Imperial Winter Series 2012/2013

This series was certainly one of highs and lows – revised circuit timings, malfunctioning equipment, a flooded circuit and instances of poor rider behaviour causing more than an ample helping of stress and frustration. We would also like to have seen a bigger field in the E123 race but this was compensated for by the 3rds and they deserve their own race on this basis alone.

These issues were more than balanced by the positives - consistently good fields in the 4th category race and a strong entry for the single Women’s event. Our decision to continue racing in a clockwise direction but siting the finish adjacent to the opulent new Judge’s hut has been an undoubted success.

Great thanks go to our Sponsors Henry Furniss of WyndyMilla and MaxiFuel and Dan Stevens of Neon-Velo not just for the prizes which were both generous and fantastic but also for their support behind the scenes.

Our roll call of honour must also mention:

ALL THE RIDERS – for their support again and welcome feedback – good and bad

CREW
Doug – Series founder, we wouldn’t be here without him; Rich definitely wouldn’t be here without him!
Lucy – wouldn’t be here without Rich!
Isabel – photo-finish operator and successor to the Imperial empire
Harry and Dan – teas and homemade flapjacks again
Tom – occasionally
Sally – cousin, rider and first-aider
Barry Hollis – first-aider
Tracey and Maisy – all round support
John Mullineaux – all round great guy
Mark Doel – always around to help

The Prize Presentation commenced with the introduction of our honoured guest Tony Doyle MBE and he took a welcome opportunity to talk about the highs and lows of his racing career, followed by a few questions from the riders.

The overall format of the Winter series will be reviewed again during the Summer, to ensure that we best meet the needs of the riders and provide racing for everyone.

Have a great season and see you in December 2013!

Rich, Lucy and Doug

Race 12 Saturday 9th February 2013

On a deceivingly cold, damp and gloomy day the Imperial Winter Series drew to a close with many positions still up for grabs resulting in an excellent entry for all of the races. Perhaps the presence of our guest, Tony Doyle MBE, and the rider’s lucky dip prizes had an influence?

The 4th Cat race followed its usual pattern with riders attacking strongly from the front and causing the group to string out. The prime was keenly contested and won by Ian O’Sullivan (Kingston Wheelers) from David Beckett (London Dynamo) with his team mate Scott Shepherd third. With Scott's third place he secured the overall win in the Neon-Velo Prime Competition, a very consistent effort from him. The race was marred by a crash 300m from the finish, otherwise it was a clean and furious sprint won by consistent Will Greig of SWRouleurs, second place was Ewan Tuohy (Catford CC) with third place going to Alistair Gurney. Sam Williamson (Hemel Hempstead CC) who had been very active throughout the series was more than pleased with his 7th place, one better than the previous week; these points enabling him to move up to 3rd Cat.

The 3rd Cat race had a good entry of 48 riders. Twickenham CC riders James McCarthy, James Blackburn and Graham Crow were very prominent and led the race from the front; they have all progressed immensely as the series went on and gained a great deal of confidence. Neil Wass (TMG Horizon RT) took the prime after 18 km and has dominated the Neon-Velo Prime sprints in the series. After the prime Twickenham CC riders went to the front again, along with Ian Phillips (Army CC) and increased the pace which spread the field out. The finish was getting ever nearer and again York and Crow tried to break, but were brought back by the efforts of the main group. There was a slight lull before the final 3 km when again Crow went to the front and pulled very hard, perhaps a little too early and in the sprint for the line William Goulbourne (Team V-Sprint Racing) had a clear 5 lengths gap over second place Wass and Jacek Reder and York. Reder’s third place was enough to clinch the overall 3rd’s series from Greg Wiltshire (Kingston Wheelers) with recently promoted 2nd cat Ken Buckley (AW Cycles) third.

31 riders lined up for the E123 race with perhaps some preferring to rest with the PERF Road Race in Hampshire on Sunday. Peter Wager (Felt-Colbournes RT) started the action very early on and was quickly followed by Robert Willcocks (RAF) and Matthew Bone (I-Team). They were caught and then Willcocks went on his own, he looked very strong and determined. Wager went again this time with Rolandas Razgauskis and then another move including Phil Holloway (Southend Wheelers), Connall Yates (InGear Quickvit Trainsharp ) and Wilcocks. With the prime looming up after 35 minutes racing Steve Golla (High Wycombe CC) and Theo Doncaster (CC Ashwell) moved up. The prime was taken by Yates from Holloway and Willcocks, although he had already secured the Neon-Velo prize. Golla dropped back and Vince Halpern (Handsling Racing) took up the chase and there was a lull in the main group before Simon Oxenham (VC 10) and Mario Manelfi (ASL360) and Bone moved up. The break by this time had gained a lap and rode through the main group such was their pace and rhythm; it was set for an exciting finish with Willcocks looking the stronger and he had the strength to lead out and hold off Wager, Yates and Holloway for a well-deserved win. Halpern lead the main group in ahead of Golla, Oxenham, Tom Smith (Felt-Colbournes RT) and James Norris (High Wycombe RT). It was a brilliant end to the E123 racing of the Imperial Winter Series, with Smith edging out Halpern for the podium. Yates won the overall Prime prize for his attacking style and consistency and the ever popular Phil Holloway (Southend Wheelers) was awarded the Most Combative Rider Prize.

Race 12 Cats:E123 9th February 2013

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series points
1st	y 92	Robert Willcocks	Royal Air Force CC	2	200
2nd	y108x	Pete Wager	Felt-Colbornes RT	1
3rd	y 28	Conall Yates	InGear Quickvit Trainsharp	1	150
4th	y 17	Phil Holloway	southend wheelers	2	130
5th	y 23	Vincent Halpern	Handsling racing	1	120
6th	y 78	Steve Golla	High Wycombe RT	1	110
7th	y 84	Simon Oxenham	VC10	2	100
8th	y 22	Tom Smith	Felt-Colbornes RT	E	90
9th	y 11	James Norris	High Wycombe CC	2	80
10th	y 93	Keiran Dineen	Amersham RCC	2	70
11th	y111x	Alex Paterson	AW Cycles	1
12th	y114x	Rory Townsend	Pedal Heaven RT	2J
13th	y113x	Stoyko Bussarov	Newdales RT	1
14th	y112	Henry Dawson	Prestige Velo Club	A+disp	60
15th	y 97	Matthew Bone	I-Team	3	50
16th	y  6	Daniel Tamplin	Aylesbury CC	2	40
17th	y  8	George Withers	AW Cycles	2J	30
18th	y109	Theo Doncaster	CC Ashwell	3	20
19th	y 48	Jerzy Kuzminski	High Wycombe CC	2	10
20th	y 31	Paul Bennett	unattached	3
21st	y 20	Robin Basford	Wyndymilla	3
22nd	y115	Desmond Gayler	Kenton Road Club	3
23rd	y 99	Andy Lack	Kingston Wheelers CC	2
24th	y 65	Rolandas Razgauskis	unattached	2
25th	y 52	Mario Manelfi	ASL360	3
Neon-velo prime
1st	y 28	Conall Yates	InGear Quickvit Trainsharp	1
2nd	y 17	Phil Holloway	southend wheelers	2
3rd	y 92	Robert Willcocks	Royal Air Force CC	2

Race 12 3rd Cats 9th February 2013

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	w130x	William Goulbourne	Team V-Sprint Racing	3
2nd	w 25	Neil Wass	TMG Horizon RT	3	200
3rd	w 15	Jacek Reder	unattached	3	150
4th	w 52	Graeme York	Twickenham CC	3	130
5th	w141	James Locker	Team V-Sprint Racing	3	120
6th	w 50	Peter Hudson	unattached	3	110
7th	w 13	Greg Wiltshire	Kingston Wheelers	3	100
8th	w 11	Gavin Francis	London Dynamo	3	90
9th	w129x	Joshua Mitchell	Bicester Millennium CC	3
10th	w 44	Ed Rose	progression/bikelux	3	80
11th	w 66	Alexander Donaldson	London Dynamo	3	70
12th	w101	Michael Skipsey	TMG Horizon Cycling Team	3	60
13th	w  2	Alex Toghill	Twickenham CC	3	50
14th	w116	Spencer Robinson	unattached	3	40
15th	w 98	Ian Phillips	unattached	3	30
16th	w 81	Nathan Hereward	Kingston Wheelers	3	20
17th	w 58	Russell Jones	Unattached	3	10
18th	w147	Lee Davies	London Dynamo	3
19th	w 18	Kevin Argent	La Fuga/ Sigma Sport	3
20th	w134	Damien Lodge	unattached	3
21st	w 77	Graham Crow	Twickenham cc	3
22nd	w146	Riyadh Khamis	Personal Bike Fit	3
23rd	w142	Alvaro Alves Da Cunha	unattached	3
24th	w128	Giles Porter	London Dynamo	3
25th	w133	William Mcavock	London Dynamo	3
26th	w 38	Andrew Stronge	unattached	3
27th	w136	Nathan Anscombe	Bristol RC	3
28th	w 69	Chris Yates	East Grinstead CC	3
29th	w135	Dan Hazlewood	Bonito Squadra Corse	3
30th	w 26	Richard Rose	Bikelux Progression	3
31st	w  6	Chris Campbell	London Dynamo	3
32nd	w 43	Paul Moore	Kingston Wheelers CC	3
33rd	w138	James Vanish	team V-Sprint Racing	3
34th	w 63	Clemence Copie	High Wycombe CC	2w
35th	w106	Anna-Marie Hughes	Prestige VC	A+disp
36th	w140	James Cracknell	Team V-Sprint Racing	3
37th	w  3	Andrew Harvey	Kingston Wheelers	3
38th	w 17	James Di Rico	high wycombe cc	3
39th	w 23	Mark O'Brien	Archer RC	3
40th	w 62	Martin Porter	Thames Velo	3
41st	w 31	Wayne Thomas	G.S. HENLEY	3V
42nd	w 55	Nick Franzini	London Dynamo	3
43rd	w143	Richard Whitworth	Dulwich Paragon	3
44th	w 48	Andrew Granger	Twickenham CC	3
Neon-velo prime
1st	w 25	Neil Wass	TMG Horizon RT	3
2nd	w 13	Greg Wiltshire	Kingston Wheelers	3
3rd	w140	James Cracknell	Team V-Sprint Racing	3

Race 12 4th Cats 9th February 2013

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	p 34	Will Greig	SWRouleurs	4
2nd	r 18	Ewan Tuohy	Catford Cycling Club	4
3rd	r151	Alistair Gurney	Unattached	4
4th	p 29	Barney Edwards	London Dynamo	4
5th	r103	Thomas Gibb	Imperial College CC	4
6th	r 56	Ian O'Sullivan	Kingston Wheelers	4
7th	r 19	Sam Williamson	Hemel Hempstead CC	4
8th	r125	David Beckett	London Dynamo	4
9th	r131	Grant Little	London Dynamo	4
10th	r147	Greg Lewis	VC10	4
11th	r 68	Scott Shepherd	London Dynamo	4
12th	r 52	Zachary Bredemear	Dulwich Paragon CC	4
13th	p 43	Leo Bonito	Bonito Squadra Corse	4
14th	r173	Paul Batchelor	Charlotteville CC	4
15th	r178	Paddy Williams	VC Dulwich College	4
16th	p 35	Simon Potter	unattached	4
17th	w 87x	Matthew Leary	In Gear	4
18th	r186	Stuart Thomas	unattached	4
19th	r109	Matthew Coulter	Cowley Road Condors	4J
20th	w 86x	James Turzynski	Kingston Wheelers	4
21st	p 40	Sarah Short	Bonito Squadra Corse	4
22nd	r123	Steve Chiswell	VC10	4
23rd	r157	Daniel Tripa	Personal Bikefit.com	4
24th	p 23	Carlisle King	Imperial College Cycling Club	4
25th	r 74	Lee King	Rides on air	4
26th	r179	Alec Saunders	Velo	4J
27th	p 36	Catriona Ross	PSUK CRT / WDMBC	4w
28th	p 45	Matt Chudley	bonito Squadra Corse	4
29th	r170	James Marvin	salford uni	4
30th	p 20	Rick Gradidge	SWRouleurs	4
31st	p 24	Michael Gates	Kingston Wheelers CC	4
32nd	r 62	Mike Joseph	Twickenham CC	4
33rd	w  1x	Constantin Mayer	SW Rouleurs	4
34th	r  3	Andrew Deans	London Dynamo	4
35th	r108	Elwyn Powell	Twickenham CC	4
36th	p 31	Matthew Wyatt	unattached	4
37th	p 50	JW Tusting	Bonito Squadra Corse	4
38th	r 15	David Morgan	Charlotteville CC	4
39th	r155	Chris Cleave	unattached	4
40th	r 65	Tim Childs	Westerley CC	4
41st	r189	Stuart Irving	Army Cycling Union	4
42nd	r199	Arnav Kapur	Dulwich College	4J
43rd	r183	Josh Blacker	London Dynamo	4
44th	w  9x	James Baker	VC10	4
45th	r188	Ben Goldsworthy	unattached	4
46th	r105	Jon Shillingford	unattached	4
47th	r177	Michael Coomber	ICycle Cycling Club	4
48th	p 41	Stuart Short	Bonito Squadra Corse	4
49th	r 21	Graham Austin	East St Cycles.com	4
50th	p 49	Claude Autrey	London Dynamo	4
51st	r156	Jonathan Whybrow	Reading CC	4
52nd	p 48	Joshua Castola	VC Dulwich College	4
53rd	w 81x	Olly Kan	Team V-Sprint Racing	4
54th	p 44	Christine Lindsay	Bonito Squadra Corse	4w
55th	p 46	Claire Richardson	London Dynamo	4w
56th	r142	Harriet Hollis	Aylesbury CC	4Jw
57th	r148	Sally Stubbs	Imperial Racing Team	4w
58th	w 35x	Duncan Coulter	unattached	4
Neon-velo prime
1st	r 56	Ian O'Sullivan	Kingston Wheelers	4
2nd	r125	David Beckett	London Dynamo	4
3rd	r 68	Scott Shepherd	London Dynamo	4

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If you've lost it we my have found it - we have loads of stinky kit, helmets, all sorts and if you lost your glasses tell me about them, we found some more when we closed up today.
Email me Lucy@imperialracingteam.com

Race 11 Saturday 2nd February 2013

A cold icy wind blew from the north down the finishing straight making the sprint for the Primes and finish line fast and furious.

The 4th Cat race started with High Wycombe's Sam Williamson stringing the 50 strong peloton out, helped by Barney Edwards (London Dynamo) before Steve James (High Wycombe) attacked on his own. He missed the Prime which was taken by Alex Niven from Will Greig (SW Rouleurs) and Scott Shepherd (London Dynamo). A crash after the finish line disrupted the main group with 6 km to go, soon after David Beckett (London Dynamo) attacked and hearing the bell could with luck have won on his own, but with the wind against him on the climbs saw him caught and Prime winner Niven taking a well-deserved win from Greig and Darryl Bates-Brownsword (Zappi's Cycling Club) taking third. The random prize is awarded to 9th place finisher Alvaro Alves Da Cunhawho will ‘go faster’ courtesy of a WyndyMilla cycle fitting at their Manor Farm Cycle Centre.

