Imperial Winter Series 2013/2014

Vinnie, Vidi, Vici

This has been a year of firsts, the snow from last year being replaced by endless rain and flood, leading us to pump water off the circuit in order to race: thanks for everyone’s support with this.

Lucy produced and directed her ‘how to race at Hillingdon’ film which seemed to go down well both with new comers and the more experienced.

New venture Imperial Cycles has stepped up as principal sponsor providing 3rd (posting soon!) and 4th cat prizes. We have also enjoyed continued support from WyndyMilla – both founders now racing – and long termers Sigma Sport. Thanks to you all.

On a sombre note we had the air ambulance land on the circuit which was slightly bizarre and led to us having to abandon the race. Fortunately the Thames Velo rider is now OK and recovering well.

We introduced a Women’s Go-Race event and the support from the riders has been great and certainly looks good for the future; we will do more if we can fit them into the ridiculously tight schedule.

Apart from a few minor blips the 4ths raced without crashing the whole series and produced some great rides; anyone doubting the standard of riding needs to step up and give it a try!

It was fitting that we wrap up the series at the prize presentation with Lewis Atkins (Pedal Heaven) as guest of honour and as a recent series winner. Absent Jake Martin received the most combative rider award – when he was there he shredded everyone – so it was fortunate he was in Mallorca!

Overall winner Vince Halpern (Handsling racing) has supported us over the years and is no doubt a deserving winner – his first outright race win and overall series win after 14 years of trying just a week after Monica gave birth to their first child. He was flanked on the podium by relative newcomers James Norris (High Wycombe CC) and Josh Jones (Cambridge Uni CC).

Finally chapeau again to all our team both immediate family and extended Imperial Series crew – Doug, Maureen, Isabel, Harry, JB, Tracey, Maisy, Sally, Dan, John Mulineaux and Barry Hollis.

And I guess that’s pretty much what keeps us coming back – meeting the challenges we create and managing those that are presented to us – we hoped you enjoyed it – we did. See you next year – if we don’t catch you at the London Bike Show crits at Excel!!

Race 11 Saturday 8th February 2014

A gale force wind provided the final day’s conditions but even that was a welcome break from the torrential rain in the previous few days!

The final Ladies Go Ride race run at the same as the 4ths and it was a cagey affair with the overall still undecided: this coupled with the wind made it even more challenging as the group was only 10 in number. A bunch was therefore not unexpected and resulted in a win for Hannah Cannell (VC Londres) from team mate Christine Robson with Christine Pout (Verulam CC) in third place.

The overall results for the Go Ride Race for Ladies resulted in a win for the ever consistent Nasima Siddiqui (Wyndy Milla) from Christine Pout with Sally Stubbs (Imperial Racing Team) in third place after working so hard in all the races and missing out in the finishes.

The 4th cat race was a high voltage one with many attacks from the start and some good efforts considering the wind and it was perhaps the best of the series. The Twickenham C.C. riders were very dominant from the start with Richard Anderson and Daren Austin riding from the front but this didn’t stop Matthew Thorne (Paul Milnes Cycles) powering away solo and remaining there for the win – a classy ride. Behind him 4 riders broke clear – Huw Dymond (Reading CC), Nick Stagg (Hounslow), Ben Nichol (Amersham CC) and Rupert Baker (London Dynamo) they rode strongly to stay away from the peloton only to be caught in the final laps by Will Ranoe (VC Godalming Haslemere) and Daniel Marett.

The E123 race ran with the top overall position decided before the start, however, this was not apparent from the way the race started with the field stretched out over 150m. Oliver Moors (Speg Project 51) started the action with James Wilson (VC St Raphael) and Ed Clemens (Spirit Race Team) helping out at the front and this formed the pattern for the race. Also very active was Tim Allen (Arrow Cycles) and Clive Nicholls (Zappi’s CC) keeping the speed very high. The key move of the race occurred soon after this with four riders getting clear - consistent Josh Jones (Cambridge Uni CC), evergreen Phil Holloway (Southend Wheelers), Clemens, Wilson and Gavin Shuttleworth (Speg Project 51). The 5 worked well together all pulling hard and increasing their lead, so much so that Holloway was dropped. However, Nicholls who missed the original move saw the danger and went off on a lone chase and after 4 km latched on to the break, the effort was to tell later. With 3 km to go Clemens left the group and finished alone with Wilson just holding off Jones for second with Nicholls fourth, followed in by Shuttleworth and another Spirit Race Team Chris Dredge in the void between the break and the main group. With the overall leader Vince Halpern (Handsling Racing) making sure of his position by finishing 7th, leading in Dan Gardner (Speg Project 51) and Jerzy Kuzminski (High Wycombe CC).

Within the race the 3rd Cat. winner was Robert Seeley (Brixton CC) with two Twickenham riders performing consistently in the elite group with James Bradley and Graeme York taking second and third.

See you back on 6th December

Race 11 Cats E 1 2

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	w164	Ed Clemens	Spirit Race Team	1	200
2nd	w168	James Wilson	VC St Raphael	1	190
3rd	w  6	Josh Jones	Cambridge University CC	2	180
4th	w171	Clive Nicholls	Zappi's CC	2	170
5th	w169	Gavin Shuttleworth	SPEG - Project 51	2	160
6th	w163	Chris Dredge	Spirit Race Team	1	150
7th	w  8	Vincent Halpern	Handsling racing	1	140
8th	w153	Dan Gardner	SPEG - Project 51	1	130
9th	w 30	Jerzy Kuzminski	High Wycombe	2	120
10th	w161	Tim Allen	Arrow Cycles	1	110
11th	w 12	James Norris	High Wycombe CC	2	100
12th	w162	Mark Baines	Spirit Race Team	E	70
13th	w154	Oliver Moors	SPEG - Project 51	2
14th	w 11	Phil Dempsey	Aprire Bicycles	1
15th	w165	Peter Hale	SPEG - Project 51	2
16th	w156	Dani Christmas	SPEG - Project 51	2w
17th	w 20	Jo Skelton	Look Mum No Hands!	2
18th	w176	Andrew Marriott	Spirit Race Team	2

Race 11 3rd Cats

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	y131	Robert Seeley	Brixton CC	3	90
2nd	y108	James Bradley	Twickenham CC	3	80
3rd	y 35	Graeme York	Twickenham CC	3	60
4th	y 37	Gavin Spiers	GS Henley	3	50
5th	y121	Adam Thompson	Reading CC	3	40
6th	y  2	Angelo Christides	Unattached	3	30
7th	y 78	Ralph De Kanter	Norwood Paragon CC	3	20
8th	y171	Jon Freeman	Unattached	3	10
9th	y147	Matthew Cryer	Army Cycle Union	3
10th	y110	Nathan Hereward	Kingston Wheelers	3
11th	y 20	Neil Heffernan	Inverse - Cycling Components RT	3
12th	y 46	Riyadh Khamis	Personal bike fit	3
13th	y 28	Kevin Argent	Sigma Sport La Fuga	3
14th	y112	Phillip Aubert	Velosport	0
15th	y124	Will Houghton	Hillingdon CC	3
16th	y 52	Robin Basford	Wyndymilla	3
17th	y 21	Damien Lodge	Imperial Racing Team	3
18th	y102	Mike Saunders	Unattached	3
19th	y 91	Louis Francis	Watford Velo Sport	3
20th	y136	Anna Marie Hughes	Bike Pure-LeMond-Aspire Velotech	2
21st	y 29	Jon Shillingford	Unattached	3
22nd	y155	Andrew Rigg	Handsling Racing	3
23rd	y  1	Bill Butterworth	Twickenham CC	3
24th	y170	Matt Kerr	Ipswich Bicycle club	3
25th	y 68	Mario Manelfi	Blazing Saddles	3
26th	y 56	Alvaro Alves Da Cunha	Unattached	3
27th	y 25	Ralph Keeler	Cambridge CC	3
28th	y159	James Leech	London Dynamo	3

Race 11 4th Cats

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	r190	Matthew Thorne	PaulMilnesCycles/BradfordOlympicRC	4
2nd	r222	Will Ranoe	VC Godalming Haslemere	4
3rd	r171	Daniel Marett	Unattached	4
4th	r193	Nic Stagg	Hounslow & District Wlrs	4
5th	r 32	Ben Nichol	Amersham RCC	4
6th	r100	Huw Dymond	Reading. CC	4
7th	r 56	Steve Morgan	Twickenham CC	4
8th	r 33	Sam Owen	London Dynamo	4
9th	r157	Jim Whewell	London Dynamo	4
10th	r307	Elwyn Powell	Twickenham CC	4
11th	r228	Shaun Holburn	Haverhill CC	4
12th	r160	Richard Anderson	Twickenham CC	4
13th	r159	Alex Woods	Unattached	4
14th	r185	Alberto Battaglia	Dulwich paragon CC	4
15th	r 34	James Spackman	London Dynamo	4
16th	r 51	Daren Austin	Twickenham CC	4
17th	r 28	Steven pellowe	Hounslow District Wheelers	4
18th	r224	Kerry Scotson	VC Godalming&Haslemere	4
19th	r 22	Mark Davison	London Dynamo	4
20th	r120	Calvin Tucker	Southgate CC	4
21st	r151	Elliot Brown	VC Meudon	4
22nd	r111	Mark Stock	Farnborough & Camberley CC	4
23rd	r 38	Tim Marshall	Unattached	4
24th	r 71	Michael Weekes	London Dynamo	4
25th	r 47	Tim Childs	Westerley CC	4
26th	r 39	Alan Nixon	Amersham RCC	4
27th	r 41	Tom O'Connell	Velosport CC	4
28th	r194	George Eyles	Maidenhead & District CC	4
29th	r176	Ross Lindsay	Unattached	4
30th	r221	Duncan Knight	Hemel Hempstead CC	4
31st	r223	Carrie Hartwell	Cowley Road Condors	4
32nd	r227	Simon Potter	Haverhill CC	4
33rd	r220	Bonnie Van Wilgenburg	Zappi's CC	4
34th	r191	Steven Green	Thames Velo	4
35th	r 67	Keith Loveman	Verulam CC	4
36th	r203	Jake Phipps	SW Rouleurs	4
37th	r225	Tom James	London Dynamo	4

Race 5 Womens Go-Race 4th cats and novices

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	g 38	Hannah Cannell	VC Londres	4	100
2nd	g 50	Christine Robson	VC Londres	4	90
3rd	g 21	Christine Pout	Verulam CC	4	80
4th	g  9	Nasima Siddiqui	WyndyMilla	4	70
5th	g  8	Alexandra Hamilton	Kingston Wheelers	4	60
6th	g 48	Tamala McGee	London Phoenix	4	50
7th	g 14	Sally Stubbs	Imperial Racing Team	4	40
8th	g 51	Emma Derby	VCL	n	30
9th	g 45	Hedvika Toncrova	Zappis Ladies	4	20
10th	g  7	Sarah Henderson	VCL	4	10
11th	g 29	Harriet Hollis	Imperial Racing Team	0
12th	g 17	Lise Richards	Wyndymilla	4
13th	g 33	Sarah Cashman	WyndyMilla	4

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Race 10 Saturday 1st February 2014

Torrential rain for much of the previous 24 hours provided a reasonably sized lake for the Imperial team to tackle first thing on Saturday morning. With 2 pumps and a few willing helpers the water slowly started to clear eventually causing only a slight delay to the start.

As soon as the race started the wind picked up resulting in splits in the field almost immediately, assisted by Ian Loades (Team Dassi) and David Ryan (Swindon RT) pulling very hard at the front. However, they were pulled back by some strong riding from Alberto Battaglia (Dulwich Paragon CC) and Elwyn Powell (Twickenham CC) but the conditions made it almost impossible to break clear, with both London Dynamo and Twickenham CC hacking the front and pushing forward, particularly with James Spackman and Rupert Baker positioning themselves at the front. Some excellent teamwork enabled Baker to move clear in the last 2 km, but from nowhere Patrick Brown surged and passed Baker with ease. He seemed surprised that he was first across the line to win with Baker taking second, also bemused, with Jason Braund of Imperial College in third.

Jason Braund (Imperial College CC) wins the Imperial Cycles random prize and can get down to Imperial Cycles for a tune up ready for a summer season of racing.

Another open race faced the E123 riders and although the wind had eased a little Jerzy Kuzminski (High Wycombe CC) and Graham Crow (Twickenham CC) forged ahead and strung the whole bunch out, many finding it too difficult to hang on. Crow was in good form and continued to lead from the front with Henry Furniss (WyndyMilla) also keen to press on with Josh Jones (Cambridge Uni CC), the latter solo for 2 km. Other riders tried - Josh Allen (Woolwich CC), overall contender James Norris (High Wycombe) and Phil Dempsey (Aprire Bicycles) but nothing was going to stick. In the latter stages Crow did break clear and slowly opened a gap of 15 seconds, and perhaps without the effort of Dempsey and Clive Nicholls (Team Zappi) he would have stayed away with the support of his Twickenham team mates who did their best to block, but were unable to prevent him being caught with just over a lap to go. The sprint for the line was intense and with a gusting headwind last week's winner Vince Halpern (Handsling) had to give best to very strong High Wycombe team mates, with Jerzy Kuzminski just holding off Norris. Joshua Mitchell (Bicester Millenium) took a solid 4th place. Angelo Christides finished a fine 5th overall winning the 3rds with Tom Sefton (Didcot Phoenix CC) just holding off returning Andrew Rigg (Handsling Racing).

