Surrey League Road Race (Crawley Wheelers): preview and startlist
Crawley Wheelers' National B road race draws a field of 41 to the undulating Lingfield circuit on Sunday morning (10 May), with a 200-metre uphill drag to the finish.
As the open and women’s Rapha Super-League rolls out in Lincoln on Sunday, the Surrey League offers its own long-form test on the Surrey–Sussex border, as Crawley Wheelers’ road race starts from Dormansland at 09:30 for 120 kilometres of undulating roads and a 200-metre uphill drag to the line.
Preview and startlist.
Featured image: PelotonPix / Dave Dodge Photography
The Surrey Cycle Racing League runs a season of weekend road and circuit fixtures across the South East, hosted by its affiliated clubs. Crawley Wheelers’ Lingfield round is one of the league’s longer offerings, and the only race at National B level.
Route
Five laps of the 24-kilometre Lingfield circuit make up the day’s 120 kilometres. The course mixes A- and B-classification roads with a 3.7-kilometre stretch on smaller lanes, and is undulating throughout, with no single decisive climb on the loop itself. The selection point sits off-circuit, on the run-in to the line: after the final lap, riders take a left onto Mutton Hill for a 200-metre climb to the finish.
The combination – 120 kilometres, undulating, uphill finish – favours those who can survive a long, attritional race and still produce a punchy effort over a short, sharp climb.
Riders to watch
Elliott Colyer (Aero CLCTV) is the out-and-out favourite. The founder of the rider-led collective that launched for 2026 with ambitions to ride the Tour of Britain within five years has been the only rider in this field to put together results of note in road racing this season. He sits second in The British Continental’s road race rankings after two podiums and his overall win at the Totnes Vire stage race.
Image: PelotonPix / Dave Dodge Photography
James Jenkins (RCC Racing) has the field’s deepest pedigree on paper. A long-standing rider with Richardsons Trek DAS / DAS Richardsons from 2019 through 2025, Jenkins has a 16th place at the UCI Rutland–Melton CiCLE Classic to his name (in 2022), 4th at the Irish national time trial the same year, and National B wins at Saffron Walden and the Jef Schils Memorial. New colours for 2026 on the racing arm of the Rapha Cycling Club; what shape he is in after a quiet couple of seasons is the open question of the day.
Benjamin Tuchner (TEKKERZ CC) is the most experienced U23 in the field. The 21-year-old has a domestic palmares spanning the 2022 Tour Series, top-30s at the National Circuit Championships, and an appearance in the front group at the 2025 Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix. Tuchner’s 2026 has been all DNFs so far — Wally Gimber, PB Performance Espoirs, East Cleveland Classic, Rutland–Melton CiCLE Classic. Lingfield is the next chance to set that right.
Rhys Howells (DAS Richardsons) flies the orange of one of the most established Elite Development Teams in the country, riding solo for his team while the bulk of the squad focus on Lincoln. He and Jenkins were Richardsons teammates as far back as 2020 – adding a small thread of shared team history to the five laps.
Toby Tombs (Crabbé–Dstny) is the youngest and arguably most intriguing rider in the field. A 17-year-old British junior on the Great Britain Cycling Team junior squad list, Tombs has signed for 2026 to Crabbé–Dstny, the Belgian junior development team that runs as the official feeder programme for Alpecin–Deceuninck, part of what’s known as the Merci PouPou Academy. The same pathway has produced Arnaud De Lie, Jarno Widar (now Lotto Wanty), and Henri Vandenabeele. A first-cat junior racing 120 kilometres against seniors will not be a winning bid in itself, but the trajectory is worth following.
Beyond those names, the field is built from the South East’s club racing scene – multiple riders apiece from London Dynamo, LCRT, Dulwich Paragon, and Watford Velo Sport – alongside isolated curiosities. Foran CT, Schils–Doltcini RT, and Team Novo Nordisk Development all field riders, the last of these being the Australian U23 Oliver Clements, racing the Lingfield loop in the kit of the world’s only pro team for cyclists with Type 1 diabetes.
