The opening round of the Wrekinsport club season saw the first; and supposedly only appearance of the season of former club member Ben Southgate before RAF duties spirit him away. The 19 year-olds’ training has clearly been beneficial as he took a strong win of 10 minutes 50 seconds on a road bike around the fast and furious Admaston – Bratton – Allscott 5 mile circuit, beating Oli Freeman by 12 seconds.

Freeman took the spoils for the promoting club ahead of team mate Ben Wood by 17 seconds in an event attracting a great turn out of 20 riders looking to shake off the winter cobwebs. However, the event wasn’t without incident, as despite the course being well publicised pre-race five riders managed somehow to go to the wrong start location, which meant start timekeeper Deb Hutson-Lumb had to keep a cool head to reschedule them on the fly when they eventually realised: a baptism of fire for her first experience of timekeeping.

Result:

Pos’nNameClubCatMachineTimeNo.
1Ben SouthgateRAF CASRB10:5015
2Oli FreemanWrekinsport CCSTT11:021
3Ben WoodWrekinsport CCVTT11:1919
4Adam MumfordWrekinsport CCSTT11:3313
5Tim BurnWrekinsport CCSRB11:3920
6Phil RobertsWrekinsport CCSTT11:5114
7James ElgarParamount CRTVTT12:2118
8Tim MayoPropel CCVRB12:475
9Rich SmithWrekinsport CCVRB12:508
10Matt PriceWrekinsport CCVTT12:537
11Allan HendersonWrekinsport CCVRB12:582
12Peter JukesWrekinsport CCVRB13:0216
13Chris MarrsMid Shropshire WheelersVTT13:243
14Chris DunnWrekinsport CCVRB13:306
15Paul CoupeWrekinsport CCVRB13:329
16Ashley KirkhamWrekinsport CCVTT13:4712
17Franco Della MuraWrekinsport CCVTT13:5317
18Nick HickmanParamount CRTVRB14:294
19Dave MooreWrekinsport CCVRB15:2010
20Matt MuirPropel CCVRB16:5511

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