Clinton Casteller (I-TEAM CC) outsprinted National Vets mountain bike champion, Paul Hopkins (Merida) to win this CC Weymouth promoted event on the Gallows Hill/Monkey World circuit. The flat course offered little to those adventurous enough to try to escape the bunch.
A sprint always looked likely in this 3rd category, 45 mile race, with the gradual drag up to the line the only real place to string out the peloton.
With a couple of miles left the bunch slowed in readiness for the sprint and a touch of wheels brought down 6 or so riders. Fortunately all remounted with no serious damage, Casteller managed to stay out of trouble to take his first win on the road. Seventeen year old Jake Wilde (Salisbury Tri Club)prefers cycling to swimming and running and rode well to win the junior award.
I caught up with the happy winner at the HQ, "Its my first win and i am very happy. We came here as a team of 5 so we definately had ambitions of doing something. We came with the plan that if there was going to be someone up the road we would send one or two of the other guys and we would keep myself back for the sprint. I ask where the plan was hatched,"in the car park"? Yes! we talked about it in the week and formalised things in the morning. The crash happened two wheels from me so i was lucky to get round it"
1,CLINTON CASTELLAR (I-TEAM CC)
2,PAUL HOPKINS (MERIDA)
3,SCOTT OATRIDGE (CC BASINGSTOKE)
4,ROSS CLAYDON (ARMY CYCLING UNION)
5,HOWARD RADCLIFFE (I-TEAM CC)
6,MATT TIBBUT (WIGHTLINK CRT)
7,PETER PHILLIPS (BATH CC)
8,MIKE SMITH (GILLINGHAM WH)
9,DAVID DUFFY (I-TEAM CC)
10,ROB LEE (KINESIS-MOREVIEW PROJECT)
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