Report: Totnes Vire Two Day

Cornwall’s Steve Lampier wins Totnes Vire for the second time by the smallest winning margin in the 45-year history of the race from Peter Kibble – three-tenths of a
second. Stephen Bradbury and Joseph Sutton stage winners along with Lampier

Report: Totnes Vire Two Day

Writing Credit: David Thomas

Pic: Saint Piran Team

Former Premier Calendar winner Steve Lampier, 35, pipped Peter Kibble of the Wales Racing Academy in the opening stage time-trial up the climb of Haytor, and it was a good job that organisers Mid-Devon CC had good timing equipment on hand. Lampier completed the three-mile ascent in 12 mins 41.42 seconds to Kibble’s 12.41.78.

“When I heard my time, I didn’t think I had done enough,” said Lampier, who also won the Totnes-Vire in 2015 when the race’s final stage finished on Haytor in appalling weather. “I had wanted to finish in the top-five and then attack from there. It’s always nice to lead, but then we had to defend it.”

Stage Two at Torbay Velopark, Clennon Valley, Paignton saw Lampier make sure he was always near the front of the high-speed Velopark race, won in a bunch sprint by another former Totnes-Vire winner, Reading’s Stephen Bradbury of the SwiftCarbon Racing Team. Then, on the final stage dangerman Bradbury attacked early in the final stage, taking 18-year-old junior George Mills-Keeling (Bridgnorth CC) with him, and the pair led by more than 90 seconds at one point.

Pic: Saint Piran Team

But Lampier had his Saint Piran men at the front of the peloton, and it was recently-crowned British eRacing champion Cameron Jeffers and Jake Alderman who finally reeled the leaders in on the last of seven laps. Joe Sutton (Richardsons-Trek) won the bunch sprint for stage victory, but Lampier was not far behind and Kibble, who has been in good form in UK races this season, simply could not shift him from the leader’s jersey.

It was a second successive Saint Piran win in the race, after Will Harper’s victory last year. “We always target the biggest Westcountry races,” said Lampier after Stage Three. “We used up a couple of our younger lads, Alex Platt and Joe Healey, on the front, and then Cameron and Jake took over on the last couple of laps – the whole team did a great job for me.”

Lampier and his team now head for Cleveland’s Klondike Grand Prix next Sunday. The Mid-Devon club is already making plans for the 2020 Totnes-Vire, which is expected to return to the spectacular and hilly countryside of the South Hams for the final stage.
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Final Overall
1 Steve Lampier Saint Piran 04:05:05
2 Peter Kibble Wales Racing Academy 04:05:05
3 Sam Lindsay 73Degrees CC 04:05:13
4 Tom Nancarrow Nopinz Symec Race Team 04:05:26
5 Archie Cross Team B38 / Cycles In Motion 04:05:29
6 Shaun Cook Nopinz Symec Race Team 04:05:30
7 Marcin Bialoblocki Nopinz Symec Race Team 04:05:30
8 Cameron Biddle Morvelo Basso 04:05:33
9 Bradley Symonds Team PB Performance 04:05:36
9 George Pym Madison Genesis 04:05:36
11 Oscar Hutchings Team Tor 2000 KALAS 04:05:38
11 David Hewett 04:05:38
13 George Mills-Keeling Cycle Club Bridgnorth RWG 04:05:45
14 George Smith Nopinz Symec Race Team 04:05:50
15 Joseph Sutton Richardsons-Trek RT 04:05:53
16 Peter Cocker Richardsons-Trek RT 04:05:54
17 Jack Freeman Meudon Pedal Heaven Le Col RT 04:05:56
18 Neil Phillips Kibosh 04:06:06
19 Rupert Graham Spirit Tifosi Racing Team 04:06:09
20 Jonathan Gales Kibosh 04:06:13
Team prize: Nopinz Symec Race Team

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Stage 1 Haytor TT
1 Steve Lampier Saint Piran 12.42
2 Peter Kibble Wales Racing Academy 12.42
3 Sam Lindsay 73Degrees CC 12.50
4 Jude Taylor Team B38 / Cycles In Motion 12.56
5 Tom Nancarrow Nopinz Symec Race Team 13.03
6 Archie Cross Team B38 / Cycles In Motion 13.06
7 Shaun Cook Nopinz Symec Race Team 13.07
7 Marcin Bialoblocki Nopinz Symec Race Team 13.07
9 Cameron Biddle Morvelo Basso 13.10
10 Bradley Symonds Team PB Performance 13.13
11 Oscar Hutchings Team Tor 2000 KALAS 13.15
11 David Hewett 13.15
13 George Pym Madison Genesis 13.18
14 George Mills-Keeling Cycle Club Bridgnorth RWG 13.22
15 George Smith Nopinz Symec Race Team 13.27
16 Joseph Sutton Richardsons-Trek RT 13.30
17 Peter Cocker Richardsons-Trek RT 13.31
18 Jack Freeman Meudon Pedal Heaven Le Col RT 13.33
19 James Hill Team PB Performance 13.34
20 Thomas Townsend High Wycombe Cycling Club 13.36

Stage 2 Velopark Criterium
1 Stephen Bradbury SwiftCarbon Pro Cycling 1:09:31
2 Joshua Price Wales Racing Academy ST
3 George Pym Madison Genesis ST
4 Steve Lampier Saint Piran ST
5 Marcin Bialoblocki Nopinz Symec Race Team ST
6 William Roberts Wales Racing Academy ST
7 Peter Cocker Richardsons-Trek RT ST
8 Max Moyles Team Tor 2000 KALAS ST
9 Joseph Sutton Richardsons-Trek RT ST
10 Peter Kibble Wales Racing Academy ST
11 Bradley Symonds Team PB Performance ST
12 Jack Freeman Meudon Pedal Heaven Le Col RT ST
13 Matthew Webster TAAP Cervelo ST
14 Daniel McDermott FTR Milltag ST
15 Cameron Biddle Morvelo Basso ST
16 Thomas Day Giant Cycling Club – Halo Films ST
17 Matthew King Team PB Performance ST
18 Tom Nancarrow Nopinz Symec Race Team ST
19 Neil Phillips Kibosh ST
20 Luke Craddock TAAP Cervelo ST

Stage 3 Road Race
1 Joseph Sutton Richardsons-Trek RT 2:42:52
2 George Fowler Nopinz Symec Race Team ST
3 Joshua Price Wales Racing Academy ST
4 Jonathan Gales Kibosh ST
5 Peter Cocker Richardsons-Trek RT ST
6 Daniel McDermott FTR Milltag ST
7 Cameron Biddle Morvelo Basso ST
8 William Roberts Wales Racing Academy ST
9 Bradley Symonds Team PB Performance ST
10 Steve Lampier Saint Piran ST
11 Jack Freeman Meudon Pedal Heaven Le Col RT ST
12 George Pym Madison Genesis ST
13 Peter Kibble Wales Racing Academy ST
14 Neil Phillips Kibosh ST
15 Joseph Beckingsale Wales Racing Academy ST
16 Sam Lindsay 73Degrees CC ST
17 Tom Nancarrow Nopinz Symec Race Team ST
18 Andrew Kirby 73Degrees CC ST
19 George Clark Spirit Tifosi Racing Team ST
20 Shaun Cook Nopinz Symec Race Team ST