Team News: New Name for Team Bottrill

UK based cycling team – Team Bottrill secures new title sponsor with ‘Vanguard’  for the 2018 racing season  – team will be as Team Bottrill/Vanguard

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Team News: New Name for Team Bottrill

UK based cycling team – Team Bottrill secures new title sponsor with ‘Vanguard’  for the 2018 racing season  – team will be as Team Bottrill/Vanguard

Matt and the new kit for his team for 2018

Vanguard™ is the premium commercial engine brand of Briggs & Stratton Corporation, the world’s largest producer of 4-cycle air-cooled petrol engines for the outdoor power equipment industry.

In the modern era of cycling, training and racing has become a very scientific art. By training with power, which is a very accurate method of monitoring and maximising a cyclists’ performance, you significantly improve the training to racing productivity ratio and ultimately deliver winning results.

“The scientific element of our sport has numerous synergies with Vanguard™ making it a great partnership for the coming season,” said Matt Bottrill. Paul Bramhall, marketing at Briggs & Stratton said: “The key business drivers in the markets we operate in, including the hire industry, are to maximise performance by increasing productivity and efficiency whilst reducing the total cost of ownership. Vanguard™ engines are continually introducing new power technologies and innovations designed to improve these results.
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Team Bottrill / Vanguard™ Roster for 2018
The team will be made up of seven riders headed up by former national champion and record holder, Matt Bottrill.  He will be joined by Brett Harwood – National Closed Circuit Champion 2015, Oliver Bates – 2nd Fenland Clarion National B Road Race, George Evans – Welsh Elite Time Trial Champion 2017, Stuart Travis – National 25 mile Team Award Winner, 32 podium places in club and open events with 12 open TT wins, Daniel Barnett – National 10 Team Award win and Competition Record 2014, and George Fox – 3rd British National TTT 2017.

“The Team Bottrill / Vanguard™ squad is built up with a specialist team of time triallers, where the delivery of power is core to delivering winning results, as well as a focusing our young talent within a new road race team” advises Bottrill. “The individual riders, and the team as a whole have a clear set of race targets for the 2018 season” says Matt. The most notable targets are:

• Win amateur world championships in Varese Italy
• Win at least two British national time trial championships
• Retain Welsh time trial championship
• Podium finish in British U23 time trial championships
• Win at least one national B road race and road race in Belgium

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