Barnes joins the Drops party on the road, then climbs to victory on final ascend up the cobbles of Michaelgate to win the first Women’s Lincoln Grand Prix.
2016 Women’s Lincoln Grand Prix Results, 15 May 2016 – Words & Images by Chris Maher | Photography for Cycling Shorts CC
The first ever Women’s Lincoln Grand Prix was a fantastic start to the days racing incorporating the Women’s Junior Road Race Championship. The 8 lap race was run off at almost 24mph as Alice Barnes crossed the line in 2hours 38mins.
Team WNT’s Jo Tindley started the action on the second lap with Team Jadan-Weldtite’s Rhona Callander for company gaining around nine seconds.
The group almost-split into two on the first ascend of Michaelgate, but came back together on the run out to Burton Village.
On the second ascend, the elastic did snap and WNT out in front pulling the peloton along.
The race was run at quite a high pace and covered twenty-three miles in the first hour on the road.
By around the mid-way point, the peloton had split into three defined groups, with girls dropping off the back. A bad crash early on had put an early end to the race for a couple of girls, whilst others managed to get-back-in.
Jo Tindley was back in-front of the main peloton with thirty-one seconds according to race radio. Drops Cycling driving the peloton once more.
Three final climbs on Michaelgate would give us our first Lincoln GP winner, and Rebecca Durrell (Drops) lead the way.
Bridging the gap up the climb, Nikki Juniper (Team Ford Ecoboost) and Melissa Lowther (Team Breeze) with Tindley hanging in there and Kimberley Ashton (Aprire-HSS) joining too. Leading the chase at around nine seconds, Louise Mahe (Les Fillies RT), Emily Kay (Team Breeze), Eileen Roe (Lares-Waowdeals WRT), Lydia Boylan (Team WNT), Grace Garner (Podium Ambition p/b Club La Santa), Annasley Park (Team Breeze) and Sophie Wright (Renvale RT).
With two to go Tindley had blown, Durrell, Ashton, Juniper and Lowther had gone clear with a thirteen second lead. Chasing hard still were Wright, Garner, Barnes, Jess Roberts (Liv Cycling Club), Park, Roe, Ellie Dickinson (Drops), Massey and Kay with further chasers sixteen seconds back including Charlotte Alston (Team22 WRT).
The penultimate climb saw Massey take the prime, with Durrell second. Team22 WRT’s Alston had moved up to third a couple of seconds behind. Ashton had tagged behind Alston with Juniper and Lowther a couple of seconds further back and Boylan making up the seven-man break.
Barnes made her move across bridging the gap and the three of them (Drops) took charge around the final thirteen kilometer circuit. Drops rode a hard climb from the bottom and mountain biker Barnes once again showed her strength in the drive-up to the finish line, with Durrell and Massey finishing off, the one-two-three.
Charlotte Alston had enough power to climb up to fifth, behind Lowther, with Ashton and Juniper not far behind in seventh.
Drops took the glory in the Women’s Junior National Road Championships too, with Ellie Mae Dickenson finish eighth overall claiming the Junior Title. Roberts took ninth, and silver in the Juniors with Roe, tenth and Wright eleventh, bronze in the Juniors.
Alice Barnes: The breakaway that went nearly halfway through were mainly people from each team went well. I thought it would come back, but it actually didn’t.
So, on a lap to go I had to make a move on the climb and we got to the front end. We worked well together and held the bunch off. We (Drops) went from the bottom of the climb for the sprint finish!
Ellie Mae Dickenson: I’d never ridden a Junior Nationals, last year I was at the Track Euros, so to-ride-it-and-win was amazing-yeah!
Nikki Juniper: I knew it would be a tough race! We had a team of seven with three juniors.
It was the biggest field of Women, one-hundred-and-forty-one. The race went from the gun after the neutralized-zone, and almost split on the first climb.