As a result of the earlier crash the 3rd Cats and Elite races were neutralised in order to keep all the riders warm they rode around at tempo speed for 20 minutes. The presence of Sean Yates (3rd cat?!!) on the start line created a buzz and he was most welcome, and we believe he enjoyed the atmosphere of racing again. It was a lively start with attacks by Jacek Reder and Alex Tinsley (Twickenham CC) and closer to the Neon Velo prime there were more attacks from Theo Doncaster (CC Ashwell), Chris Yates (East Grinstead CC), but the Prime was taken by William Goulbourne (Team V-Sprint Racing) with Doncaster second and Greg Wiltshire (Kingston Wheelers) third. From then it was full on to the finish with Adam Stone (Velosport) taking off on his own and looking like a lone winner; it was a very brave effort with the wind conditions against him, however, somehow he was caught by Goulbourne who took advantage of the downhill section with the wind and rode past Stone for the win. Graham Crow (Twickenham CC) produced a powerful sprint for a well-deserved third place from his team mate Tinsley who just kept out Sean Yates (In Gear Quickvit Trainsharp) for 4th place. The Maxifuel random prize is awarded to 21st place finisher Giles Porter (London Dynamo) who receives a Maxifuel rucksack comprising of Viperactive energy fuel, gels and bottles.

The Elite entry was slightly up on previous weeks and after the neutralised period all the riders were pleased to start racing, the race duration being reduced slightly to 55 mins. plus 5 laps. There was a welcome return to the circuit by Dante Carpenter (Pedal Heaven RT) who said his steady winter training and general fitness had returned and he wanted a good workout before next week's first road race of the season, the Perfs. He certainly started well and rode off the front for 8 km; returning Peter Wager (Felt Colbourne) was very attentive and tried to bridge the gap but Connall Yates (InGear Quickvit Trainsharp) brought the peloton across to them. Matthew Bone (I-Team Cyclists' Club) also got involved in the action. It continued in the same vein for the next 15 km with further attacks by Yates, Wager and Carpenter before the prime was taken by Jamie Pine (Pedal Heaven RT) from Yates and James Locker (Team V Sprint). Richard Prebble (Node4-Giordana Racing) was trying hard at the front along with Allan Ridler (Pedal Heaven RT), who then attacked. Something had to give in the cold and windy conditions and a break formed with the peloton fragmenting into three groups. Leaders Robert Willcocks (RAF CC), Ridler and Carpenter were joined by Yates, Wager and then Prebble to form the break which looked under the conditions that they would stay together to the finish. Carpenter clearly had other ideas and opened a gap. It was a brilliant and brave effort and with his two team mates in the break controlling the pace he stayed away for a magnificent lone win. Pine had to work very hard to hold off Willcocks for second place, Yates was fourth, Ridler fifth, Wager sixth with Prebble getting slightly distanced with 2 km to the finish but he held on for 7th place from a fast closing in main group. Phil Holloway (Southend Wheelers) and Matt Carden (Team Quest) rolled in the group after some concerted efforts to move away before the sprint. Recently promoted Ken Buckley (AW Cycles) finished well 8th with series contenders Tom Smith (Felt-Colbornes RT) and Vince Halpern (Handsling Racing) in 9th and 11th place respectively.

Next week’s series prizes will be presented by Tony Doyle MBE our most successful 6-day rider and multiple World and European track champion.

Race 11 Cats:E123 2nd February 2013

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series points
1st	y102	Dante Carpenter	Pedal Heaven RT	2
2nd	y  1	Jamie Pine	Pedal Heaven RT	E	200
3rd	y 92	Robert Willcocks	Royal Air Force CC	2	150
4th	y 28	Conall Yates	InGear Quickvit Trainsharp	1	130
5th	y105	Allan Ridler	Pedal Heaven RT	E
6th	y108	Pete Wager	Felt-Colbornes RT	1
7th	y 19	Richard Prebble	Node4-Giordana Racing	2V	120
8th	y101	Ken Buckley	AW Cycles	3	110
9th	y 22	Tom Smith	Felt-Colbornes RT	E	100
10th	y 56	Mark Smith	Welwyn Wheelers	2	90
11th	y 23	Vincent Halpern	Handsling racing	1	80
12th	y 11	James Norris	High Wycombe CC	2	70
13th	y 48	Jerzy Kuzminski	High Wycombe CC	2	60
14th	y107	Steve Atkinson	Southdowns Bikes CC	2	50
15th	y 75	James Locker	Team V-Sprint Racing	3	40
16th	y 84	Simon Oxenham	VC10	2	30
17th	y104	Matt Tibbutt	Wightlink,LCM Systems Cycle RT	2
18th	y  5	Cameron Foster	club corley cycles	2	20
19th	y 66	Stuart Williams	Reading CC	2	10
20th	y  6	Daniel Tamplin	Aylesbury CC	2
21st	y 93	Keiran Dineen	Amersham RCC	2
22nd	y103	Jonathan Dredge	London Dynamo	3
23rd	y 44	Martin Garratt	London Dynamo	2
24th	y 41	Chris Grange	Hemel Hempstead	3
25th	y 20	Robin Basford	Wyndymilla	3
26th	y  7	Duncan Rimmer	Morden CRC	3
27th	y 47	Paul Holdsworth	Hounslow & District Wlrs	2
28th	y 52	Mario Manelfi	asl360	3
29th	y 97	Matthew Bone	I-Team Cyclists' Club	2
30th	y 17	Phil Holloway	southend wheelers	2
31st	y 38	Matt Carden	Team Quest	3
Neon-velo prime
1st	y  1	Jamie Pine	Pedal Heaven RT	E
2nd	y 28	Conall Yates	InGear Quickvit Trainsharp	1
3rd	y 75	James Locker	Team V-Sprint Racing	3

Race 11 3rd Cats 2nd February 2013

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	w130	William Goulbourne	Team V-Sprint Racing	3
2nd	w115	Adam Stone	Velosport	3	200
3rd	w 77	Graham Crow	Twickenham cc	3	150
4th	w 67	Alex Tinsley	Twickenham CC	3	130
5th	w126	Sean Yates	In Gear Quickvit Trainsharp	3	120
6th	w 66	Alexander Donaldson	London Dynamo	3	110
7th	w118	Joshua Jones	Cambridge Uni CC	3	100
8th	w 15	Jacek Reder	unattached	3	90
9th	w122	Theo Doncaster	CC Ashwell	3	80
10th	w 13	Greg Wiltshire	Kingston Wheelers	3	70
11th	w132	Neil Heffernan	Inverse CyClaim RT	3	60
12th	w 44	Ed Rose	progression/bikelux	3	50
13th	w 50	Peter Hudson	unattached	3	40
14th	w123	Cameron Woolsey	CC Ashwell	3	30
15th	w 70	Mike Saunders	team corridori	3	20
16th	w 96	Desmond Gayler	Kenton Road Club	3	10
17th	w  1	Alex Osborne	High Wycombe CC	3
18th	w 21	Luke Souter	Banbury Star CC	3
19th	w 11	Gavin Francis	London Dynamo	3
20th	w 69	Chris Yates	East Grinstead CC	3
21st	w128	Giles Porter	London Dynamo	3
22nd	w  2	Alex Toghill	Twickenham CC	3
23rd	w 52	Graeme York	Twickenham CC	3
24th	w 40	Abigail Dentus	Welwyn Wheelers CC	A+dispW
25th	w124	Jonathan Chapman	CC Ashwell	3
26th	w 58	Russell Jones	Unattached	3
27th	w  6	Chris Campbell	London Dynamo	3
28th	w114	Leo Lerner	vo2 Development Team	3J
29th	w  3	Andrew Harvey	Kingston Wheelers	3
30th	w 38	Andrew Stronge	unattached	3
31st	w131	Ben Mountford	Red Kite Cycles	3
32nd	w 23	Mark O'Brien	Archer RC	3
33rd	w 63	Clemence Copie	High Wycombe CC	2w
34th	w 25	Neil Wass	TMG Horizon RT	3
35th	w 31	Wayne Thomas	G.S. HENLEY	3V
36th	w129	Joshua Mitchell	Bicester Millennium CC	3J
37th	w 55	Nick Franzini	London Dynamo	3
38th	w125	Bryn Davies	CC Ashwell	3
39th	w 14	Henry Dawson	Prestige Velo Club	A+disp
40th	w133	William Mcavock	London Dynamo	3
41st	w 78	James Walsby	Catford CC	3
42nd	w106	Anna-Marie Hughes	Prestige VC	A+disp
43rd	w 18	Kevin Argent	La Fuga/ Sigma Sport	3
Neon-velo prime
1st	w130	William Goulbourne	Team V-Sprint Racing	3
2nd	w122	Theo Doncaster	CC Ashwell	3
3rd	w 13	Greg Wiltshire	Kingston Wheelers	3

Race 11 4th Cats 2nd February 2013

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	r161	Alex Niven	unattached	4
2nd	p 34	Will Greig	SWRouleurs	4
3rd	r146	Darryl Bates-Brownsword	Zappi	4
4th	r 11	Damien Lodge	unattached	4
5th	r151	Alistair Gurney	Unattached	4
6th	p 29	Barney Edwards	London Dynamo	4
7th	r 78	Riyadh Khamis	Personal bike fit	4
8th	r 19	Sam Williamson	Hemel Hempstead CC	4
9th	r 86	Alvaro Alves Da Cunha	unattached	4
10th	r 52	Zachary Bredemear	Dulwich Paragon CC	4
11th	r 21	Graham Austin	East St Cycles.com	4
12th	r 56	Ian O'Sullivan	Kingston Wheelers	4
13th	p 20	Rick Gradidge	SWRouleurs	4
14th	p 35	Simon Potter	unattached	4
15th	r177	Michael Coomber	ICycle Cycling Club	4
16th	r182	Sam Owen	London Dynamo	4
17th	r 97	Peter Blencowe	Imperial College CC	4
18th	r108	Elwyn Powell	Twickenham CC	4
19th	p 24	Michael Gates	Kingston Wheelers	4
20th	r 35	Matthew Evans	London Dynamo	4
21st	r160	Steve James	High Wycombe CC	4J
22nd	r103	Thomas Gibb	Imperial College CC	4
23rd	p 38	James Claxton	Twickenham CC	4
24th	p 23	Carlisle King	Imperial College CC	4
25th	p 39	Maxim Chambers	London Dynamo	4
26th	r 55	Edward Cox	Imperial College CC	4
27th	p 25	Adrian Lowery	Dulwich Paragon CC	4
28th	r183	Josh Blacker	London Dynamo	4
29th	r 65	Tim Childs	Westerley CC	4
30th	r125	David Beckett	London Dynamo	4
31st	p 21	Any Gilbert	unattached	4
32nd	r  3	Andrew Deans	London Dynamo	4
33rd	r 32	Martin Williams	Sky Velo	4
34th	p 30	James Rapinac	London Dynamo	4
35th	r144	Sean Bradley	Team Trisports	4
36th	r 61	Matthew Kimber	unattached	4
37th	r167	Sean Bathe-Taylor	Pearson CC	4
38th	p 37	Paul O'Kane	unattached	4
39th	r 68	Scott Shepherd	London Dynamo	0
40th	r188	Ben Goldsworthy	unattached	4
41st	r105	Jon Shillingford	unattached	4
42nd	p 31	Matthew Wyatt	unattached	4
43rd	p 36	Catriona Ross	PSUK CRT / WDMBC	4w
44th	r142	Harriet Hollis	Aylesbury CC	4Jw
Neon-velo prime
1st	r161	Alex Niven	unattached	4
2nd	p 34	Will Greig	SWRouleurs	4
3rd	r 68	Scott Shepherd	London Dynamo	4

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Race 10 Saturday 26th January 2013

In direct contrast to the previous week on an almost spring like day with a south west wind blowing down the finishing straight, and a good general entry in all categories it promised to be an entertaining afternoons racing and so it proved to be.

The 4th cat race started steadily with Lee Davies prominent from the start leading the main group along at a fair fast pace with Toby Payne (Sky Velo) helping out before Twickenham CC's Stephen Rush moved forward. An attack from Alex Milne opened a gap but they came together before the Prime which was won by Martin Williams (Sky Velo) on his own with Sam Williamson (Hemel Hempstead) second and Alvaro Alves Da Cunha in third place in a fiercely contested sprint. It then settled down for the run in to the finish but then strung out as the bends and the climb were negotiated; Lee Davies (London Dynamo) won easily from Edmond Fowles, Darryl Bates-Brownsword (Zappi) and Alvaro alves da Cunha. The random prize is awarded to 32nd place finisher Martin Williams (Sky Velo) who will ‘go faster’ courtesy of a WyndyMilla cycle fitting at their Manor Farm Cycle Centre.

The 3rd Cat race also started steadily until Andrew Stronge went to the front and injected pace into the main group: but after 10 km Graham Crow (Twickenham CC) and Ken Buckley (AW Cycles) pulled away and steadily increased their lead to ľ’s of a lap. Buckley took the prime from Crow with Kevin Argent taking third leading the main group. The leading duo continued to work well together and steadily increased their lead. However, a lone effort from Jonathan Dredge (London Dynamo) saw him distance himself and although he was unlikely to catch the leaders he rode well for third place. Unfortunately Crow, not being a sprinter, had to concede the victory to Buckley; nevertheless a brilliant effort by both riders and they should be now ready to move up into the Elite group. The Maxifuel random prize is awarded to 20th place finisher Alexander Donaldson (London Dynamo) who receives a Maxifuel rucksack comprising of Viperactive energy fuel, gels and bottles.

As in the previous races it started at a fast pace but with the group staying together for the first 15 km. and in-form RAF rider Robert Willcocks pulling hard at the front together with previous winner James Locker (Team V-Sprint Racing) and ever active Connall Yates (InGear Quickvit Trainsharp). Finally, a group of seven riders detached themselves from the main group, the Prime having been taken by last year's Series winner Jamie Pine (Pedal Heaven RT) with in 2nd and Rudy Marais (La Fuga/ Sigma Sport) in third.
The break consisted of the all in-form riders with the exception of Vince Halpern (Handsling Cycles) who was having an off-day due to a cold. However, the important stage of the race was the run in to the finish; Steve Golla again attacked with 1.5 km to go but the remaining riders were watching very closely and did not allow him to do the same as in the previous round and in the final uphill stretch, having been caught, he had to dig deep to hang on. However, he had the strength to recover and finish fourth. In the sprint for the line pure sprinter Tom Smith (Felt Colbornes RT) held off Joseph Crolla (AW Cycles) and in third place fast improving Willcocks. The remainder of the breakaway consisted of Matt Carden (Team Quest) taking 5th by the narrowest margin from Steve Golla (High Wycombe RT) with Connall Yates and Phil Holloway (Southend Wheelers) bringing up the rear. The second group was lead in by Jake Coward (Rapha Condor CC), Marais, Ben Knowles (London Phoenix) and Locker with Jerzy Kuzminski (London Phoenix) leading the main group home.

