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Report: Hillingdon Circuit Series Week 3

Event: 19th April 2011
Promoted by: West Thames/West Drayton MBC
Venue: Hillingdon Circuit
Report: Mark Doel, Central Regional Events Officer

UPDATE FROM REGIONAL EVENTS OFFICER: Due to confusion caused by an accident in the 3/4 race and having to finish the two races close together an error was made in original reporting and results of the E123 event. Please find the correct result below.

Week 3 of the Tuesday evening circuit races promoted by West Thames Promotions and West Drayton Mountain Bike club saw a lovely spring evening welcome the riders. The Commissaire and officials made a decision to cut the races short due to an accident that involved Hillingdon regular Mario Manelfi (Blazing Saddles). Mario was assessed by the first aider and an ambulance was called.

The new classification, of the Reg C, 3rd/4th category event, saw 30 riders start with 4 riders making a decisive break at about half distance. They were Ralph DeKanter , Ben Moores, Jason Humphries all from Norwood Paragon and Gareth Thomas (Kingston Wheelers). They all worked very well together and once they had a gap never looked like getting caught. The Norwood Paragon trio took the first 3 places with Ralph De Kanter running out the winner, the break finishing 1 minute ahead of the rest of the field led home by Karl Smith (Cycle Club Basingstoke).

The E123 race also saw a break as well involving Jamie Pine, Rafa Rodriguez and Lewis Atkins. Also there were Ian Paine (London Dynamo), Matt Myers (Pasta Montegrappa), Tao Geoghegan-Hart (CC Hackney) and Dante Carpenter (Asfra RT). The pace was high all the way through the event with one rider's Garmin recording 28mph average and top speed of 40mph.

Riding in his first full season Jamie Pine from LeCol caught his breakaway companions napping on the last lap and jumped away holding a slender advantage that at the finish line was 5secs. Jamie only started cycling last year and completed in the Imperial Winter Series where he had some successes and won a round. He has already made it to a 2nd Category rider so someone to watch in the future.

Update is Mario is out of hospital a bit sore but ok.

Results

E123

1 Jamie Pine LeCol
2 Rafa Rodriguez Twenty3C-Orbea
3 Lewis Atkins Twenty3C-Orbea
4 Ian Paine London Dynamo
5 Matt Myers Pasta Montegrappa
6 Tao Geoghegan Hart CC Hackney
7 Dante Carpenter AsfraRT
8 Marcel Six Twenty3C-Orbea
9 Paul Crook WDMBC/Beyond
10 Marc Wilmot Team Quest
11 Ben Spurrier Rapha Condor
12 Drew Holmes Progressive Dev Sava
13 Mark Ottaway WyndyMilla
14 Tony Gibb Cyclepremier / Metalek
15 Chris Denman WDMBC/Beyond
16 Andrew Brown VC Peleton
17 Paul Troughton Wheelbase.co.uk
18 Martin Dawkins Team Quest / The Bike Shop
19 Tom Kruger 45 Road Club
20 Mike Diggins VC Peleton
21 David Arthur BC Private
22 Neil Heffernan Inverse/cyclaim RT
23 Phil Dempsey Aprirc Bicycles RC
24 Ajglo Christeris Games Ellas
25 Lee Mead VC Meudon
26 Phil Adams Ashwell CC
27 Ashley Dennis VC Jubilee
28 Brock Duncumb Rogers Progressive Cycle Coachibg
29 Charlie Fawke Progressive Cycle Coachibg
30 Oliver Craig London Dynamo
31 Alex Pantelides Twickenham CC
32 David Ladkin Kingston Wheelers
33 Doug Baldock In-Gear RT
34 Tom Bowering Private
35 Sam Grant WDMBC/Beyond
36 Tanveer Mann Rapha Condor
37 Dan Moseley Prestige VC
38 Bruce Karsten Prestige VC
39 Nat Spurling Finsbury Park
Mark Smith Welwyn Wheelers

3/4 Cats

1 Ralph Dekanter Norwood Paragon
2 Jason Humphries Norwood Paragon
3 Ben Moores Norwood Paragon
4 Gareth Thomas Kingston Wheelers
5 Karl Smith Cycle Club Basingstoke
6 Paul Butler Sydenham Wheelers
7 Nick White East London Velo
8 Yavor Midel
9 Daniel Skinner Twickenham CC
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11 David Smith South Eastern RC
12 Matthew Parry Durham Univ-Aura
13 Neal Hunt BC Private
14 not visible London Dynamo
15 Rob Cook BC Private
16 Liam Bremer London Pheonix
17 Mark Lacey London Dynamo
18 Matt Woodford G.S.Henley
19 Andrey Paidy Rollapaluza CC
20 Warren Low Dulwich Paragon
21 Mark Letters Banjo Cycles
22 Clem Halpiw Twickenham CC
23 Carl Huston WDMBC/Beyond
24 Vindi BC Private
25 John Williams Willesden CC
26 Harmeet Dhiraj Willesden CC

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British Cycling would like to thank the organising team, officials and everyone else who helped promote this event. Our sport could not exist without the hundreds of people, many of them unpaid volunteers, who put in many hours of hard work running events, activities and clubs.