Location: Lyme Valley Stadium, Newcastle-under-lyme, Staffs
Event: 5 September 2013
Report: Chris Pyatt/Snowdon Sports
The weather held out and one of the biggest attendances of the year took part in the final night of this season’s Brooks Cycles Newcastle Track League at Lyme Valley Stadium in Staffordshire.
The highlight of the night was the Roy Swinnerton Memorial 10 Mile Scratch. The pace was the fastest seen all year as the riders battled it out for the £150 of prizes with sponsorship from Swinnerton Cycles.
There were a number of breaks throughout the race, however none gained more than 50 metres, but with nine laps to go Adam Duggleby (Wheelbase Altura) attacked and quickly gained 150 metres on the bunch.
This was held until three laps to go when the bunch started to work to bring him back. This was only achieved with 250 metres to go when Tom Rotherham took the lead and pushed to the line. However as he came into the home straight Jack Escritt (Velocity WD40) came alongside and just edged out Tom in the lunge for the line.
This was a great end to a race in honour of a great man who did so much for the league and for the sport in general.
The B Class award went to Charlie Cox ( Lichfield CCC). The other A class events were the 10-lap scratch won by Adam Duggleby and the devil which was won by Alastair Rutherford ( Wheelbase Altura).
The B class races were marred by a crash in the opening eight-lap scratch where a touch of wheels saw five riders come down and three going to hospital for treatment. The league sends their best wishes to them for a full recovery. The restarted event was won by Andrew Scott ( Lyme RC) and the devil was won by Charlie Cox.
The main sprinters event was the Keirin League in which Sean Mayer (Swinnerton Cycles) showed why he is the best sprinter at the league this year in winning in fine style from Tom Rotherham (Sportcity Velo).
The youth races saw league winner James Brayford (Lyme RC ) win the 200m TT and the final scratch race. James Duncalf (Lyme RC) won the devil in fine style from Alex Coates (Lyme RC).
The Freewheelers rider finished off what has been a successful season with 64 riders registered. The last night was full of close racing with all the riders showing how they have improved this year in terms of speed and bike handling. At the end of the races the top points scorers were as follows:
Group 1 Alastair Kennington Lyme RC
Group 2 Natasha Sandbach Lyme RC
Jack Scott Lyme RC
Group 3 Izaak Curtis Lyme RC
All the officials would like to thank everyone who has competed in this year’s league and look forward to seeing you all next year.
Results:
Freewheelers League
Group 1
Race 1
1st Alastair Kennington Lyme RC
2nd Reuben Blakman Derby Mercury
3rd Oliver Share Newcastle Tri Club
Race 2
1st Aaron Mansell Lyme RC
2nd Alastair Kennington
3rd Ambrose Morris Lyme RC
Race 3
1st Ambrose Morris
2nd Bradley Heath Lyme RC
3rd Harry Horn Lyme RC
Race 4
1st Reuben Blakman
2nd Aaron Mansell
3rd Alastair Kennington
Group 2
Race 1
1st Harry Brayford Lyme RC
2nd Natasha Sandbach Lyme RC
3rd Joel Cooper
Race 2
1st Amy Graham
2nd Jack Scott Lyme RC
3rd Joshua Jackson
Race 3
1st Jack Scott
2nd Joshua Jackson
3rd Evie Davis Lyme RC
Race 4
1st Harry Brayford
2nd Natasha Sandbach
3rd Lucy Scott
Race 5
1st Jack Scott
2nd Joshua Jackson
3rd Grace Cooper
Race 6
1st Natasha Sandbach
2nd Lucy Scott
3rd Chloe Shepherd Lyme RC
Group 3
Race 1
1st Izaak Curtis Lyme RC
2nd Ruby Jennings Lyme RC
3rd Owen Shepherd Lyme RC
Race 2
1st Ruby Jennings
2nd Izaak Curtis
3rd Owen Shepherd
Race 3
1st Nicholas Sandbach Lyme RC
2nd Izaak Curtis
3rd Cameron O’Neil Lyme RC
Race 4
1st Ruby Jennings
2nd Izaak Curtis
3rd Cameron O’Neil
Main League
Youth 200m TT
1st James Brayford Lyme RC
2nd Archie Scott Lyme RC
3rd Megan Williams Newcastle RC 2001
A Class sprinters Team Sprint
1st Tom Rotherham Sportcity Velo
Sean Mayer Swinnerton Cycles
Barney Swinnerton Swinnerton Cycles
A Class Endurance 10 lap Scratch
1st Adam Duggleby Wheelbase Altura
2nd Jack Escritt Velocity WD40
3rd Will Thomas Velocity WD40
B Class 8 Lap scratch
1st Andrew Scott Lyme RC
2nd Charlie Cox Lichfield CCC
3rd Steve Hall Lyme RC
Youth Devil
1st James Duncalf Lyme RC
2nd Alex Coates Lyme RC
3rd Megan Williams
A Class Endurance Devil
1st Alastair Rutherford Wheelbase Altura
2nd Will Perrett Heanor Clarion
3rd Jack Escritt
B Class Devil
1st Charlie Cox
2nd Andrew Scott
3rd Steve Hall
Keirin League
1st Sean Mayer
2nd Thomas Rotherham
3rd Jack Escritt
4th Barney Swinnerton
5th Christain Braybrooke Velocity WD40
6th Andy Leigh Velocity WD40
Youth 6 laps scratch
1st James Brayford
2nd Megan Williams
3rd Alex Coates
Roy Swinnerton Memorial 10 Mile Scratch
1st Jack Escritt
2nd Tom Rotherham
3rd Alastair Rutherford
B Class
1st Charlie Cox
2nd George Edwards Lyme RC
3rd Steve Hall
Please credit www.britishcycling.org.uk and link back if you use any of our race results.
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.
