Week 5 of the Brooks Cycles Track league at the Lyme Valley Stadium in Newcastle-under Lyme, Staffordshire on May 30
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thanks to Chris Pyatt
Week 5 of the Brooks Cycles Track league took place on the 30th May with the proceedings opening with the Go Ride Racing for the freewheelers. This made the races even more competitive with the top three in each group being awarded medals. At the end of the 12 race program the winners were as follows
Group 1 1st Bradley Heath, 2nd Sam Hall 3rd Adam Barr
Group 2 1st Natasha Sandbach 2nd Harry Brayford 3rd Evie Davis
Group 3 1st Izaak Curtis 2nd Ruby Baldwin 3rd Gracie Walters
The main league saw the most competitive races in the Sprinters League with the Keiren Final being particularly exciting as the 6 finalist battled for the win. Sean Mayer ( Swinnerton Cycles) took a fine win from Joel Partington ( Sportcity Velo) and Steve Cronshaw ( Brooks Cycles). The other sprints events were the 2 up time trial won by Phil Houlton and Steve Cronshaw ( Brooks Cycles and the team sprint where the team of James Roberts ( North Cheshire Clarion) Steve Cronshaw and Sean Mayer took the win.
The A class endurance riders had a good mix of events with Will Thomas( Velocity RT) winning the 10 laps scratch and the 12 lap motor paced race and Andy Leigh ( Velocity RT) taking the 2000m individual pursuit. Joel Partington rode a great race to win the 10 mile scratch as he used his strong sprint finish to take the win.
In the B Class events Andrew Scott ( Lyme RC) won all four events as he showed his form is good on his comeback trial after a number of years away from racing. He won the 10 laps scratch, devil, course de primes and 10 mile.
The youth races saw a smaller field than usual , no doubt down to the school holidays however this did not stop some fine racing with Liam Zwestchnikow ( Lyme RC) winning the devil and scratch and James Baryford ( Lyme RC) winning the 200m TT. Aleshia Mellor ( Newcastle RC 2001), James Brayford and Bradley Hill ( Lyme RC) won the team sprint.
Freewheelers Results
Group 1
Race 1
1st Alastair Kennington Lyme RC
2nd Alex Coates Lyme RC
3rd Sam Hall Lyme RC
Race 2
1st Bradley Heath Lyme RC
2nd Aaron Mansell Lyme RC
3rd Brandon McMillan Lyme RC
Race 3
1st Adam Barr
2nd Aaron Mansell
3rd Alastair Kennington
Race 4
1st Sam Hall
2nd Bradley Heath
3rd Adam Barr
Group 2
Race 1
1st Harry Horn Lyme RC
2nd Natasha Sandbach
3rd Harry Brayford Lyme RC
Race 2
1st Natasha Sandbach Lyme RC
2nd Harry Brayford
3rd Evie Davis
Race 3
1st Natasha Sandbach
2nd Harry Brayford
3rd Harry Horn
Race 4
1st Evie Davis
2nd Harry Brayford
3rd Natasha Sandbach
Group 3
Race 1
1st Izaak Curtis Lyme RC
2nd Ruby Baldwin
3rd Gracie Walters Lyme RC
Race 2
1st Ruby Baldwin
2nd Izaak Curtis
3rd Gracie Walters
Race 3
1st Izaak Curtis
2nd Ruby Baldwin
3rd Olly Davis
Race 4
1st Gracie Walters
2nd Izaak Curtis
3rd Nicholas Sandbach
Main League
Youth 200m TT
1st James Brayford Lyme RC
2nd Liam Zwetschnikow Lyme RC
3rd James Duncalf Lyme RC
A Class Endurance 10 lap scratch
1st Will Thomas Velocity WD40
2nd Jack Escritt Velocity WD40
3rd Andy Leigh Velocity WD40
B Class 10 laps Scratch
1st Andrew Scott Lyme RC
2nd George Edwards Lyme RC
3rd Sallie Birchall Lyme RC
Sprinters 2 up TT
1st Phil Houlton and Steve Cronshaw Brooks Cycles
2nd Sean Mayer and Barney Swinnerton Swinnerton Cycles
3rd Max Gethin and Joel Partington Lyme RC/ Sportcity Velo
Youth Team Sprint
1st Aleshia Mellor Newcastle RC 2001
Bradley Hill Lyme RC
Liam Zwetschnikow
A Class 12 lap Motor paced
1st Will Thomas
2nd Jack Escritt
3rd Andy Leigh
Sprinters team Sprint
1st James Roberts North Cheshire Clarion
Steve Cronshaw Brooks Cycles
Sean Mayer
B Class devil
1st Andrew Scott Lyme RC
2nd George Edwards Lyme RC
3rd Sallie Birchall Lyme RC
Youth Devil
1st Liam Zwetschnikow
2nd James Brayford
3rd James Duncalf
A Class Individual Pursuit
1st Andy Leigh
2nd Jack Escritt
3rd Will Thomas
B Class Course De Primes
1st Andrew Scott Lyme RC
2nd George Edwards Lyme RC
3rd Sallie Birchall Lyme RC
Keiren Final
1st Sean Mayer
2nd Joel Partington
3rd Steve Cronshaw
4th Barney Swinnerton
5th Jack Payne Sportcity Velo
6th Phil Houlton
Youth Scratch
1st Liam Zwetschnikow
2nd James Brayford
3rd James Duncalf
10 Mile Scratch
1st Joel Partington
2nd Andy Leigh
3rd jack Escritt
B Class
1st Andrew Scott
2nd Dave Smith
3rd Liam Zwetschnikow
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