Next Saturday sees the final race of the series and the prize presentation followed by the ever popular Lucky Racer prizes.

Race 10 Cats E 1 2

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	w 30	Jerzy Kuzminski	High Wycombe	2	200
2nd	w 12	James Norris	High Wycombe CC	2	190
3rd	w  8	Vincent Halpern	Handsling racing	1	180
4th	w 27	Joshua Mitchell	Bicester Millenium	2	170
5th	w  2	Tyler Lemmon	Medway Velo	2	130
6th	w 24	Jacek Reder	Unattached	2	120
7th	w  9	Alex Tinsley	Twickenham CC	2	100
8th	w 39	Graham Crow	Twickenham cc	2
9th	w 10	Michael Skipsey	Tmg horizon	2
10th	w 11	Phil Dempsey	Aprire Bicycles	1
11th	w  5	Neil Wass	TMG Horizon Cycling Team	2

Race 10 3rd Cats

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	y  2	Angelo Christides	Unattached	3	160
2nd	y 66	Tom Sefton	Palmer Park Velo RT	3J	150
3rd	y155	Andrew Rigg	Handsling Racing	3	140
4th	y108	James Bradley	Twickenham CC	3	110
5th	y  7	Ewan Tuohy	Catford CC Equipe Banks	3	90
6th	y145	Henry Furniss	WyndyMilla	3	80
7th	y158	Lee Comerford	London Dynamo	3	70
8th	y168	Gavin Francis	London Dynamo	3	60
9th	y147	Matthew Cryer	Army Cycle Union	3	50
10th	y 25	Ralph Keeler	Cambridge CC	3	40
11th	y 16	Ian Phillips	Army Cycling Union	3	30
12th	y121	Adam Thompson	Reading CC	3	20
13th	y102	Mike Saunders	Unattached	3	10
14th	y164	Ben Voller	Twickenham CC	3
15th	y156	Kevin Chandler	Watford Velo Sport	3
16th	y 10	Andrew Lowe	Team MK	3
17th	y151	Robin Mould	Velosport Racing Team	3
18th	y162	James Hayward	Woolwich CC	3
19th	y143	Matthew Bugg	Dulwich Paragon	3
20th	y116	Chris Whitehouse	Twickenham CC	3
21st	y105	Ian Baynes	TMG Horizon Cycling Team	3
22nd	y 23	Spencer Robinson	Newbury RC	3
23rd	y 56	Alvaro Alves Da Cunha	Unattached	3
24th	y159	James Leech	London Dynamo	3
25th	y 38	Scott Shepherd	London Dynamo	3
26th	y  1	Bill Butterworth	Twickenham CC	3
27th	y 68	Mario Manelfi	Blazing Saddles	3
28th	y 52	Robin Basford	Wyndymilla	3
29th	y166	Leon Fielding	Velosport RT	3
30th	y 18	Nicole Oh	Les Filles RT	2w
31st	y167	Philip Pearson	VC Revolution	3
32nd	y141	Kieran Woods	Charlotteville CC	3
33rd	y161	Jack Miller	woolwich cc	3
34th	y136	Anna Marie Hughes	Bike Pure-LeMond-Aspire Velotech	2w

Race 10 4th Cats

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	r211	Patrick Brown	Unattached	4
2nd	r 61	Rupert Baker	London Dynamo	4
3rd	r 85	Jason Braund	Imperial College CC	4
4th	r138	Amir Eshtehardi	Finsbury Park CC	4
5th	r197	Justin Slater	Unattached	4
6th	r215	Dan Brocklebank	London Dynamo	4
7th	r 62	Jennifer Crouch	London Dynamo	3w
8th	r179	Michael Woodland	Team Dassi	4
9th	r198	Ian Loades	Team Dassi	4
10th	r 33	Sam Owen	London Dynamo	4
11th	r 50	Ed Everett	Unattached	4
12th	r 56	Steve Morgan	Twickenham CC	4
13th	r 26	John Bull	London Dynamo	4
14th	r 38	Tim Marshall	Unattached	4
15th	r185	Alberto Battaglia	Dulwich paragon CC	4
16th	r216	Paul Newman	Southgate	4
17th	r 34	James Spackman	London Dynamo	4
18th	r120	Calvin Tucker	Southgate CC	4
19th	r188	Phil Hutchinson	Amersham RCC	4
20th	r212	Nicholas Rowe	Kingston Wheelers CC	4
21st	r172	Stefano Dall'aglio	Unattached	4
22nd	r 47	Tim Childs	Westerley CC	4
23rd	r157	Jim Whewell	London Dynamo	4
24th	r111	Mark Stock	Farnborough & Camberley CC	4
25th	r209	Dan Charity	Twickenham CC	4
26th	r 40	Andy Brown	Thames Velo	4
27th	r141	Eng-Jon Ong	Charlotteville CC	4
28th	r 11	James Rapinac	London Dynamo	4
29th	r214	Sam Alison	Singular Cycles	4
30th	r 48	Andrew Weighill	Amersham RCC	4
31st	r307	Elwyn Powell	Twickenham CC	4
32nd	r 16	Anthony Middleton	WyndyMilla	4
33rd	r 39	Alan Nixon	Amersham RCC	4
34th	r176	Ross Lindsay	Unattached	4
35th	r210	Massimo Saetta	Kingston Wheelers	4
36th	r100	Huw Dymond	Reading. CC	4
37th	r309	Coley Brenan	Unattached	4
38th	r192	Ali Akhtar	Unattached	4
39th	r  3	Andrew Deans	London Dynamo	4
40th	r 44	Elizabeth Dunne	Wyndy Milla	4w
41st	r195	Chloe Weller	Norwood Paragon	4w
42nd	r 67	Keith Loveman	Verulam CC	4
43rd	r  6	David Jack Loveman	Verulam CC	4J
44th	r213	Nathan Wilson	Kingston Wheelers	4
45th	r 13	Sally Stubbs	Imperial Racing Team	4w
46th	r 74	Harriet Hollis	Imperial Racing Team	4w
47th	r217	Emma Van Dijkum	Unattached	4w

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Race 9 Saturday 25th January 2014

An unseasonably warm day with a rising wind towards the end of the afternoon, a portent of the torrential storms that luckily arrived an hour after racing ended.

The 4th Cat race was very animated with many attacks from the start with Twickenham CC rider’s challenging London Dynamo for control. Early on Philip Shuttleworth, James Leech (London Dynamo) and Tim O'Rourke (Twickenham CC) forced the pace and O'Rourke active during the whole of the race, along with Leech and time triallist Nic Stagg (Hounslow & District). O'Rourke forced a break before Matt Thorne (Paul Milnes Cycles/Bradford Olympic RC) and Ben Nichol (Amersham RCC) moved forward at the bell but sprinting is for sprinters so Justin Slater won fairly comfortably from Dan Brocklebank (London Dynamo) and Jon Freeman with Thorne and Stagg in 4th and 5th. 3rd cat woman Jennifer Crouch of London Dynamo made the top ten with a fine 7th place.

Tim Marshall wins the Imperial Cycles random prize and still has time to get down to Imperial Cycles for a tune up in time for the final rounds of the series!

20 ladies started in the Go Race and there was a split almost immediately leaving a group of seven riders away and they raced together for the 30 minutes with Sally Stubbs (Imperial RT) sitting comfortably in the front group. Unfortunately on their final lap they became attached to the rear of the 4th Cat race but it is difficult to say if it had a bearing on the outcome. The first three were ahead by a few lengths with Hannah Cannell (VC Londres) winning from Catherine Zahra (Dulwich Paragon) and Lindsey Ackland (Zappi's Racing Team) taking third place. With 1 round to go the first four riders are covered by 10 points, which will make for a tactical finale on 8 February.

Without the two dominant riders of the series, Jake Martin and Lawrence Carpenter, both still at their training camp and no obvious patron to follow the race took on an unfamiliar pattern. This encouraged Twickenham CC's Alex Tinsley and Graham Crow, along with Mario Manelfi (Blazing Saddles) to move off the front. Tinsley moved off the front alone chased by Christ Tomsett (Southampton Uni RC) and Adam Thompson (Reading CC) but lost ground on the ramp up to the old finish. Henry Furniss (WyndyMilla) again determined to avoid a sprint, soloed away and held the lead for 3 km. Vince Halpern gets a Winter series race win under his belt after more 10 years at this event and held off two very fast finishing juniors, SPEG Project 51 team mates Oliver Moors and Daniel Gardner, both half Halpern’s age! The first 3rd cats were Andy Colsell (High Wycombe CC), Furniss and James Bradley (Twickenham CC) in 8th, 9th and 10th respectively. Vince Halpern who is expected to become a father for the first time on Monday still holds the overall lead.

Race 9 Cats E 1 2

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	w  8	Vincent Halpern	Handsling racing	1	200
2nd	w154	Oliver Moors	SPEG - Project 51	2	190
3rd	w153	Dan Gardner	SPEG - Project 51	1J	180
4th	w 12	James Norris	High Wycombe CC	2	170
5th	w 15	Rory Townsend	Pedal Heaven Colbornes RT	2	160
6th	w  6	Josh Jones	Cambridge University CC	2	150
7th	w158	Mark Smith	Welwyn Wheelers CC	2
8th	w 39	Graham Crow	Twickenham cc	2	100
9th	w 30	Jerzy Kuzminski	High Wycombe	2	90
10th	w  9	Alex Tinsley	Twickenham CC	2	80
11th	w  2	Tyler Lemmon	Medway Velo	2	50
12th	w149	Andrew Marriott	spirit race team	2
13th	w155	Donal Linehan	Newbury Road Club	2
14th	w  3	Jacob Nicholson	Medway Velo	2
15th	w152	Dominic Gabellini	RCCC	2
16th	w 27	Joshua Mitchell	Bicester Millenium	2
17th	w157	Keira McVitty	WyndyMilla	1w
18th	w156	Dani Christmas	SPEG - Project 51	2w
19th	w 13	Rudie Marais	La Fuga-Sigma Sport CC	2
20th	w 10	Michael Skipsey	TMG Horizon Cycling Team	2
21st	w  5	Neil Wass	TMG Horizon Cycling Team	2

Race 9 3rd Cats

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	y144	Andy Colsell	High Wycombe CC	3	140
2nd	y145	Henry Furniss	WyndyMilla	3	130
3rd	y108	James Bradley	Twickenham CC	3	120
4th	y 25	Ralph Keeler	Cambridge CC	3	110
5th	y123	Peter Hitt	VC Meudon	3	70
6th	y 66	Tom Sefton	Palmer Park Velo RT	3J	60
7th	y137	Jason Wood	London Dynamo	3	40
8th	y124	Will Houghton	Hillingdon CC	3	30
9th	y 52	Robin Basford	Wyndymilla	3	20
10th	y 20	Neil Heffernan	Inverse - Cycling Components RT	3	10
11th	y 10	Andrew Lowe	Team MK	3
12th	y147	Matthew Cryer	Army Cycle Union	3
13th	y148	Simon Potter	WyndyMilla	3
14th	y102	Mike Saunders	Unattached	3
15th	y130	David McNeill	London Dynamo	3
16th	y 46	Riyadh Khamis	Personal bike fit	3
17th	y133	Will Greig	SW Rouleurs	3
18th	y  2	Angelo Christides	Unattached	3
19th	y151	Robin Mould	Velosport Racing Team	3
20th	y 35	Graeme York	Twickenham CC	3
21st	y 28	Kevin Argent	Sigma Sport La Fuga	3
22nd	y 56	Alvaro Alves Da Cunha	Unattached	3
23rd	y 45	Alistair Gurney	Rapha Condor CC	3
24th	y154	Ben Smith	Welwyn Wheelers	3
25th	y 92	James Leach	Imperial Racing Team	3
26th	y 21	Damien Lodge	Imperial Racing Team	3
27th	y121	Adam Thompson	Reading CC	3
28th	y146	Amritpal Virdi	Norwood Paragon CC	3
29th	y120	Chris Tomsett	Southampton University RC	3
30th	y 75	Darryl Green	Inverse/Cycling-Components RT	3
31st	y 31	Justin Lord	G.S. Henley	3
32nd	y 54	Duncan Rimmer	Morden CRC	3
33rd	y149	Owen Barnes	SRAM	3
34th	y 68	Mario Manelfi	Blazing Saddles	3
35th	y138	Russell Short	London Dynamo	3
36th	y  6	Mickael Metayer	Thames Velo	3
37th	y153	Andy Fowkes	Thames Velo	3
38th	y 38	Scott Shepherd	London Dynamo	3
39th	y150	Leo Tong	The 5th Floor CC	3
40th	y141	Kieran Woods	Charlotteville CC	3