Race 10 Cats:E123 26th January 2013

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	y 22	Tom Smith	Felt-Colbornes RT	E	200
2nd	y180	Joseph Crolla	AW Cycles	2J
3rd	y 92	Robert Willcocks	Royal Air Force CC	2	150
4th	y 38	Matt Carden	Team Quest	3	130
5th	y 78	Steve Golla	High Wycombe RT	1	120
6th	y 28	Conall Yates	InGear Quickvit Trainsharp	1	110
7th	y 17	Phil Holloway	southend wheelers	2	100
8th	y 98	Jake Coward	Rapha Condor CC	3J	90
9th	y 71	Rudie Marais	La Fuga/ Sigma Sport	2	80
10th	y100	Ben Knowles	London Phoenix	2	70
11th	y 75	James Locker	Team V-Sprint Racing	3	60
12th	y 48	Jerzy Kuzminski	High Wycombe CC	2	50
13th	y 52	Mario Manelfi	asl360	3	40
14th	y 23	Vincent Halpern	Handsling racing	1	30
15th	y  6	Daniel Tamplin	Aylesbury CC	2	20
16th	y  8	George Withers	AW Cycles	2J	10
17th	y 66	Stuart Williams	Reading CC	2
18th	y 20	Robin Basford	Wyndymilla	3
19th	y 11	James Norris	High Wycombe CC	2
20th	y 44	Martin Garratt	London Dynamo	2
21st	y 97	Matthew Bone	I-Team Cyclists' Club	2
22nd	y 46	Jo Skelton	Look mum no hands!	3
23rd	y 31	Paul Bennett	unattached	3
24th	y 99	Andy Lack	Kingston Wheelers CC	2
Neon-velo prime
1st	y  1	Jamie Pine	Pedal Heaven RT	E
2nd	y 28	Conall Yates	InGear Quickvit Trainsharp	1
3rd	y 71	Rudie Marais	La Fuga/ Sigma Sport	2

Race 10 3rd Cats 26th January 2013

Place	No.		Club	Cat	BC
1st	w 79	Ken Buckley	AW Cycles	3
2nd	w 77	Graham Crow	Twickenham cc	3	200
3rd	w 20	Jonathan Dredge	London Dynamo	3	150
4th	w 15	Jacek Reder	unattached	3	130
5th	w 67	Alex Tinsley	Twickenham CC	3	120
6th	w 98	Ian Phillips	unattached	3	110
7th	w118	Joshua Jones	Cambridge Uni CC	3	100
8th	w 17	James Di Rico	high wycombe cc	3	90
9th	w  1	Alex Osborne	High Wycombe CC	3	80
10th	w 44	Ed Rose	progression/bikelux	3	70
11th	w111	Greg Barber	Charlottevillecc	3	60
12th	w 52	Graeme York	Twickenham CC	3	50
13th	w119	Steve Tribe	Velosport	3	40
14th	w 70	Mike Saunders	team corridori	3	30
15th	w 86	Hugh Vivian	Finsbury Park CC	3	20
16th	w117	Ryan Witchell	Welwyn Wheelers CC	3J	10
17th	w 69	Chris Yates	East Grinstead CC	3
18th	w 26	Richard Rose	Bikelux Progression	3
19th	w 38	Andrew Stronge	unattached	3
20th	w 66	Alexander Donaldson	London Dynamo	3
21st	w115	Adam Stone	Velosport	3
22nd	w 18	Kevin Argent	La Fuga/ Sigma Sport	3
23rd	w 88	Lewis Hutton	Oxonian CC	3
24th	w 96	Desmond Gayler	Kenton Road Club	3
25th	w  6	Chris Campbell	London Dynamo	3
26th	w112	Jack Kennett	Prestige Velo Club	3J
27th	w 23	Mark O'Brien	Archer RC	3
28th	w 62	Martin Porter	Thames Velo	3
29th	w121	Richard Skilton	unattached	3
30th	w120	Callum Oliver	Rapha Condor CC	3J
31st	w101	Michael Skipsey	TMG Horizon Cycling Team	3
32nd	w 54	Ray Wilson	London Dynamo	3
33rd	w113	Matthew Buck	vo2 Development Team
34th	w114	Leo Lerner	vo2 Development Team	3J
Neon-velo prime
1st	w 79	Ken Buckley	AW Cycles	3
2nd	w 77	Graham Crow	Twickenham cc	3
3rd	w 18	Kevin Argent	La Fuga/ Sigma Sport	3

Race 10 4th Cats 26th January 2013

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	r185	Lee Davies	London Dynamo	4
2nd	r 47	Edmund Fowles	unattached	4
3rd	r146	Darryl Bates-Brownsword	Zappi	4
4th	r 86	Alvaro Alves Da Cunha	unattached	4
5th	r 56	Ian O'Sullivan	Kingston Wheelers	4
6th	r110	Stephen Cavey	Catford Cycling Club	4
7th	r 87	Alex Milne	unattached	4
8th	r190	Toby Payne	Sky Velo	4
9th	r181	Nathan Sweeney	London Dynamo	4
10th	r 62	Mike Joseph	Twickenham CC	4
11th	r182	Sam Owen	London Dynamo	4
12th	r 74	Lee King	Rides on air	4
13th	r 78	Riyadh Khamis	Personal bike fit	4
14th	r 18	Ewan Tuohy	Catford Cycling Club	4
15th	r177	Michael Coomber	ICycle Cycling Club	4
16th	r 52	Zachary Bredemear	Dulwich Paragon CC	4
17th	r 97	Peter Blencowe	Imperial College CC	4
18th	r179	Alec Saunders	Velo	4J
19th	r 19	Sam Williamson	Hemel Hempstead CC	4
20th	r 46	Stephen Rush	Twickenham CC	4
21st	r 11	Damien Lodge	unattached	4
22nd	r105	Jon Shillingford	unattached	4
23rd	r143	Dan Williams	unattached	4
24th	r 25	Sebastian Kroll	Stevenage CC	4
25th	r 55	Edward Cox	Imperial College CC	4
26th	r158	Luke Samuel	OUCC	4
27th	r188	Ben Goldsworthy	unattached	4
28th	r155	Chris Cleave	unattached	4
29th	r136	Simon Bromley	London Dynamo	4
30th	r170	James Marvin	salford uni	4
31st	r 21	Graham Austin	East St Cycles.com	4
32nd	r 32	Martin Williams	Sky Velo	4
33rd	r189	Stuart Irving	Army Cycling Union	4
34th	r131	Grant Little	London Dynamo	4
35th	r187	James Wilding	Supernovacycles.co.uk/Schwalbe	4
36th	r102	Matthew Twist	unattached	4
37th	r178	Paddy Williams	VC Dulwich College	4
38th	r 43	Ron Walls	London Dynamo	4
39th	r 68	Scott Shepherd	London Dynamo	0
40th	r186	Stuart Thomas	unattached	4
41st	r 58	Josh Day	Imperial College	4
42nd	r 65	Tim Childs	Westerley CC	4
43rd	r  3	Andrew Deans	London Dynamo	4
44th	r184	David Taylor	La Fuga/ Sigma Sport	4
45th	r151	Alistair Gurney	Unattached	4
46th	r180	Adam Gardner	GS Henley	4
47th	r101	Ned Kingdon	Zappi's CC	4
48th	r174	Piers Hugh Smith	Zappi's CC	4J
49th	r 14	Daren Austin	Twickenham CC	4
50th	r 59	Anthony Steaman	Crawley Wheelers	4
Neon-velo prime
1st	r 32	Martin Williams	Sky Velo	4
2nd	r 19	Sam Williamson	Hemel Hempstead CC	4
3rd	r 86	Alvaro Alves Da Cunha	unattached	4

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Race 8 Saturday 12th January 2013

A complete change in the weather greeted the riders in Round 8 - an icy cold day with the east wind blowing across the circuit created difficult conditions for anyone at either end of the main groups - trying to break away and trying to hang were both challenging with limited shelter available.

However, in the 4th Cat race which started the afternoon racing, an excellent field of 57 riders took part including Emily Mellor (VO2 Development Team) and Harriet Hollis (Aylesbury) - 48 finished. There were several efforts on the front stretching the main group out from Sean Bradley (Team Trisports), Alex Milne and Sean Bathe-Taylor (Pearson Cycles) before the Prime loomed up after 25km of racing. This was won in a well-judged effort by Niven from Giles Porter (London Dynamo) and Milne. Two crashes shortly afterwards disrupted the second half of the race but in the finale Porter held his position and line to score an outstanding win from Josh Jones (Cambridge Uni CC) with Riyadh Khamis (Personal Bikefit) taking third place. The random prize is awarded to 12th place finisher Peter Blencowe (Imperial College CC) who will ‘go faster’ courtesy of a WyndyMilla cycle fitting at their Manor Farm Cycle Centre.

The 3rd Cat race also had an excellent field of 45 riders, with five women mixing it with the men, including three under 16's. There were several riders pulling hard at the front for the first 10km with Alex Tinsley (Twickenham CC) particularly strong and helped by team mate James Blackburn. The Prime was won by Greg Wiltshire (Kingston Wheelers) from Mark Longstaff (Colchester Rovers) with Neil Wass (TMG Horizon RT) featuring again. Two attacks followed, one by Tinsley which was short-lived and another from Ken Buckley (AW Cycles); then with 2 km to go Callum Oliver (Rapha Condor) made a brave effort to go alone to the finish before a crash disrupted the flow of the race and left riders trailing. The strength and experience of Wiltshire got him to the line first, beating in-form Buckley and Gavin Francis (London Dynamo). The women riders finished strongly again with the two U-l6 ladies Abigail Dentus (Welwyn Wheelers) in 21st and Anna-Marie Hughes (Prestige Velo Club) in 33rd place; Monica DaPolenza was 25th and Rachel Przybyiski 34th, both from series sponsor WyndyMilla.

Sportingly, winner Greg Wiltshire turned round immediately after the finish to support the First Aider in the aftermath of the crash on the ‘bus stops’ straight. The Maxifuel random prize is awarded to 5th place finisher Jacek Reder who receives a Maxifuel rucksack comprising of Viperactive energy fuel, gels and bottles.

The Elite race attracted 31 entries for their one hour plus 5 laps race and from the start Steven Jackson (HotChillee), lead. After he was reeled in Matthew Butt (Team ASL360) tried on his own before a very determined effort by Simon Oxenham (VC10), now riding with the Elite class moved away. He was chased down by Vince Halpern (Handsling)and they all came together after another 2 km, before Steve Golla (High Wycombe CC) and Henry Furniss (WyndyMilla) showed at the front. After 40 minutes Connall Yates (InGear Quickvit Trainsharp) took the prime from Phil Holloway (Southend Wheelers). A very determined break formed with Yates to the fore with Tom Smith (Felt-Colbornes RT), Halpern, Golla, Holloway and a new name to the series RAF rider Robert Willcocks; the speed in which they moved away caused all sorts of panic in the main group which split into several chasing groups. The ride of the day came from Golla who attacked up the main drag to the old finish; he quickly opened a substantial gap on his breakaway companions to cross the line for a brilliant and well deserved win. Tony Gibb (the pack racing) was second, Smith third, the two out and out sprinters with Willcocks beating the three remaining riders.

The wind and cold created a tough day for the organisers, officials and riders with a number of crashes and some riders having difficulty acting on race directions when the 3rds and E123 fields came together; these issues need to be addressed by the next race.

Race 8 Cats:E123 12th January 2013

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	y 78	Steve Golla	High Wycombe RT	1	200
2nd	y 36	Tony Gibb	the pack racing	1	150
3rd	y 22	Tom Smith	Felt-Colbornes RT	E	130
4th	y 92	Robert Willcocks	Royal Air Force CC	2	120
5th	y 23	Vincent Halpern	Handsling racing	1	110
6th	y 28	Conall Yates	InGear Quickvit Trainsharp	1	100
7th	y 17	Phil Holloway	southend wheelers	2	90
8th	y 68	Matthew Butt	Team ASL360	2	80
9th	y 71	Rudie Marais	La Fuga/ Sigma Sport	2	70
10th	y 48	Jerzy Kuzminski	High Wycombe CC	2	60
11th	y  6	Daniel Tamplin	Aylesbury CC	2	50
12th	y 66	Stuart Williams	Reading CC	2	40
13th	y 86	Jon Lewis	Charlotteville CC	1	30
14th	y 29	Rupert Beale	Beeline Bikes RT	2	20
15th	y 95	Henry Furniss	WyndyMilla	1	10
16th	y 93	Keiran Dineen	Amersham RCC	2
17th	y 82	Adam Capes	London Dynamo	2
18th	y 20	Robin Basford	Wyndymilla	3
19th	y 46	Jo Skelton	Look mum no hands!	3
20th	y 31	Paul Bennett	unattached	3
21st	y 44	Martin Garratt	London Dynamo	2	rel
22nd	y 80	Joseph Crolla	AW Cycles	2	rel
23rd	y  8	George Withers	AW Cycles	2J	rel
24th	y 91	Ralph Keeler	Cambridge CC	3	rel
Neon-velo prime
1st	y 28	Conall Yates	InGear Quickvit Trainsharp	1
2nd	y 17	Phil Holloway	southend wheelers	2
3rd	y 36	Tony Gibb	the pack racing	1

Race 8 3rd Cats 12th January 2013

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series points
1st	w 13	Greg Wiltshire	Kingston Wheelers	3	200
2nd	w 79	Ken Buckley	AW Cycles	3	150
3rd	w 11	Gavin Francis	London Dynamo	3	130
4th	w 25	Neil Wass	TMG Horizon RT	3	120
5th	w 15	Jacek Reder	unattached	3	110
6th	w 75	Charles Batho	Dulwich Paragon CC	3v	100
7th	w 77	Graham Crow	Twickenham cc	3	90
8th	w 59	James Blackburn	Twickenham CC	3	80
9th	w 43	Paul Moore	Kingston Wheelers CC	3	70
10th	w  2	Alex Toghill	Twickenham CC	3	60
11th	w 44	Ed Rose	progression/bikelux	3	50
12th	w 38	Andrew Stronge	unattached	3	40
13th	w109	Callum Oliver	Rapha Condor CC	3J	30
14th	w 67	Alex Tinsley	Twickenham CC	3	20
15th	w 17	James Di Rico	high wycombe cc	3	10
16th	w 69	Chris Yates	East Grinstead CC	3
17th	w 52	Graeme York	Twickenham CC	3
18th	w101	Michael Skipsey	Welwyn Wheelers	3
19th	w 26	Richard Rose	Bikelux Progression	3
20th	w 58	Russell Jones	Unattached	3
21st	w 40	Abigail Dentus	Welwyn Wheelers CC	A+dispW
22nd	w 64	William Jones	unattached	3
23rd	w107	Serge Hunt	Addiscombe CC	3
24th	w  6	Chris Campbell	London Dynamo	3
25th	w 41	Monica DaPolenza	WyndyMilla	2w
26th	w 98	Ian Phillips	unattached	3
27th	w102	Mark Longstaff	Colchester Rovers CC	3
28th	w 23	Mark O'Brien	Archer RC	3
29th	w 66	Alexander Donaldson	London Dynamo	3
30th	w 99	Drew Holmes	unattached	3
31st	w 86	Hugh Vivian	Finsbury Park CC	3
32nd	w 82	Dominic Lowden	Lewes Wanderers CC	3
33rd	w106	Anna-Marie Hughes	Prestige VC	A+disp
34th	w 97	Rachel Przybylski	WyndyMillaUKYouth	2
35th	w 62	Martin Porter	Thames Velo	3
36th	w 31	Wayne Thomas	G.S. HENLEY	3V
Neon-velo prime
1st	w 13	Greg Wiltshire	Kingston Wheelers	3
2nd	w102	Mark Longstaff	Colchester Rovers CC	3
3rd	w 25	Neil Wass	TMG Horizon RT	3

