On a day of firsts, Mary Wilkinson prevailed in a tightly-fought inaugural women’s Lancaster Grand Prix, to take a maiden National Road Series victory for Team Boompods.
Meanwhile, in a scorching hot men’s race, Rob Scott continued WiV SunGod’s blazing form by putting on a last-lap masterclass to head a one-two for the team – and his first National Road Series win – as Jake Scott added to his recent Stockton Cycling Festival Grand Prix and Barnsley Town Centre successes with second.
Featured photo: SWpix.com
Report
Women’s race
Despite an overcast sky welcoming the riders, the weather – and the action – quickly heated up as the hilly Lancaster circuit made its presence felt right from the start.
It took a lap for the first attack of the day to shape up, and it took until the second run up the Queen of the Mountains climb for five riders – Mary Wilkinson, Josie Nelson (Team Coop-Hitec Products), Danni Shrosbree (CAMS-Basso Bikes), Zoe Langham (Pro-Noctis – Rotor – Red Chill Bikes p/b Heidi Kjeldsen) and Alex Morrice (Team LDN – Brother UK) – to make the first substantial attack of the day.
2022 Women’s National Road Series, Lancaster GP – Josie Nelson. Photo: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com
The spirit of the break, though, wasn’t too willing and even with a split in the peloton behind, the five attackers were pulled back in a lap later.
From there, it was a case of who would dare launch something on the final lap – despite a brief cameo at half-distance by Otley CC’s Robyn Clay who broke about 20 seconds clear before she rejoined the lead group not too much later.
2022 Women’s National Road Series, Lancaster GP – Mary Wilkinson. Photo: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com
Indeed, it was the final lap that the decisive move was really launched. Team Boompod’s Monica Greenwood punched clear alongside Nicole Coates (Torelli – Cayman Islands – Scimitar) on the first half of the long final lap.
They were caught just after the QoM, but Greenwood’s team-mate Wilkinson used that confusion to launch her own counter – joined by 22-year-old Alice Morrice, making her debut for Team LDN – Brother UK in just her third road race.
Working together superbly, they hit more than 80kph on the long descent back into Lancaster for the deciding kicker through Williamson Park and stretched their lead to almost half-a-minute.
The pair were battling tooth-and-nail through the trees, and through the last left-right sequence there was nothing to divide them. It was only on the final run to the line that Wilkinson’s power came to the fore and she took victory by just more than a bike length.
It was a superb result for the 41-year-old Wilkinson – and Team Boompods – with both achieving their first ever National Road Series wins. Morrice, too, turned more than a few heads with a stunning ride so early in her road racing career.
2022 Women’s National Road Series, Lancaster GP – Mary Wilkinson takes the win. Photo: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com
Sammie Stuart (CAMS-Basso) took third as she just trumped Team LDN – Brother UK’s Lucy Lee in a tight sprint for the final spot on the podium.
Alice McWilliam continues as the National Road Series leader, demonstrating her consistency with 6th place. She holds an impressive 27-point lead over Sammie Stuart, with Jessie Carridge one point further behind. Meanwhile, Josie Nelson is best-placed under-23 in the individual Series rankings on 44 points, 6 ahead of junior Emma Jeffers.
2022 Women’s National Road Series, Lancaster GP – Alice McWilliam. Photo: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com
CAMS-Basso continue their stranglehold on the team classification with an almost unassailable 223 points. Their nearest challengers are Team Boompods, an Elite Development Team, who have accumulated 114 points.
Mary Wilkinson speaks to The British Continental post-race
Men’s race
As the warm morning broke into possibly the hottest day of racing the domestic peloton will have faced this season, the men’s Lancaster GP punished the riders with 10 laps of hard climbing.
With shade at a minimum – and the course unrelenting – it was perhaps not entirely surprising that the peloton didn’t stay together for long.
2022 Men’s National Road Series, Lancaster GP. Photo: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com
Joe Wilson (Dolan Ellesse RT) was one of the early movers and then on just the second lap, a group of six broke clear from the rest with Wilson going clear with Zeb Kyffin (Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling), George Kimber (Spirit BSS), Rob Scott (WiV SunGod), Logan Maclean (Wheelbase Cabtech Castelli), and Jack Rootkin-Gray (Team Inspired). They carved out around 30 seconds over the chasing bunch.
The bunch itself split into numerous groups as the pace kept getting ramped up. Then just before the halfway mark, another five riders bridged across to bolster the leading group – including Team Inspired’s Harry Birchill, and WiV SunGod’s Jake Scott and Jim Brown.