Race 9 4th Cats

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	r197	Justin Slater	Unattached	4
2nd	r204	Dan Brocklebank	London Dynamo	4
3rd	r158	Jon Freeman	Unattached	4
4th	r190	Matthew Thorne	Paul Milnes Cycles/Bradford Olympic RC	4
5th	r193	Nic Stagg	Hounslow & District Wlrs	4
6th	r169	James Leech	London Dynamo	4
7th	r 62	Jennifer Crouch	London Dynamo	3w
8th	r181	Elwyn Powell	Twickenham CC	4
9th	r100	Huw Dymond	Reading. CC	4
10th	r201	Russell Hughes	Army Cycling Union	4
11th	r 32	Ben Nichol	Amersham RCC	4
12th	r 48	Andrew Weighill	Unattached	4
13th	r167	Bruce Baxter	Unattached	4
14th	r144	Ian Murray	VC10	4
15th	r203	Jake Phipps	SW Rouleurs	4
16th	r159	Alex Woods	Unattached	4
17th	r 39	Alan Nixon	Amersham RCC	4
18th	r 34	James Spackman	London Dynamo	4
19th	r 28	Steven Pellowe	Hounslow District Wheelers	4
20th	r 18	Miles Rice	hounslow wheelers	4
21st	r 50	Ed Everett	Unattached	4
22nd	r207	Ben Leach	Unattached	4
23rd	r 21	Nathan Sweeney	London Dynamo	4
24th	r134	Christina Stephenson	Twickenham CC	4w
25th	r 16	Anthony Middleton	WyndyMilla	4
26th	r139	Richard Moss	WyndyMilla	4
27th	r 38	Tim Marshall	Unattached	4
28th	r198	Ian Loades	Team Dassi	4
29th	r 40	Andy Brown	Thames Velo	4
30th	r  9	Robert Abbey	Hemel Hempstead CC	4
31st	r 43	Tom Herbert	Kingston Wheelers	4
32nd	r194	George Eyles	Maidenhead & District CC	4
33rd	r192	Ali Akhtar	Unattached	4
34th	r117	Tim O'Rourke	Twickenham CC	4
35th	r176	Ross Lindsay	Unattached	4
36th	r202	Laurence Plant	GS  Henley	4
37th	r131	Shane Townsend	Westerley CC	4
38th	r 47	Tim Childs	Westerley CC	4
39th	r 11	James Rapinac	London Dynamo	4
40th	r 59	Massimo Saetta	Kingston Wheelers	4
41st	r126	Ian McNally	Westerley CC	4
42nd	r179	Michael Woodland	Team Dassi	4
43rd	r199	Philip Shuttleworth	Unattached	4
44th	r306	Alex Pierce	Willesden Cycling Club	4
45th	r120	Calvin Tucker	Southgate CC	4
46th	r195	Chloe Weller	Norwood Paragon	4
47th	r141	Eng-Jon Ong	Charlotteville CC	4
48th	r205	William Murphy	Dulwich Paragon CC	4
49th	r160	Richard Anderson	Twickenham CC	4
50th	r  6	David Jack Loveman	Verulam CC	4J
51st	r  8	Clarice Chung	Twickenham	4
52nd	r191	Steven Green	Thames Velo	4
53rd	r 67	Keith Loveman	Verulam CC	4
54th	r 17	Andrew Goulding	Hounslow & District Wlrs	4
55th	r168	James Gregory	Wyndy Milla	4

Race 4 Womens Go-Race 4th cats and novices

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	g 38	Hannah Cannell	VC Londres	4	100
2nd	g 39	Catherine Zahra	Dulwich Paragon	4	90
3rd	g 44	Lindsey Ackland	Zappi's Racing Team	4	80
4th	g 23	Gem Atkinson	unattached	N	70
5th	g 46	Lucy Manning	Dulwich Paragon CC	4	60
6th	g 28	Anneke Prins	Welwyn Wheelers CC	N	50
7th	g 14	Sally Stubbs	Imperial Racing Team	4	40
8th	g  9	Nasima Siddiqui	WyndyMilla	4	30
9th	g 41	Alice Jackson	UCL CC	N	20
10th	g 47	Emma Derby	UCL CC	N	10
11th	g 20	Polly Farrington	unattached	N
12th	g 29	Harriet Hollis	Imperial Racing Team	4
13th	g 33	Sarah Cashman	WyndyMilla	N
14th	g 43	Lise Richards	Wyndymilla	4
15th	g 45	Yoko Aoki	RCCC	N
16th	g 42	Lucy Wright	UCL CC	N
17th	g 49	Clara Jones	Dulwich Paragon	4
18th	g 48	Tamala McGee	London Phoenix	4
19th	g 30	Andrea Parish	Camel Valley C&TC	N
20th	g 40	Judith Mulvihill	Dulwich Paragon	4
21st	g 32	Sheryl Foster	Welwyn Wheelers CC	4

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Race 8 Saturday 18th January 2014

A welcome return to a bright sunny day with a fresh rising wind.

A full field in the 4th cats kicked the day off with Alan Nixon (Amersham RCC) and Christophe De Belder (VC10) attacking early on, but the main bunch remained tight. Several other attempts came including a strong but vociferous drive by eventual winner Robin Mould clearly setting out his intentions; the London Dynamo squad continue to control from the front, but a lone (unintended?) attack from Rob Mosley (Thames Velo) strung the field out before another attack by Dynamo rider Alexander Evangelidis calmed things down. In the closing stages of the 50 minute race there were further flurries by James Spackman (London Dynamo) and team mate Mark Davison but in the sprint Robin Mould (Velosport Racing Team) took a clear win with time to raise his hands off the bars, annoying the BC Commissaire in the process! John Freeman and Alex Woods followed him in with Chris Jubb just missing the podium.

Jennifer Crouch of London Dynamo wins the Imperial Cycles random prize and can look forward to her bike having a thorough spruce up at Imperial Cycles in Isleworth!

The E123 Race took on a new complexion with dominant force Jake Martin away on a Winter training camp but the start remained fast with WyndaMilla's Patron, Henry Furniss starting the action cheered on by Nasima fresh from finishing the previous race. The riders causing the acceleration - Graham Crow (Twickenham CC), Mike Brewer (London Dynamo), James Norris (High Wycombe RT) and Robert Seeley (Brixton CC) lined things out but the strength of Rory Townsend (Pedal Heaven), Lawrence Carpenter (Catford Equipe Banks) and Jo Skelton (Look Mum No Hands) was clear. It very quickly changed with a decisive action from Crow and Furniss who moved away and steadily built a decent lead. Carpenter saw the danger and moved across to the duo, seemingly with ease, and although at one stage the gap diminished to a few seconds following pressure from the group, it eventually fizzled out. With 6 laps to go Carpenter stepped it up a notch to leave Crow and Furniss to consolidate their efforts for the podium. Crow finished in a hard earned 2nd with Furniss 3rd. Norris won a tight sprint for 4th narrowly beating Townsend and Vince Halpern.

Race 8 Cats E 1 2

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	w 38	Lawrence Carpenter	Catford Equipe Banks	1	200
2nd	w 39	Graham Crow	Twickenham cc	2	190
3rd	w 12	James Norris	High Wycombe CC	2	170
4th	w 15	Rory Townsend	Pedal Heaven Colbornes RT	2	160
5th	w  8	Vincent Halpern	Handsling racing	1	150
6th	w 30	Jerzy Kuzminski	High Wycombe	2	140
7th	w  6	Josh Jones	Cambridge University CC	2	130
8th	w 24	Jacek Reder	Unattached	2	100
9th	w 34	Lee Desborough	St Ives CC	2	80
10th	w 41	Dominic Gabellini	RCCC	2	70
11th	w 27	Joshua Mitchell	Bicester Millenium	2	60
12th	w 20	Jo Skelton	Look Mum No Hands!	2	50
13th	w 10	Michael Skipsey	Tmg horizon	2	40
14th	w 51	Greg Wiltshire	Kingston Wheelers	2	10
15th	w  7	Phil Holloway	southend wheelers	2
16th	w  3	Jacob Nicholson	Medway Velo	2
17th	w  2	Tyler Lemmon	Medway Velo	2
18th	w 48	Clemence Copie	Mule bar Girl / s	1w

Race 8 3rd Cats

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	y145	Henry Furniss	WyndyMilla	3	180
2nd	y131	Robert Seeley	Brixton CC	3	120
3rd	y144	Andy Colsell	High Wycombe CC	3	110
4th	y 62	Oliver Bates	Welwyn Wheelers	3	90
5th	y  2	Angelo Christides	Unattached	3	30
6th	y 66	Tom Sefton	Palmer Park Velo RT	3J	20
7th	y 35	Graeme York	Twickenham CC	3
8th	y 20	Neil Heffernan	Inverse - Cycling Components RT	3
9th	y 28	Kevin Argent	Sigma Sport La Fuga	3
10th	y 10	Andrew Lowe	Team MK	3
11th	y 45	Alistair Gurney	Rapha Condor CC	3
12th	y 25	Ralph Keeler	Cambridge CC	3
13th	y 29	Jon Shillingford	Unattached	3
14th	y108	James Bradley	Twickenham CC	3
15th	y136	Anna Marie Hughes	Bike Pure-LeMond-Aspire Velotech	2w
16th	y 46	Riyadh Khamis	Personal bike fit	3
17th	y 84	Neil J Fraser	Stevenage cc	3
18th	y124	Will Houghton	Hillingdon CC	3
19th	y 52	Robin Basford	Wyndymilla	3
20th	y 56	Alvaro Alves Da Cunha	Unattached	3
21st	y146	Amritpal Virdi	Norwood Paragon	3
22nd	y121	Adam Thompson	Reading CC	3
23rd	y 87	Dan Moseley	Prestige Velo Club	3
24th	y 21	Damien Lodge	Imperial Racing Team	3
25th	y 90	James Archibald	GS Henley	3
26th	y 38	Scott Shepherd	London Dynamo	3
27th	y102	Mike Sanders	Unattached	3
28th	y137	Jason Wood	London Dynamo	3
29th	y 31	Justin Lord	G.S. Henley	3
30th	y 80	William McAvock	London Dynamo	3
31st	y 97	Mike Brewer	London Dynamo	3
32nd	y  4	Andrew Wright	High Wycombe	3
33rd	y109	Alex Jump	Dulwich Paragon	3
34th	y 37	Gavin Spiers	GS Henley	3
35th	y135	Patrick Hayes	Victoria/Ciclos Uno.com/CC	3
36th	y 69	James Waters	G.S. Henley	3
37th	y 68	Mario Manelfi	Blazing Saddles	3
38th	y 79	Vaughan Luff	Unattached	3
39th	y141	Kieran Woods	Charlotteville CC	3

Race 8 4th Cats

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	r101	Robin Mould	Velosport Racing Team	4
2nd	r158	Jon Freeman	Unattached	4
3rd	r159	Alex Woods	Unattached	4
4th	r166	Chris Jubb	Unattached	4
5th	r 85	Jason Braund	Imperial College CC	4
6th	r100	Huw Dymond	Reading. CC	4
7th	r 50	Ed Everett	Unattached	4
8th	r 93	Robert Mosley	Thames Velo	4
9th	r 48	Andrew Weighill	Unattached	4
10th	r 66	Harry Bunnell	Kingston Wheelers	4
11th	r114	Ben Skelton	London Dynamo	4
12th	r 32	Ben Nichol	Amersham RCC	4
13th	r 21	Nathan Sweeney	London Dynamo	4
14th	r 22	Mark Davison	London Dynamo	4
15th	r186	Karl Twomey	Brixton Cycles	4
16th	r187	Alexander Evangelidis	London Dynamo	4
17th	r 64	Neil Kerr	Twickenham CC	4
18th	r 28	Steven Pellowe	Hounslow District Wheelers	4
19th	r185	Alberto Battaglia	Dulwich paragon CC	4
20th	r183	Scott Michaels	Southampton University RC	4
21st	r 62	Jennifer Crouch	London Dynamo	3w
22nd	r 61	Rupert Baker	London Dynamo	4
23rd	r 35	Akis Kollaros	London Dynamo	4
24th	r 53	Tom Simpson	Brixton Cycles	4
25th	r144	Ian Murray	VC10	4
26th	r172	Stefano Dall'aglio	Unattached	4
27th	r 34	James Spackman	London Dynamo	4
28th	r 39	Alan Nixon	Amersham RCC	4
29th	r  9	Robert Abbey	Hemel Hempstead CC	4
30th	r 73	Neil Grunshaw	Kingston Wheelers CC	4
31st	r181	Elwyn Powell	Twickenham CC	4
32nd	r176	Ross Lindsay	Unattached	4
33rd	r 47	Tim Childs	Westerley CC	4
34th	r 18	Miles Rice	hounslow wheelers	4
35th	r179	Michael Woodland	Team Dassi	4
36th	r145	Matthew O'Connor	Odiham CC	4
37th	r 17	Andrew Goulding	Hounslow & District Wlrs	4
38th	r120	Calvin Tucker	Southgate CC	4
39th	r131	Shane Townsend	Westerley CC	4
40th	r106	Christophe De Belder	VC10	4
41st	r125	James Gray	London Dynamo	4
42nd	r111	Mark Stock	Farnborough & Camberley CC	4
43rd	r188	Phil Hutchinson	Amersham RCC	4
44th	r  8	Clarice Chung	Twickenham	4
45th	r175	Anastasia Welsh	Thames Velo	3w
46th	r195	Chole Weller	Norwood Paragon	4
47th	r 77	Jon Saunders	Charlotteville CC	4
48th	r  6	David Jack Loveman	Verulam CC	4J
49th	r150	Nasima Siddiqui	WyndyMilla	4
50th	r197	Lucas Edwards	Thames Velo	4
51st	r141	Eng-Jon Ong	Charlotteville CC	4
52nd	r 44	Elizabeth Dunne	Wyndy Milla	4w
53rd	r189	Sasha Quarrington	zappis ladies team	4
54th	r 67	Keith Loveman	Verulam CC	4
55th	r184	David Shelton	Kingston Wheelers cc	4
56th	r182	Nic Stagg	Hounslow and district wheelers	4
57th	r168	James Gregory	Wyndy Milla	4
58th	r 74	Harriet Hollis	Imperial Racing Team	4w
59th	r138	Amir Eshtehardi	Finsbury Park CC	4

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Race 7 Saturday 11th January 2014

A massively popular day all round owing to the near perfect Winter’s day and welcome relief from the Bladerunner like spate of recent rain.

