Wrekinsport Club 5 2026

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’n	Name	Club	Cat	Machine	Time	No.
1	Ben Southgate	RAF CA	S	RB	10:50	15
2	Oli Freeman	Wrekinsport CC	S	TT	11:02	1
3	Ben Wood	Wrekinsport CC	V	TT	11:19	19
4	Adam Mumford	Wrekinsport CC	S	TT	11:33	13
5	Tim Burn	Wrekinsport CC	S	RB	11:39	20
6	Phil Roberts	Wrekinsport CC	S	TT	11:51	14
7	James Elgar	Paramount CRT	V	TT	12:21	18
8	Tim Mayo	Propel CC	V	RB	12:47	5
9	Rich Smith	Wrekinsport CC	V	RB	12:50	8
10	Matt Price	Wrekinsport CC	V	TT	12:53	7
11	Allan Henderson	Wrekinsport CC	V	RB	12:58	2
12	Peter Jukes	Wrekinsport CC	V	RB	13:02	16
13	Chris Marrs	Mid Shropshire Wheelers	V	TT	13:24	3
14	Chris Dunn	Wrekinsport CC	V	RB	13:30	6
15	Paul Coupe	Wrekinsport CC	V	RB	13:32	9
16	Ashley Kirkham	Wrekinsport CC	V	TT	13:47	12
17	Franco Della Mura	Wrekinsport CC	V	TT	13:53	17
18	Nick Hickman	Paramount CRT	V	RB	14:29	4
19	Dave Moore	Wrekinsport CC	V	RB	15:20	10
20	Matt Muir	Propel CC	V	RB	16:55	11