Picture by Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com
– 17/07/2022 – British Cycling Men’s National Road Series, Lancaster GP –
With an incredibly high pace being set at the front, the lead 11 blew up – the heat and the hills proving too much to handle as the temperatures breached the 30-degree mark.
Only a quartet of riders remained right at the sharp-end – Stockton Cycling Festival Grand Prix winner Jake Scott, his team-mate Rob Scott as well as TRINITY Racing’s Sam Culverwell and Rootkin-Gray. They quickly built a commanding lead, it was soon clear that the winner was coming from that four.
Picture by Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com
– 17/07/2022 – British Cycling Men’s National Road Series, Lancaster GP –
On the last lap, after a quick conversation between Jake and Rob Scott, the latter hung back, letting a small gap open up, and then put in a long hard attack on one of the final ascents on the run-in back to Williamson Park. Culverwell dug deep to reel Scott back, but was offered no support from Rootkin-Gray and eventually had to resign himself to the battle for second.
With Jake serving to spoil any potential counter-attacks – he even put in one himself – his namesake Rob built up a sizeable advantage on the fast decent down towards Lancaster. His gap was comfortable enough that he could sit up and enjoy the applauding crowd beneath the Ashton Memorial.
As if to underline WiV SunGod’s recent dominance of the British cycling scene, Jake Scott pipped Sam Culverwell in a ferocious sprint to the line to secure a one-two for the team. Rootkin-Gray took fourth.
Picture by Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com
– 17/07/2022 – British Cycling Men’s National Road Series, Lancaster GP – Wiv SunGod Rob Scott wins
In the National Road Series standings, the hitherto leader Jim Brown was forced to retire from the race, leaving Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling’s Finn Crockett take over the Series lead after finishing seventh. He has 64 points in total, one more than Jake Scott, with Rob Scott up to third on 58. Despite his DNF, Jim Brown is still the top under-23 in fourth overall.
Unsurprisingly, WiV-SunGod still retains its lead at the top of the team classification on 218 points – a 97-point lead over Ribble Weldtite. Team Inspired is third, with 77 points.
Results
Women’s race
Rank
#
Name
Team
Time
1
78
Mary Wilkinson
Team Boompods
2:32:18
2
84
Alex Morrice (U23)
Team LDN – Brother UK
st
3
38
Sammie Stuart
CAMS-Basso
+19
4
81
Lucy Lee
Team LDN – Brother UK
st
5
98
Marine Guerin
Sprinter Nice Metropole
+22
6
21
Alice McWilliam
BIANCHI HUNT MORVELO
+23
7
26
Jessie Carridge
Brother UK-Orientation Marketing
st
8
89
Annamarie Lipp (U23)
Torelli-Cayman-Islands-Scimitar
st
9
118
Josie Nelson (U23)
Team Coop-Hitec Products
st
10
33
Jessica Finney
CAMS-Basso
+25
11
17
Frankie Morgans-Slader (U23)
AWOL O’Shea
st
12
88
Lee Boon (U23)
Torelli-Cayman-Islands-Scimitar
+29
13
34
Emma Matthews
CAMS-Basso
st
14
51
Zoe Langham
Pro-Noctis – Rotor – RedchilliBikes by Heidi Kjeldsen
st
15
49
Lucy Ellmore (U23)
Pro-Noctis – Rotor – RedchilliBikes by Heidi Kjeldsen
st
16
108
Robyn Clay (U23)
Otley CC
st
17
37
Danielle Shrosbree
CAMS-Basso
+33
18
75
Monica Greenwood
Team Boompods
+34
19
93
Rachael Wales
ARA Pro Racing Sunshine Coast
st
20
58
Gemma Sargent
Saint Piran WRT
st
21
14
Connie Hayes (U23)
AWOL O’Shea
st
22
92
Nicole Coates
Torelli-Cayman-Islands-Scimitar
st
23
80