Race 8 4th Cats 12th January 2013

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	r 76	Giles Porter	London Dynamo	4
2nd	r149	Joshua Jones	Cambridge Uni CC	4
3rd	r 78	Riyadh Khamis	Personal bike fit	4
4th	r147	Greg Lewis	VC10	4
5th	r 11	Damien Lodge	unattached	4
6th	r158	Luke Samuel	OUCC	4
7th	r165	Oliver Jedrej	Dulwich Paragon CC	4
8th	r 56	Ian O'Sullivan	Kingston Wheelers	4
9th	r 52	Zachary Bredemear	Dulwich Paragon CC	4
10th	r 19	Sam Williamson	Hemel Hempstead CC	4
11th	r 87	Alex Milne	unattached	4
12th	r 97	Peter Blencowe	Imperial College CC	4
13th	r160	Steve James	High Wycombe CC	4J
14th	r157	Daniel Tripa	Personal Bikefit.com	4
15th	r108	Elwyn Powell	Twickenham CC	4
16th	r 58	Josh Day	Imperial College	4
17th	r 62	Mike Joseph	Twickenham CC	4
18th	r 86	Alvaro Alves da Cunha	unattached	4
19th	r123	Steve Chiswell	VC10	4
20th	r105	Jon Shillingford	unattached	4
21st	r151	Alistair Gurney	Unattached	4
22nd	r125	David Beckett	London Dynamo	4
23rd	r173	Paul Batchelor	Charlotteville CC	4
24th	r155	Chris Cleave	unattached	4
25th	r 10	Cyprien Brochard	London Phoenix	4
26th	r 68	Scott Shepherd	London Dynamo	0
27th	r167	Sean Bathe-Taylor	Pearson CC	4
28th	r163	James Audley	Kingston Wheelers	4
29th	r 15	David Morgan	Charlotteville CC	4
30th	r166	Nick Humphreys	unattached	4
31st	r 80	Jason Snell	Thames Turbo	4
32nd	r175	Nicholas Roux	unattached	4
33rd	r 20	Ben Voller	Twickenham CC	4
34th	r 65	Tim Childs	Westerley CC	4
35th	r170	James Marvin	unattached	4J
36th	r141	Emily Mellor	vo2 Development Team	4Jw
37th	r176	Adam Rowles	unattached	4
38th	r154	Jesse Baines	unattached	4
39th	r159	Arnav Kapur	Dulwich College	4J
40th	r162	Nigel O'Brien	Brighton Mitre	4
41st	r 55	Edward Cox	Imperial College CC	4
42nd	r156	Jonathan Whybrow	Reading CC	4
43rd	r164	Shane Kearney	Kingston Wheelers	4
44th	r 59	Anthony Steaman	Crawley Wheelers	4
45th	r 43	Ron Walls	London Dynamo	4
46th	r172	Lisa Dunne	Army Cycling Union	4
47th	r142	Harriet Hollis	Aylesbury CC	4Jw
48th	r168	Terry Hammond	VC10	4
Neon-velo prime
1st	r161	Alex Niven	unattached	4
2nd	r 76	Giles Porter	London Dynamo	4
3rd	r 87	Alex Milne	unattached	4

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Race 7 Saturday 5th January 2013

It was one of those afternoons where an awful lot of riders tried really hard to break clear from the main group and form a breakaway, some almost made it, only one did; perhaps the weather had something to do with it being mild, overcast with little wind.

51 riders lined up in the 4th cat race; it is now a very competitive class and every point is being hard fought. The race on Saturday was no exception with a slow build up until Josh Jones (Cambridge Uni CC) and Alistair Gurney lifted the pace with long turns on the front before Edmund Fowles launched himself off the front with a determined attack. The Prime was then won by Ian Phillips from Giles Porter (London Dynamo) with Alvaro Alves Da Cunha taking third before a crash disrupted the flow of the race. With 2 km to go Ian Phillips attacked very hard and opened a gap which he held to the line for a brilliant win, just holding off a fast-finishing main group and led in for second place by Ross Hallard (Pretorius CC) from Grant Little (London Dynamo) with Josh Jones in 4th place. The random prize is awarded to 21st place finisher Trevor Roberts (Brighton Mitre) who will ‘go faster’ courtesy of a WyndyMilla cycle fitting at their Manor Farm Cycle Centre.

The 3rd cat race started with a healthy entry of 43 riders, again riders settled themselves in before attacks from Nathan Hereward (Kingston Wheelers), Angus Fisk and James McCarthy (Twickenham CC) strung the main group out. There still remained a large group until James Lowden (Lewes Wanderers) drew clear. The prime loomed and was won by specialist in-form Neil Wass (TMG Horizon RT) from James Dunsbier (London Dynamo) with Greg Wiltshire (Kingston Wheelers) taking third. There were several other attacks before the run in to the finish from Lowden and Jones before the final sprint where Simon Lewington of Dulwich Paragon and Ken Buckley (AW Cycles) made a dash for the line. In the end it was the strength of Buckley who managed to cross the line in first place, an excellent result, from in form Steve Atkinson (Southdowns Bikes CC) from James Dunsbier. The three women who rode - Monica Dapolenza, Rachel Przybyski (both from Series sponsor WyndyMilla) and Clemence Copie (High Wycombe CC) - clearly enjoyed the race back in with the men after riding in their own on New Year’s Day. The Maxifuel random prize is awarded to 24th place finisher Kenny Ross (Willesden Cycling Club) who receives a Maxifuel rucksack comprising of Viperactive energy fuel, gels and bottles.

The Elite race was action from the start with James Jones (Beeline Bikes RT) who went off the front alone after 1 km. Next to move was Connall Yates (In Gear Quickvit Trainshar) who looked very strong and determined. Thereafter there were so many attacks before the prime with Richard Prebble (Node 4) and Paul Holdsworth (Hounslow Wheelers) moving the group along at great speed nullifying all possible breakaways. The Prime was then taken by Gerry Collingwood (Portsmouth North End CC) from Holdsworth and Arjan Planting (Dulwich Paragon). Finally, the most promising move of the race broke clear with 15km remaining with five riders - namely James Jones, Matt Carden (Team Quest), Phil Holloway (Southend Wheelers), Daniel Tamplin (Aylesbury CC) and Rolandas Razgauskis. There were several notable riders missing out, Halpern, Smith and Gibb (all sprinters) and this is perhaps why the breakaway was brought back so close to the finish. Steve Golla made one valiant attack with 800m to go but the main group were having none of it and he was reeled in, which left it disappointingly to a bunch sprint with Gibb taking the win from Smith and Halpern, with Stuart Harvey (Team ASL 360) a close fourth. Arjan Planting sat out the finish having sprinted - clearly by mistake - with the 3rd cats having seen the chequered flag. This however, was not the only problem during the race, with this and another incident being reviewed.

Race 7 Cats:E123 5th January 2013

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	y 36	Tony Gibb	the pack racing	1	200
2nd	y 22	Tom Smith	Felt-Colbornes RT	E	150
3rd	y 23	Vincent Halpern	Handsling racing	1	130
4th	y 27	Stuart Harvey	Team ASL 360	2	120
5th	y 82	Adam Capes	London Dynamo	2	110
6th	y 12	Jerry Collingwood	Portsmouth North End CC	2	100
7th	y 48	Jerzy Kuzminski	High Wycombe CC	2	90
8th	y 79	Donal Linehan	Newbury RC	2	80
9th	y 85	James Jones	Beeline Bikes RT	1	70
10th	y  6	Daniel Tamplin	Aylesbury CC	2	60
11th	y 80	Joseph Crolla	AW Cycles	2	50
12th	y 68	Matthew Butt	Team ASL360	2	40
13th	y 86	Jon Lewis	Charlotteville CC	1	30
14th	y 70	Chris Rees	Pearson CC	2	20
15th	y 19	Richard Prebble	Node4-Giordana Racing	2V	10
16th	y 65	Rolandas Razgauskis	unattached	2
17th	y 17	Phil Holloway	southend wheelers	2
18th	y 56	Mark Smith	Welwyn Wheelers	2
19th	y 29	Rupert Beale	Beeline Bikes RT	2
20th	y 18	Ralph De Kanter	Norwood Paragon CC	2
21st	y 78	Steve Golla	High Wycombe RT	1
22nd	y180	Frazier Carr	AW Cycles	2
23rd	y 84	Simon Oxenham	VC10	2
24th	y 30	Nick Beale	Beeline Bikes RT	2
25th	y 66	Stuart Williams	Reading CC	2
26th	y 24	William Hunt	Army Cycling Union	2
27th	y 28	Conall Yates	InGear Quickvit Trainsharp	1
28th	y 83	Ben Smith	Welwyn Wheelers CC	3
29th	y 47	Paul Holdsworth	Hounslow & District Wlrs	2
30th		Red jersey, Giant bike
31st	y 81	James Milligan	cyclesport international	3
32nd	y 31	Paul Bennett	unattached	3
33rd	y 20	Robin Basford	Wyndymilla	3
34th	y 33	Sam Humpheson	Look Mum No Hands!	2
35th	y 37	Henry Furniss	WyndyMilla	1
36th	y 13	Kristian Woolf	Prestige Velo Club	3J
37th	y 38	Matt Carden	Team Quest	3
Neon-Velo Prime
1st	y 12	Jerry Collingwood	Portsmouth North End CC	2
2nd	y 47	Paul Holdsworth	Hounslow & District Wlrs	2
3rd	y 34	Arjan Planting	Dulwich Paragon	2

Race 7 3rd Cats 5th January 2013

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	w 79	Ken Buckley	AW Cycles	3	200
2nd	w 39	Steve Atkinson	Southdowns Bikes CC	3	150
3rd	w 95	James Dunsbier	London Dynamo	3	130
4th	w 83	James Lowden	Lewes Wanderers CC	3	120
5th	w 66	Alexander Donaldson	London Dynamo	3	110
6th	w 93	Simon Lewington	Dulwich Paragon	3	100
7th	w 74	Liam Earl	Prestige Velo	3J	90
8th	w 89	James Coleman	Cadence RT	3	80
9th	w  2	Alex Toghill	Twickenham CC	3	70
10th	w 38	Andrew Stronge	unattached	3	60
11th	w 65	Jake Coward	Rapha Condor CC	3J	50
12th	w 77	Graham Crow	Twickenham cc	3	40
13th	w 18	Kevin Argent	La Fuga/ Sigma Sport	3	30
14th	w 70	Mike Saunders	team corridori	3	20
15th	w 73	Nathan Hereward	Kingston Wheelers	3	10
16th	w 25	Neil Wass	TMG Horizon RT	3
17th	w 15	Jacek Reder	unattached	3
18th	w 50	Peter Hudson	unattached	3
19th	w 64	William Jones	unattached	3
20th	w 85	Ralph Keeler	Cambridge CC	3
21st	w 92	Stephen Morrell	Aylesbury CC	3
22nd	w 90	Bob Hobson	VC10	3
23rd	w 26	Richard Rose	Bikelux Progression	3
24th	w 94	Kenny Ross	Willesden Cycling Club	3
25th	w 84	Robert Parker-Cole	Kingston Wheelers CC	3
26th	w  5	Brian Hennessey	Redhill CC	3
27th	w 96	Desmond Gayler	Kenton Road Club	3
28th	w 86	Hugh Vivian	Finsbury Park CC	3
29th	w 32	Andy Fowkes	Thames Velo	3
30th	w 88	Lewis Hutton	Oxonian CC	3
31st	w  6	Chris Campbell	London Dynamo	3
32nd	w 87	James McCarthy	Twickenham CC	3
33rd	w 41	Monica Dapolenza	WyndyMilla	2w
34th	w 81	Angus Fisk	unattached	3
35th	w 97	Rachel Przybylski	WyndyMilla	2
36th	w 63	Clemence Copie	High Wycombe CC	2w
37th	w 54	Ray Wilson	London Dynamo	3
38th	w 82	Dominic Lowden	Lewes Wanderers CC	3
39th	w 23	Mark O'Brien	Archer RC	3
Neon-Velo Prime
1st	w 25	Neil Wass	TMG Horizon RT	3
2nd	w 95	James Dunsbier	London Dynamo	3
3rd	w 13	Greg Wiltshire	Kingston Wheelers	3

Race 7 4th Cats 5th January 2013

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	r 93	Ian Phillips	unattached	4
2nd	r 77	Ross Hallard	Pretorius CC	4
3rd	r131	Grant Little	London Dynamo	4
4th	r149	Joshua Jones	Cambridge Uni CC	4
5th	r200	Nicholas Jones	TRCC	A+Disp
6th	r 37	Patrick Drury	Kingston Wheelers CC	4
7th	r107	Spencer Robinson	unattached	4
8th	r 62	Mike Joseph	Twickenham CC	4
9th	r 97	Peter Blencowe	Imperial College CC	4
10th	r147	Greg Lewis	VC10	4
11th	r 11	Damien Lodge	unattached	4
12th	r 47	Edmund Fowles	unattached	4
13th	r 20	Ben Voller	Twickenham CC	4
14th	r127	Darryl Green	Vivelo Bikes - Inverse RT/Cyclaim	4
15th	r 15	David Morgan	Charlotteville CC	4
16th	r 86	Alvaro Alves Da Cunha	unattached	4
17th	r117	Spencer Nash	Bishops Stortford CC	4
18th	r125	David Beckett	London Dynamo	4
19th	r 21	Graham Austin	East St Cycles.com	4
20th	r 43	Ron Walls	London Dynamo	4
21st	r 30	Trevor Roberts	Brighton Mitre	4
22nd	r 68	Scott Shepherd	London Dynamo	4
23rd	r 19	Sam Williamson	Hemel Hempstead CC	4
24th	r145	George Lancaster	unattached	4
25th	r105	Jon Shillingford	unattached	4
26th	r 66	Chris Stone	Redhill CC	4
27th	r 65	Tim Childs	Westerley CC	4
28th	r151	Alistair Gurney	unattached	4
29th	r 39	Reiner Singh	San Fairy Ann CC	4
30th	r 76	Giles Porter	London Dynamo	4
31st	r132	Christopher Pruvey	unattached	4
32nd	r141	Emily Mellor	vo2 Development Team	4Jw
33rd	r143	Dan Williams	unattached	4
34th	r 74	Lee King	Rides on air	4
35th	r144	Sean Bradley	Team Trisports	4
36th	r152	Matt Pickering	Kingston Wheelers	4
37th	r134	Frank Proud	Westerley CC	4
38th	r 16	Ed Everett	unattached	4
39th	r154	Jesse Baines	unattached	4
40th	r  3	Andrew Deans	unattached	4
41st	r 85	Jack Devlin	Kingston Wheelers	4
42nd	r146	Darryl Bates-Brownsword	Zappi	4
43rd	r142	Harriet Hollis	Aylesbury CC	4Jw
44th	r 59	Anthony Steaman	Crawley Wheelers	4
45th	r148	Sally Stubbs	Imperial Racing Team	4w
Neon-Velo Prime
1st	r 93	Ian Phillips	unattached	4
2nd	r 76	Giles Porter	London Dynamo	4
3rd	r 86	Alvaro Alves Da Cunha	unattached	4

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Race 6 Tuesday 1st January 2013

A perfect Winter's day greeted the riders for the New Year’s Day races including the addition of the only Women’s race of the series.

The 4th cat race started the day with another good entry of 29 riders, it started very slowly for the first few laps until Giles Porter (London Dynamo) speeded the race up riding at the front, followed by David Beckett his team mate and James McCarthy of Twickenham CC. There followed another lull before the Prime which was won by a hair’s breadth by Scott Shepherd (again of London Dynamo) from Chris Carter (La Fuga-Sigma Sport). There was slight distraction to the flow of the race with a touch of wheels after the finish line, but fortunately everyone continued unscathed. The race then settled down again with the riders waiting for the finish, Chris Carter judging his effort well for a win from Bob Hobson (VC 10) with Scott Shepherd taking third place. The random prize is awarded to 18th place finisher Jason Snell (Thames Turbo) who will ‘go faster’ courtesy of a WyndyMilla cycle fitting at their Manor Farm Cycle Centre.

