We’ve noticed everyone has taken a liking to talking about the race. So we’re giving you a place to do that, and just that.
Feel free to use this area to discuss anything and everything about the Little 500 — Qualifications, Spring Series, the race itself.
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Noble
Langley
Xavier
Tisdale
La Valle
Settle
Huibregtse
Krahulik
These riders pulled their weight through spring series, in both ITTs and TP, and were a big factor in their teams’ finishes Saturday. A bit tough to see on the broadcast, but Settle and Tisdale each brought their teams back into the sprint from a decent gap in the last 8 laps to bridge up to X, Noble, and Caleb, with Tisdale getting edged out by that top 3 and Settle trailing suit. Although each lacked podium finishes, they lost to the 3 best finishers in the field. imo, these picks don’t cancel each other out. Krahulik and La Valle are toss ups. Krahulik did an impressive job singlehandedly bringing his team to a lead lap finish, and La Valle rode his legs off, but had everyone scratching their head on lap 199.
What about the deep teams? Cutters deserve Guyon and either Hubrex or Coulter in there as well. 3PH deserves Thompson and Singhal. SIGEP should have Settle and Harris but due to Spring series, no Harris. Bkb, obviously Xavier and strobel is head and shoulders the best rookie, so he will be rookie. For the girls it be Lauren Britt and then all of ski and DG with the a chi o girls
What about the Cutters rookie? He blew all the other rookies away as far as I know.
^Help me understand, why no love for 3PH. If they finished 10th that’s reasonable but no all-stars and a fifth place finish?! Just don’t get it. Oehler not even in the discussion either. Even if he didn’t sprint for 6th (ahead of Settle) he still led the attack that almost stuck.
La Valle’s set at the end wasn’t gutsy, it was dumb and bad pacing. Great riders and athletes know what their bodies are capable/not capable of. He dropped the ball for an 8th place finish. Nevertheless, he did carry his team through many strong laps. I think @AllStarThoughts ‘s list is mostly right but I’d sub in oehler, another cutter, and a 3ph rider to the discussion.
All-Star:
– Guyon
– Martinez
– Tisdale
– La Valle
– Settle
– Huibregtse
– Langley
– Someone from NEH? or Oehler? or Ahaan?
Rookie:
– Grossling
– Strobel
– Small La Valle
– ?
As far as the race goes Viktor Grossling, Richard Strobel, Andy LaVelle, Josh Richards, and likely a few really good ones I don’t know about.
Fergus Arthur of NEH deserves some ROY consideration. Top 10 ITTer and had a good race performance.
Additional rookies?
-Imlay
-Hansen
-Chien
Forgot Hansen.
Criteria for selection per the 2019 Little 500 Manual:
All-Star Rider Awards
There are eight recipients of this award for both the men and women. The criteria to be an AllStar Rider include: excellent performance in the race and series events, being a leader during
practice by helping others, and congeniality. The recipients are determined by a peer vote.
Rookie Rider Awards
This award is given to the top four first time riders for each race. The award is based on riding
skill and safety, number of laps ridden in the race, qualification lap times, and performance in the
Little 500 Series events. The recipients are determined by a peer vote.
How are the ballots determined for allstar and roty? Or is it entirely write in?
RC decides
Women?
Audrey Morlan
Caitlin Kamplain
Emily Carrico
Hanna Coppens
Ivy Moore
Jackie Mooney
Laura Britt
Marie Wirsing
Noble Guyon (Cutters, 1st)- Undisputed leader of a podium team, won the sprint, ITT top 3, won pole, back to back titles
Caleb Langley (Bears 2nd)- Undisputed leader of a podium team, team was only 3 deep, ITT top 5
Xavier Martinez (BKB 3rd)- Undisputed leader of a podium team, 2x ITT Champ, 3x Fall ITT Champ(!!!), RC President
Logan Tisdale (Goats 4th)- Go to man for the Goats, made a hard bridge look easy to take 4th in a sprint, Top 10 ITT
Rob Krahulik (SAE 9th)- Biggest team MVP, rode half of the race, attacked from 5 laps out
Albert La Valle (Phi Psi 8th)- Leader of Phi Psi, made a winning move, ITT top 5, strong all year, most improved from last year
Tom Settle (SigEp 7th)- Leader of SigEp, ITT top 10, clawed SigEp back from wrecks, proven himself already
Greg Huibregtse (Cutters 1st)- 2nd man on the winning team, ITT top 10, won pole, back to back titles
LaV and McGorry Of Jetblach Really stood out to me as my 2 top rookies watching the film, at a lot to do with influencing how the race ran
Josh Smith (SAE) for Rookie of the year
Ill advised tactics
Ski’s tactic of tying to mix it up off the front was good for the race but a poor decision for them. Lest anyone be fooled their goal was to not win but make the race interesting. They clearly were not the strongest team (DG proved that), or the smartest (Teter). My question is if they felt they could do it, did they hold back in spring series. Cutters have had a history of not giving away at spring series in the past, and apparently it worked for them, but they really di have the weapons to do it. Kirkham’s theory was badly flawed but understandable being from the Cutter camp. Doubt it will change the training regimen for the majority of teams other than the typical contenders, and good luck to all going forward.