The Women’s Go-Race lined up and started 30 seconds after the men and it was clear that the trepidation from previous races being replaced with eagerness to get riding. At the finale it was very close on the line with Sasha Quarrington (Zappis Ladies Team) getting the verdict from Jennifer Allum (Dulwich Paragon) and Christine Pout (Verulam CC) just taking third place from Sally Stubbs (Imperial RT).

A big field rolled out in the 4th Cat race, a good proportion of which were from London Dynamo and Kingston Wheelers – it’s great to have the support of these clubs. The race was very active from the start with Steve Morgan (Twickenham CC) with team mate Darren Austin in support and these two continued to ride at the front and force the pace. At the bell Jason Braund (Imperial College CC) and Samuel Andrew (Kingston Wheelers CC) broke clear with a spirited attack, but unfortunately were caught round Brian’s Bends with 300m to go. Another fast but safe sprint with Daniel Marett crossing the line first in front of James Leech (London Dynamo) with Chris Jubb (Pearson Cycles) taking third.

Tim Childs (Westerley CC) wins the Imperial Cycles random prize and can look forward to his bike having a thorough spruce up at Imperial HQ in Isleworth!

A full field for the E123 race ensured it was manic from the start, lapping in just over two minutes for the 1.6 km circuit. The field was soon strung out with many riders hanging on and waiting for the inevitable attack from Jake Martin. Steve Golla (High Wycombe RT) always animates a race and with form from a very successful cyclo cross season rode very strongly and made many suffer. Jake Martin (Pedal Heaven) and Lawrence Carpenter (Catford CC Equipe/Banks) were up for the chase, continually attacking but they did not free themselves until 15 km to go, steadily pulling away. Graham Crow (Twickenham CC), Elliot Brown (VC Meudon) and Dominic Clegg (Reading CC) remained positive trying to forge a gap and close on the leading two. In the run in Martin led around the bends and just held off Carpenter by a 1/10th second. If both Martin and Carpenter are still on an upward building phase they can probably look forward to a very successful road season, both riding for well organised pro teams. Despite a heavy cough father to be Vince Halpern (Handsling racing) produced another strong sprint to grab third and more series points holding off Josh Jones (Cambridge University CC), Jacek Reder and consistent James Norris (High Wycombe). Taking first place in the 3rd cat section of the race was Neil Heffernan (Inverse - Cycling Components RT) and in 14th place for second overall was Kevin Argent (Sigma Sport La Fuga) followed by Will Greig (SW Rouleurs) in 3rd place and Russell Short (London Dynamo) in 4th.

Race 7 Cats E 1 2

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	w 29	Jake Martin	Pedal Heaven RT	E	200
2nd	w 38	Lawrence Carpenter	Catford Equipe Banks	1	190
3rd	w  8	Vincent Halpern	Handsling racing	1	180
4th	w  6	Josh Jones	Cambridge University CC	2	170
5th	w 24	Jacek Reder	Unattached	2	160
6th	w 12	James Norris	High Wycombe CC	2	150
7th	w 44	Si Cox	NFTO	2	140
8th	w  2	Tyler Lemmon	Medway Velo	2	130
9th	w 27	Joshua Mitchell	Bicester Millenium	2	120
10th	w 20	Jo Skelton	Look Mum No Hands!	2	110
11th	w 39	Graham Crow	Twickenham cc	2	100
12th	w 30	Jerzy Kuzminski	High Wycombe	2	90
13th	w  3	Jacob Nicholson	Medway Velo	2	60
14th	w  9	Alex Tinsley	Twickenham CC	2
15th	w 15	Rory Townsend	Pedal Heaven RT	2
16th	w 43	Brian Hennessey	Redhill CC	2V
17th	w 26	Dominic Clegg	Redhill CC	2
18th	w149	Andrew Marriott	spirit race team	2
19th	w148	Henry Latimer	Catford CC Equipe/Banks	1
20th	w 13	Rudie Marais	La Fuga-Sigma Sport CC	2
21st	w151	Steve Golla	High Wycombe RT	1
22nd	w150	Luke Churchus	Gannet CC	2

Race 7 3rd Cats

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	y 20	Neil Heffernan	Inverse - Cycling Components RT	3	80
2nd	y 28	Kevin Argent	Sigma Sport La Fuga	3	70
3rd	y133	Will Greig	SW Rouleurs	3	50
4th	y138	Russell Short	London Dynamo	3	40
5th	y105	Ian Baynes	TMG Horizon Cycling Team	3	30
6th	y130	David McNeill	London Dynamo	3	20
7th	y 51	Chris Grange	TMG Horizon	3	10
8th	y137	Jason Wood	London Dynamo	3
9th	y131	Robert Seeley	Brixton CC	3
10th	y111	Stephen Harvey	Cardiff Ajax	4
11th	y  7	Ewan Tuohy	Catford CC Equipe Banks	3
12th	y 10	Andrew Lowe	Team MK	3
13th	y  2	Angelo Christides	Unattached	3
14th	y102	Mike Sanders	Unattached	3
15th	y 78	Ralph De Kanter	Norwood Paragon CC	3
16th	y124	Will Houghton	Hillingdon CC	3
17th	y129	Will Beresford	London Phoenix	3
18th	y126	James McCarthy	Twickenham CC	3
19th	y 90	James Archibald	GS Henley	3
20th	y 29	Jon Shillingford	Unattached	3
21st	y132	Adam Swain	London Dynamo	3
22nd	y139	Taimur Tanwir	londonDynamo	3
23rd	y 52	Robin Basford	Wyndymilla	3
24th	y 63	Michael Gates	Kingston Whls CC	3
25th	y 87	Dan Moseley	Prestige Velo Club	3
26th	y 56	Alvaro Alves Da Cunha	Unattached	3
27th	y 21	Damien Lodge	Imperial Racing Team	3
28th	y140	Ryan Witchell	Uni of Bristol Cycling Club	3
29th	y  1	Bill Butterworth	Twickenham CC	3
30th	y 31	Justin Lord	G.S. Henley	3
31st	y 46	Riyadh Khamis	Personal bike fit	4
32nd	y 97	Mike Brewer	London Dynamo	3
33rd	y 68	Mario Manelfi	Blazing Saddles	3
34th	y 75	Darryl Green	Inverse/Cycling-Components RT	3
35th	y 88	Russell Painter	Norwood Paragon	3
36th	y  4	Andrew Wright	High Wycombe	3
37th	y 48	Nigel Burns	St Ives CC	3
38th	y107	Andy Lack	Kingston Wheelers	3
39th	y 45	Alistair Gurney	Rapha Condor CC	3
40th	y136	Anna-Marie Hughes	Bike Pure-LeMond-Aspire Velotech	2w
41st	y128	Wayne Thomas	G.S. Henley	3
42nd	y 55	Paul Bennett	unattached	3
43rd	y 44	Emma Towers	Twickenham CC	2w
44th	y127	Clover Murray	Braintree Velo	3w

Race 7 4th Cats

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	r171	Daniel Marett	Unattached	4
2nd	r169	James Leech	London Dynamo	4
3rd	r166	Chris Jubb	Unattached	4
4th	r 33	Sam Owen	London Dynamo	4
5th	r157	Jim Whewell	London Dynamo	4
6th	r167	Bruce Baxter	Unattached	4
7th	r158	Jon Freeman	Unattached	4
8th	r177	Jonathan Morrish	Unattached	4
9th	r 70	Daniel Jacobs	London Dyanmo	4
10th	r 12	Adam Thompson	Reading CC	4
11th	r 51	Daren Austin	Twickenham CC	4
12th	r100	Huw Dymond	Reading. CC	4
13th	r115	Hisayo Kaneko	Boom! Cycle	4w
14th	r117	Tim O'Rourke	Twickenham CC	4
15th	r 53	Tom Simpson	Brixton Cycles	4
16th	r 98	Nick Davis	Kingston Whls CC	4
17th	r151	Elliot Brown	VC Meudon	4
18th	r175	Anastasia Welsh	Maidenhead CC	3w
19th	r 39	Alan Nixon	Amersham RCC	4
20th	r 75	T-Y Hsia	Hounslow Kingston Whls CC	4
21st	r 28	Steven Pellowe	Hounslow District Wheelers	4
22nd	r 50	Ed Everett	Unattached	4
23rd	r174	Tom Black	Unattached	4
24th	r 57	Claude Autrey	London Dynamo	4
25th	r 32	Ben Nichol	Amersham RCC	4
26th	r129	Mark Banks	London Dynamo	4
27th	r 24	Clark Anderson	Thames Velo	4
28th	r 47	Tim Childs	Westerley CC	4
29th	r 22	Mark Davison	London Dynamo	4
30th	r 85	Jason Braund	Imperial College CC	4
31st	r179	Michael Woodland	Team Dassi	4
32nd	r 34	James Spackman	London Dynamo	4
33rd	g 37	Paula Rutherfoord	Ful-On-Tri	4w
34th	r 43	Tom Herbert	Kingston Wheelers	4
35th	r 81	Andy Taylor	London Dynamo	4
36th	r196	Adam Wolanski	Unattached	4
37th	r139	Richard Moss	WyndyMilla	4
38th	r 55	Tom Groom	WyndyMilla	4
39th	r131	Shane Townsend	Westerley CC	4
40th	r181	Elwyn Powell	Twickenham CC	4
41st	r 40	Andy Brown	Thames Velo	4
42nd	r114	Ben Skelton	London Dynamo	4
43rd	r 56	Steve Morgan	Twickenham CC	4
44th	r180	Odhrán McConnell	Rapha Condor CC	4
45th	r197	Kieran Woods	Charlotteville CC
46th	r  9	Robert Abbey	Hemel Hempstead CC	4
47th	r178	Ant Gilbert	Hillingdon CC	4
48th	r141	Eng-Jon Ong	Charlotteville CC	4
49th	r  3	Andrew Deans	London Dynamo	4
50th	r 61	Rupert Baker	London Dynamo	4
51st	r 15	Samuel Andrew	Kingston Whls CC	4
52nd	r172	Stefano Dall'aglio	Unattached	4
53rd	r 17	Andrew Goulding	Hounslow & District Wlrs	4
54th	r170	Mark Bennett	Kingston Wheelers CC	4
55th	r111	Mark Stock	Farnborough & Camberley CC	4
56th	r176	Ross Lindsay	Unattached	4
57th	r145	Matthew O'Connor	Odiham CC	4
58th	r164	Luke Stone	Unattached	4
59th	r  6	David Jack Loveman	Verulam CC	4
60th	r 67	Keith Loveman	Verulam CC	4

Race 3 Womens Go-Race 4th cats and novices

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	g 34	Sasha Quarrington	zappis ladies team	4	100
2nd	g 25	Jennifer Allum	Dulwich Paragon	4	90
3rd	g 21	Christine Pout	Verulam CC	4	80
4th	g 14	Sally Stubbs	Imperial Racing Team	4	70
5th	g 8	Alexandra Hamilton	Kingston Wheelers	novice	60
6th	g  9	Nasima Siddiqui	WyndyMilla	4	50
7th	g 35	Jane Dennyson	London Phoenix	4	40
8th	g 27	Gemma Stuart	Performance Cycles	3	30
9th	g 10	Elizabeth Dunne	Wyndy Milla	4	20
10th	g 24	Olga Gillane	Dulwich Paragon CC	novice	10
11th	g 28	Anneke Prins	Welwyn Wheelers CC	novice
12th	g 36	Alex Marzec	London Dynamo
13th	g 29	Harriet Hollis	Imperial Racing Team
14th	g 30	Andrea Parish	Camel Valley C & TC	novice
15th	g 33	Sarah Cashman	WyndyMilla	novice
16th	g 32	Sheryl Foster	Welwyn wheelers CC	4
17th	g 31	Alison Hinds	Welwyn Wheelers CC	novice
18th	g 26	Melissa Robinson	unattached	4

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Race 6 4th January 2014

The wind abated slightly but the rain threatened and persisted at times, although thankfully it remained mild. This year the weather and holiday season has not diminished the size or quality of the 4th cat fields and with the Ladies lining up alongside them provided an eager entry of 60+. The wind again played a part shrinking the peloton progressively principally as a result of attacks mostly by a posse of London Dynamo riders - Alex Evangelidis, Henry Charrington and Francis Fox. However, the best move of the race came from Robin Mould (Velosport CC) who slipped away and rode alone for 4 km; sadly he succumbed but the run-in was frantic and the group was well strung out by Carrington, Mould and Christopher O’Hearn (Dulwich Paragon) leading out, but in the last 300 m from the bus stop Tom Pontin (Addiscombe CC) managed to get on their wheel and come round them to cross the line in first place with only 100ths separating the first 8 places. Kevin Chandler (Watford Velosport) and the two attackers Carrington and Mould finished 2nd, 3rd and 4th, the latter looking ready for the move up a category.

