Races held Wednesday 20th August 2008
Two good sized fields, a barbie and about a hundred soldiers camped out around the course brought the 2008 revitalised Eelmore series to a fitting conclusion.
In the miserable weather conditions (with at least 20 punctures over the course of the evening) the 3rds race saw several attempts to forge a successful breakaway but came together up a lengthened final straight for the sprint, with Sam Sturgeon winning convincingly from Gareth Dickinson.
Andy Hibberd took the overall series in the final race by finishing 5th on the night, to round off a calculated masterpiece of gaining 51 points after starting the season as a 4th Cat.
Garry Buttery was first Meudon home in 4th and James Bracey and Mike Lancaster also got into the top ten.
In the E12 once a break went with an AWCycles, an Agisko, a Felt and
3 Meudons it was always going to stay away despite lots of (mainly
unsuccessful) attempts to get across. Tim Elverson continued his remarkable consistency to win the series overall but honourably sat back and let the predicted battle for 5th place develop with Tom Smith taking the long sprint ahead of Jamie Newall but not gaining enough points to steal 5th.
Of the other Meudons in the break Dave Creeggan came in sixth with man in form Dave Larcombe following up his 4th at the previous weekend's Older Man's RR with 7th.
The evening concluded with the presentation of the generous prize list and a chorus of Happy Birthday to Craig for his last year before getting a V on his licence.
E12
1 Tom Smith AWCycles E
2 Jamie Newall VC Meudon 1
3 Boyd Roberts www.agiskovinor.com 2
4 Tim Elverson Felt Racing E
5 Richard Mardle Felt Racing 2
6 David Creeggan VC Meudon 1
7 Dave Larcombe VC Meudon 2V
8 Justin Hoy Felt Racing E
9 Lewis Atkins www.agiskovinor.com 1
10 Darrell Pembroke www.agiskovinor.com 2
11 John Wager Felt Racing E
12 Robert King Reading CC 2
13 Wayne Coombs VC Mountpellier 1
14 Toby Neave Southdown Velo E
15 Alex Peterson AWCycles 1
Overall Classification
3/4
1 Sam Sturgeon Team Terminator 3
2 Gareth Dickson Agiskoviner 3
3 Gavin Morton Godalming Cycles RT 3
4 Garry Buttery VC Meudon 3V
5 Andy Hibberd Pedalon.co.uk 3
6 Mark Cracknell AWCycles.co.uk 3V
7 Paul Troughton Wheelbase/GoreBike Wear 3
8 James Bracey VC Meudon 4
9 Clive Jarvis North Hants RC 4
10 Mike Lancaster VC Meudon 3
Overall Classification
3 comments:
Hi Guys,
Just wondered if any one picked up my AWCycles gillet on the final evening of racing. I threw it off at the finish line and forgot about it, I was too busy concentrating on eating hot dogs and burgers
Cheers Neil
Hi Neil
Craig's got it at the shop (Cycle Kingdom in Fleet).
Ben
Excellent, Thanks Ben
Neil
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