Location: Ugley, Essex
Event: 9 September 2012
Report: Snowdon Sports
Experience got the better of youth in the Victoria CC Road Race at Ugley in Essex on Sunday, where veteran riders dominated the main places.
Colchester Rovers CC rider Richard Norris took the win in a sprint finish, the 43-year-old holding off fellow vet Mark Hurrell (Velo Schils) by just one second. Junior Hamish H|ore (Maldon & Dist CC) was relegated to third spot by inches as his senior rivals kept him off the front.
Norris covered the 59-mile race in 2:25:40, just one second ahead of Hurrell and Hore, while the rest of the riders came home in small numbers with the pace having taken its toll.
It was Norris’s second victory in as many weeks, following his win in the Team ASL360 Surrey League event 3rd cat race on August 26.
Results:
1 Richard Norris Colchester Rovers CC 3 2 hours 25 mins 40sec
2 Mark Hurrell Velo Schils - Interbike RT 3 @ 1 sec
3 Hamish Hore Maldon & District CC 3
4 Ben Locke Braintree Velo Cycle Racing Club 3
5 Neil Fraser Stevenage CC 4
6 Justin Fisk Stowmarket & District CC 4 @ 2sec
7 Jonathan Needham Finchley Racing Team 4
8 Jason Stuart Cycle Club Ashwell (CCA) 3
9 Dale Johnston VC Norwich 3
10 Grant Smith Crest CC 3
11 Stefaan Van Poucke Braintree Velo CRC 3
12 Frank Rawlins North Road CC 2
13 Benjamin Lewis Finsbury Park CC 3 @ 4sec
14 Jack Peasgood Newdales Cycles 4J @ 5sec
15 Thomas Smith Cycling Club Hackney 3
16 David Youell Eagle RC 3
17 Kevin Jeffries Velo Schils - Interbike RT 4
18 Matthew Garfield Fenland Clarion CC 3 @ 6sec
19 Nicholas Cramer Hertfordshire Whls 4 @ 7sec
20 Oliver Caddy Cambridge CC 3
21 Shaun O'Hara Essex Roads CC 3
22 Osama Assem Finchley Racing Team 4
23 Paul Wright Stowmarket & District CC 3
24 Mark Hopkins East London Velo 3
25 Ben Wright VC Revolution 3
26 Tim Boole London Phoenix CC 3
27 Steve Fairchild Braintree Velo Cycle Racing Club 4
28 Samuel Hodges API - Metrow 4 @ 10sec
29 Rolandas Razauskis Private Member 4 @ 11sec
30 Vincent Davison Victoria/Ciclos Uno/P.C.A./Pro-Lite CC 3
31 Daniel Jaeggi London Phoenix CC 4
32 Carmelo Luggeri CC Ashwell (CCA) 3 @ 13sec
33 James Stokes Kettering CC 3
34 Richard Bloomfield Welwyn Whls CC 3
35 Glyndwr Thomas VC Norwich 3 @ 15sec
36 Chris Rimes Fenland Clarion CC 4 @ 16sec
37 Tony Meader Eagle RC 4 @ 19sec
38 Thomas McLaren East London Velo 3 @ 24sec
39 James Samuel Crest CC 4 @ 45sec
40 Andrew Cullinane Finchley Racing Team 3 @ 50sec
41 Philip Thomerson Glendene CC 3 @ 1 min 10sec
42 Martin Bryant Ciclos Uno 3 @ 1 min 12sec
43 Ben Smith Welwyn Whls CC 3 @ 1 min 18sec
44 Harry Davies East London Velo 3 @ 1 min 31sec
45 George Alexander Newdales Cycles 4 @ 2 mins 12sec
46 Paul Dewberry Colchester Rovers CC 3 @ 2 mins 15sec
47 Denis Antippa Verulam CC 4 @ 2 mins 27sec
48 Terry Garlinge East London Velo 3 @ 2 mins 33sec
49 Ian Samuel Crest CC 3 @ 3 mins 36sec
50 Jaroslaw Kobylinski Ipswich BC 4 @ 8 mins 32sec
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.