Daren Austin (Twickenham CC) in 22nd place wins the Imperial Cycles random prize and can look forward to his bike having a thorough spruce up at Imperial HQ in Isleworth!

The Elite race started in its usual pattern and promised to be an excellent race with all the usual protagonists stringing the group out, but after 12km an incident on the uphill section of the circuit caused the race to be neutralised initially and when the magnitude of it became clear, finally stopped. It is always disappointing to have to abandon a race and the sense of frustration for both competitors and organisers is self-evident but safety remains the priority.

Normal service will be resumed next Saturday.

Race 6 Cats E 1 2

Race abandoned

Race 6 3rd Cats

Race abandoned

Race 1 4th Cats

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	r155	Jonathan Pontin	Addiscombe CC	4
2nd	r 80	Kevin Chandler	Watford Velo Sport	4
3rd	r103	Henry Charrington	London Dynamo	4
4th	r101	Robin Mould	Velosport CC	4
5th	r 50	Ed Everett	Unattached	4
6th	r100	Huw Dymond	Reading. CC	4
7th	r 24	Clark Anderson	Thames Velo	4
8th	r161	Tom Black	Unattached	4
9th	r 66	Harry Bunnell	Kingston Wheelers	4
10th	r144	Ian Murray	VC10	4
11th	r162	Alexander Evangelidis	London Dynamo	4
12th	r159	Alex Woods	Unattached	4
13th	r 26	John Bull	London Dynamo	4
14th	r 98	Nick Davis	Kingston Whls CC	4
15th	r 28	Steven pellowe	Hounslow District Wheelers	4
16th	r 81	Andy Taylor	London Dynamo	4
17th	r153	Keith Chanter	London Dynamo	4
18th	r163	Andrew Ware	Watford Velo Sport	4
19th	r 85	Jason Braund	Imperial College CC	4
20th	r 43	Tom Herbert	Kingston Wheelers	4
21st	r 93	Robert Mosley	Thames Velo	4
22nd	r 51	Daren Austin	Twickenham CC	4
23rd	r 79	Francis Fox	London Dynamo	4
24th	r102	Ewan Evans	Dorking CC	4
25th	r 32	Ben Nichol	Amersham RCC	4
26th	r152	Alec Saunders	Dulwich Paragon CC	4
27th	r151	Elliot Brown	VC Meudon	4
28th	r147	Christopher OHearn	Dulwich Paragon	4
29th	r 76	Phil Barella	Kingston Wheelers CC	4
30th	r 39	Alan Nixon	Amersham RCC	4
31st	r  9	Robert Abbey	Hemel Hempstead CC	4
32nd	r 59	Massimo Saetta	Kingston Wheelers	4
33rd	r160	Richard Anderson	Twickenham CC	4
34th	r129	Mark Banks	London Dynamo	4
35th	r158	Jon Freeman	Unattached	4
36th	r 55	Tom Groom	WyndyMilla	4
37th	r 89	Thomas Mead-Herbert	Watford Velo Sport	4
38th	r156	Jonathan Gough	Old Ports CC	4
39th	r107	Arnav Kapur	VCDC	4
40th	r157	Jim Whewell	London Dynamo	4
41st	r 41	Tom O'Connell	Velosport CC	4
42nd	r  3	Andrew Deans	London Dynamo	4
43rd	r 47	Tim Childs	Westerley CC	4
44th	r136	Samual Dickinson	Unattached	4
45th	r111	Mark Stock	Farnborough & Camberley CC	4
46th	r 71	Michael Weekes	London Dynamo	4
47th	r  8	Clarice Chung	Twickenham	4w
48th	r154	Peter Dalton	London Dynamo	4
49th	r 62	Jennifer Crouch	London Dynamo	3w
50th	r 44	Elizabeth Dunne	Wyndy Milla	4w
51st	r 17	Andrew Goulding	Hounslow & District Wlrs	4
52nd	r 74	Harriet Hollis	Unattached	4w
53rd	r 13	Sally Stubbs	Imperial Racing Team	4w
54th	r150	Nasima Siddiqui	WyndyMilla	4w
55th	r141	Eng-Jon Ong	Charlotteville CC	4
56th	r 67	Keith Loveman	Verulam CC	4
57th	r 20	Martin Banfield	London Dynamo	4
58th	r  6	David Jack Loveman	Verulam CC	4J

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Race 5 Wednesday 1st January 2014

Probably one of the most atrocious days in the history of the Winter Series failed to deter a healthy number of riders signed on to race. The most worrying aspect was the gusting wind in localised sections and several of the lighter riders had a job to stop being blown over! Apart from receiving a thorough soaking everyone survived unscathed!

The 4th Cats started the afternoon's racing: this was probably the best race of the series to date with 3 riders bravely attacking early on. The three, Christophe De Belder (VC10), Christopher O’Hearn (Dulwich Paragon) and Adam Thompson (Reading CC), with Chris Tomsett (Southampton Uni RC) jumping across when the break briefly started to come back. These four formed a cohesive break and eventually sprinted out the finish, with De Belder just beating Tomsett and O’Hearn, and Thompson finishing in 4th place.

Andrew Deans (GPM10 Cycling) wins the Imperial Cycles random prize and can look forward to his bike having a thorough spruce up at Imperial HQ in Isleworth!

The Womens’s championship race attracted a strong field of 27 riders was instantly animated by two of the stronger riders constantly attacking - young Abigail Dentus (Team DeVer) and Nikki Juniper (Pearl Izumi Boot Out Breast Cancer). They were pulled back by the main group of riders and in the end it came down to a sprint with Dentus just getting the better of Juniper in the sprint with Rose Osborne (HWCC) in third place. Dentus's performance was outstanding for a junior and she has a promising future. The top 3 prizes were presented by co-competitor Nissima Siddqui of WyndyMilla and included goodies from WyndyMilla, Maxifuel and Imperial Cycles.

The E123 race has now formed a familiar pattern with Jake Martin (Pedal Heaven) causing all the other riders to dig deep from the start, but with his strength and speed few can match him, and after 3 km he was clear and away. Josh Jones (Cambridge Uni) and Sam Humpheson (Look Mum No Hands) got together and chased but to no avail. Also showing good form was Iain Palmer (Twickenham CC) who attacked and stayed clear on his own for several laps. There were several other positive attempts by Graham Crow (Twickenham CC), Palmer again and Rory Townsend (Pedal Heaven), also comeback man Luke Merrilees (WyndyMilla) and ever present Phil Holloway (Southend Wheelers) revelling in the tough man conditions. These riders formed the second group but didn’t look like making inroads into Martin’s lead. Vince Halpern (Handsling Racing) scored more good points for the overall holding off Jones with Merrilees in fourth place, taking first in the 3rd Cats. This was well deserved and beating James Bradley's (Twickenham CC) into second place and Nathan Hereward (Kingston Wheelers) taking third. At the finish even Martin had to admit that the wind in the finishing straight was pretty challenging!

Race 5 Cats E 1 2

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	w 29	Jake Martin	Pedal Heaven RT	E	200
2nd	w  8	Vincent Halpern	Handsling racing	1	190
3rd	w  6	Josh Jones	Cambridge University CC	2	180
4th	w 44	Si Cox	NFTO	2	160
5th	w  7	Phil Holloway	southend wheelers	2	150
6th	w 45	Iain Palmer	Twickenham CC	2	140
7th	w 39	Graham Crow	Twickenham cc	2	130
8th	w 12	James Norris	High Wycombe CC	2	120
9th	w  3	Jacob Nicholson	Medway Velo	2	110
10th	w 43	Brian Hennessey	Redhill CC	2V	90
11th	w 42	Matthew Butt	Speg - Project 51	2	70
12th	w 24	Jacek Reder	Unattached	2	50

Race 5 3rd Cats

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	y 19	Luke Merrilees	WyndyMilla	3	170
2nd	y108	James Bradley	Twickenham CC	3	100
3rd	y110	Nathan Hereward	Kingston Wheelers	3	80
4th	y 83	Sebastian Kroll	Stevenage CC	3	60
5th	y  7	Ewan Tuohy	Catford CC Equipe Banks	3	40
6th	y111	Stephen Harvey	Cardiff Ajax	4	30
7th	y109	Alex Jump	Dulwich Paragon	3	20
8th	y 29	Jon Shillingford	Unattached	3	10
9th	y 20	Neil Heffernan	Inverse - Cycling Components RT	3
10th	y  9	Andrew Macey	Ashford Wheelers	3
11th	y 31	Justin Lord	G.S. Henley	3
12th	y113	Edmond Irwin	london fire brigade CC	3v
13th	y 88	Russell Painter	Norwood Paragon	3
14th	y112	Phillip Aubert	Velosport	0
15th	y  1	Bill Butterworth	Twickenham CC	3V
16th	y103	Michael Coomber	iCycle	3
17th	y 54	Duncan Rimmer	Morden CRC	3
18th	y 28	Kevin Argent	Sigma Sport La Fuga	3
19th	y 21	Damien Lodge	Imperial Racing Team	3

Race 5 4th Cats

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	r106	Christophe De Belder	VC10	4
2nd	r105	Chris Tomsett	Southampton University RC	4
3rd	r147	Christopher OHearn	Dulwich Paragon	4
4th	r 12	Adam Thompson	Reading CC	4
5th	r148	Theo Flack	University of Bristol CC	4
6th	r102	Ewan Evans	Dorking CC	4
7th	r 80	Kevin Chandler	Watford Velo Sport	4
8th	r136	Samual Dickinson	Unattached	4
9th	r146	Ian Tosh	Army Cycling Union	4
10th	r 50	Ed Everett	Unattached	4
11th	r 24	Clark Anderson	Thames Velo	4
12th	r 15	Samuel Andrew	Kingston Whls CC	4
13th	r 28	Steven pellowe	Hounslow District Wheelers	4
14th	r 76	Phil Barella	Kingston Wheelers CC	4
15th	r 18	Miles Rice	hounslow wheelers	4
16th	r 47	Tim Childs	Westerley CC	4
17th	r 32	Ben Nichol	Amersham RCC	4
18th	r 92	Jon Overman	45 Road Club	4
19th	r 83	Massimo Conforti	Dulwich Paragon	4
20th	r130	Graeme Weeks	London Dynamo	4
21st	r 38	Tim Marshall	Unattached	4
22nd	r149	Rich Jones	VC10	4
23rd	r 40	Andy Brown	Thames Velo	4
24th	r144	Ian Murray	VC10	4
25th	r  3	Andrew Deans	GPM10 Cycling	4
26th	r 93	Robert Mosley	Thames Velo	4
27th	r124	Hans Stiles	Kingston wheelers CC	4
28th	r 41	Tom O'Connell	Velosport CC	4
29th	r 57	Claude Autrey	London Dynamo	4
30th	r140	Szilard Pinter	Finsbury Park CC	4
31st	r123	Jon Smiles	Kingston Wheelers	4
32nd	r 67	Keith Loveman	Verulam CC	4
33rd	r142	Douglas Innes	Kingston Whls CC	4
34th	r145	Matt O'Connor	Odiham Cycling Club	4
35th	r141	Eng-Jon Ong	Charlotteville CC	4
36th	r143	Tom Dickinson	Unattached	4
37th	r109	Alex Hepton	Unattached	4
38th	r 17	Andrew Goulding	Hounslow & District Wlrs	4

Womens E1234

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	f 12	Abigail Dentus	Team DeVer	J
2nd	f 52	Nicola Juniper	Pearl Izumi Boot Out Breast Cancer	2
3rd	f118	Rose Osborne	High Wycombe CC	3
4th	f100	Detta Guerrini	Boomcycle cc	4
5th	f 31	Jennifer Crouch	London Dynamo	3
6th	f187	Anastasia Welsh	Maidenhead CC	3
7th	f148	Darrelle Parker	Boomcycle cc	4
8th	f 72	Paula Rutherfoord	Ful on tri	4
9th	f133	Anna Gibbney	Twickenham CC	4
10th	f168	Charlotte Easton	Look Mum No Hands	3
11th	f116	Parys Edwards	Boomcycle cc	4
12th	f 58	Jennifer Lake	Squadra Donne - Shutt VR	3
13th	f129	Lindsey Ackland	High Wycombe CC	4
14th	f109	Sarah Odell	Boom! Cycle CC	4
15th	f 35	Laura Cheesman	Prestige Velo	2
16th	f 53	Elizabeth Dunne	Wyndy Milla	4
17th	f186	Emma Towers	Twickenham CC	2
18th	f150	Tracy Corbett	London Dynamo	2
19th	f 16	Andrea Parish	Camel Valley C & TC	4
20th	f165	Christina Stephenson	Twickenham CC	4
21st	f138	Claire Richardson	London Dynamo	3
22nd	f 33	Nasima Siddiqui	WyndyMilla	4
23rd	f107	Christina Jenkins	Ful on tri	4
24th	f153	Maeve Savage	London Dynamo	3
25th	f124	Sally Stubbs	Imperial Racing Team	4
26th	f181	Jess Rhodes-Jones	Twickenham CC	4

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Race 4 Saturday 28th December 2013

Saturday provided a fine respite from the previous week’s cold and rain with a fine clear day and little wind for the 4th round of the series.

