Location: Bournemouth Cycling Centre, Dorset
Event: 9 July 2013
Report: Eamonn Deane/Snowdon Sports
Bright evening sunshine and just a gentle breeze provided perfect conditions for racing at the Bournemouth track.
A thrill-packed meeting culminated in a 15km scratch race that exploded into life after a sedate start.
Dave Gilham and Will Clark lit the blue touch paper, gaining a lap at five km. As the pressure started to tell, Harrison Fielding, Gawain Bailey and Roland Tilley made their move, lapping the thinning bunch after a hard chase.
Fielding was racing in Peter Handsford colours for the first time after returning from a knee injury that has kept him out of action for eight weeks.
Perhaps too many were watching Fielding as Bailey was allowed to slip away to a deserved win.
Earlier in the evening a series of 'devils' had seen shoulders clash in the young buck’s race. Team work ensured that Alistair Fielding crossed the line ahead of Brendan Drewitt, thanks going to his older brother.
Ellie Gilham looked confident in the Women’s Elimination, staying at the front for the whole race.
That is until Rebecca Raybould jumped her in the back straight, impressive stuff from the 15-year-old. Drewitt did take the 20 lap points race, escaping early on to build a winning lead.
The youths is where the action is and Charlie Calvert won a six-lap scratch before Molly Haycock took advantage of some poor chasing down to win a six-lap block handicap.
Provisional results:
8-lap scratch A Group:
1 Alistair Fiellding (Peter Handsford Racing)
2 Gawain Bailey (Performance Cycles)
3 Brendan Drewitt (Fareham Wheelers)
Youths 6-lap scratch:
1Charlie Calvert (BACC)
2 Josh Gamston (BACC)
3 Sam Wadsley (PW)
8-lap scratch B Group:
1 Alex Jolliffe (PW)
2 Robert Haycock (BACC)
3 Chris Braiden (BACC)
Youth women/B elimination race:
1 Rebbeca Raybould (PW)
2 Elie Gilham (VC St Raphael)
3 Aisha Fenwick (PW)
Youth men elimination race:
1 Josh Gamston (BACC)
2 Sam Wadsley (PW)
3 Charlie Calvert (BACC)
A/B masters elimination:
1 Gawain Bailey (Performance Cycles)
2 Steve Moss (BACC)
3 Dave Gilham (BACC)
Group A/B 'Young Bucks':
1 Alistair Fielding (Peter Handsford Racing)
2 Brendan Drewitt (FW)
3 Harrison Fielding (Peter Handsford Racing)
B/youth women 6-lap block handicap:
1 Molly Haycock (BACC)
2 Eve Jefferies (PW)
3Lucy Edmunds (BACC)
Youth male 6-lap block handicap:
1 James Wakefield (BACC)
2 Jamie Haycock (BACC)
3 Charlie Calvert (BACC)
Group B 12-lap block handicap:
1 Alistair Fielding (PHR)
2 Ellie Gilham (VCSTR)
3 Guy Bolton (BACC)
Group A 20-lap points race:
1 Brendan Drewitt (FW)
2 Will Clark (PW)
3 Harrison Fielding (PHR)
Youth 3-lap handicap sprint:
1 Rebecca Hurst (PW)
2 Josh Gamston (BACC)
3 Charlie Calvert (BACC)
A/B group 15km scratch race:
1 Gawain Bailey (Performance Cycles)
2 Harrison Fielding (PHR)
3 Roland Tilley (Ridebike.co.uk)
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