BANK Holiday race records on local roads remained unbroken during three days of racing.
They ended with SP Systems Wightlink RT riders winning all three time trials on the Isle of Wight without taking the overall classification, while Steve Walkling (VC St Raphael Waite Contracts) and his club took both individual and team honours in the two events on the mainland.
Walkling led the way both times and, with clubmates Aran Stanton, Malcolm Cox and Simon Berogna filling the next three slots on the Hampshire RC result board for the Phil Smith Memorial 10 near Chichester, there were few prizes left for anyone else.
Walkling won by an emphatic 27 seconds from Stanton, but Cox and Berogna tied third with identical times of 21-44 and only ten seconds separated the same two in the longer Circuit of the New Forest the following morning. The pair were placed third and fifth there, Walkling winning by a minute from Julian Jenkinson (Primera Bournemouth) in 1-15-0.
"I get bored riding time trials," was Keiron Page's explanation for not entering the last of the three races organised by Vectis Offshore Sports CC at Godshill in the Isle of Wight. Had he done, he would have started the final 45-miler as favourite to win the overall prize after outpacing everyone else in the shorter races over nine and 24 miles. Clubmate, Dave Dent repeated his success of a year ago on the last day but didn't go fast enough to overhaul first time Island visitor Tony Alcock (North Notts Olympic) who was second fastest on all three days.
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