Tiffany Keep (U23)
Team LDN – Brother UK
st
24
101
Emma Jeffers (JR)
JRC-INTERFLON Race Team
+58
25
53
Jo Tindley
Pro-Noctis – Rotor – RedchilliBikes by Heidi Kjeldsen
+1:08
26
109
Megan Walker
Royal Air Force CA
+1:17
27
43
Amber Harding
Loughborough Lightning
+1:40
28
85
Ruth Shier
Team LDN – Brother UK
+1:54
29
59
Christina Wiejak
Saint Piran WRT
+2:28
30
113
Elinor Barker MBE
Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
+2:48
31
50
Amy Gornall
Pro-Noctis – Rotor – RedchilliBikes by Heidi Kjeldsen
+3:23
32
15
Alice Lethbridge
AWOL O’Shea
+6:35
33
67
Miriam Jessett
StolenGoat Race Team
+7:01
34
111
Maddie Heywood
Team Watto-LDN
st
35
74
Amy Graham
Team Boompods
+7:09
36
16
Phoebe Martin
AWOL O’Shea
+7:10
37
32
Emma Edwards
CAMS-Basso
+7:11
38
29
Hope Inglis (JR)
Brother UK-Orientation Marketing
+7:12
39
60
Charlotte Berry
Spectra Wiggle p/b Vitus
st
40
40
Beth Harley-Jepson
Jadan – Vive le Velo
st
41
114
Amber Junker-Brameld (JR)
VC Londres
st
42
102
Suzannah Wood
Knights of Suburbia Racing
st
43
63
Madeleine Nutt
Spectra Wiggle p/b Vitus
st
44
9
Olivia Bent (U23)
AWOL O’Shea
+7:16
45
110
Jacqui Allen
Team RoxsoltLivSRAM
+7:17
46
103
Matilda McKibben (JR)
Liv Cycling Club – Halo Films
+7:19
47
57
Elizabeth Sanders
Saint Piran WRT
+7:21
48
18
Alderney Baker (U23)
BIANCHI HUNT MORVELO
+8:02
49
99
Emma Watson
Grinta Coaching
+8:05
50
117
Savannah Morgan
+8:07
51
72
Anya Tamplin (U23)
Storey Racing
+8:08
Men’s race
Rank
#
Name
Team
Time
1
6
Robert Scott
WiV Sungod
3:39:01
2
7
Jacob Scott
WiV Sungod
+1:36
3
98
Sam Culverwell (U23)
TRINITY Road Racing
st
4
77
Jack Rootkin-Gray (U23)
Team Inspired
st
5
37
Zeb Kyffin
Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling
+4:17
6
75
Harry Birchill (U23)
Team Inspired
st
7
35
Finn Crockett
Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling
st
8
16
Joe Wilson (U23)
Dolan Ellesse Race Team
st
9
2
Toby Barnes (U23)
WiV Sungod
st
10
57
Cooper Sayers
Saint Piran
st
11
8
Benjamin Perry
WiV Sungod
+4:27
12
91
Logan Maclean (U23)
Wheelbase CabTech Castelli
+4:36
13
123
Dan Gardner
Project 51
+4:39
14
63
George Kimber
Spirit BSS
+4:44
15
78
Robert Donaldson (U23)
Team Inspired
+4:50
16
79
Jacques Coates (U23)
Team PB Performance
+7:35
17
90
Matthew Fox (U23)
Wheelbase CabTech Castelli
+9:10
18
120
James Jobber
Kuwait Pro Cycling Team
st
19
46
James Jenkins
Richardsons Trek DAS
st
20
12
Adam Mitchell (U23)
Cycling Sheffield
st
21
111
William Truelove (U23)
Wales Racing Academy
st
22
5
Euan Macleod (U23)
WiV Sungod
st
23
18
Jamieson Blain (U23)
Embark – Bikestrong
st
24
85
Samuel Clark (U23)
trainSharp Elite
st
25
44
Peter Cocker
Richardsons Trek DAS
st
26
19
Michael Chadwick
Embark – Bikestrong
st
27
33
Nicholas Tyrie
Primera-TeamJobs
st
28
62
Josh Housley
Spirit BSS
st
29
84
Jude Taylor
Team PB Performance
st
30
136
Benjamin Hellebo
Wheelsuckers
st
31
66
Irfan Zaman (U23)
Spirit BSS
+9:20
32
48
Steven Parsonage
Richardsons Trek DAS
+9:33
33
141
Ben Mewes
X-Speed United Continental Team
+10:25
34
54
Leon Mazzone
Saint Piran
+10:50
National Road Series standings
Women
Individual
Rank
Name
Team
Points
1
Alice McWilliam
BIANCHI HUNT MORVELO
82
2
Sammie Stuart
CAMS-Basso
55
3
Jessie Carridge
Brother UK-Orientation Marketing
54
4
Jessica Finney
CAMS-Basso
50
5
Josie Nelson (U23)
Team Coop-Hitec Products
44
6
Anna Kay
StarCasino Team
42
7
Mary Wilkinson
Team Boompods
39
8
Lucy Lee
Team LDN – Brother UK
38
9
Emma Jeffers (JR)
JRC-INTERFLON Race Team
38
10
Monica Greenwood
Team Boompods
38