The 3rd cat race had a similar entry and the 28 riders stayed together for the first part of the race. However, there were several riders pulling hard on the front, namely James Walsby (Catford CC), C.Batho (Dulwich), Simon Oxenham (VC10) and Alex Tinsley and Graham Crow of Twickenham CC. A slight split occurred when they rode past the womens group, but they came together for the Prime which was taken by Neil Wass (TMG Horizon RT) from Alex Tinsley and Liam Earl (Prestige Velo). There were several attacks before the end of the race from Mike Jubb (Verulam CC), Neil Wass and Alex Tinsley, and then as in a previous round Cosmo Kedros (WyndyMilla) put in a huge effort and opened a significant gap, but the race was now wise to his move and closed him down before Mike Jubb tried to go alone with 5 km to go, but he was also brought back. This left Ken Buckley (AW Cycles) to take a worthy first place from Simon Oxenham and Steve Atkinson (Southdowns Bikes), with Neon Velo prime winner Wass in fourth place. The Maxifuel random prize is awarded to 6th place finisher Andy Fowkes (Thames Velo) who receives a Maxifuel rucksack comprising of Viperactive energy fuel, gels and bottles.

The Women’s race assembled with an entry of 26 riders and with a larger, more quality field the pace was strong from the start; with categories from Elite to 4th the attacks inevitably split the field which was soon whittled down to 19 riders. Both Lydia Boylan (unattached) and Maryka Sennema (Kingston Wheelers) were clearly both very strong, continually upping the pace. Boylan attacked several times before the finish but could not quite manage to free herself from the group; however, she had the strength to win the final sprint comfortably from Kimberley English (Scott contessa Epic) and Clemence Copie of High Wycombe CC. Prizes were presented outside in the sunshine by WyndyMilla’s Cosmo Kedros.

The Elite race was stunning to watch with action for the whole of the 45 km with Michael Williams (Dulwich Paragon) starting the action. A break then formed out of almost nothing with five riders going away but with clear intent to make it stick – new entrant James Locker (V-Sprint), on-form Phil Holloway (Southend Wheelers) and Matt Carden (Team Quest), Arjen Planting (Dulwich Paragon) and a super strong Steve Golla (High Wycombe CC) who really started the move. The Prime was won by Locker from Planting and Carden. They worked so well together and pulled away from the main group. Tony Gibb and Tom Smith (Felt-Colbournes) tried valiantly to close the gap, but after 8 km of effort sat up and were absorbed back into the main group. It was then left to Gibb to pull the group along for the remainder of the race. Young Max Stedman made a welcome return to the Winter Series and rode very strongly and positioned himself very wisely near the front and finished in a worthy 13th place. Another who missed the break who was returning to the series again was Rudi Marais (La Fuga-Sigma Sport) who finished like a bullet to lead the remainder in for 6th place. But it was the breakaway where the action occurred, they stayed together until 3 km from the line when Golla attacked strongly but unfortunately his effort was closed down and they were together again until Doug’s climbs when Locker attacked and moved off the front causing the remaining four to detonate. He rode strongly on the run in to the line to take a magnificent win, with a brilliant second place for Phil Holloway from Planting and Golla with Carden hanging in for 5th place. After last week’s ‘pedestrionics’ it was great to see.

Race 6 Cats:E123 1st January 2013

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	y 75	James Locker	Team V-Sprint Racing	3	200
2nd	y 17	Phil Holloway	southend wheelers	2	150
3rd	y 34	Arjan Planting	Dulwich Paragon	2	130
4th	y 78	Steve Golla	High Wycombe RT	1	120
5th	y 38	Matt Carden	Team Quest	3	110
6th	y 71	Rudie Marais	La Fuga/ Sigma Sport	2	100
7th	y 22	Tom Smith	Felt-Colbornes RT	E	90
8th	y 23	Vincent Halpern	Handsling racing	1	80
9th	y 46	Jo Skelton	Look mum no hands!	3	70
10th	y 48	Jerzy Kuzminski	London Phoenix	2	60
11th	y  6	Daniel Tamplin	Aylesbury CC	2	50
12th	y 66	Stuart Williams	Reading CC	2	40
13th	y 77	Max Stedman	AW Cycles	2J	30
14th	y 68	Matthew Butt	Team ASL360	2	20
15th	y 20	Robin Basford	Wyndymilla	3	10
16th	y 76	Steven Cottington	Cadence RT	2
17th	y 74	Joe Fry	RST Racing Team	A+disp
18th	y 72	Michael Williams	Dulwich Paragon CC	2
19th	y 44	Martin Garratt	London Dynamo	2
20th	y 36	Tony Gibb	the pack racing	1
21st	y 73	Liam Bremer	London Phoenix CC	3
Neon-Velo Prime
1st	y 75	James Locker	Team V-Sprint Racing	3
2nd	y 34	Arjan Planting	Dulwich Paragon	2
3rd	y 38	Matt Carden	Team Quest	3

Race 6 3rd Cats 1st January 2013

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	w 79	Ken Buckley	AW Cycles	3	200
2nd	w 27	Simon Oxenham	VC10	3V	150
3rd	w 39	Steve Atkinson	Southdowns Bikes CC	3	130
4th	w 25	Neil Wass	TMG Horizon RT	3	120
5th	w 67	Alex Tinsley	Twickenham CC	3	110
6th	w 75	Charles Batho	Dulwich Paragon CC	3v	100
7th	w 70	Mike Saunders	team corridori	3	90
8th	w177	Paul Carr	Club Chorley Cycles	3	80
9th	w 16	Jake Norman	WyndyMilla	3	70
10th	w 32	Andy Fowkes	Thames Velo	3	60
11th	w 38	Andrew Stronge	unattached	3	50
12th	w 74	Liam Earl	Prestige Velo	3J	40
13th	w 77	Graham Crow	Twickenham cc	3	30
14th	w 73	Nathan Hereward	Kingston Wheelers	3	20
15th	w 72	Tyler Lemmon	Medway VC	3J	10
16th	w 26	Richard Rose	Bikelux Progression	3
17th	w  5	Brian Hennessey	Redhill CC	3
18th	w 78	James Walsby	Catford CC	3
19th	w 11	Gavin Francis	London Dynamo	3
20th	w 68	Stuart Stow	Hounslow & Dist Wheelers	3
21st	w 61	Cosmo Kedros	WyndyMilla UK Youth	3
22nd	w100	Craig White	The Crown Estate	3
23rd	w 31	Wayne Thomas	G.S. HENLEY	3V
24th	w 80	Jim Kent	London Dynamo	3
25th	w 76	Mike Jubb	Verulam CC	3
26th	w 66	Alexander Donaldson	London Dynamo	3
Neon-Velo Prime
1st	w 25	Neil Wass	TMG Horizon RT	3
2nd	w 67	Alex Tinsley	Twickenham CC	3
3rd	w 74	Liam Earl	Prestige Velo	3J

Race 6 4th Cats 1st January 2013

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	r126	Chris Carter	La Fuga - Sigma Sport	4
2nd	r  6	Bob Hobson	VC10	4
3rd	r 68	Scott Shepherd	London Dynamo	4
4th	r 82	James McCarthy	Twickenham CC	4
5th	r 16	Ed Everett	unattached	4
6th	r200	Stuart Clark	unattached	4
7th	r136	Simon Bromley	London Dynamo	4
8th	r 74	Lee King	Rides on air	4
9th	r125	David Beckett	London Dynamo	4
10th	r 76	Giles Porter	London Dynamo	4
11th	r 66	Chris Stone	Redhill CC	4
12th	r 97	Peter Blencowe	Imperial College CC	4
13th	r127	Darryl Green	Vivelo Bikes - Inverse RT/Cyclaim	4
14th	r105	Jon Shillingford	unattached	4
15th	r 15	David Morgan	Charlotteville CC	4
16th	r 65	Tim Childs	Westerley CC	4
17th	r134	Frank Proud	Westerley CC	4
18th	r 80	Jason Snell	Thames Turbo	4
19th	r135	David Wong Min	London Dynamo	4
20th	r133	George Lancaster	unattached	4
21st	r 12	Daniel Goldsmith	Twickenham CC	4
22nd	r 11	Damien Lodge	unattached	4
23rd	r137	Paul Martin	Dulwich Paragon	4
Neon-Velo Prime
1st	r 68	Scott Shepherd	London Dynamo	4
2nd	r126	Chris Carter	La Fuga - Sigma Sport	4
3rd	r 82	James McCarthy	Twickenham CC	4

Women E1234 Cats 1st January 2013

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	40	Lydia Boylan	unattached	E
2nd	31	Kimberley English	Scott contessa Epic	2
3rd	41	Clemence Copie	High Wycombe CC	2
4th	39	Maryka Sennema	Kingston Wheelers	2
5th	38	Jasmijn Muller	Kingston Wheelers	2
6th	44	Alexie Shaw	Les Filles Racing Team	2
7th	15	Abbie Dentus	De ver cycles	a+disp
8th	42	Helen Ralston	Les Filles Racing Team	3
9th	23	Susan Freeburn	In-Gear Quickvit Trainsharp RT	2
10th	24	Tanya Griffiths	Ipswich BC	2
11th	34	Monica DaPolenza	WyndyMilla	2
12th	43	Nicole Oh	Les Filles Racing Team	2
13th	25	Kate Hewett	Les Filles Racing Team	2
14th	37	Melissa Brand	Pretorius Bikes	3
15th	45	Julie Granshaw	WyndyMilla	2
16th	17	Caroline Smith	Twickenham CC	4
17th	32	Jenni Lake	Team Corley Cycles	3
18th	20	Louise Fellingham	London Dynamo	3
19th	30	Lauren Morris	unattached	4
20th	28	Sasha Quarrington	Zappi's Ladies Team	4J
21st	35	Clare Gillott	Dulwich paragon CC	2
22nd	29	Clarice Chung	unattached	4
23rd	21	Michelle Forster	London Phoenix CC	4
24th	33	Jenny Bradley	Dulwich paragon CC	4
25th	13	Victoria Hampson	unattached	4
26th	36	Ulrike von Saldern	Dulwich paragon CC	4

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Race 5 Saturday 29th December 2012

All the riders who lined up deserved New Year’s honours with gale force winds and driving rain facing the riders throughout the afternoon. As Tom Smith of Felt-Colbournes commented he had to race hard to keep warm, which indeed the 4th Cat riders did. It was a very attacking race, with several riders causing havoc amongst the field, notably Darrell Green from Vivelo Bikes, David Morgan (Charlotteville) and Ken Ross (Willesden CC). They came back together before Steve Chiswell (VC 10) and Graham Austin (East St Cycles), tried to break the rhythm of the main field. There was a slight touching of wheels with two riders coming down, however, it caused a break up in the race and with the Prime looming up it was won by Patrick Drury of Kingston Wheelers from Chris Carter (La Fuga Sigma Sport) with Giles Porter (London Dynamo) taking third place. The race came back together and with 3 km to go James Walsby (Catford CC) made a valiant effort to break clear opening up and maintaining a small lead to finish alone – just- from a fast finishing Chris Carter with Neon Velo Prime winner Patrick Drury taking third place. A very entertaining race with worthy efforts by all the riders in the difficult conditions. The random prize is awarded to 3rd place finisher Patrick Drury (Kingston Wheelers CC) who will ‘go faster’ courtesy of a WyndyMilla cycle fitting at their Manor Farm Cycle Centre.

Unfortunately the excitement did not continue in the 3rd Cat race which was a fairly low key affair! Neil Wass (TMG Horizon RT) took the prime from Simon Oxenham (VC 10) and Jake Coward (Rapha Condor); the latter went on to take first place with a strong sprint from Steve Atkinson (Southdowns Bikes CC) and Steve Oxenham again featuring; Neil Wass (Campag rules!) went alone but was caught and finished in fourth place - a positive effort. The Maxifuel random prize is awarded to 19th place finisher Andrew Harvey (Kingston Wheelers CC) who receives a Maxifuel rucksack comprising of Viperactive energy fuel, gels and bottles.

The Elite race had a small but very classy field with Conall Yates returning after illness and Jo Skelton looking strong again. Tony Gibb (Metaltek-Scott) returned again having had a nervy Christmas with the family: he seems to be a rejuvenated rider with a definite purpose in mind. The start was slow before the cold began biting: when Daniel Tamplin (Aylesbury CC) broke clear he was joined by Ben Knowles (London Phoenix), their effort was rewarded with Tamplin winning the prime from Knowles with Tom Smith coming out of the main group for 3rd place. Shortly after a very useful break of four was formed, initiated by Ben Sumner (Beeline Bikes RT) with impressive Phil Holloway of Southend Wheelers then followed by Gibb and Graham Crow (Twickenham CC) the latter eventually dropping back. The leading trio sliced through the 3rd Cat race and headed for the finish, again it was Gibb with his superior strength into a headwind who just held off Sumner, but it was very close, with another valiant effort by Holloway for third place and Tom Smith leading the remainder of the field in in fourth.
The question remains can Gibb be beaten?