As the open and women’s Rapha Super-League rolls out in Lincoln on Sunday, the Surrey League offers its own long-form test on the Surrey–Sussex border, as Crawley Wheelers’ road race starts from Dormansland at 09:30 for 120 kilometres of undulating roads and a 200-metre uphill drag to the line.
Preview and startlist.
Featured image: PelotonPix / Dave Dodge Photography
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What is it?
The Surrey Cycle Racing League runs a season of weekend road and circuit fixtures across the South East, hosted by its affiliated clubs. Crawley Wheelers’ Lingfield round is one of the league’s longer offerings, and the only race at National B level.
Route
Five laps of the 24-kilometre Lingfield circuit make up the day’s 120 kilometres. The course mixes A- and B-classification roads with a 3.7-kilometre stretch on smaller lanes, and is undulating throughout, with no single decisive climb on the loop itself. The selection point sits off-circuit, on the run-in to the line: after the final lap, riders take a left onto Mutton Hill for a 200-metre climb to the finish.
The combination – 120 kilometres, undulating, uphill finish – favours those who can survive a long, attritional race and still produce a punchy effort over a short, sharp climb.
Riders to watch
Elliott Colyer (Aero CLCTV) is the out-and-out favourite. The founder of the rider-led collective that launched for 2026 with ambitions to ride the Tour of Britain within five years has been the only rider in this field to put together results of note in road racing this season. He sits second in The British Continental’s road race rankings after two podiums and his overall win at the Totnes Vire stage race.
James Jenkins (RCC Racing) has the field’s deepest pedigree on paper. A long-standing rider with Richardsons Trek DAS / DAS Richardsons from 2019 through 2025, Jenkins has a 16th place at the UCI Rutland–Melton CiCLE Classic to his name (in 2022), 4th at the Irish national time trial the same year, and National B wins at Saffron Walden and the Jef Schils Memorial. New colours for 2026 on the racing arm of the Rapha Cycling Club; what shape he is in after a quiet couple of seasons is the open question of the day.
Benjamin Tuchner (TEKKERZ CC) is the most experienced U23 in the field. The 21-year-old has a domestic palmares spanning the 2022 Tour Series, top-30s at the National Circuit Championships, and an appearance in the front group at the 2025 Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix. Tuchner’s 2026 has been all DNFs so far — Wally Gimber, PB Performance Espoirs, East Cleveland Classic, Rutland–Melton CiCLE Classic. Lingfield is the next chance to set that right.
Rhys Howells (DAS Richardsons) flies the orange of one of the most established Elite Development Teams in the country, riding solo for his team while the bulk of the squad focus on Lincoln. He and Jenkins were Richardsons teammates as far back as 2020 – adding a small thread of shared team history to the five laps.
Toby Tombs (Crabbé–Dstny) is the youngest and arguably most intriguing rider in the field. A 17-year-old British junior on the Great Britain Cycling Team junior squad list, Tombs has signed for 2026 to Crabbé–Dstny, the Belgian junior development team that runs as the official feeder programme for Alpecin–Deceuninck, part of what’s known as the Merci PouPou Academy. The same pathway has produced Arnaud De Lie, Jarno Widar (now Lotto Wanty), and Henri Vandenabeele. A first-cat junior racing 120 kilometres against seniors will not be a winning bid in itself, but the trajectory is worth following.
Beyond those names, the field is built from the South East’s club racing scene – multiple riders apiece from London Dynamo, LCRT, Dulwich Paragon, and Watford Velo Sport – alongside isolated curiosities. Foran CT, Schils–Doltcini RT, and Team Novo Nordisk Development all field riders, the last of these being the Australian U23 Oliver Clements, racing the Lingfield loop in the kit of the world’s only pro team for cyclists with Type 1 diabetes.
Provisional startlist
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