11
Lee Boon (U23)
Torelli-Cayman-Islands-Scimitar
35
12
Marine Guerin
Sprinter Nice Metropole
34
13
Beth Morrow (U23)
CAMS-Basso
34
14
Becky Storrie
CAMS-Basso
30
15
Alex Morrice (U23)
Team LDN – Brother UK
28
16
Madelaine Leech (U23)
CAMS-Basso
28
17
Millie Couzens (U23)
Plantur-Pura
28
18
Danielle Shrosbree
CAMS-Basso
27
19
Eluned King
Le Col – Wahoo
26
20
Beth Maciver (U23)
Alba Development Road Team
24
21
Emma Matthews
CAMS-Basso
24
22
Frankie Morgans-Slader (U23)
AWOL O’Shea
24
23
Awen Roberts (JR)
Liv Cycling Club – Halo Films
20
24
Ellen McDermott
Team Boompods
20
25
April Tacey (U23)
Le Col – Wahoo
18
26
Annamarie Lipp (U23)
Torelli-Cayman-Islands-Scimitar
16
27
Kate Richardson (U23)
Alba Development Road Team
16
28
Grace Lister (JR)
Brother UK-Orientation Marketing
16
29
Lucy Ellmore (U23)
Pro-Noctis – Rotor – RedchilliBikes by Heidi Kjeldsen
12
30
Madeleine Gammons
Saint Piran WRT
10
31
Robyn Clay (U23)
Otley CC
10
32
Amira Mellor
Spectra Wiggle p/b Vitus
9
33
Dannielle Khan
Solihull CC
8
34
Beth Harley-Jepson
Jadan – Vive le Velo
8
35
Niamh Murphy (JR)
Liv Cycling Club – Halo Films
8
36
Izzy Sharp
Brother UK-Orientation Marketing
7
37
Isabel Darvill (U23)
Pro-Noctis – Rotor – RedchilliBikes by Heidi Kjeldsen
7
38
Jo Tindley
Pro-Noctis – Rotor – RedchilliBikes by Heidi Kjeldsen
7
39
Zoe Langham
Pro-Noctis – Rotor – RedchilliBikes by Heidi Kjeldsen
7
40
Katarzyna Madej
Onyx RT
6
41
Zoe Backstedt (JR)
Acrog-Tormans
6
42
Ella Maclean-Howell (JR)
Tofauti Everyone Active
4
43
Tamsin Miller
Bianchi Hunt Morvelo
4
44
Maddie Wadsworth (U23)
AWOL O’Shea
4
45
Olivia Bentley
Torelli-Cayman-Islands-Scimitar
3
46
Ella Jamieson (JR)
Liv Cycling Club – Halo Films
3
47
Rachael Wales
ARA Pro Racing Sunshine Coast
2
48
Lucy Harris
Team Boompods
2
49
Tiffany Keep (U23)
Team LDN – Brother UK
2
50
Kinga Ingram (U23)
Storey Racing
1
51
Suzetta Guerrini
Jadan – Vive le Velo
1
52
Gemma Sargent
Saint Piran WRT
1
Team
Rank
Team
Points
1
CAMS-Basso
223
2
Team Boompods
114
3
BIANCHI HUNT MORVELO
86
4
Brother UK-Orientation Marketing
77
5
Team LDN – Brother UK
68
6
Torelli-Cayman-Islands-Scimitar
51
7
Alba Development Road Team
40
8
JRC-INTERFLON Race Team
38
9
Pro-Noctis – Rotor – RedchilliBikes by Heidi Kjeldsen
On a day of firsts, Mary Wilkinson prevailed in a tightly-fought inaugural women’s Lancaster Grand Prix, to take a maiden National Road Series victory for Team Boompods.
Meanwhile, in a scorching hot men’s race, Rob Scott continued WiV SunGod’s blazing form by putting on a last-lap masterclass to head a one-two for the team – and his first National Road Series win – as Jake Scott added to his recent Stockton Cycling Festival Grand Prix and Barnsley Town Centre successes with second.
Featured photo: SWpix.com
Report
Women’s race
Despite an overcast sky welcoming the riders, the weather – and the action – quickly heated up as the hilly Lancaster circuit made its presence felt right from the start.
It took a lap for the first attack of the day to shape up, and it took until the second run up the Queen of the Mountains climb for five riders – Mary Wilkinson, Josie Nelson (Team Coop-Hitec Products), Danni Shrosbree (CAMS-Basso Bikes), Zoe Langham (Pro-Noctis – Rotor – Red Chill Bikes p/b Heidi Kjeldsen) and Alex Morrice (Team LDN – Brother UK) – to make the first substantial attack of the day.
The spirit of the break, though, wasn’t too willing and even with a split in the peloton behind, the five attackers were pulled back in a lap later.
