Latest Region 9 Series rankings

Race	Race Pos	Name	Club	Cat	Cat Pos	Series Points
AB	1	Richard Cartland	Hunt Bike Wheels	B	1	20
	2	Andy Betts	BMCR	B	2	17
	3	Stuart Bettis	One Resourcing RT	A	1	20
	4	Ross Matheson	4T+ Cyclopark	A	2	17
	5	Ryan Machin	Crawley Wheelers Race Team	A	3	14
	6	DAZEL DOMANILLO	Islington CC	B	3	14
CD	1	lee smith	Long Steady Days	C	1	20
	2	Rowan Horner	VC St Raphael	C	2	17
	3	Vince Divine	Finchley RT	C	3	14
	4	Kieron Lewis	CC Luton	C	4	12
	5	Jeremy Honor	Equipe Velo	C	5	10
	6	Darrell Pembroke	Team Velo Sportif	C	6	8
	7	Richard Barker	Long Steady Days	C	7	6
	8	Frank Bauer	Team Velo Sportif	C	8	4
	9	rob fletcher	Equipe Velo	C	9	3
	10	david tate	Arctic Aircon RT	C	10	2
	11	Steve Dring	Team Echelon	C	11
	12	Andy Buckwell	Hub Velo CC	D	1	20
	13	Chris Smith	Python RT	C	12
	14	Michael D’Arcy	CC Luton	C	13
	15	Keith Walker	Wigmore CC	D	2	17
	16	Gavin Francis	London Dynamo	D	3	14
	17	Steve Noel	Paradigm Cycles	D	4	12
	18	Os Assem	Finchley RT	D	5	10
	19	Richard Unwin	GS Vecchi	C	14
	20	Andrew Buurman	Rapha CC	D	6	8
	21	Emmeric Hurault	4T+ Cyclopark	D	7	6
	22	Jeremy Leake	VCGH	D	8	4
	23	Patrick HAWKINS	Dulwich Paragon CC	D	9	3
	24	Mike Jackson	CC Luton	C	15
	25	Richard Burchett	Crawley Wheelers Race Team	C	16
	26	ISSY ZIMMERMAN	Regents Park Rouleurs	D	10	2
	27	Jonathan Donald	London Dynamo	D	11
	28	Toks Adesanya	addiscombe cc	D	12
	29	Kevin Plummer	Team TMC Strada	D	13
	30	Charles Longridge	Hurlingham Cycling Club	C	17
	31	Cliff Steele	Brixton CC	D	14
EFG	1	Trevor Hammond	VC Deal	E	1	20
	2	Julian Bray	Dulwich Paragon CC	E	2	17
	3	Craig Wilson	VC Meudon	E	3	14
	4	Chris Beales	ViCiOUS VELO	E	4	12
	5	Mark Bremner	VC Meudon	E	5	10
	6	Robert Cranstone	GS Vecchi	F	1	20
	7	Martin Fisher	BMCR	F	2	17
	8	Trevor Bradbury	Python RT	F	3	14
	9	Julian Niles-Cunnington	Long Steady Days	F	4	12
	10	Richard Barnes	Islington CC	E	6	8
	11	pete bishop	Exeter Wheelers	E	7	6
	12	bob ford	Cycle works-VitecFire-FordCE-Trek	G	1	20
	13	ralph keeler	St.Ives CC	G	2	17
	14	alan williams	Kingsnorth International	G	3	14
	15	Trevor Gannon	BMCR	F	5	10
	16	Stuart Howard	PB Cycle Coaching	E	8	4

If you spot any errors in placing, or if you are wrongly identified, please e-mail info@bmcr.org.uk. Incorrect formatting, capitalisation of names etc. is normally a result of the data on RiderHQ. If you correct it there, it should feed through to future results.

For the first time on a Sunday, we were promised and delivered beautiful warm sunny wind free conditions for a race.
A far cry from the cold, miserable, possibly life affirming/changing drenchings we have all accepted as the norm so far in 2024.
Even the much feared traffic issues with the closed section of the M25 did not impact anyone’s journey to the lovely village of Handcross.
Crawley Wheelers RT had taken over the Parish Hall, and turned it into Bike Central.
Having not raced or ridden the circuit since 1977, I used a full lap as my warm up alongside the wonderful Peter Bishop, all the way up from Exeter, riding a beautiful 25 year old Bianchi, and realized early on that this would be a race to remember. It resembles the 3 circuits of Retchingley, Blackmore and Chailey all rolled into one 9 mile circuit. Short steepish critters, long drags, very long drags and fast flowing descents, always something to keep you on the rivet.
The EFG race was the last of the 3 groups to start, with 34 riders, a plethora of big hitters, as well as many opting to use this race as their first for several seasons. Inspired, or grand folly? 
After  a short neutralized zone, the race was on, 43 miles of mixed (polite version) terrain in what was soon to be 26°C.
The first lap was a 3/4 lap, with 4 full laps to follow, but it meant climbing the nasty critter of a hill 5 times. The first time was brutal with the race being strung out in a long broken line. Mercifully, the pace slowed at the crossroads at the top, the protagonists possibly realizing this pace was just not doable for the entire race. By now, we had lost 5 or 6 riders, never to be seen again.
So the first shots had been fired.
The first time up the long drag gave us all a taste of things to come, a full 2kms of a relentless energy sapping grind, so long, even after 2 of 3 laps, you were still not sure where the summit was.
This is where the real damage was done on the 2nd lap, the steep ramp again stretching it out, and the following long drag the end of the single but slightly fractured bunch. 
The cream of the Es shot off the front, led by the amazing but until then, fairly subdued Chris Beales, with him were Trevor Hammond, Julian Bray, Craig Wilson and Mark Brenner.
Further up the long drag, another group muscled off the front which included the best of the Fs, Costa Periedes, Robert Cranstone, Martin Fisher, Trevor Bradbury and Julian Niles- Cunnington, plus the fast improving E Richard Barnes and the aforementioned E Peter Bishop. 2 riders just happy to be at the business end (albeit the 2nd group!!!) of a full on road race.
The 2nd group was working like a well oiled machine, through and off on the ‘flat’ parts anyhow, and we kept the lead 5 in sight.
By the end of lap 2, they had 45 seconds on us. The next lap seemed quicker than the previous one but with the next time check 2.55, we were either flagging, or the Es were kicking along hard, and Costa punctured, thus losing us 20% of our engine.
RB was riding hard at the front, forcing a 10 gap, spurring RC to make a big move, closely followed by TB and MF, and eventually JNC. After a minute, the moved floundered, the heat and draining circuit combining to render such heroics fruitless. So it was down to the last 3 miles and the watching and waiting began. Everyone thought they had a chance at winning the F race, but it was RC who took the win up the slight drag to the finish line, followed by MF and TB, and then JNC.
Everyone’s face told the same story of a super hot, demanding relentless race, and the ride back up the long long drag, this time in the little ring, was enjoyable, and a good couple of miles warm down, perfect.
Some new names for the 2024 BMCR Race Series, things are starting to heat up.