Also being the strongest team doesn’t help if you allow faster sprinters to be with you on the last lap. DG, being arguably the strongest team could have forged ahead, when catching up to SKI, rather than letting the pace drop and allow other teams back into the fray. I doubt AXO and Teter would have caught them had they pushed past SKI ( who appeared to be fading at about lap 80). Take a page out of Thetas book from the last few years.
Teter are the early favs for next year. They’ll have a contingent of experienced strong riders. Ski will also be there as will AXO. Theta will be back. DG may well be rebuilding with four new riders.
Whoever wrote this has about as many brain cells as a rock.
Who are the Women and Men All-Stars?
Who are the Women and med – All-Stars? Rookies? Inquiring minds want to know.
Hank Lusk
Any rider seen out at riders week will be banned ! banned i say! by the power invested in me……NO FUN BECAUSE IM A LAME GEED
Let’s see what people had to say about the Men’s teams this year…
Gray Goat – Best Recovery from a warm-up Crash and Best Practice Race Team
Phi Psi – Most numerically challenged team
SAE – Best non-competitive team
Forest – “Somehow always near the front” award
Jetblach – “Fucked up a two team break” award
BKB – Frattiest non-frat team
3PH – Best finish for a team relatively left out of predictions
Cutters – “Need to chill the fuck out” award
Phi Delts – Greasiest mustache(s) award
SigEp – Only top team to go down. Best race-day crash recovery
Bears – Raced to their strengths and finished well for it
That concludes this year’s unofficial official awards for the men’s field.
Women: Laurie Bignal, Lauren Britt, Hanna Coppens, Miller Fahey, Emily Heldman, Caitlin Kamplain, Rylee Ollearis
Men: Jeff Beaumont, Noble Guyon, Caleb Langley, Albert La Valle, Xavier Martinez, Robert Oehler, Tom Settle, Logan Tisdale
Finally got around to re-watching the women’s race… was the chief steward taking a nap for the whole race? 1) Impeding in the final sprint à la Hans in 2004. 2) Several teams taking *way* more than three pits to exchange or exchanging in the middle of the track. 3) Blatant creeping under yellow. 4) Teams not moving and staying on the outside for the last ten laps.
Shocking, considering how much IUSF loves their rules.
1. Cutters- Hard to argue this one as cutters returns 3 of 4 including Noble Guyon. Clearly the team to beat next year.
2. Phi Psi- Strong showing from Phi Psi this year in the race, look for their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th riders to improve a lot this year to give Albert more support. Phi Psi looks like the only Greek team with a realistic shot at winning next year.
3. Gray Goat- Gray Goat’s depth makes them an easy choice for next year’s podium. Improvement from their young team could make them a threat to break away and finally get that win.
4. 3PH- Coming off a surprising 5th finish, and returning their entire team, 3PH looks like a contender once again. Expect Singhal and Thompson to be among the strongest 1-2 punches in the field.
5. BKB- Although losing Xavier is big, BKB always finds a way to reload and peak in April. Strobel has the top end speed to win in a sprint. If BKB can provide enough support, he might be the one rider who can beat Noble on lap 200.
got lucky this year
stupid
Oh the envy.
You can “if”, “an”, “but” or “luck” all day if you like, but 100% of the time the 2019 Little 500 happened, the Cutters won.
I was able to trigger some cutters. See ya next year
Cutters won, phi psi choked, and big la valle will again make half of his phi psi team want to quit by next spring. Cutters 3 peat
PS3 would eat this board alive.
Truth!
Heard a csf rider crashed a guy in the worlds ride and destroyed his derailleur then refused to make good on their promise to replace it when they couldn’t get it for cheap. Real class act.
Caleb Langley from Bears finished 16th in the road race and 17th in the criterium this weekend at Collegiate Nationals.
Way to represent IU!
Get well soon Griffin Tichenor!