From there, it was a case of who would dare launch something on the final lap – despite a brief cameo at half-distance by Otley CC’s Robyn Clay who broke about 20 seconds clear before she rejoined the lead group not too much later.
Indeed, it was the final lap that the decisive move was really launched. Team Boompod’s Monica Greenwood punched clear alongside Nicole Coates (Torelli – Cayman Islands – Scimitar) on the first half of the long final lap.
They were caught just after the QoM, but Greenwood’s team-mate Wilkinson used that confusion to launch her own counter – joined by 22-year-old Alice Morrice, making her debut for Team LDN – Brother UK in just her third road race.
Working together superbly, they hit more than 80kph on the long descent back into Lancaster for the deciding kicker through Williamson Park and stretched their lead to almost half-a-minute.
The pair were battling tooth-and-nail through the trees, and through the last left-right sequence there was nothing to divide them. It was only on the final run to the line that Wilkinson’s power came to the fore and she took victory by just more than a bike length.
It was a superb result for the 41-year-old Wilkinson – and Team Boompods – with both achieving their first ever National Road Series wins. Morrice, too, turned more than a few heads with a stunning ride so early in her road racing career.
Sammie Stuart (CAMS-Basso) took third as she just trumped Team LDN – Brother UK’s Lucy Lee in a tight sprint for the final spot on the podium.
Alice McWilliam continues as the National Road Series leader, demonstrating her consistency with 6th place. She holds an impressive 27-point lead over Sammie Stuart, with Jessie Carridge one point further behind. Meanwhile, Josie Nelson is best-placed under-23 in the individual Series rankings on 44 points, 6 ahead of junior Emma Jeffers.
CAMS-Basso continue their stranglehold on the team classification with an almost unassailable 223 points. Their nearest challengers are Team Boompods, an Elite Development Team, who have accumulated 114 points.
Men’s race
As the warm morning broke into possibly the hottest day of racing the domestic peloton will have faced this season, the men’s Lancaster GP punished the riders with 10 laps of hard climbing.
With shade at a minimum – and the course unrelenting – it was perhaps not entirely surprising that the peloton didn’t stay together for long.
Joe Wilson (Dolan Ellesse RT) was one of the early movers and then on just the second lap, a group of six broke clear from the rest with Wilson going clear with Zeb Kyffin (Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling), George Kimber (Spirit BSS), Rob Scott (WiV SunGod), Logan Maclean (Wheelbase Cabtech Castelli), and Jack Rootkin-Gray (Team Inspired). They carved out around 30 seconds over the chasing bunch.
The bunch itself split into numerous groups as the pace kept getting ramped up. Then just before the halfway mark, another five riders bridged across to bolster the leading group – including Team Inspired’s Harry Birchill, and WiV SunGod’s Jake Scott and Jim Brown.
With an incredibly high pace being set at the front, the lead 11 blew up – the heat and the hills proving too much to handle as the temperatures breached the 30-degree mark.
Only a quartet of riders remained right at the sharp-end – Stockton Cycling Festival Grand Prix winner Jake Scott, his team-mate Rob Scott as well as TRINITY Racing’s Sam Culverwell and Rootkin-Gray. They quickly built a commanding lead, it was soon clear that the winner was coming from that four.
On the last lap, after a quick conversation between Jake and Rob Scott, the latter hung back, letting a small gap open up, and then put in a long hard attack on one of the final ascents on the run-in back to Williamson Park. Culverwell dug deep to reel Scott back, but was offered no support from Rootkin-Gray and eventually had to resign himself to the battle for second.
With Jake serving to spoil any potential counter-attacks – he even put in one himself – his namesake Rob built up a sizeable advantage on the fast decent down towards Lancaster. His gap was comfortable enough that he could sit up and enjoy the applauding crowd beneath the Ashton Memorial.
As if to underline WiV SunGod’s recent dominance of the British cycling scene, Jake Scott pipped Sam Culverwell in a ferocious sprint to the line to secure a one-two for the team. Rootkin-Gray took fourth.
In the National Road Series standings, the hitherto leader Jim Brown was forced to retire from the race, leaving Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling’s Finn Crockett take over the Series lead after finishing seventh. He has 64 points in total, one more than Jake Scott, with Rob Scott up to third on 58. Despite his DNF, Jim Brown is still the top under-23 in fourth overall.
Unsurprisingly, WiV-SunGod still retains its lead at the top of the team classification on 218 points – a 97-point lead over Ribble Weldtite. Team Inspired is third, with 77 points.
Results
Women’s race
Men’s race
National Road Series standings
Women
Individual
Team
Men
Individual
Team
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