A crash on the first lap saw a couple of casualties for Team Ford Ecoboost. Louise (sixteen) a junior and Road Captain Charline Joiner. Most were fortunate to re-start, but others not so lucky. (Karen Poole – Sportstest RT, went to hospital with a broken collar-bone and her bike frame snapped in two).
Nikki had suffered with cramps on this beautifully warm Spring day. She had handed her bottles to Charline whom lost them in the crash, and it was a while before taking on replacement bottles.
Rebecca Durrell – Drops Cycling Team bridged across to Jo Tindley, then Nikki, Kim Ashton – Aprire-HSS, Mel Lowther – Team Breeze. They were joined by Laura Massey – Drops and Team Tactics then played its part in shaping the race.
Nikki went on to say, Alice Barnes then bridged across making three from Drops. Charline had tried but wasn’t allowed to escape the chasing bunch.
At this point, around a lap remaining, Nikki knew she would be racing for forth downwards, but talking with her Teamies beforehand had said that a win wasn’t crucial to retaining the Series Lead. But required a thirteenth-place, or better.
Nikki said: Once Alice had bridged across, knowing she’d come second last year to Current World Champion Lizzie Armitstead, I knew she would win today.
Nikki was pleased with her seventh place in the first Women’s Lincoln GP race today and retains the Leaders Jersey going into the one-hundred-and-twenty-kilometer North Bucks Festival of Cycling on May 29th. Nikki leads with ninety-six points, Ellie Mae Dickenson with sixty-seven points and Alice Barnes with fifty-five points.
The Women’s Series takes a small break now and for Nikki and the Gang at Team Ford Ecoboost their focus will be on winning the Matrix Fitness Grand Prix, part of the well established “Sweetspot” Tour Series of short Criterium Racing around big town centre circuits across the Country.
WOMENS' LINCOLN GRAND PRIX 2016
Pos No Name Team JUN TIME
1 18 Alice Barnes Drops Cycling Team 2:38:44
2 20 Rebecca Durrell Drops Cycling Team @6sec
3 21 Laura Massey Drops Cycling Team
4 74 Melissa Lowther Team Breeze @17sec
5 66 Charlotte Alston Team 22 @20sec
6 17 Kimberley Ashton Aprire Bicycles/HSS Hire @29sec
7 84 Nicola Juniper Team Ford Ecoboost @36sec
8 113 Eleanor Dickinson Drops Cycling Development Team Junior @42secs
9 118 Jessica Roberts Liv Cycling Club – Epic Coaching Junior
10 35 Eileen Roe Lares-Waowdeals Women Cycling Team @49sec
11 121 Sophie Wright Renvale RT Junior
12 52 Ausrine Trebaite PLANET X / BO-GO Cycling Team @53sec
13 54 Grace Garner Podium Ambition p/b Club La Santa
14 71 Emily Kay Team Breeze
15 76 Annasley Park Team Breeze
16 22 Rose Osborne Drops Cycling Team @56sec
17 110 Emily Wadsworth Beeline-Gener8 Junior @58sec
18 39 Laura Greenhalgh Les Filles Racing Team
19 96 Natalie Grinczer Team WNT
20 81 Julie Erskine Team Ford Ecoboost