This week saw the return of the Ladies GoRace event and as it doesn’t take a big field to make a race, the extra space and a bit more parity in abilities provided the chance for everyone to gain group racing experience. Despite a few attacks it came down to a long sprint starting on Doug’s climb which split the group with Patricia Keegan (London Dynamo) getting the better of Gemma Atkinson with Clarice Chung (Twickenham CC) in third place and Andrea Parish (Camel Valley) in fourth. Smiles and enjoyment pretty much all round! Hopefully we will see some of these riders in the E1234 event on New Year’s Day.

The 4th cat. race was notable for several lone attacks towards the end of the 40 minutes, from Chris Tomsett (Southampton Unit RC), Ollie Blagdon (High Wycombe CC) and Ewan Evans (Dorking CC) but in the end it came down to a mad dash for the line with David McNeill (London Dynamo), winning from Robert Seeley (Brixton CC) and another Dynamo, Graeme Weeks in 3rd place.

Steven Pellowe (Hounslow & District Wheelers) wins the Imperial Cycles random prize and can look forward to his bike seeing in the New Year in fine fettle!

The E123 race started when Jake Martin (Pedal Heaven) attacked off the line stringing the whole field out. A select chase group formed with Ben Sumner (Beeline RT), Graham Crow (Twickenham CC), Jerzy Kuzminski (High Wycombe), Rolandas Razgauskis (La Fuga), Josh Jones (Cambridge Uni CC), Phil Holloway (Southampton Wheelers) and Martin’s team mate Rory Townsend but uncharacteristically it all came to a slightly bizarre sudden halt on the top bend before the finish with some riders tumbling and this disrupted the break with perhaps decisively Sumner failing to re-start.
Martin got going again very quickly and push hard but a reported nose bleed(?) caused him to slow and then recover; once he got up to speed again his lead extended to another convincing lone win, with the rest of the main group resigned to fight for second place. They weren’t giving up though and Crow, James Norris (High Wycombe CC) and Andy Lack (Kingston Wheelers) all stretched things out with James Leach (Imperial RT) and team mate George Kirkin pulling hard on the front in the finale, but in the final 200 metres it came down to a fierce sprint with Vince Halpern (Handsling) holding his form to just keep Kuzminski, Norris, Rory Townsend (Pedal Heaven) and Josh Jones (Cambridge University CC) at bay, taking valuable series points: it could all be down to Monica – no pressure!

The 3rd cats were edged out of the top 10 this week with Callum Oliver (Rapha Condor) taking max BC points followed by Duncan Rimmer (Morden CRC) and Ralph Keeler (Cambridge CC); all gained good series points.

Race 4 Cats E 1 2

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	w 29	Jake Martin	Pedal Heaven RT	E	200
2nd	w  8	Vincent Halpern	Handsling racing	1	190
3rd	w 30	Jerzy Kuzminski	High Wycombe	2	180
4th	w 12	James Norris	High Wycombe CC	2	170
5th	w 15	Rory Townsend	Pedal Heaven RT	2	160
6th	w  6	Josh Jones	Cambridge University CC	2	150
7th	w 24	Jacek Reder	Unattached	2	140
8th	w 41	Dominic Gabellini	Rapha Condor	2	130
9th	w 27	Joshua Mitchell	Bicester Millenium	2	120
10th	w 20	Jo Skelton	Look Mum No Hands!	2	110
11th	w  2	Tyler Lemmon	Medway Velo	2	100
12th	w 40	Rolandas Razgauskis	La Fuga	2	80
13th	w  7	Phil Holloway	southend wheelers	2	70
14th	w  3	Jacob Nicholson	Medway Velo	2
15th	w 39	Graham Crow	Twickenham cc	2
16th	w 10	Michael Skipsey	Tmg horizon	2
17th	w  5	Neil Wass	TMG Horizon Cycling Team	2

Race 4 3rd Cats

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	y101	Callum Oliver	Rapha Condor CC	3J	90
2nd	y 54	Duncan Rimmer	Morden CRC	3	60
3rd	y 25	Ralph Keeler	Cambridge CC	3	50
4th	y103	Michael Coomber	iCycle	3	40
5th	y105	Ian Baynes	TMG Horizon Cycling Team	3	30
6th	y 52	Robin Basford	Wyndymilla	3	20
7th	y 20	Neil Heffernan	Inverse - Cycling Components RT	3	10
8th	y 97	Mike Brewer	London Dynamo	3
9th	y  2	Angelo Christides	Unattached	3
10th	y 66	Tom Sefton	Palmer Park Velo RT	A+disp
11th	y102	Mike Sanders	Unattached	3
12th	y 56	Alvaro Alves Da Cunha	Unattached	3
13th	y 28	Kevin Argent	Sigma Sport La Fuga	3
14th	y 95	Alex Pettett	Cadence Performance	3
15th	y 87	Dan Moseley	Prestige Velo Club	3
16th	y 99	Adam Daniel	Dulwich Paragon	3
17th	y100	Mike Knight	VC Meudon	3
18th	y 31	Justin Lord	G.S. Henley	3
19th	y107	Andy Lack	Kingston Wheelers	3
20th	y 68	Mario Manelfi	Blazing Saddles	3
21st	y106	George Kirkin	Imperial Racing Team	3
22nd	y 96	James Lyon	Unattached	3
23rd	y 92	James Leach	Imperial Racing Team	3
24th	y  4	Andrew Wright	High Wycombe	3
25th	y 82	Laura Cheesman	Prestige Velo	3
26th	y104	Will Sloper	Cambridge Uni CC	3
27th	y 74	Martin Porter	Thames Velo	3
28th	y108	James Bradley	Twickenham CC	3

Race 4 4th Cats

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	r 69	David McNeill	London Dynamo	4
2nd	r 95	Robert Seeley	Brixton CC	4
3rd	r130	Graeme Weeks	London Dynamo	4
4th	r 66	Harry Bunnell	Kingston Wheelers	4
5th	r135	Sam Alison	Singular Cycles	4
6th	r138	Amir Eshtehardi	Finsbury Park CC	4
7th	r 12	Adam Thompson	Reading CC	4
8th	r101	Robin Mould	Velosport CC	4
9th	r 15	Samuel Andrew	Kingston Whls CC	4
10th	r105	Chris Tomsett	Southampton University RC	4
11th	r 28	Steven Pellowe	Hounslow District Wheelers	4
12th	r 99	Markus Noe-Nordberg	London Dynamo	4
13th	r 47	Tim Childs	Westerley CC	4
14th	r132	Christopher Hezelgrave	CC Hackney	4
15th	r 92	Jon Overman	45 Road Club	4
16th	r 18	Miles Rice	hounslow wheelers	4
17th	r 34	James Spackman	London Dynamo	4
18th	r133	Jan Marzec	London Dynamo	4
19th	r 46	Kurt Austin	Cowley Road Condors	4
20th	r102	Ewan Evans	Dorking CC	4
21st	r125	James Gray	London Dynamo	4
22nd	r 35	Akis Kollaros	London Dynamo	4
23rd	r 39	Alan Nixon	Amersham RCC	4
24th	r 76	Phil Barella	Kingston Wheelers CC	4
25th	r 57	Claude Autrey	London Dynamo	4
26th	r 32	Ben Nichol	Amersham RCC	4
27th	r 24	Clark Anderson	Thames Velo	4
28th	r139	Richard Moss	WyndyMilla	4
29th	r100	Huw Dymond	Reading. CC	4
30th	r123	Jon Smiles	Kingston Wheelers	4
31st	r  4	Philip Mosley	Thames Velo	4
32nd	r131	Shane Townsend	Westerley CC	4
33rd	r126	Ian Mcnally	Westerley CC	4
34th	r124	Hans Stiles	Kingston wheelers CC	4
35th	r  3	Andrew Deans	GPM10 Cycling	4
36th	r 11	James Rapinac	London Dynamo	4
37th	r 59	Massimo Saetta	Kingston Wheelers	4
38th	r120	Calvin Tucker	Southgate CC	4
Lapped
39th	r  6	David Jack Loveman	Verulam CC	4
40th	r137	Richard Leslie	Unattached	4
41st	r119	John Bland	London Dynamo	4
42nd	r 67	Keith Loveman	Verulam CC	4
43rd	r 17	Andrew Goulding	Hounslow & District Wlrs	4
44th	r 74	Harriet Hollis	Unattached	4w
45th	r127	Alan Bruce	Unattached	4
46th	r122	David Trotter	Lancaster CC	4
47th	r 45	Ollie Blagden	HWCC	4
48th	r136	Samuel Dickinson	Unattached	4

Race 2 Womens Go-Race 4th cats and novices

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	g 22	Patricia Keegan	London Dynamo	0	100
2nd	g 23	Gem Atkinson	unattached	0	90
3rd	g  2	Clarice Chung	Twickenham	4	80
4th	g  1	Andrea Parish	Camel Valley C & TC	Novice	70
5th	g 21	Christine Pout	Verulam CC	4	60
6th	g 20	Polly Farrington	unattached	Novice	50
7th	g  9	Nasima Siddiqui	WyndyMilla	4	40
8th	g 14	Sally Stubbs	Imperial Racing Team	4	30
9th	g 11	Lucy Francis	London Dynamo	0	20

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Race 3 Saturday 21st December 2013

After the relative calm weather over the last 2 weeks Saturday was a return to typical Winter series conditions – rain and a strong head wind up the finishing straight. If your race strategy involved hanging in the group then you were probably going to be found out!

The 4th cats resolved to ride well again and their race was mostly attritional with a few early hard laps thinning out the field with the wind doing the rest. Imperial’s Richard Llewellyn looked strong but it was going to be near impossible to break away with any effect. The sprint was well fought out with the win taken by Tim Lynch (Velo Club Dulwich College) with Tim O’Rourke (Twickenham CC) and Richard Llewellyn (Imperial Racing Team) in third.

James Spackman (London Dynamo) wins the Imperial Cycles random prize (28th place) and can look forward to his bike seeing in the New Year in fine fettle!

It seemed unlikely that Jake Martin (Pedal Heaven RT) could repeat his win of the previous weekend and certainly not in the same fashion. However, this he did with a show of power that decimated the field in the first few laps, going on to lap everyone including the strong group of riders who had persisted and eased away from the peloton. This latter break was initiated by a returning Alexander King (GPM10 Cycling) and gradually formed into a group including Phil Holloway (Southend Wheelers), series contender Vince Halpern (Handsling Racing), Josh Jones (Cambridge Uni CC), Stuart Hayes (Imperial Racing Team) and Lawrence Carpenter (Catford Equipe Banks). Whilst Martin steadily pulled away this group cemented their lead with only Carpenter able to break away in the remaining laps to finish on his own in a solid 2nd place. Halpern won from the group to take 3rd by a hair from King and gain some good points overall with Jerzy Kuzminski (High Wycombe) in 5th. The top three places in the 3rds all came from this group with Ralph De Kanter (Norwood Paragon) taking maximum points and 6th overall closely followed by James Bradley (Twickenham CC) and another 3rd for Imperial Racing Team with Stuart Hayes thoroughly enjoying a race that he could compete in.

Merry Christmas from the Imperial team.

