2022 Sportsbreaks.com Tour Series – Guisborough: race report and results
Sophie Lewis (CAMS-Basso Bikes) and Thomas Mein (WiV SunGod) claimed the victories at the opening round of the Sportbreaks.com Tour Series, as Pro-Noctis - Rotor - Redchilli Bikes p/b Heidi Kjeldsen and WiV SunGod took the early leads in the team competitions
Sophie Lewis (CAMS-Basso Bikes) and Thomas Mein (WiV SunGod) claimed the victories as the 2022 Sportbreaks.com Tour Series burst into life with a thrilling opening round in North Yorkshire.
Report
Women’s race
Presented to the crowds first as the reigning National Circuit Race Champion, Jo Tindley (Pro-Noctis – Rotor – Redchilli Bikes p/b Heidi Kjeldsen) quickly demonstrated the prowess that earned her those British stripes as she immediately struck off out front, joined by Lewis.
The pair pulled out a handy advantage over the chasing pack behind, and built up a sizeable gap to the chasing pack behind as they looked to minimise the number of potential winners right from the very off.
Despite the pair extending their advantage with every completion of the 1.4km lap, they ended up being joined by another rider as Tindley’s Pro-Noctis team-mate Lucy Ellmore put in a mighty effort to bridge the gap and make the duo a trio.
2022 Sportsbreaks.com Tour Series Round 1 Guisborough, Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire – Women’s Race – Cams-BASSO Sophie Lewis takes the win from Jo Tindley and Lucy Ellmore. Photo: SWpix.com
As the trio traversed the circuit, peppered with showers in what was a typically wet bank holiday Monday, it became noticeable that some game playing was afoot as Lewis looked to try and conserve her energy for the final dash to the line – the one card she could play when confronted with the two team-mates able to work together.
That proved to be a masterstroke. Running down to the finish on Guisborough’s Westgate, Lewis had just enough to claim the sprint by half a bike length over Tindley, maintaining CAMS-Basso’s 100% record at the event, following on from Megan Barker’s success 12 months earlier.
Ellmore took third, while Sammie Stuart (Team Brother UK-LDN) powered off the front of the chasing pack to take fourth, and the fastest lap of the race.
Pro-Noctis made their numbers count, taking the top spot in the team competition, with CAMS-Basso in second and Team Boompods in third, while Tindley took the lead in the sprints classification.
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Men’s race
Compared to the cagey competition between two teams in the women’s encounter, the men’s race was a showcase of WiV SunGod’s crushing, brutal, ability to control a race.
From the very first lap, Mein and Matt Bostock worked together to rocket away from the rest of the pack which was left fighting shadows, unable to put up any sort of counter-attack to Mein and Bostock’s initial sucker punch.
Such was the pair’s dominance, that by the halfway mark their lead was over a minute and by the closing stages, only self-restraint on their part stopped them from lapping the entire field.
2022 Sportsbreaks.com Tour Series Round 1 Guisborough, Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire – Men’s Race – Wiv SunGod take the win. Left Thomas Mein and right Matt Bostock. Photo: SWpix.com
Coming to the line, they displayed a perfectly synchronised salute with Mein eventually breaking the beam first – 0.001sec clear of Bostock.
Behind, Harry Tanfield (Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling) maintained local pride – living just a couple of miles from Guisborough – with third place, 1m36sec down. WiV SunGod maintained the crushing performance with fourth and fifth for Matt Gibson and Jacob Scott respectively.
Juniors put on impressive displays just behind. Noah Hobbs (Tekkerz) finished sixth having arrived fresh off the ferry after winning the Isle of Man Junior Tour over the weekend. Fellow junior Joshua Tarling (Wales Racing Academy) was seventh.
WiV SunGod now lead the team classification, with the Wales Racing Academy in second after a strong team performance and Hobbs’ Tekkerz team in third. Mein completed a clean sweep for WiV SunGod by taking the early lead in the sprints competition.
Sophie Lewis (CAMS-Basso Bikes) and Thomas Mein (WiV SunGod) claimed the victories as the 2022 Sportbreaks.com Tour Series burst into life with a thrilling opening round in North Yorkshire.
Report
Women’s race
Presented to the crowds first as the reigning National Circuit Race Champion, Jo Tindley (Pro-Noctis – Rotor – Redchilli Bikes p/b Heidi Kjeldsen) quickly demonstrated the prowess that earned her those British stripes as she immediately struck off out front, joined by Lewis.
The pair pulled out a handy advantage over the chasing pack behind, and built up a sizeable gap to the chasing pack behind as they looked to minimise the number of potential winners right from the very off.
Despite the pair extending their advantage with every completion of the 1.4km lap, they ended up being joined by another rider as Tindley’s Pro-Noctis team-mate Lucy Ellmore put in a mighty effort to bridge the gap and make the duo a trio.
As the trio traversed the circuit, peppered with showers in what was a typically wet bank holiday Monday, it became noticeable that some game playing was afoot as Lewis looked to try and conserve her energy for the final dash to the line – the one card she could play when confronted with the two team-mates able to work together.
That proved to be a masterstroke. Running down to the finish on Guisborough’s Westgate, Lewis had just enough to claim the sprint by half a bike length over Tindley, maintaining CAMS-Basso’s 100% record at the event, following on from Megan Barker’s success 12 months earlier.
Ellmore took third, while Sammie Stuart (Team Brother UK-LDN) powered off the front of the chasing pack to take fourth, and the fastest lap of the race.
Pro-Noctis made their numbers count, taking the top spot in the team competition, with CAMS-Basso in second and Team Boompods in third, while Tindley took the lead in the sprints classification.
Men’s race
Compared to the cagey competition between two teams in the women’s encounter, the men’s race was a showcase of WiV SunGod’s crushing, brutal, ability to control a race.
From the very first lap, Mein and Matt Bostock worked together to rocket away from the rest of the pack which was left fighting shadows, unable to put up any sort of counter-attack to Mein and Bostock’s initial sucker punch.
Such was the pair’s dominance, that by the halfway mark their lead was over a minute and by the closing stages, only self-restraint on their part stopped them from lapping the entire field.
Coming to the line, they displayed a perfectly synchronised salute with Mein eventually breaking the beam first – 0.001sec clear of Bostock.
Behind, Harry Tanfield (Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling) maintained local pride – living just a couple of miles from Guisborough – with third place, 1m36sec down. WiV SunGod maintained the crushing performance with fourth and fifth for Matt Gibson and Jacob Scott respectively.
Juniors put on impressive displays just behind. Noah Hobbs (Tekkerz) finished sixth having arrived fresh off the ferry after winning the Isle of Man Junior Tour over the weekend. Fellow junior Joshua Tarling (Wales Racing Academy) was seventh.
WiV SunGod now lead the team classification, with the Wales Racing Academy in second after a strong team performance and Hobbs’ Tekkerz team in third. Mein completed a clean sweep for WiV SunGod by taking the early lead in the sprints competition.
Results
Women’s results
Individual classification
Team classification
Sprints classification
Men’s results
Individual classification
Team classification
Sprints classification
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