Road racing round up

Toby Neave finished fourth in the elite race at Thruxton motor racing circuit. Describing the wind blowing across the exposed course as "evil" and he was down to 53x21 into the wind. Toby confessed he should have finished higher, but had mistimed his final sprint.
Richard Parker and Richard Bevan also rode (the 4th cat race?), but I'm afraid I don't have any further details. I am always very pleased to receive e-mail reports!
Shaun Smart finished ninth in the 3rd category race at Kirdford. Mark Trevis finished 22nd in the 2nd/3rd cat race on the same day. Liam Terry was unlucky to puncture whilst in the break.
Toby, Liam and Mark all rode a very dodgy race at Chertsey? Why are there so many crashes at Chertsey. Mark was best placed finisher in 18th, Toby 37th and Liam 55th.

TT round up

Liam Terry and Mark Trevis finished just under a minute slower than the winners Mick St Leger and Aran Stanton in Hampshire RC's 2-up TT at Funtington. Mike Marchant and Paul O'Donovan were 8th and Richard Parker and Faye Cripps were the fastest mixed pair of riders.
Mike Marchant, our TT man of action, was in action again in Team Axiom Hardriders 30 at Wickham. Mike finished 11th and 4th fastest veteran, just ahead of former member Jerry Bromyard. Jerry now rides for Royal Navy & Royal Marines CA. It's good to see him riding again.
Mike also rode the first of the Portsmouth Time Trial League events At Soberton. Mike finished 14th and again 4th best veteran. These PTTL events are very popular and this one attracted 75 starters. See details below about riding them.

Portsmouth Time Trial League

Mike Marchant writes "Some of you were interested in riding the PTTL events next year when we will be members. You can ride this year's events if you want but not count towards the league.". Details of events are available here.

Youth racing

It will soon be the turn of our youth riders to start racing. There will be two "local" events this year - Angmering on a Monday night and Portsmouth on a Wednesday.
Portsmouth starts on Wednesday, 26 March at 18:30.
Angmering starts on Monday, 21 April at 18:30.

Skittles/bowling

In previous years we have had a youth presentation at Pizza Hut. I thought this year we would turn it into skittles or bowling and make all welcome. Please drop me a line if you are interested in joining in the mayhem. tim.costello @ huntersprings.com.