Cats:E123 race 5 Saturday 29th December 2012

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	y 36	Tony Gibb	Metaltek - Scott	1	200
2nd	y 39	Ben Sumner	Beeline Bikes RT	2	150
3rd	y 17	Phil Holloway	southend wheelers	2	130
4th	y 22	Tom Smith	Felt-Colbornes RT	E	120
5th	y 65	Rolandas Razgauskis	unattached	2	110
6th	y 46	Jo Skelton	Look mum no hands!	3	100
7th	y 23	Vincent Halpern	Handsling racing	1	90
8th	y 59	Dominic Clegg	Redhill CC	2	80
9th	y 48	Jerzy Kuzminski	London Phoenix	2	70
10th	y 28	Conall Yates	InGear Quickvit Trainsharp	1	60
11th	y 20	Robin Basford	Wyndymilla	3	50
12th	y  6	Daniel Tamplin	Aylesbury CC	2	40
13th	y 70	Chris Rees	Pearson CC	2	30
14th	y 66	Stuart Williams	Reading CC	2	20
15th	y 43	Graham Crow	Twickenham cc	3	10
16th	y 67	Ben Knowles	London Phoenix	2
17th	y  2	Alan Strang	Dulwich Paragon	1
18th	y 68	Matthew Butt	Team ASL360	2
Neon-Velo Prime
1st	y  6	Daniel Tamplin	Aylesbury CC
2nd	y 67	Ben Knowles	London Phoenix
3rd	y 22	Tom Smith	Felt-Colbornes RT

3rd Cats race 5 Saturday 29th December 2012

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	w 65	Jake Coward	Rapha Condor CC	3J	200
2nd	w 39	Steve Atkinson	Southdowns Bikes CC	3	150
3rd	w 27	Simon Oxenham	VC10	3V	130
4th	w 25	Neil Wass	TMG Horizon RT	3	120
5th	w 50	Peter Hudson	unattached	3	110
6th	w 11	Gavin Francis	London Dynamo	3	100
7th	w 38	Andrew Stronge	unattached	3	90
8th	w 15	Jacek Reder	unattached	3	80
9th	w 18	Kevin Argent	La Fuga/ Sigma Sport	3	70
10th	w 64	William Jones	Private Member	3	60
11th	w 43	Paul Moore	Kingston Wheelers CC	3	50
12th	w 40	Abigail Dentus	Welwyn Wheelers CC	A+dispW	40
13th	w  5	Brian Hennessey	Redhill CC	3	30
14th	w 70	Mike Saunders	team corridori	3	20
15th	w 63	Clemence Copie	High Wycombe CC	2w	10
16th	w 68	Stuart Stow	Hounslow & Dist Wheelers	3
17th	w179	Jamie Saunders	unattached
18th	w  6	Chris Campbell	London Dynamo	3
19th	w  3	Andrew Harvey	Kingston Wheelers	3
20th	w 66	James Lyon	unattached	3
21st	w 71	Nat Spurling	Finsbury Park	3
22nd	w 69	Chris Yates	East Grinstead CC	3
23rd	w 28	Simon Parton	Kingston Wheelers	3
24th	w 23	Mark O'brien	Archer RC	3
25th	w 31	Wayne Thomas	G.S. HENLEY	3V
Neon-Velo Prime
1st	w 25	Neil Wass	TMG Horizon RT	3
2nd	w 27	Simon Oxenham	VC10	3V
3rd	w 65	Jake Coward	Rapha Condor CC	3J

4th Cats race 5 Saturday 29th December 2012

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	r 57	James Walsby	Catford CC	4
2nd	r126	Chris Carter	La Fuga - Sigma Sport	4
3rd	r 37	Patrick Drury	Kingston Wheelers CC	4
4th	r121	Liam Earl	Prestige Velo	4J
5th	r 27	Kenny Ross	Willesden Cycling Club	4
6th	r 52	Zachary Bredemear	Dulwich Paragon CC	4
7th	r122	Andrew Costello	unattached	4
8th	r 76	Giles Porter	London Dynamo	4
9th	r 86	Alvaro Alves Da Cunha	unattached	4
10th	r125	David Beckett	London Dynamo	4
11th	r 66	Chris Stone	Redhill CC	4
12th	r 49	Tim Wormleighton	Kingston Wheelers CC	4
13th	r127	Darryl Green	Vivelo Bikes - Inverse RT/Cyclaim	4
14th	r131	Grant Little	London Dynamo	4
15th	r 73	Ian McNally	Westerley CC	4
16th	r129	Paul Buckley	Thames Velo	4
17th	r132	Christopher Pruvey	unattached	4
18th	r116	Tom Bowker	Hackney GT	4
19th	r 80	Jason Snell	Thames Turbo	4
20th	r 16	Ed Everett	unattached	4
21st	r 65	Tim Childs	Westerley CC	4
22nd	r198	Max Schramm	Zappi's CC	4
23rd	r 21	Graham Austin	East St Cycles.com	4
24th	r 11	Damien Lodge	unattached	4
25th	r  3	Andrew Deans	unattached	4
26th	r 15	David Morgan	Charlotteville CC	4
Neon-Velo Prime
1st	r 37	Patrick Drury	Kingston Wheelers CC
2nd	r126	Chris Carter	La Fuga - Sigma Sport
3rd	r 76	Giles Porter	London Dynamo

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Race 4 Saturday 22nd December 2012

It was touch and go whether the racing could go ahead with the south end of the circuit almost completely flooded; however, with some determined effort as much water as possible was swept away with an area coned off. This enabled racing to go ahead with a little extra care from the riders and they did well in carefully negotiating the flooded area. The weather also reduced the fields in all three categories considerably.

It was agreed to let the least experienced seven 4th Cat riders start 1 minute ahead of the main group in order that they could get used to the conditions and this seemed to work very well. They were a group of varying abilities and were caught before the Neon Velo Prime was contested and this was taken by Scott Shepherd (London Dynamo) from team mate Will McAvock and Huw Jones (Coffee#1). For the remainder of the race the bunch stayed together and the finish was contested by a good sprint, which was very quick and clean, with a fine judged effort by McAvock holding off Spencer Robinson and James Bird. The random prize is awarded to 23rd place finisher Shane Townsend (Westerley CC) who will ‘go faster’ courtesy of a WyndyMilla cycle fitting at their Manor Farm Cycle Centre.

The 3rd Cat race started behind the Elite group as usual with last week's 4th Cat winner Alex Tinsley (Twickenham CC) riding aggressively and attacking several times, perhaps too many times? However, the Prime was contested by the main group with Neil Wass (TMG Horizon RT) taking it from consistent Ed Rose of Progression Bikelux with Simon Oxenham (VC10) picking up the remaining points. From this the ride of the afternoon came from Cosmo Kedros of series sponsor WyndyMilla, who broke away on his own, steadily building up a commanding lead (including passing through the e123 race!), finally finishing over a minute clear at the line. Greg Wiltshire (Kingston Wheelers) took second place from consistent finisher Simon Oxenham with Alex Tinsley still placing fourth after his earlier efforts. The Maxifuel random prize is awarded to 6th place finisher Ed Rose (Progression/Bikelux) who receives a Maxifuel rucksack comprising of Viperactive energy fuel, gels and bottles.

The Elite Race started slowly, but after 10 km Twickenham CC rider Graham Crow took off on his own and managed to stay clear for several laps and being joined by several other riders, but their efforts were short lived and Martin Garratt (London Dynamo) working hard at the front pulled the reluctant group back to the breakaways, only to retire later. Robin Basford (WyndyMilla) then tried and managed to break away and stay away for a while. The Neon Velo Prime loomed up with Ryan Visser (Redhill CC) judging his effort well to take it from Jerry Collingwood (PNE), who continued his good form from previous weeks and Daniel Tamplin (Aylesbury CC) taking third place. The pace slowed almost to a crawl and the 3rd Cat race leader caught them back and went past; all this played into the hands of Tony Gibb (Metaltek-Scott) and a group sprint was inevitable and indeed with 100m to go Gibb hit the front and managed to hold off a very fast finishing Vince Halpern (Handsling Racing) with Look Mum No Hands! Jo Skelton, taking third place from Tom Smith (Felt-Colbornes RT). All very fast finishes, with Jake Martin (unattached) 5th, Phil Holloway (Southend Wheelers) sixth and Jerry Collingwood hanging in for 7th.

Happy Christmas to all.

Race 4 Cats:E123 Results 22nd December 2012

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series points
1st	y 36	Tony Gibb	Metaltek - Scott	1	200
2nd	y 23	Vincent Halpern	Handsling racing	1	150
3rd	y 46	Jo Skelton	Look mum no hands!	3	130
4th	y 22	Tom Smith	Felt-Colbornes RT	E	120
5th	y 63	Jake Martin	unattached	E	110
6th	y 17	Phil Holloway	southend wheelers	2	100
7th	y 12	Jerry Collingwood	Portsmouth North End CC	2	90
8th	y 29	Rupert Beale	Beeline Bikes RT	2	80
9th	y 58	Ryan Visser	Redhill CC	2	70
10th	y  6	Daniel Tamplin	Aylesbury CC	2	60
11th	y 20	Robin Basford	Wyndymilla	3	50
12th	y 15	Neil Heffernan	Inverse CyClaim RT	3	40
13th	y 43	Graham Crow	Twickenham cc	3	30
Neon-Velo Prime
1st	y 58	Ryan Visser	Redhill CC
2nd	y 12	Jerry Collingwood	Portsmouth North End CC
3rd	y  6	Daniel Tamplin	Aylesbury CC

Race 4 3rd Cats Results 22nd December 2012

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series points
1st	w 61	Cosmo Kedros	WyndyMilla UK Youth	3	200
2nd	w 13	Greg Wiltshire	Kingston Wheelers	3	150
3rd	w 27	Simon Oxenham	VC10	3V	130
4th	w 67	Alex Tinsley	Twickenham CC	3	120
5th	w 39	Steve Atkinson	Southdowns Bikes CC	3	110
6th	w 44	Ed Rose	progression/bikelux	3	100
7th	w 59	James Blackburn	Twickenham CC	3	90
8th	w  4	Andrew Wright	High Wycombe	3	80
9th	w 18	Kevin Argent	La Fuga/ Sigma Sport	3	70
10th	w 23	Mark O'Brien	Archer RC	3	60
11th	w 55	Nick Franzini	London Dynamo	3	50
12th	w  5	Brian Hennessey	Redhill CC	3	40
Neon-Velo Prime
1st	w 25	Neil Wass	TMG Horizon RT
2nd	w 44	Ed Rose	progression/bikelux
3rd	w 27	Simon Oxenham	VC10

Race 4 4th Cats Results 22nd December 2012

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	r 98	William McAvock	London Dynamo	4
2nd	r107	Spencer Robinson	unattached	4
3rd	r 75	James Bird	unattached	4
4th	r121	Liam Earl	Prestige Velo Club	4J
5th	r 27	Kenny Ross	Willesden Cycling Club	4
6th	r 97	Peter Blencowe	Imperial College CC	4
6th	r 49	Tim Wormleighton	Kingston Wheelers CC	4
8th	r 66	Chris Stone	Redhill CC	4
9th	r 82	James McCarthy	Twickenham CC	4
10th	r 87	Alex Milne	unattached	4
11th	r200	Iona Sewell	GB cycles	w
12th	r  6	Bob Hobson	VC10	4
13th	r199	Brit Tate	GB cycles	w
14th	r 87	Alex Milne	unattached	4
15th	r122	Andrew Costello	unattached	4
16th	r103	Thomas Gibb	Imperial College CC	4
17th	r 28	Luke Samuel	OUCC	4
18th	r 21	Graham Austin	East St Cycles.com	4
19th	r 80	Jason Snell	Thames Turbo	4
20th	r 65	Tim Childs	Westerley CC	4
21st	r 73	Ian McNally	Westerley CC	4
22nd	r 91	Daniel Goldsmith	Twickenham CC	4
23rd	r 45	Shane Townsend	Westerley CC	4
24th	r123	Steve Chiswell	VC10	4
25th	r 14	Daren Austin	Twickenham CC	4
26th	r104	Carl Adams	Aylesbury CC	4
27th	r124	Tom Yates	unattached	4
Neon-Velo Prime
1st	r 68	Scott Shepherd	London Dynamo
2nd	r 98	William McAvock	London Dynamo
3rd	r 22	Huw Jones	Coffee#1

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Race 3 Saturday 15th December 2012

With a strong south westerly wind blowing and a fine mild afternoon, the finishing was always going to be difficult and so it proved, with the group splitting on several occasions. There was one serious break by Alex Milne (unattached) who bravely rode away on his own and stayed clear for several laps. The Neon Velo Prime again caused many riders to dig deep and hang on as it was keenly contested and won by Milne with Will McAvock (London Dynamo) second and Alex Tinsley (Twickenham CC) taking third place. Ultimately it came down to a very tight group sprint with Tinsley narrowly beating Bob Hobson (VC 10)with Milne then Ed Fowles (unattached) taking forth place. It was a fine win for Tinsley who has moved over from field sports to cycling and looks set to progress in the third category race. The random prize is awarded to 5th place finisher Alex Donaldson (London Dynamo) who will ‘go faster’ courtesy of a WyndyMilla cycle fitting at their Manor Farm Cycle Centre.

The 3rd cat. race was more animated than previous weeks with several attacks from the main group, in particular from Ken Buckley (AW Cycles) who was riding in memory of his Grandfather, an old cyclist who died the night before the race. Riding alone on the Hillingdon Circuit into a south westerly wind on the back straight is very demanding and Buckley was caught by Neil Wass (TMG Horizon) and Cosmo Kedros (WyndyMilla) who were driving the main group along. He then attacked again and this time James Blackburn (Twickenham CC) pulled the main group back to him. The Prime was taken by Greg Wiltshire (Kingston Wheelers) from Wass and Simon Oxenham (VC 10). Finally with 3 km to go Gavin Francis (London Dynamo) went clear, but like those before him he was caught and the group sprint was won fittingly by Buckley from Wiltshire and Jacek Reder with Ed Rose (Progression Bikelux) and Oxenham rounding off the first five. The Maxifuel random prize is awarded to 23rd place finisher Russell Jones (unattached) who receives a Maxifuel rucksack comprising of Viperactive energy fuel, gels and bottles.

In the E123 race Martin Garrett (London Dynamo) was the first to attack and started the action riding alone; another attack followed by Twickenham CC's Graham Crow, both were brought back but this set the pattern for the afternoon’s racing. The Prime was the next focal point after 20 km with Connall Yates, (InGear), taking it from Jake Martin, again showing his previous good form in the Winter series, with Matt Carden (Team Quest) joining them. They worked well together with Yates looking particularly menacing, but he was then suddenly dropped and absorbed by the main group. Carden also went back, but Martin showed great resilience to push on ahead but was also later pulled back. The sharp end of the race saw two very powerful attacks, one after the other from Ian Palmer (Twickenham CC) back from the States and both these dragged the field out. Martin went again but was pulled back by Richard Prebble (Node 4) doing hard turns on the front and he appeared to be the strongest rider. Palmer tried again but with 3 km the most likely winner came from a move by Jerry Collingwood (Portsmouth North End CC) but in the end in came down to a group sprint and Tony Gibb's experience and the fact that he had been quiet throughout the race hit the front on the right hand side, and taking the long way round the bend, managed to hold off Vince Halpern (Handsling) who had worked very hard during the race and deserving his second place, with in form Alan Strang (Dulwich Paragon) having to settle for third place. Another very entertaining race with action throughout the race and Tony Gibb now leads overall.