21 70 Hayley Jones Team Breeze
22 135 Henrietta Colborne Team Ford Ecoboost Junior @1:04
23 30 Fiona Hunter Johnston Fusion RT Fierlan
24 57 Gabriella Shaw Podium Ambition p/b Club La Santa
25 9 Emma Cockcroft Bikeshed – Bianchi
26 77 Madison Campbell Team Footon Velosport
27 45 Amira Mellor Matrix Fitness p/b Corley Cycles
28 109 Alice Sharpe SunSport Velo
29 134 Charlotte Broughton Team Ford Ecoboost Junior @1:09
30 29 Jennifer Hudson Fusion RT Fierlan
31 1 Louise Laker Aprire Bicycles/HSS Hire
32 94 Rebecca Carter Team WNT
33 27 Sophie Faulkner Fusion RT Fierlan
34 79 Suzetta Guerrini Team Footon Velosport
35 6 Charmaine Porter Army Cycling Race Team (ACRT) @1:14
36 26 Ellie Campbell Fusion RT Fierlan
37 92 Lydia Boylan Team WNT @1:16
38 25 Rebecca Womersley Drops Cycling Team
39 107 Sarah King BC Private Member
40 13 Kelly Murphy Boot Out Breast Cancer C.C
41 37 Clemence Copie Les Filles Racing Team
42 23 Annabel Simpson Drops Cycling Team @1:21
43 56 Bethany Hayward Podium Ambition p/b Club La Santa @1:21
44 40 Louise Mahe Les Filles Racing Team
45 80 Melissa Brand Team Ford Ecoboost
46 3 Gemma Sargent Aprire Bicycles/HSS Hire @1:24
47 44 Alice Cobb Matrix Fitness p/b Corley Cycles @1:29
48 100 Anna Turvey Tyneside Vagabonds CC @1:33
49 19 Karla Boddy Drops Cycling Team
50 24 Abigail Van Twisk Drops Cycling Team @1:40
51 14 Bethany Taylor Boot Out Breast Cancer C.C @1:54
52 116 Elizabeth Bennett Liv Cycling Club – Epic Coaching Junior @3:14
53 99 Hannah Walker Team WNT @3:16
54 117 Lauren Murphy Liv Cycling Club – Epic Coaching Junior @3:21
55 59 Sian Botteley Starley Racing @3:27
56 60 Eve Dixon Starley Racing @3:54
57 137 Sarah Bradford Team Jadan Junior @4:13
58 119 Emily Tillett Liv Cycling Club – Epic Coaching Junior @7:33
59 41 Nicole Oh Les Filles Racing Team @7:36
60 5 Chanel Mason Army Cycling Race Team (ACRT) @7:41
61 50 Edita Mazureviciute PLANET X / BO-GO Cycling Team @7:47
62 16 Niki Kovacs Aprire Bicycles/HSS Hire @8:35
63 75 Emily Nelson Team Breeze @9:33
64 124 Natasha Reddy RP Vision Racing Team Junior @9:35
65 139 Jenny Holl Team Jadan Junior @9:38
66 131 Samantha Verrill Team 22 Junior @9:40
67 64 Claire Swoboda Starley Racing @9:44
68 126 Sophie Thackray SunSport Velo Junior @947
69 90 Jennifer Batey Team Vertex-pedalpowersport.com @9:50
70 133 Hetty Niblett Team Footon Velosport Junior @9:55
71 123 Connie Hudson RP Vision Racing Team Junior @10:07
72 138 Rhona Callander Team Jadan Junior @10:24
DNF 2 Emily McLoughlin Aprire Bicycles/HSS Hire
DNF 3 Gemma Sargent Aprire Bicycles/HSS Hire
DNF 7 Chloe Weller Army Cycling Race Team (ACRT)
DNF 8 Becky Hoare Army Cycling Union
DNF 10 Jessica Duffy Bikeshed – Bianchi
DNF 11 Alexandra Sheehan Bikeshed – Bianchi
DNF 12 Nikola Matthews Boot Out Breast Cancer C.C
DNF 15 Ruth Taylor Boot Out Breast Cancer C.C
DNF 28 Jenny Holden Fusion RT Fierlan
DNF 38 Tracy Corbett Les Filles Racing Team
