The latest round of the Newcastle-under-Lyme Track League at the Lyme Valley Stadium in Staffordsshire saw the best turnout of riders this year with nearly 50 in the main league. Along with the 20 freewheelers this was a great attendance with some great racing witnessed.
The final race of the night was the 10 mile scratch with the B class riders starting 3 laps in front of the A?s. It is very rare that the A riders do not make up their deficit however on this night they were one lap short of this task. The B riders got down to sharing the work on the front with special mention to Sarah Byrne, Motorpoint-Marshels Pasta who was seen on the front driving the group along. In the final sprint to the line Ryan Whatmough, Shepherd Cycles was an impressive winner from Neil Cummins and Sarah in third. The first A Class rider was Adrian Adgar of Dinnington RC with the race time being 21minutes 35 seconds.
The latest round of the Keirin League saw a blanket finish with the judges having a hard task in placing the riders. The winner was not in doubt with Matthew Rotherham, Sportcity Velo winning by half a length with Tom Powell Newcastle RC 2001 second and Steve Cronshaw Brereton Wheelers third.
Other A Class winners from the night were Declan Byrne in the opening 10 lap scratch whereby he attacked from the main group with 2 laps to go and won by 50m. In the devil Adrian Adgar took a fine win and in the points race Declan Byrne took his second win of the night.
In the B class events there wins for Neil Cummins in the 10 lap scratch and league leader Ryan Whatmough won the Devil and points race.
The youth races saw 14 riders compete with Sean Mayer, Lyme RC winning the opening 200m time trail in a quick 12.6 seconds. Joel Partington won two events in the block handicap and scratch to enable him to take over the overall lead in the league. In the final devil event first time rider Joe Kirkham of VC Long Eaton showed great track craft as he powered away to take a well deserved victory.
In the Freewheelers League there was a good turnout of riders with the top points scorers in each category being as follows:
Group 1 Joel Partington Eastlands Velo
Group 2 Megan Williams Lyme RC
Group 3 Holly Mulroy
Track league scheduled for the 17th June has been moved to Wednesday 16th June. This is due to a clash with the Tour Series evnt which is taking place on the 17th in Hanley. A full programme of events will be run on the 16th as normal
Freewheelers Results
Group 1
Race 1
1st Joel Partington Eastlands Velo
2nd Ashleigh Williams Lyme RC
3rd Megan Wynn Lyme RC
Race 2
1st Joel Partington
2nd Ashleigh Williams
3rd Megan Wynn
Race 3
1st Ashleigh Williams
2nd Joel Partington
3rd Megan Wynn
Race 4
1st Joel Partington
2nd Megan Wynn
3rd Ashleigh Williams
Group 2
Race 1
1st Liam Zwetschnikow Lyme RC
2nd Bradley Hill Lyme RC
3rd Brandon McMillan Lyme RC
Race 2
1st Megan Williams Lyme RC
2nd Aleshia Mellor Eastlands Velo
3rd Christopher Howard Lyme RC
Race 3
1st Aleshia Mellor
2nd Megan Williams
3rd Christopher Howard
Race 4
1st Megan Williams
2nd Aleshia Mellor
3rd Christopher Howard
Race 5
1st Brandon McMillan
2nd Bradley Hill
3rd Liam Zwetschnikow
Group 3
Race 1
1st Andrew Williams
2nd Holly Mulroy
3rd Harry Ledingham-Horne
Race 2
1st Holly Mulroy
2nd Heidi Simpson Lyme RC
3rd Andrew Williams
Race 3
1st Heidi Simpson
2nd Holly Mulroy
3rd Andrew Williams
Race 4
1st Heidi Simpson
2nd Holly Mulroy
3rd Andrew Williams
MAIN LEAGUE
Youth 200m TT
1st Sean Mayer Lyme RC
2nd Louis Preston Lyme RC
3rd Joe Kirkham VC Long Eaton
A Class 10 Lap Scratch
1st Declan Byrne
2nd Matthew Rotherham Sportcity Velo
3rd Tom Powell Newcastle RC 2001
B Class 10 lap Scratch
1st Neil Cummins PM
2nd Phil Houlton Newcastle RC 2001
3rd Sam Easterbrook Loughborough Students CC
Youth Block Handicap
1st Joel Partington Eastlands Velo
2nd Thomas Rotherham Eastlands Velo
3rd Sean Mayer
B Class Devil
1st Ryan Whatmough Shepherd Cycles
2nd Sam Birchall Lyme RC
3rd Phil Houlton
A Class Devil
1st Adrian Adgar Dinnington RC
2nd Matthew Rotherham
3rd Paul Whatmough Shepherd Cycles
Youth Scratch
1st Joel Partington
2nd Joe Kirkham
3rd Christian Braybrooke Sportcity Velo
B Class Points Race
1st Ryan Whatmough
2nd Sam Birchall
3rd Neil Cummins
A Class Points
1st Declan Byrne
2nd Paul Whatmough
3rd Adrian Adgar
Keirin League Final
1st Matthew Rotherham
2nd Tom Powell
3rd Steve Cronshaw Brereton Wheelers
4th Barney Swinnerton Lyme RC
5th Declan Byrne
6th Robert Lambton
Youth Devil
1st Joe Kirkham
2nd George Edwards Lyme RC
3rd Christian Braybrooke
10 Mile Scratch
1st Ryan Whatmough
2nd Neil Cummins
3rd Sarah Byrne Motorpoint-Marshel Pasta
First A Class Adrian Adgar