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Race 3 Cats:E123 Saturday 15th December 2012

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	y 36	Tony Gibb	Metaltek - Scott	1	200
2nd	y 23	Vincent Halpern	Handsling racing	1	150
3rd	y  2	Alan Strang	Dulwich Paragon	1	130
4th	y 58	Ryan Visser	Redhill CC	2	120
5th	y 48	Jerzy Kuzminski	London Phoenix	2	110
6th	y 22	Tom Smith	Felt-Colbornes RT	E	100
7th	y 29	Rupert Beale	Beeline Bikes RT	2	90
8th	y 11	James Norris	High Wycombe CC	2	80
9th	y 12	Jerry Collingwood	Portsmouth North End CC	2	70
10th	y 40	Colin Bailey	North Road CC	2	60
11th	y 17	Phil Holloway	southend wheelers	2	50
12th	y  6	Daniel Tamplin	Aylesbury CC	2	40
13th	y 53	Gareth Dickinson	Farnborough & Camberley CC	2	30
14th	y  8	George Withers	AW Cycles	2J	20
15th	y 28	Conall Yates	InGear Quickvit Trainsharp	1	10
16th	y 33	Sam Humpheson	Look Mum No Hands!	2
17th	y 16	Paul McGrath	North Road CC	3
18th	y 51	John Donovan	C.S.Grupetto	3
19th	y 42	Paul Carr	Club Chorley Cycles	3
20th	y 20	Robin Basford	Wyndymilla	3
21st	y 30	Nick Beale	Beeline Bikes RT	2
22nd	y 46	Jo Skelton	Look mum no hands!	3
23rd	y 19	Richard Prebble	Node4-Giordana Racing	2V
24th	y 62	Will Houghton	Hillingdon CC	3
25th	y 43	Graham Crow	Twickenham cc	3
26th	y 50	Jake Martin	unattached	E
27th	y 55	Josh Maynard	Welwyn Wheelers	2J
28th	y 18	Ralph De Kanter	Norwood Paragon CC	2
29th	y 54	Bill Butterworth	Twickenham CC	3V
30th	y 56	Mark Smith	Welwyn Wheelers	2
31st	y 59	Dominic Clegg	Redhill CC	2
32nd	y  7	Duncan Rimmer	Morden CRC	3
33rd	y 38	Matt Carden	Team Quest	3
34th	y 47	Paul Holdsworth	unattached	0
35th	y 52	Mario Manelfi	ASL360	3
36th	y 44	Martin Garratt	London Dynamo	2
Neon-Velo Prime
1st	y 28	Conall Yates	1st Prime
2nd	y 50	Jake Martin	2nd Prime
3rd	y 38	Matt Carden	3rd Prime

Race 3 3rd Cats Saturday 15th December 2012

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	w 79	Ken Buckley	AW Cycles	3	200
2nd	w 13	Greg Wiltshire	Kingston Wheelers	3	150
3rd	w 15	Jacek Reder	private member	3	130
4th	w 44	Ed Rose	progression/bikelux	3	120
5th	w 27	Simon Oxenham	VC10	3V	110
6th	w 57	Liam Yates	In Gear RT	3	100
7th	w 39	Steve Atkinson	Southdowns Bikes CC	3	90
8th	w 46	Andy Colsell	High Wycombe CC	3	80
9th	w 59	James Blackburn	Twickenham CC	3	70
10th	w  2	Alex Toghill	Twickenham CC	3	60
11th	w 43	Paul Moore	Kingston Wheelers CC	3	50
12th	w 29	Charles Sanders	Cadence RT	3	40
13th	w 47	Luke Taylor	Kingston Wheelers	3	30
14th	w 50	Peter Hudson	unattached	3	20
15th	w 10	Edmond Irwin	london fire brigade CC	3v	10
16th	w 61	Cosmo Kedros	WyndyMilla UK Youth	3
17th	w  4	Andrew Wright	High Wycombe	3
18th	w 25	Neil Wass	TMG Horizon RT	3
19th	w 37	Jason Painton	Rides on air	3
20th	w 34	Robert Tinn	MDCC	3
21st	w 56	Jasmijn Muller	Kingston Wheelers CC	2w
22nd	w 11	Gavin Francis	London Dynamo	3
23rd	w 58	Russell Jones	unattached	3
24th	w 30	Susan Freeburn	In-Gear Quickvit Trainsharp RT	2w
25th	w  6	Chris Campbell	London Dynamo	3
26th	w 63	Clemence Copie	High Wycombe CC	2w
27th	w 62	Martin Porter	Thames Velo	3
28th	w 14	Henry Dawson	Prestige Velo Club	A+disp
Neon-Velo Prime
1st	w 13	Greg Wiltshire	Kingston Wheelers	3
2nd	w 25	Neil Wass	TMG Horizon RT	3
3rd	w 27	Simon Oxenham	VC10	3V

Race 3 4th Cats Results Time 0:56 Saturday 15th December 2012

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	r  2	Alex Tinsley	Twickenham CC	4
2nd	r  6	Bob Hobson	VC10	4
3rd	r 87	Alex Milne	unattached	4
4th	r 47	Edmund Fowles	unattached	4
5th	r 54	Alexander Donaldson	London Dynamo	4
6th	r 98	William McAvock	London Dynamo	4
7th	r 82	James McCarthy	Twickenham CC	4
8th	r 15	David Morgan	Charlotteville CC	4
9th	r 68	Scott Shepherd	London Dynamo	0
10th	r120	Mark Oliver	Rapha Condor CC	4
11th	r113	Luke Raistrick	Sorby Hinds	4
12th	r 27	Kenny Ross	Willesden Cycling Club	4
13th	r 78	Riyadh Khamis	Personal bike fit	4
14th	r107	Spencer Robinson	unattached	4
15th	r 76	Giles Porter	London Dynamo	4
16th	r112	Joseph McConnell	Sorby Hinds	4
17th	r 67	Samuel Evans	Dulwich paragon	4
18th	r 86	Alvaro Alves da Cunha	unattached	4
19th	r 32	Martin Williams	Sky Velo	4
20th	r117	Spencer Nash	Bishops Stortford CC	4
21st	r114	Khan Follina	Sky Velo	4
22nd	r115	James Chadwick	unattached	4
23rd	r 20	Ben Voller	Twickenham CC	4
24th	r 51	Viktor Kazinec	Dulwich Paragon CC	4
25th	r 39	Reiner Singh	San Fairy Ann CC	4
26th	r 63	Philip Han	unattached	4
27th	r111	Oliver Fowles	Independent	4
28th	r 73	Ian McNally	Westerley CC	4
29th	r 65	Tim Childs	Westerley CC	4
30th	?	blue bike / red jersey / long black leggings
31st	r 55	Edward Cox	unattached	4
32nd	r 62	Mike Joseph	Twickenham CC	0
33rd	r104	Carl Adams	Aylesbury CC	4
34th	r 35	Matthew Evans	London Dynamo	4
35th	r  3	Andrew Deans	London Dynamo	4
36th	r 74	Lee King	Beeline Bikes RT	4
37th	r119	Konrad Siebrits	unattached	4
38th	r109	Matthew Coulter	Cowley Road Condors	4J
39th	r102	Matthew Twist	unattached	4
40th	r116	Tom Bowker	unattached	4
41st	r110	Stephen Cavey	Catford Cycling Club	4
42nd	r103	Thomas Gibb	Imperial College CC	4
Neon-Velo Prime
1st	r 87	Alex Milne
2nd	r 98	William McAvock
3rd	r  2	Alex Tinsley
please email Lucy if you can identify the mystery racers

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Race 2 Saturday 8th December 2012

On a perfect Winter afternoon there was another full entry for the 4th cat race with slightly more modest fields for both 3rd and E123 category races.

In the 4th cat race the Neon-Velo Prime kicked things off after 22 minutes of racing; this helped split the field with Ben Smithers, taking it from Philip Hann and Ian Phillips (all unattached riders?); this was after Stevenage team mates Sab Knoll and Neil Fraser had broken clear. In the finale it came down to a very tidy bunch finish with Ian Phillips, holding off James Bird (unattached) from James Coleman, (Cadence RT). The random prize is awarded to 10th place finisher James Walsby (Catford CC) who will ‘go faster’ courtesy of a WyndyMilla cycle fitting at their Manor Farm Cycle Centre.

The 3rd cat race action was a little disappointing: there were individual efforts but they were brought back immediately by the main group. Greg Wiltshire (Kingston Wheelers) won the Neon-Velo Prime from Ed Rose (Progression/bikelux) and Andrew Strong (unattached) but this did little to break up the main group. In the group sprint Graham York (Twickenham CC) just got the verdict from Jacek Redar (twice 2nd now!) with Greg Wiltshire featuring again in 3rd. The Maxifuel random prize is awarded to 22nd place finisher Melissa Brand (Pretorius Bikes) who receives a Maxifuel rucksack comprising of Viperactive energy fuel, gels and bottles.

The E123 race was a complete contrast and with much at stake for the overall win, the attacking started very early with Connall Yates (InGear Quickvit Trainsharp) riding away alone. It was a bold and courageous move and showed total commitment. Another totally committed ride was by Ben Sumner (Beeline RT) who broke away from the main group and clawed his way up to Yates. Yates took the Neon-Velo Prime, they worked well together until 5 km to go when Yates's earlier efforts told and Sumner moved clear on Doug’s climb. It got even more thrilling with 2 km to go when through the efforts of James Norris (High Wycombe CC), Vince Halpern (Handsling) and Richard Prebble (Node4-Giordana Racing) the gap closed to 15 seconds. Prebble showed his strength and class to catch Yates, but Sumner was home first for a brilliant win. To his credit Prebble seemed to hold back allowing Yates a thoroughly deserved second place. Alan Strang (Dulwich Paragon) led in Norris and Halpern, with Jo Skelton (Look Mum No Hands!) filling the next few places in the top ten. A first class circuit race, worthy of its status.

Race 2 Cats:E123 8th December 2012

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series points
1st	y 39	Ben Sumner	Beeline RT	2	200
2nd	y 28	Conall Yates	InGear Quickvit Trainsharp	1	150
3rd	y 19	Richard Prebble	Node4-Giordana Racing	2	130
4th	y  2	Alan Strang	Dulwich Paragon	1	120
5th	y 11	James Norris	High Wycombe CC	2	110
6th	y 23	Vincent Halpern	Handsling racing	1	100
7th	y 46	Jo Skelton	Look mum no hands!	3	90
8th	y  8	George Withers	AW Cycles	2	80
9th	y 36	Tony Gibb	Metaltek - Scott	1	70
10th	y 27	Stuart Harvey	Ultimate Fitness	2	60
11th	y  6	Daniel Tamplin	Aylesbury CC	2	50
12th	y 48	Jerzy Kuzminski	London Phoenix	2	40
13th	y 38	Matt Carden	Team Quest	3	30
14th	y 29	Rupert Beale	Beeline RT	2	20
15th	y 30	Nick Beale	Beeline RT	2	10
16th	y  3	Barny Willard	InGear Quickvit Trainsharp RT	2
17th	y 13	Kristian Woolf	Prestige Velo Club	3J
18th	y 20	Robin Basford	Wyndymilla	3
19th	y 42	Paul Carr	Club Corley Cycles	3
20th	y 16	Paul Mcgrath	North Road CC	3
21st	y 45	Harry Franklin	Hargrove Cycles	2J
22nd	y 47	Paul Holdsworth	Hounslow & Dist Whlrs	2
23rd	y 41	Chris Grange	Hemel Hempstead	3
24th	y 49	Amritpal Virdi	Norwood Paragon CC	3
25th	y 24	William Hunt	Army Cycling Union	2
26th	y 43	Graham Crow	Twickenham cc	3
27th	y 12	Jerry Collingwood	Portsmouth North End CC	2
28th	y 31	Paul Bennett	West Drayton	3
29th	y 44	Martin Garratt	London Dynamo	2
30th	y 33	Sam Humpheson	Look Mum No Hands!	2
31st	y 40	Colin Bailey	North Road CC	2
Neon Velo PRIME
1st	y 28	Conall Yates	Prime 1st
2nd	y 39	Ben Sumner	Prime 2nd
3rd	y 12	Jerry Collingwood	Prime 3rd

Race 2 3rd Cats Results Time 1:03 8th December 2012

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series points
1st	w 52	Graeme York	Twickenham CC	3	200
2nd	w 15	Jacek Reder	unattached	3	150
3rd	w 13	Greg Wiltshire	Kingston Wheelers	3	130
4th	w 46	Andy Colsell	High Wycombe CC	3	120
5th	w 39	Steve Atkinson	Southdowns Bikes	3	110
6th	w 44	Ed Rose	progression/bikelux	3	100
7th	w 27	Simon Oxenham	VC10	3	90
8th	w 47	Luke Taylor	Kingston Wheelers	3	80
9th	w 17	James Di Rico	high wycombe cc	3	70
10th	w 18	Kevin Argent	La Fuga/ Sigma Sport	3	60
11th	w 29	Charles Sanders	Cadence RT	3	50
12th	w  1	Alex Osborne	High Wycombe CC	3	40
13th	w  2	Alex Toghill	Twickenham CC	3	30
14th	w 43	Paul Moore	Kingston Wheelers CC	3	20
15th	w  4	Andrew Wright	High Wycombe	3	10
16th	w 25	Neil Wass	TMG Horizon RT	3
17th	w 49	James Roberts	Amersham RCC	3
18th	w  5	Brian Hennessey	Redhill CC	3
19th	w 38	Andrew Strong	unattached	3
20th	w 51	Will Houghton	Hillingdon CC	3
21st	w 26	Richard Rose	Bikelux Progression	3
22nd	w 36	Melissa Brand	Pretorius Bikes	3
23rd	w 30	Susan Freeburn	In-Gear Quickvit Trainsharp RT	2
24th	w 22	Karla Boddy	High Wycombe CC	1w
25th	w 50	Peter Hudson	unattached	3
26th	w 53	Shaun O'Hara	Essex Roads	3
27th	w 40	Abigail Dentus	Welwyn Wheelers CC	A+dispW
28th	w 42	Doug Bruce	Oxford University CC	3
29th	w 48	Andrew Granger	Twickenham CC	3
30th	w  6	Chris Campbell	London Dynamo	3
31st	w 23	Mark O'Brien	Archer RC	3
32nd	w 41	Monica Dapolenza	WyndyMilla	2w
33rd	w179	Clemence Copie	High Wycombe CC	2w
34th	w 45	Angus Winter	Twickenham CC	3J
35th	w 32	Andy Fowkes	Thames Velo	3
36th	w 55	Nick Franzini	London Dynamo	3
37th	w  8	Joel Lewis	Arbis-Colbert	3
38th	w 28	Simon Parton	Kingston Wheelers	3
39th	w 31	Wayne Thomas	G.S. Henley	3
40th	w 54	Ray Wilson	London Dynamo	3
Neon Velo PRIME
1st	w 13	Greg Wiltshire	1st Prime
2nd	w 44	Ed Rose	2nd Prime
3rd	w 38	Andrew Strong	3rd Prime

Race 2 4th Cats Results Time 0:53 8th December 2012

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	r 93	Ian Phillips	unattached	4
2nd	r 75	James Bird	unattached	4
3rd	r 24	James Coleman	Cadence RT	4
4th	r   2	Alex Tinsley	Twickenham CC	4
5th	r 54	Alexander Donaldson	London Dynamo	4
6th	r 95	Ben Smithers	unattached	4
7th	r 17	Ellis Dudley	Ashwell CC	4
8th	r 10	Cyprien Brochard	London Phoenix	4
9th	r 16	Ed Everett	unattached	4
10th	r 57	James Walsby	Catford CC	4
11th	r 47	Edmund Fowles	unattached	4
12th	r   6	Bob Hobson	VC10	4
13th	r 56	Ian O'Sullivan	Kingston Wheelers	4
14th	r 26	Neil Fraser	Stevenage CC	4
15th	r 68	Scott Shepherd	London Dynamo	4
16th	r 86	Alvaro Alves Da Cunha	unattached	4
17th	r 13	Daniel Hills	Imperial College Cycling Club	4
18th	r 87	Alex Milne	unattached	4
19th	r 81	James Bower	unattached	4
20th	r 18	Ewan Tuohy	Catford Cycling Club	4
21st	r 30	Trevor Roberts	Brighton Mitre	4
22nd	r 20	Ben Voller	Twickenham CC	4
23rd	r 85	Jack Devlin	Kingston Wheelers	4
24th	r 58	Josh Day	Imperial College	4
25th	r   5	Mark Rochester	unattached	4
26th	r 28	Luke Samuel	OUCC	4
27th	r 43	Ron Walls	London Dynamo	4
28th	r 32	Martin Williams	Sky Velo	4
29th	r 82	James McCarthy	Twickenham CC	4
30th	r 80	Jason Snell	Thames Turbo	4
31st	r 98	William McAvock	London Dynamo	4
32nd	r 90	Adrian Dawe	Sky velo	4
33rd	r 19	Sam Williamson	Hemel Hempstead CC	4
34th	r 65	Tim Childs	Westerley CC	4
35th	r   4	Andrew Rollason	Sky Velo	4
36th	r 15	David Morgan	Charlotteville CC	4
37th	r 45	Shane Townsend	Westerley CC	4
38th	r 25	Sebastian Kroll	Stevenage CC	4
39th	r 31	Jonathan Fowles	VC Walcot	4
40th	r 35	Matthew Evans	London Dynamo	4
41st	r 50	Tom Simpson	Dulwich Paragon CC	4
42nd	r   9	Oren Peleg	Regents Park Rouleurs	4
43rd	r 83	Jorge Alberzoni	London Dynamo	4
44th	r 61	Matthew Kimber	unattached	4
45th	r 63	Philip Han	unattached	4
46th	r 94	James Waddington	Dulwich Paragon	4
47th	r 97	Peter Blencowe	Imperial College CC	4
48th	r   3	Andrew Deans	London Dynamo	4
49th	r 21	Graham Austin	East St Cycles.com	4
50th	r 76	Giles Porter	London Dynamo	4
51st	r 88	Andres Roldan	London Dynamo	4
52nd	r 59	Anthony Steaman	Crawley Wheelers	4
53rd	r 14	Daren Austin	Twickenham CC	4
54th	r 92	Matthew Tolhurst	G.S. Henley	4
55th	r 84	Adam Daniel	unattached	4
56th	r 96	Peter Cornwall	unattached	4
Neon Velo PRIME
1st	r 95	Ben Smithers	1st Prime
2nd	r   2	Alex Tinsley	2nd Prime
3rd	r 63	Philip Han	3rd Prime

*

Race 1 Saturday 1st December 2012

A field of 72 lined up for the first race of the day and encouragingly most riders had competed at Hillingdon before. This was self-evident from the standard of riding, with riders familiar with the race direction if not the position of the finish. The Neon Velo Prime after 25 minutes upped the pace noticeably resulting in a number of riders being dropped from the group. James Coleman (Cadence RT) took maximum points in the sprint and clearly considered that his work was done for the day. In the finish sprint, the cumulative effect of the drag to the top of the hill, Brian’s bends and the Bus stop straight into a rising wind stretched the whole group out; Antonio Guenzler (UCL CC) taking a well-deserved win from Riyadh Khamis (Personal bike fit) and Ellis Dudley (Ashwell CC). The random prize is awarded to 24th place finisher Matthew Evans (London Dynamo) who will ‘go faster’ courtesy of a WyndyMilla cycle fitting at their Manor Farm Cycle Centre.

