KEITH LILLEY ROLLS BACK THE YEARS!

A very wet Brent Tor circuit awaited the brave souls in this E 1 2 3 4 race. www.team-certini.co.uk had again enterd a strong field. Keith Lilley the 47 year old verteran started as one of the favourites along with James Williams Kona and Mark Perry Bournemouth Arrow. In the very first lap John Nye ES Torgini felt his back wheel slip and ended up admiring the grey Dartmoor sky.

Dartmoor is renowned for it's surprises but on this ocassion it was no surprise when a small elite group of six riders broke away from the bunch at the top of the long climb which is covered 11 times.

This climb popped many riders out of the back of the bunch as they tried in vain to bring the breakaway back. The breakaway however continued to increase it's gap at point almost 3.30 over the bunch.

This huge gap gave the security for in the last two laps for James Williams to attack not once but twice both times to be followed by Keith Lilley. The second attack stuck and Williams and Lilley had a 5 second gap over the remaining three riders from the original breakaway. This now included Graeme Lackford Tor 2000, Steve Thomas Bournemouth Arrow and James Smith www.team-certini.co.uk.

James Smith sat at the back of Lackford and Thomas as they desperatly tried to bring Williams and Lilley back. As the leading two reached the final hill Williams may have been a little over confident and led Lilley to the line only to be outsprinted for Lilley to win.

At the turn at the same time Smith, Lackford and Thomas almost came to a standstill as the eyed each other up in track style. Smith was the first to attack and managed to put a small gap in to Lackford to take third.

Lilley 1st
Williams 2nd
Smith 3rd
Lackford 4th
Thomas 5th