4th/7th/8th place points will go towards a Women’s A leaderboard, as well as the Men’s A leaderboard.
Women racing in the Men’s B field will have the same version of separate scoring as well. If women get 4th/7th/8th in the Men’s B race, their 4th/7th/8th place points will go towards a Women’s B leaderboard, as well as the Men’s B leaderboard.