The 3rd cat race was run off without incident with the Neon Velo Prime being won by Luke Souter (Banbury Star C.C.) from Andrew Wright (High Wycombe C.C.) and Chris Campbell (London Dynamo). Thereafter the group seemed content to stay together until the finish coming off the ultimate bend into a fast downhill sprint with a strong effort and first win for Simon Oxenham (V.C.10) from Jacek Reder (unattached) and Ken Buckley (A.W. Cycles). As Simon later said of the finish photo ‘that’s one for the grandchildren!’ The Maxifuel random prize is awarded to 19th place finisher Andrew Wright (High Wycombe CC) who receives a Maxifuel rucksack comprising of Viperactive energy fuel, gels and bottles.

The E123 Race, as to be expected, was animated from the start, with Vince Halpern (Handsling), Richard Prebble (Node4-Giordana Racing) and Henry Furniss (WyndyMilla) leading the group and causing several anxious moments for some riders. Tony Gibb (Metaltek–Scott) saw the danger and moved forward, and from this move a six-man group formed; the Neon Velo Prime was contested by these six with Tony Gibb taking it from Connell Yates and Vince Halpern. The remainder of the group was made up of Alan Strang (Dulwich Paragon), Phil Holloway (Southend Wheelers) and Matt Carden (Team Quest): they worked well together throughout consolidating their lead until the last lap. Gibb proved he was in a very positive mood and with the finish looming Halpern tried to distance himself with a lone break which was unsuccessful; again the sprint for the line was very fast with Gibb holding off Strang with Halpern in 3rd and Carden showing excellent form achieving 4th place from Yates, and evergreen Holloway. A rejuvenated Andrew Rigg (Handsling) returned showing much of his old sprinting form just beating Jozef Metelka (Zappi’s CC) for 7th place. This rounded up an excellent afternoon's racing for the start of the series with the only incident - our First Aider - falling off the ‘circuit ambulance bike’ after the finish!

Prime prizes

Prime prizes are sponsored by Neon Velo and there will be a prime in each race for every category. Points will be awarded to first, second and third places for each prime; 10, 7 and 4 points respectively. Riders’ best 9 results from 12 races will contribute to their overall points tally and the winner in each class will be presented with a framed Neon Velo green jersey.

Race 1 Cats:E123 1st December 2012

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series points
1st	y 36	Tony Gibb	Metaltek - Scott	1	200
2nd	y  2	Alan Strang	Dulwich Paragon	1	150
3rd	y 23	Vincent Halpern	Handsling racing	1	130
4th	y 38	Matt Carden	Team Quest	3	120
5th	y 28	Conall Yates	InGear Quickvit Trainsharp	1	110
6th	y 17	Phil Holloway	southend wheelers	2	100
7th	y 25	Andrew Rigg	Handsling racing	3	90
8th	y 32	Jozef Metelka	Zappi's CC	2	80
9th	y 11	James Norris	High Wycombe CC	2	70
10th	y 27	Stuart Harvey	Ultimate Fitness	2	60
11th	y 34	Arjan Planting	Dulwich Paragon	2	50
12th	y  5	Cameron Foster	club corley cycles	2	40
13th	y 33	Sam Humpheson	Look Mum No Hands!	2	30
14th	y 16	Paul McGO'sullivanrath	North Road CC	3	20
15th	y 20	Robin Basford	Wyndymilla	3	10
16th	y 29	Rupert Beale	Beeline Bikes RT	2
17th	y  6	Daniel Tamplin	Aylesbury CC	2
18th	y 15	Neil Heffernan	Inverse CyClaim RT	3
19th	y 10	James Leach	Twickenham CC	3
20th	y  7	Duncan Rimmer	Morden CRC	3
21st	y  8	George Withers	AW Cycles	2
22nd	y 22	Tom Smith	Felt-Colbornes RT	E
23rd	y  9	Graham Crow	Twickenham cc	3
24th	y  3	Barny Willard	InGear Quickvit Trainsharp RT	2
25th	y 24	William Hunt	Army Cycling Union	2
26th	y 30	Nick Beale	Beeline Bikes RT	2
27th	y 14	Jordan Wade	VC St Raphael	3
28th	y 19	Richard Prebble	Node4-Giordana Racing	2
29th	y 26	George Kirkin	Twickenham cc	3
30th	y 37	Henry Furniss	Wyndymilla	1
31st	y 31	Paul Bennett	West Drayton	3
Neon Velo PRIME
1st	y 36	Tony Gibb	Prime 1st
2nd	y 28	Conall Yates	Prime 2nd
3rd	y 23	Vincent Halpern	Prime 3rd

Race 1 3rd Cats Results 1st December 2012

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series points
1st	w 27	Simon Oxenham	VC10	3	200
2nd	w 15	Jacek Reder	unattached	3	150
3rd	w 33	Ken Buckley	AW Cycles	3	130
4th	w 39	Steve Atkinson	South Downs Bikes	3	120
5th	w 13	Greg Wiltshire	Kingston Wheelers	3	110
6th	w  9	Ed Rose	progression/bikelux	3	100
7th	w 17	James Di Rico	high wycombe cc	3	90
8th	w 35	Jess Harding	Neon-Digital.co.uk	3	80
9th	w 34	Robert Tinn	MDCC	3	70
10th	w 20	Jonathan Dredge	London Dynamo	3	60
11th	w  2	Alex Toghill	Twickenham CC	3	50
12th	w  1	Alex Osborne	HWCC	3	40
13th	w  5	Brian Hennessey	Redhill CC	3	30
14th	w 11	Gavin Francis	London Dynamo	3	20
15th	w 26	Richard Rose	Bikelux Progression	3	10
16th	w 25	Neil Wass	TMG Horizon RT	3
17th	w 10	Edmond Irwin	london fire brigade CC	3
18th	w 30	Susan Freeburn	In-Gear Quickvit Trainsharp RT	2w
19th	w  4	Andrew Wright	High Wycombe	3
20th	w 21	Luke Souter	Banbury Star CC	3
21st	w 36	Melissa Brand	Pretorius Bikes	3w
22nd	w 38	Andrew Strong	unattached	3
23rd	w  7	Daniel Stevens	Neon-Digital.co.uk	3
24th	w  3	Andrew Harvey	Kingston Wheelers	3
25th	w 12	Greg Barber	Charlottevillecc	3
26th	w 37	Jason Painton	Rides on air	3
27th	w 32	Andy Fowkes	Thames Velo	3
28th	w  6	Chris Campbell	London Dynamo	3
29th	w 19	John-Paul Brophy	Neon-Digital.co.uk	3
30th	w 23	Mark O'Brien	Archer RC	3
31st	w 28	Simon Parton	Kingston Wheelers	3
32nd	w 31	Wayne Thomas	G.S. HENLEY	3
33rd	w 16	Jake Norman	WyndyMilla	3
Neon Velo PRIME
1st	w 21	Luke Souter
2nd	w  4	Andrew Wright
3rd	w  6	Chris Campbell

Race 1 4th Cats Results 1st December 2012

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	r  5	Antonio Guenzler	UCL CC	4
2nd	r 78	Riyadh Khamis	Personal bike fit	4
3rd	r 17	Ellis Dudley	Ashwell CC	4
4th	r 24	James Coleman	Cadence RT	4
5th	r 13	Daniel Hills	Imperial College Cycling Club	4
6th	r 57	James Walsby	Catford CC	4
7th	r 77	Ross Hallard	unattached	4
8th	r 27	Kenny Ross	Willesden Cycling Club	4
9th	r 81	James Bower	unattached	4
10th	r  6	Bob Hobson	VC10	4
11th	r 56	Ian O'Sullivan	Kingston Wheelers	4
12th	r  7	Charlie Biggers	Zappi's CC	4
13th	r 11	Damien Lodge	unattached	4
14th	r 21	Graham Austin	East St Cycles.com	4
15th	r 52	Zachary Bredemear	Dulwich Paragon CC	4
16th	r  2	Alex Tinsley	Twickenham CC	4
17th	r 28	Luke Samuel	OUCC	4
18th	r 36	Morgan Hill-Murphy	London Dynamo	4
19th	r 67	Samuel Evans	Dulwich Paragon CC	4
20th	r 68	Scott Shepherd	London Dynamo	4
21st	r 15	David Morgan	Charlotteville CC	4
22nd	r 18	Ewan Tuohy	Catford Cycling Club	4
23rd	r  1	Alan Nixon	Amersham RCC	4
24th	r 35	Matthew Evans	London Dynamo	4
25th	r 49	Tim Wormleighton	Kingston Wheelers CC	4
26th	r 16	Ed Everett	unattached	4
27th	r 32	Martin Williams	Sky Velo	4
28th	r 44	Ryan Hasler	unattached	4J
29th	r 62	Mike Joseph	Twickenham CC	4
30th	r 22	Huw Jones	Coffee#1	4
31st	r 58	Josh Day	Imperial College	4
32nd
33rd	r 55	Edward Cox	unattached	4
34th	r 66	Chris Stone	Redhill CC	4
35th
36th
37th	r 60	Kevin Jones	Twickenham CC	4
38th	r 76	Giles Porter	unattached	4
39th	r 80	Jason Swell		4
40th	r 14	Daren Austin	Twickenham CC	4
41st	r 43	Ron Walls	London Dynamo	4
42nd	r 64	Sioni Summers	Imperial College London	4
43rd	r 71	Andrew Woodstock	High Wycombe CC	4
44th	r 45	Shane Townsend	Westerley CC	4
45th	r 65	Tim Childs	Westerley CC	4
46th	r 79	Matt Convery	Sky Velo	4
47th	r 46	Stephen Rush	Twickenham CC	4
48th	r 73	Ian McNally	Westerley CC	4
49th	r 53	Aaron Olszewski	Kingston Wheelers	4
50th	r 29	Malcolm Binns	High Wycombe CC	4
51st	r 48	Tim Osborne	High Wycombe CC	4
52nd	r 54	Alexander Donaldson	London Dynamo	4
53rd	r 37	Patrick Drury	Kingston Wheelers CC	4
54th	r 63	Philip Han	unattached	4
55th	r 75	James Bird	unattached	4
56th	r 70	Frank Kilsby	unattached	4
57th	r 12	Daniel Goldsmith	Twickenham CC	4
58th	r 38	Paul Morrissey	High Wycombe CC	4
59th	r 42	Rob Jonas	Rapha Condor Cycle Club	4
60th	r  4	Andrew Rollason	Sky Velo	4
Neon Velo PRIME
1st	r 24	James Coleman
2nd	r 27	Kenny Ross
3rd	r 57	James Walsby

WHAT A YEAR!

2012 is coming to a close and what a year of contrasts it’s been! Massive British success at the Tour De France and Olympics, mostly courtesy of Sky. Our women both on- and off-road are proving they are some of the best in World - Lizzie Armitstead, Laura Trott, Helen Wyman and Nikki Harris - and some dancing into the sunset to be replaced with talented Lucy Garner and Elinor Barker.

On the other side of the Atlantic, ‘Stretch’ took cycling a massive step backwards and proved the old engineering adage that if it doesn’t look right then it probably isn’t! Whilst this propelled the sport back into the limelight for all the wrong reasons it may conversely help purge us of the remaining rottenness that pervades the governing bodies, teams and riders. None of these people were down to their last crust so the wins at all costs mentality is simply not justified! Enough ranting?

In spite of the latter events UK cycle sport must surely benefit from the success in the summer and, despite the inevitable flood of bargains on e-Bay in January, develop further long lasting interest - in any case it’s never been a five-minute wonder sport so those that pass through quickly would never have lasted anyway!

THE WINTER SERIES RESUMES

Closer to home and perhaps partly as a result of this success we have had to make a few changes to the format of the Winter series this year. We no longer have access to the main hall until later in the day, so the 4ths will sign on in the classroom and will race first on their own; however, this allows a bigger field than previous years and as this is the development class it fits reasonably well with our aspirations.

The downside to this is that in order to maintain a separate race for 3rds, which is also something we wanted to keep, their race will be run in parallel with the main race at 14:10. This would limit both fields to 50 riders but on past experience should not present a problem. Sign on for these races is still in the main hall.

The big loser this year is the women’s racing: although numbers have not been terrific in the last two years we were determined to continue (and perhaps develop) with this as a series of three over the Christmas break. We are now being prevented from having the extended period on those three days so there will be just one race on New Year’s day - the good news is that it’s a freebie on us, as a thank you for previous support but also partly by way of an apology as we feel we have let you down.

One thing that remains a constant for a further year are our principal sponsors - WyndyMilla and Maxifuel - we are privileged to maintain this partnership and they, like us, are keen to keep the prizes fresh and interesting - so watch this space for further updates!

This year we have decided to drop the usual Boxing Day race but we will still be running the New Year’s Day race, hopefully you won’t be nursing a fuzzy head from the night’s festivities?

If you’ve been to Hillingdon over the summer months you will be aware that our old gypsy caravan disappeared to be replaced by the splendid new judges’ hut, presently lying dormant on the apron - we are looking forward to our ‘Nue Camp’ - but no racist chants here - no lighting or heating also! Last year’s hot topic of ‘clockwise vs. anti-clockwise’ seems to have gone quiet but irrespective of this we are maintaining our favoured anti-clockwise race direction but with the finish on the apron - this could add a new dimension to the races - with the head wind on the short top straight followed by the sweep round the fast bend and 200m to the line. But no fear if it doesn’t work we’ll change it!

And finally, one last little shake up, to recognise the difficulty in racing in every round we are going to adopt the best 9 results from 12, good luck.

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