Race 3 Cats E 1 2

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	w 29	Jake Martin	Pedal Heaven RT	E	200
2nd	w 38	Lawrence Carpenter	Catford Equipe Banks	1	190
3rd	w  8	Vincent Halpern	Handsling racing	1	180
4th	w 36	Alexander King	GPM10 Cycling	2	170
5th	w 30	Jerzy Kuzminski	High Wycombe	2	160
6th	w  6	Josh Jones	Cambridge University CC	2	130
7th	w  7	Phil Holloway	Southend Wheelers	2	110
8th	w 34	Lee Desborough	St Ives CC	2	100
9th	w 35	Jamie Caldwell	Starley-Primal	E	90
10th	w 20	Jo Skelton	Look Mum No Hands!	2	80
11th	w  9	Alex Tinsley	Twickenham CC	2	70
12th	w 37	Declan Higgins	VC St Raphael	2	60
13th	w  3	Jacob Nicholson	Medway Velo	2
14th	w  2	Tyler Lemmon	Medway Velo	2

Race 3 3rd Cats

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	y 78	Ralph de Kanter	Norwood Paragon CC	3	150
2nd	y 76	James Bradley	Twickenham CC	3	140
3rd	y 24	Stuart Hayes	Imperial Racing Team	3	120
4th	y 71	Jordan Mooney	Welwyn Wheelers	3	50
5th	y  7	Ewan Tuohy	Catford CC Equipe Banks	3	40
6th	y 85	Laurence Manning	Thames Velo	3	30
7th	y 66	Tom Sefton	Palmer Park Velo RT	A+disp	20
8th	y 54	Duncan Rimmer	Morden CRC	3	10
9th	y 25	Ralph Keeler	Cambridge CC	3
10th	y 89	Chris Yates	East Grinstead CC	3
11th	y 84	Neil J Fraser	Stevenage cc	3
12th	y 90	James Archibald	GS Henley	3
13th	y 52	Robin Basford	Wyndymilla	3
14th	y 87	Dan Moseley	Prestige Velo Club	3
15th	y 83	Sebastian Kroll	Stevenage CC	3
16th	y 56	Alvaro Alves da Cunha	Unattached	3
17th	y 68	Mario Manelfi	Blazing Saddles	3
18th	y 73	Sean Sumner	St Ives CC	3
19th	y 92	James Leach	Imperial Racing Team	3
20th	y 20	Neil Heffernan	Inverse - Cycling Components RT	3
21st	y 21	Damien Lodge	Vedett Racing Team	3

Race 3 4th Cats

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	r108	Tim Lynch	Velo Club Dulwich College	4
2nd	r117	Tim O'Rourke	Twickenham CC	4
3rd	r 97	Richard Llewellyn	Imperial Racing Team	4
4th	r 95	Robert Seeley	Brixton CC	4
5th	r 81	Andy Taylor	London Dynamo	4
6th	r103	Henry Charrington	London Dynamo	4
7th	r101	Robin Mould	Velosport CC	4
8th	r 12	Adam Thompson	Reading CC	4
9th	r 56	Steve Morgan	Twickenham CC	4
10th	r105	Chris Tomsett	Southampton University RC	4
11th	r 98	Nick Davis	Kingston Whls CC	4
12th	r 77	Jon Saunders	Charlotteville CC	4
13th	r114	Ben Skelton	London Dynamo	4
14th	r 51	Daren Austin	Twickenham CC	4
15th	r113	Roy Wouters	London Dynamo	4
16th	r118	Jesse Baines	Unattached	4
17th	r115	Hisayo Kaneko	Boom Cycle CC	4
18th	r 26	John Bull	London Dynamo	4
19th	r 24	Clark Anderson	Thames Velo	4
20th	r102	Ewan Evans	Dorking CC	4
21st	r 47	Tim Childs	Westerley CC	4
22nd	r 19	Roland Fejfar	London Dynamo	4
23rd	r 35	Akis Kollaros	London Dynamo	4
24th	r 93	Robert Mosley	Thames Velo	4
25th	r 66	Harry Bunnell	Kingston Wheelers	4
26th	r 40	Andy Brown	Thames Velo	4
27th	r 15	Samuel Andrew	Kingston Whls CC	4
28th	r 34	James Spackman	London Dynamo	4
29th	r106	Christophe De Belder	VC10	4
30th	r  9	Robert Abbey	Hemel Hempstead CC	4
	Lapped riders
31st	r111	Mark Stock	Farnborough & Camberley CC	4
31st	r 37	Jorge Alberzoni	London Dynamo	4
31st	r 74	Harriet Hollis	Unattached	4w
31st	r 17	Andrew Goulding	Hounslow & District Wlrs	4
31st	r116	Darrelle Parker	Boom Cycle CC	4
31st	r107	Arnav Kapur	VCDC	4
31st	r 43	Tom Herbert	Kingston Wheelers	4
31st	r110	Max Sahota	Newmarket cycling & triathlon club	4
31st	r100	Huw Dymond	Reading. CC	4

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Race 2 Saturday 14th December 2013

A great day for a race at Hillingdon – mild but windy. Perhaps even more pleasing was to see 19 ladies starting in the Go-Race for first timers. The race itself produced mixed results – many obviously enjoyed it and said so: unfortunately several riders failed to listen to the simple briefing instructions before the start and that coupled with a crash in the first few laps meant the race didn’t really work out as planned.

Despite the ensuing chaos in the Go-Race event the 4th cat race was lively with Twickenham C.C.'s Chris Whitehouse, Darren Austin and Andy Hancock attacking and pushing from the front. However, of the three Whitehouse became the selected rider who escaped with Mike Brewer (London Dynamo) and T-Y Hsia (Kingston Wheelers); they worked superbly together and stayed well ahead of the main chasing group. In the run into the line Hsia was tailed off which left the other two to fight out the sprint to the line. With a growing headwind making it very difficult Whitehouse proved the stronger, coming round Brewer for a great win, with Hsia holding on for third place. Despite a minor coming together at the end of the finish straight the bunch rode very professionally.

Stephen Harvey (Cardiff Ajax) wins the Imperial Cycles random prize (5th place) and can look forward to his bike having spa-like treatment for Christmas!

The E123 race was always going to be exciting to watch with the likes of Jake Martin (Pedal Heaven RT) lining up with team mate Rory Townsend; also riding with dispensation was Marcus Burnett (Corley Cycles) and Canadian visitor Samuel Bail. Martin only waited 9 km into the race before attacking hard and pulling away from the main group. It was a scintillating effort and showed his pure power, lapping consistently around the 2 minute 10 second mark. Two riders did detach themselves from the main group - Josh Jones (Cambridge Uni CC) and Dominic Clegg (Redhill CC) who also rode very smoothly and looked unlikely to be caught by the main group. These three riders totally dominated the race. Martin was obviously a clear winner and Jones just got the better of Clegg. Martin's team mate, young Townsend led in a fast sprint for 4th place holding off Handsling’s Vince Halpern.

A significant crash in the last lap has led to great deal of post-race debate regarding the race within a race format with the suggestion that 3rds chasing points are causing problems. Review of comments received would suggest that the root cause is simply poor riding by some individuals – as a result the format remain the same.

Race 2 Cats E 1 2

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	w 29	Jake Martin	Pedal Heaven RT	E	200
2nd	w  6	Josh Jones	Cambridge University CC	2	190
3rd	w 26	Dominic Clegg	Redhill CC	2	180
4th	w 15	Rory Townsend	Pedal Heaven RT	2	170
5th	w  8	Vincent Halpern	Handsling racing	1	160
6th	w 27	Joshua Mitchell	Bicester Millenium	2	150
7th	w 16	Sam Humpheson	Look mum no hands!	2	140
8th	w 20	Jo Skelton	Look mum no hands!	2	130
9th	w 12	James Norris	High Wycombe CC	2	120
10th	w 30	Jerzy Kuzminski	High Wycombe	2	110
11th	w 17	James Freeman	Dulwich Paragon CC	2	60
12th	w 10	Michael Skipsey	Tmg horizon	2	30
13th	w  7	Phil Holloway	Southend Wheelers	2	20
14th	w 32	Jake Coward	VZW Jong Wielertalent	2
15th	w 24	Jacek Reder	unattached	2
16th	w 13	Rudie Marais	La Fuga-Sigma Sport CC	2
17th	w 33	Samuel Bail	Troubadour Goods	2
18th	w  3	Jacob Nicholson	Medway Velo	2

Race 2 3rd Cats

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	y 62	Oliver Bates	Welwyn wheelers	A+disp	100
2nd	y 41	Pat Wright	Kingston Wheelers	3	90
3rd	y  2	Angelo Christides	Unattached	3	80
4th	y 73	Sean Sumner	St Ives CC	3V	70
5th	y 25	Ralph Keeler	Cambridge CC	3	50
6th	y 45	Alistair Gurney	Rapha Condor CC	3	40
7th	y  8	Greig Petrie	London Dynamo	3	10
8th	y 76	James Bradley	Twickenham CC	3
9th	y 67	Paul Moore	Kingston Wheelers CC	3
10th	y  5	Pierre Scrase	Team Synergy	3
11th	y 56	Alvaro Alves Da Cunha	unattached	3
12th	y 70	James Willerton	Dorking Cycling Club	3
13th	y 75	Darryl Green	Inverse/Cycling-Components RT	3
14th	y 46	Riyadh Khamis	Personal bike fit	3
15th	y 40	Cameron Judson	Kingston Wheelers	3
16th	y 78	Ralph De Kanter	Norwood Paragon	3
17th	y 39	Stephen Morrell	Aylesbury CC	3
18th	y  1	Bill Butterworth	Twickenham CC	3V
19th	y 47	Simon Whiten	Handsling Racing	3
20th	y 37	Gavin Spiers	GS Henley	3
21st	y 48	Nigel Burns	St Ives CC	3
22nd	y  7	Ewan Tuohy	Catford CC Equipe Banks	3
23rd	y 68	Mario Manelfi	blazing saddles	3
24th	y 27	Daniel Atkins	didcot phoenix cc	3
25th	y 33	Cosmo Kedros	WyndyMilla	3
26th	y 21	Damien Lodge	VEDETT racing team	3
27th	y 64	Declan Egan	Kingston Wheelers	3
28th	y 31	Justin Lord	G.S. Henley	3
29th	y 26	Tom Caldwell	St Ives CC	3
30th	y 77	Cameron Foster	Corley Cycles	3
31st	y 35	Graeme York	Twickenham CC	3
32nd	y 63	Michael Gates	Kingston Wheelers	3
33rd	y 69	James Waters	G.S. Henley	3
34th	y 60	Peter Beisty	GS Henley	3

Race 2 4th Cats

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	r  5	Chris Whitehouse	Twickenham CC	4
2nd	r 23	Mike Brewer	London Dynamo	4
3rd	r 75	T-Y Hsia	Kingston Wheelers	4
4th	r 69	David McNeill	London Dynamo	4
5th	r 30	Stephen Harvey	Cardiff Ajax	4
6th	r 70	Daniel Jacobs	London Dynamo	4
7th	r 10	Neil J Fraser	Stevenage CC	4
8th	r 15	Samuel Andrew	Kingston Whls CC	4
9th	r 85	Jason Braund	Imperial College CC	4
10th	r 80	Kevin Chandler	Watford Velo Sport	4
11th	r 89	Thomas Mead-Herbert	Watford Velo Sport	4
12th	r 93	Robert Mosley	Thames Velo	4
13th	r 20	Martin Banfield	London Dynamo	4
14th	r  7	Ralph Stokeld	Cadence Performance	4
15th	r 47	Tim Childs	Westerley CC	4
16th	r 92	Jon Overman	45 Road Club	4
17th	r 76	Phil Barella	Kingston Wheelers CC	4
18th	r 24	Clark Anderson	Thames Velo	4
19th	r 79	Francis Fox	London Dynamo	4
20th	r 14	Huw Dymond	Reading. CC	4
21st	r 48	Andrew Weighill	New Forest CC	4
22nd	r 81	Andy Taylor	London Dynamo	4
23rd	r 61	Rupert Baker	London Dynamo	4
24th	r 31	Steven Gordon-Head	Kingston Wheelers	4
25th	r 43	Tim Herbert	Kingston Wheelers	4
26th	r 51	Daren Austin	Twickenham CC	4
27th	r 55	Tom Groom	WyndyMilla	4
28th	r 35	Claude Autrey	London Dynamo	4
29th	r 35	Akis Kollaros	London Dynamo	4
30th	r 65	Andy Hancock	Twickenham Cycling Club	4
31st	r 73	Neil Grunshaw	Kingston Wheelers CC	4
32nd	r 53	Tom Simpson	Brixton	4
33rd	r 50	Ed Everett	unattached	4
34th	r 91	Jeremy Isaac	Port Talbort Wheelers	4
35th	r 82	Matthew Tolhurst	G.S. Henley	4
36th	r 87	Meti Gashi	Watford Velo Sport	4
37th	r 9	Robert Abbey	Hemel Hempstead CC	4
38th	r 88	Sean Martin	TriLondon	4
39th	r 18	Miles Rice	hounslow wheelers	4
40th	r 25	Nicholas Silva	Thames Velo	4
41st	r 36	Barry Stingmore	Kingston Wheelers	4
42nd	r 83	Massimo Conforti	Dulwich Paragon	4
43rd	r 59	Massimo Saetta	Kingston Wheelers	4
44th	r 40	Andy Brown	Thames Velo	4
45th	r 78	Mitchell Blain	London Dynamo	4
46th	r 94	Matthew Fredrickson	Thames Velo	4
47th	r 11	James Rapinac	London Dynamo	4
48th	r 49	Paul Adams	Thames Velo	4
49th	r 86	James Fulcher	Portsdown Hill CC	4
50th	r 77	Jon Saunders	Charlotteville CC	4
51st	r 19	Roland Fejfar	London Dynamo	4
52nd	r 72	Javier Arias Gonzalez	Kingston Wheelers	4
53rd	r 27	Henry Charrington	London Dynamo	4
54th	r 74	Harriet Hollis	unattached	4w
55th	r 68	Paul Fricker	VC Meudon	4
56th	r  6	David Jack Loveman	Verulam CC	4
57th	r 84	Sioni Summers	Imperial College CC	4
58th	r 17	Andrew Goulding	Hounslow & District Wlrs	4
59th	r 90	Graeme Gilchrist	unattached	4
60th	r 41	Tom O'Connell	Velosport CC	4
61st	r 67	Keith Loveman	Verulam CC	4

Race 1 Womens Go-Race 4th cats and novices

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	g 13	Sarah Odell	Boom	4	100
2nd	g  2	Clarice Chung	Twickenham	4	90
3rd	g  7	Alice Lethbridge	Kingston Wheelers CC	4	80
4th	g  3	Alexandra Stubbs	Kingston Wheelers	4	70
5th	g  8	Alexandra Hamilton	Kingston Wheelers	Nov	60
6th	g  9	Nasima Siddiqui	WyndyMilla	4	50
7th	g 17	Ruth Martin	Thames Velo	Nov	40
8th	g 19	Antonia de Barton-Watson	London Dynamo	4	30
9th	g 14	Sally Stubbs	Imperial Racing Team	4	20
10th	g 11	Lucy Francis	london dynamo	0	10
11th	g  5	Katherine Kimber	Unattached	Nov
12th	g  1	Andrea Parish	Camel Valley C & TC	Nov

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Imperial Winter Series 2013/2014

Race 1 Saturday 7th December 2013

It’s always buzzing for the first event of the series and Saturday was no exception; the weather helped mild with little wind.

