Rooster’s Race Report ~ Youth lead the way in Leeds
A much smaller group of Manchester riders made the trip to Leeds for the penultimate round of the North Region Winter Series.
With track work at Platt Fields taking up the time of a lot of riders, the task of representing the club in Leeds fell to some of our younger racers.
Spencer McLeod continued his stellar form this series by taking a great win in 12 Boys, with fellow MCR rider Brandan Nolan 6th. Spence is now in a commanding position atop the standings in this class with 238 points from 5 rounds. Although there is the final round in Hartlepool still to come, only 5 rounds will count towards the overall and by my mathematical calculations, Spence can’t be overtaken.
The next class that featured MCR riders was 16+ and there was similar success for the club, with Redline sponsored rider Jacob Roberts taking the win, his third win in three races this series. Matty Glynn took an excellent 3rd, Josh “Peebz” Nicholas, riding for sponsor theridenation.com took 5th and has a strong lead in the overall. Ryan Cagney continued his improvement and made the B final.
Roy Sutton was our lone rider in 30-39 Cruiser, which usually sees the most MCR riders competing. He took 4th on the day. Andy Drelincourt still sits atop the standings, but has a slim lead over Mark Egan of Preston and Bradford’s Nigel Smith. The Hartlepool round will be the decider!
In 40+ Cruiser, Gav Foster went one better than in Manchester and took the win.
Payback was as usual exciting, with Fastlane’s Cal Strickland getting the win comfortably ahead of Kyle Evans and Jordan Hayes.. Kyle still has the overall lead in the series though.