Mercia Report 17-09-06
COMEBACK RIDER IVOR JAMES WINS BEST IMPROVEMENT TIME IN 10 MILE TIME-TRIAL
Ivor James has made a late season comeback to racing, when the time of 26 minutes 27 seconds was fast enough to earn him the best improvement prise with a plus of 1 minute 22 seconds on a fairly hard day, in the Leamington C & A.C. 10 mile time-trial on the Princethorpe course in Warwickshire. Simon Parker also rode timing 26:35. The winning time was done by the unseeded rider Scott Povey (Shirley R.C.) in 21:15.
In the Newport (Salop) C.C. 25 mile time trial James timed 1:09:23 & Matt. Simons 1:03:40 on the out & back A41 between the village of Sandbrook & the M54 motorway island. Oliver Jones (A.P.I. Metrow) the current 12 hr champion was the fastest in 54:19.
A weekend trip up to South Yorkshire by Keith Staley to compete in the Doncaster club Rockingham C.C. 25 mile time trial, held at Hatfield Woodhouse, saw him finish in a time of 1:04:40. The event winner Kevin Dawson (Agisko Dart R.T.) the favourite to win this years Best All Rounder Competion timed 52:19, the course record.
Although not finishing in the top twenty riders David Clarke (Team Nippo K.F.S.) featured early on in the Bob Chicken Grand Prix held in conjunction with the final stage of the Tour of Britain in London’s St James’s Park. The 28 mile circuit race saw Clarke the instigator of a three man leading breakaway, which was eventually caught by the winner Malcolm Elliott (Plowman Craven R.T.) the former Tour de France & Tour of Spain rider.
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