The 4th Cat race was dominated in sheer numbers by London Dynamo but, despite a late flourish when at least 10 of them took off practically on their own, they failed to capitalise with a win but did place 4 riders in the top 10. There was a fierce bunch sprint after 50 minutes won by a length by Thames Velo’s Laurence Manning Neil Fraser (Stevenage CC) and Roland Fejfar (London Dynamo). A good fast race run off without incident.

Steven Gordon-Head (Kingston Wheelers) wins the Imperial Cycles random prize (20th) and can look forward to his bike having spa-like treatment for Christmas!

The Elite/1/2 and 3rd cat event had an International flavour with new Imperial RT rider, Olympic Triathlete Stuart Hayes returning to Hillingdon after a gap of 8 years. He is looking to sharpen up his speed for the non-drafting events in America early next year.

The race started in its usual fashion from the start full on with evergreen Bill Butterworth (Twickenham CC) attacking and staying at the head for 2 laps. There were several other efforts to break up the large field with Rudy Marais (La Fuga-Sigma Sport CC) looking strong at the front. However, there was only one racer who had the strength to break clear and stay away for several laps and that was Beeline RT’s Ben Sumner, who has been performing superbly in cyclo-cross and clearly carried his good form across to the road circuit. He was caught but attacked again before sitting up and waiting for the finish. His final effort was very impressive, holding off James Norris (High Wycombe CC) and Vincent Halpern (Handsling Racing) to gain a convincing win: he looks like the man to beat in future races.

The 3rd cats mixed it up with the E 1 2 riders contesting the sprint within a sprint with Simon Barnes (London Dynamo) finishing 1st (in 8th place overall) with Spencer Robinson (Newbury RC) 2nd and Greig Petrie (London Dynamo) placed 3rd. Barnes wins the Imperial Cycles voucher.

An otherwise good first day was disrupted with 3 laps to go on the sharp bend when someone caught their pedal on the ground and brought several riders down; it was an unfortunate occurrence after an excellent race.

Race 1 Cats E 1 2

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series points
1st	w 18	Ben Sumner	Beeline Bikes RT	1	200
2nd	w 12	James Norris	High Wycombe CC	2	190
3rd	w  8	Vincent Halpern	Handsling racing	1	180
4th	w 20	Jo Skelton	Look Mum No Hands!	2	170
5th	w 16	Sam Humpheson	Look mum no hands!	2	160
6th	w  4	Adam Capes	Finchley Racing Team	2	150
7th	w  2	Tyler Lemmon	Medway Velo	2	140
8th	w 24	Jacek Reder	Unattached	3	120
9th	w  7	Phil Holloway	southend wheelers	2	110
10th	w 21	Andy Betts	Felt Colbornes Hargroves RT	1	90
11th	w 17	James Freeman	Dulwich Paragon CC	2	70
12th	w  3	Jacob Nicholson	Medway Velo	2	60
13th	w 15	Rory Townsend	Pedal Heaven RT	2	40
14th	w  9	Alex Tinsley	Twickenham CC	2	30
15th	w 14	Steve James	High Wycombe CC	2	10
16th	w 13	Rudie Marais	La Fuga-Sigma Sport CC	2
17th	w 22	Tony Lock	Nuun yb london	1
18th	w 10	Michael Skipsey	Tmg horizon	2
19th	w  5	Neil Wass	TMG Horizon Cycling Team	2
20th	w 23	Symon Lewis	Nuun-YB-London	1
21st	w 25	Matt Carden	Team Quest	2

Race 1 3rd Cats

Place	No.		Club	Cat	Series Points
1st	y 12	Simon Barnes	London Dynamo	3	130
2nd	y 23	Spencer Robinson	Newbury RC	3	100
3rd	y  8	Greig Petrie	London Dynamo	3	80
4th	y 10	Andrew Lowe	Team MK	3	50
5th	y 47	Simon Whiten	Handsling Racing	3	20
6th	y 59	Ross Hallard	Pretorius CC	3
7th	y 45	Alistair Gurney	Rapha Condor CC	3
8th	y 25	Ralph Keeler	Cambridge CC	3
9th	y 53	Peter Stuart	Unattached	3
10th	y 16	Ian Phillips	Army Cycling Union	3
11th	y 19	Luke Merrilees	WyndyMilla	3
12th	y  9	Andrew Macey	Ashford Wheelers	3
13th	y 51	Chris Grange	TMG Horizon	3
14th	y  2	Angelo Christides	unattached	3
15th	y  7	Ewan Tuohy	Catford CC Equipe Banks	3
16th	y 11	Tim Benham	Unattached	3V
17th	y 28	Kevin Argent	Sigma Sport La Fuga	3
18th	y 39	Stephen Morrell	Aylesbury CC	3
19th	y 43	Ian Goodey	Unattached	3
20th	y  1	Bill Butterworth	Twickenham CC	3V
21st	y 32	Andrew Bower	High Wycombe Cycling Club	3
22nd	y 50	Leo Lerner	vo2 Development Team	3J
23rd	y 33	Cosmo Kedros	WyndyMilla MaxiFuel	3
24th	y 52	Robin Basford	Wyndymilla	3
25th	y 26	Tom Caldwell	St Ives CC	3
26th	y 48	Nigel Burns	St Ives CC	3
27th	y 15	Ray Wilson	London Dynamo	3
28th	y 13	Dan Thut	London Dynamo	3
29th	y 40	Cameron Judson	Kingston Wheelers	3
30th	y 24	Stuart Hayes	Imperial Racing Team	3
31st	y 22	Henry Robertshaw	Glendene CC	3
32nd	y  4	Andrew Wright	High Wycombe	3
33rd	y 27	Daniel Atkins	Didcot Phoenix CC	3
34th	y 20	Neil Heffernan	Inverse - Cycling Components RT	3
35th	y 34	Simon Parton	Kingston Wheelers	3
36th	y 54	Duncan Rimmer	Morden CRC	3
37th	y 18	Nicole Oh	Les Filles RT	2w
38th	y 44	Emma Towers	Twickenham CC	2w
39th	y 56	Alvaro Alves Da Cunha	Unattached	3
40th	y  6	Mickael Metayer	Thames Velo	3

Race 1 4th Cats

Place	No.		Club	Cat
1st	r 42	Laurence Manning	Thames Velo	4
2nd	r 10	Neil J Fraser	Stevenage cc	4
3rd	r 19	Roland Fejfar	London Dynamo	4
4th	r 30	Stephen Harvey	Cardiff Ajax	4
5th	r  5	Chris Whitehouse	Twickenham CC	4
6th	r 23	Mike Brewer	London Dynamo	4
7th	r 33	Sam Owen	London Dynamo	4
8th	r 27	Henry Charrington	London Dynamo	4
9th	r 66	Harry Bunnell	Kingston Wheelers	4
10th	r 28	Steven Pellowe	Hounslow District Wheelers	4
11th	r 16	Anthony Middleton	WyndyMilla	4
12th	r 56	Steve Morgan	Twickenham CC	4
13th	r 48	Andrew Weighill	New Forest CC	4
14th	r 12	Adam Thompson	Reading CC	4
15th	r 47	Tim Childs	Westerley CC	4
16th	r 15	Samuel Andrew	Kingston Whls CC	4
17th	r 50	Ed Everett	Unattached	4
18th	r 38	Tim Marshall	Unattached	4
19th	r 36	Barry Stingmore	Kingston Wheelers	4
20th	r 31	Steven Gordon-Head	Kingston Wheelers	4
21st	r 24	Clark Anderson	Thames Velo	4
22nd	r 26	John Bull	London Dynamo	4
23rd	?	?	.....BMC bike frame
24th	r 14	Huw Dymond	Reading. CC	4
25th	r  9	Robert Abbey	Hemel Hempstead CC	4
26th	r  1	Andrew Tiller	Glendene CC	4
27th	r 21	Nathan Sweeney	London Dynamo	4
28th	r 46	Kurt Austin	Cowley Road Condors	4
29th	r 32	Ben Nichol	Amersham RCC	4
30th	r 62	Jennifer Crouch	London Dynamo	3w
31st	r  7	Ralph Stokeld	Cadence Performance	4
32nd	r 53	Tom Simpson	Dulwich Paragon CC	4
33rd	r 34	James Spackman	London Dynamo	4
34th	r  8	Clarice Chung	Twickenham	4w
35th	r  2	Keith Chanter	London Dynamo	4
36th	r 49	Paul Adams	Thames Velo	4
37th	?	?	.....Pinarello bike frame
38th	r 11	James Rapinac	London Dynamo	4
39th	r 55	Tom Groom	WyndyMilla	4
40th	r 40	Andy Brown	Thames Velo	4
41st	r  4	Philip Mosley	Thames Velo	4
42nd	r 25	Nicholas Silva	thames velo	4
43rd	r 57	Claude Autrey	London Dynamo	4
44th	r 39	Alan Nixon	Amersham RCC	4
45th	r 37	Jorge Alberzoni	London Dynamo	4
46th	r 59	Massimo Saetta	Kingston Wheelers	4
47th	r 20	Martin Banfield	London Dynamo	4
48th	r  3	Andrew Deans	GPM10 Cycling	4
49th	r  6	David Jack Loveman	Verulam CC	4
50th	r 22	Mark Davison	London Dynamo	4
51st	r 43	Tom Herbert	Kingston Wheelers	4
52nd	r 35	Akis Kollaros	London Dynamo	4
53rd	r 45	Ollie Blagden	HWCC	4
54th	r 52	Max Burgess	Unattached	4
55th	r 29	Lloyd Cosgrove	Unattached	4
56th	r 41	Tom O'Connell	Velosport CC	4
57th	r 44	Elizabeth Dunne	Wyndy Milla	4w
58th	r 64	Neil Kerr	Twickenham CC	4
59th	r 61	Rupert Baker	London Dynamo	4
60th	r 65	Andy Hancock	Twickenham CC	4
61st	r 60	Chris Gore	Beckenham Rugby Cyclists Club	4
62nd	r 51	Daren Austin	Twickenham CC	4
63rd	r 13	Sally Stubbs	Imperial Racing Team	4w

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Imperial Winter Series 2013/2014

IMPERIAL WINTER SERIES RETURNS

The Imperial Winter Series returns on Saturday 7 December 2013 with for an 11 week run at West London’s favourite Hillingdon circuit. Imperial Cycles, the exciting new West London race oriented shop, is the title sponsor of this classic series now in its 15th year, the last seven run under the Imperial Racing Team banner.

The series now comprises three races each day, starting with the ever popular 4th category men – and with a full field of 65 riders already entered for the first race this promises to be as hard fought as ever. Places are obviously going to be limited so early entry is recommended. There’s also the opportunity every week for 4th cats with enough points to move up to take their chances in the Elite race!

There’s huge excitement around the explosion in women’s cycling and Imperial are committed to recognising this demand so running alongside 4th cat race will be a new event – a Women’s Go-Race - an opportunity for novice and 4th cat female riders to try their hand at racing without the need for a license or pressure of gaining points. So that they’re not left out the experienced women riders are encouraged to ride in the men’s events (down a category if they wish) and there will also be an all-category one-off Women’s Championship race on New Year’s Day.

The main event is also re-vamped with the E12’s being joined by the 3rds for a single series race of 1 hour : acknowledging that the 3rds will have their work cut out to get points against the E12’s Imperial have agreed a special dispensation with British Cycling for 3rds to secure their own points. Imperial are expecting big fields for this; this race was the founding event for the series and remains extremely popular both with a hard core of riders returning year after year and those newcomers who focus on it for a season.

Imperial Cycles
The success of Imperial Racing Team and its winter series provided the catalyst for the formation of Imperial Cycles www.imperialcycles.co.uk the shop is based in Isleworth and opened its doors in August. Primarily aimed at the sporting rider it clearly has a very strong link to the winter series. The shop itself is first and foremost a workshop but also offers racing frames and bikes from Sarto, one of the only remaining truly handmade frame sets from Italy. Imperial Cycles becomes the principal sponsor of the series, sponsoring the 4th cat with a weekly prize draw of a free full bike service worth £120 and a weekly winner’s prize for the 3rd Cat race - £20 voucher to spend in the shop

Prime Coaching
Again this year, there’s the opportunity to get in some coaching on circuit racing before the racing gets underway. Mark 8th March 2014 (it’s a Saturday) in your diary, as Prime Coaching will come to the Hillingdon Circuit for a four-hour (1-5pm) training session on the do’s and don’ts and probably a few ‘cunning tricks to have up your sleeve’ that’ll be sure to have you ready in every way for when the action kicks off. No question, circuit racing can be intense and riding in a fast moving peloton around a technical undulating circuit calls for an understanding of racing etiquette. If circuit racing is new to you, this is a must-attend. Don't forget to register to avoid disappointment.

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