Thursday, July 8, 2010

Great results for the Team

Plomesgate July 3, Colchester July 4

A full weekend of Grass Track Racing in fantastic cycling weather was something to relish for Team Welwyn members last weekend. Starting with the excellent Plomesgate event, this year combined with the added attractions of a village fete and concluding with the new event on the calendar at Colchester, there were superb results throughout.

In the Plomesgate event Team Welwyn youth rider George Bateman was in attacking form and took the win in two of the four events on offer, second in two more and in each case was directly up against Maldon CC flyer, George Wood - which made life easier for the supporters of the two riders. The Omnium result rested on the one lap TT and George Bateman had just lost out, finishing second overall by the narrowest of margins.

George Bateman

In the senior events Phil Lisher opened the day with a win in the Devil and followed it with a smooth passage through to the semi-final of the Short Distance Series event over 800M, this time being fortunate to completely miss a crash that took place behind him. Progress was similarly smooth through the semi-final but in the final Phil uncharacteristically allowed his rivals to get a lead in the early stages and could manage only third place.

Phil Lisher

In the Senior Unknown Distance event, Simon Layfield, finding form after starting to recover from the back injury that bedevilled last season, came a strong third behind returning roadman Simon Daw of Sudbury CC.

Simon Layfield back in action

Final event of the day was the National Endurance Series 8km Scratch with an early break forming and splitting the field, leaving Phil to take the win ahead of Dave Langlands, Fenland Clarion.

On Sunday the Team were at Colchester with freewheeler Jaimie Rowe replacing George Bateman, who was attending a National School of Racing at Hog Hill. Jaimie rode strongly to finish first in two of her races and second in the third, while also enjoying the opportunity to try out speedway, cyclo-cross (at which she has considerable experience) and skills activities, an excellent idea on the part of the Colchester Rovers.

In the Senior events Phil took the win in the Men's 2-Lap TT and followed this with a win in the Points Race. He was then second in the Men's Devil behind Richard Lambert (Chesterfield Coureurs) and unfortunately also finished in this position in the National Endurance Series 8km that concluded the meeting and which Simon Layfield took 10th spot.

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