Congratulations to Allan Ridler (Pedal Heaven RT) for winning this years hard fought out Open Road Race. Second was Andy Betts (Felt Colbornes RT) and third was Martin Ford (In Gear Quickvit trainsharp RT).

Within a mile of the race being deneutralised a small group of four riders managed to break away from the front of the bunch. Despite working well together they never managed to increase the gap and the main bunch hung tantalisingly off the back at around 30 seconds. Both break and bunch were lapping consistently in 10 mins and a handful of seconds (see lap times below). This situation continued through the first half of the race, until two groups of three riders managed to get across to the leaders.

With 3 1/2 laps to go the front group consisted of 15 riders, with the gap to the heavily depleted main bunch no more than a minute. Then with two laps to go Allan Ridler and Andy Betts took off from the front of the group, managing to stay away right up to the finish line.

Live race updates were provided on Twitter, although few could get a signal ( @BecCyclingClub )

The preliminary results are below. There's still a few positions to fill once the video footage has been checked.

Photos from Dave Hayward  More photos here

Stats - 73 Riders, 16 Workers (Bec Members), 5 Moto Marshalls, 2 Comms, 1 First Aid, 1 Photographer.   

Preliminary Results

 

Place	Name	Club / Team	No	Cat
1	Allan Ridler	Pedal Heaven RT	45	E	03:01:44
2	Andy Betts	Felt Colbornes RT	19	E
Gap
3	Martin Ford	In Gear Quickvit trainsharp RT	30	E	+5 Secs
4	Alex Higham	Felt Colbornes RT	18	E	ST
5	Paul Pickup	Pedal Heaven RT	90	E	ST
Gap
6	Elliot Porter	Team Corridori	64	2	+12 Secs
7	Mark Perry	Wilier / Live2ride	80	2	ST
8	Chris McNamara	Pedal Heaven RT	47	E	ST
9	Taylor Johnson	Team De Ver	87	1	ST
10	George Harper	Felt Colbornes RT	21	1	ST
11	Ian Knight	Team Corley Cycles	61	E	ST
12	Harold Evans	VO2 Development Team	77	2	ST
13	Alexander King	Loughborough Students CC	42	1	ST
14	Richard Wood	Team Milton Keynes	66	1	ST
15	John Wager	Felt Colbornes RT	22	E	ST
Gap
16	Harry Grey	Vanillabikes.com	73	1	+18 Secs
Gap
17	Ian Alexander	Cheltenham & County CC	10	2	+28 Secs
Gap
18	Miles Mathew	In Gear Quickvit trainsharp RT	31	2V	+41 Secs
19	Maurice Brennan	Redhill CC	59	2	ST
20	Simon Henley	Team Corley Cycles	62	2	ST
21	Warren Jesse		1	3	ST
Gap
22	David Seager	PMR@cing	52	1	+48 Secs (Main Bunch)
23	Iain Palmer	Twickenham CC	83	3
24	Mike Wragg	Team Milton Keynes	65	1
25	Paul Sewell	Bigfoot CC	6	2
26	Richard Wood	Team Milton Keynes	66	1
27	Andrew Dolan	Team Toachim	67	2
28	Darren Barclay	Arctic-Sram RT	3	1
29	Christopher Zappala	Dulwich Paragon	12	2
30			?
31	Ian Paine	London Dynamo	38	1
32	Craig Joy	Team Toachim	68	2
	1 lap down
33	Mark McCullagh	Dulwich Paragon	14	2V
34	Dean Corney	VC Meudon	74	3

Finish line footage.... First two already over the line before the clip starts.

 

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Lap Times (Views from the Lead Car)

Total Mileage	Lap	Time (Min : Sec)
0
10			4 Riders break away
14	1	10:11.4
18	2	10:06.4
22	3	10:01.9
26	4	10:13.0
30	5	10:09.8
34	6	10:12.1
38	7	10:12.2
42	8	10:15.4
46	9	10:14.4	2 Groups of 3 riders get across to the lead 4
50	10	10:14.0	9 Riders in lead group
54	11	10:14.1
58	12	10:18.3
62	13	10:10.7	15 Riders in front group
66	14	10:30.6	2 Riders break from the front group of 15
70	15	11:05.5
74	16	09:43.2