DNF 46 Malgorzata Wojtyra PLANET X / BO-GO Cycling Team
DNF 49 Karolina Karasiewicz PLANET X / BO-GO Cycling Team
DNF 53 Lauren Creamer Podium Ambition p/b Club La Santa
DNF 55 Amy Gornall Podium Ambition p/b Club La Santa
DNF 58 Karen Poole Sportstest RT
DNF 61 Lauren Kirchel Starley Racing
DNF 63 Gabriella Nordin Starley Racing
DNF 65 Madeleine Scott SunSport Velo
DNF 67 Rachel Crighton Team 22
DNF 78 Josphine Gilbert Team Footon Velosport
DNF 83 Charline Joiner Team Ford Ecoboost
DNF 87 Louise Scupham Team Jadan
DNF 88 Amy Hill Team Rytger
DNF 91 Evgenia Ilyinskaya Team Vertex-pedalpowersport.com
DNF 93 Sam Burman Team WNT
DNF 98 Jo Tindley Team WNT
DNF 101 Nicki Carr VC Equipe – Flix
DNF 104 Madeline Verdegaal Velo-One Cycling Team
DNF 105 Ruth Summerford Velopace
DNF 108 Stephanie Mottram Cliff Pratts Racing
DNF 112 Monica Dew Boot Out Breast Cancer C.C Junior
DNF 115 Victoria Lovett I-Team Cyclists’ Club Junior
DNF 120 Isla Rush Matrix Fitness p/b Corley Cycles Junior
DNF 122 Madeleine Gammons RP Vision Racing Team Junior
DNF 125 Jane Hellewell SunSport Velo Junior
DNF 127 Elizabeth Denby Team 22 Junior
DNF 129 Phoebe Martin Team 22 Junior
DNF 130 Savannah Morgan Team 22 Junior
DNS 4 Agata Woznicka Aprire Bicycles/HSS Hire
DNS 25 Rebecca Womersley Drops Cycling Team
DNS 30 Fiona Hunter Johnston Fusion RT Fierlan
DNS 31 Elizabeth Stedman Fusion RT Fierlan
DNS 32 Neah Evans Glasgow Sprint Track Cycling Team
DNS 33 Annabel Simpson Hope Factory Racing
DNS 34 Gaia Casciello Kinetic Cycles / Welwyn Racing
DNS 36 Delia Beddis Les Filles Racing Team
DNS 42 Helen Ralston Les Filles Racing Team
DNS 43 Chloe Fraser LOINTEK
DNS 47 Volha Antonava PLANET X / BO-GO Cycling Team
DNS 48 Olivija Baleisyte PLANET X / BO-GO Cycling Team
DNS 51 Anastasia Safonava PLANET X / BO-GO Cycling Team
DNS 62 Alice Lethbridge Starley Racing
DNS 68 Megan Barker Team Breeze
DNS 69 Abigail Dentus Team Breeze
DNS 72 Danielle Khan Team Breeze
DNS 73 Manon Lloyd Team Breeze
DNS 82 Elizabeth Holden Team Ford Ecoboost
DNS 85 Laura Cheesman Team Jadan
DNS 95 Corinne Clark Team WNT
DNS 97 Keira McVitty Team WNT
DNS 102 Katherine Kimber Velo Schils – Interbike RT
DNS 103 Nicola Soden Velo Schils – Interbike RT
DNS 106 Hayley Edwards WBN? Cinelli
DNS 111 Ella Conolly Ben Wyvis Cycle Club
DNS 114 Sophie Williams Elitevelo Kalas Sportswear CRT
DNS 128 Rosa Martin Team 22
DNS 140 Rebecca Gregson The Racing Chance Foundation
DNS 141 Charlotte Cole-Hossain VC Londres
DNS 142 Megan Kay Vieri Velo RC
BRITISH CYCLING JUNIOR WOMENS ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIP 2016
Pos No Name Team
1 113 Eleanor Dickinson Drops Cycling Development Team
2 118 Jessica Roberts Liv Cycling Club – Epic Coaching
3 121 Sophie Wright Renvale RT
4 110 Emily Wadsworth Beeline-Gener8
5 135 Henrietta Colborne Team Ford Ecoboost
6 134 Charlotte Broughton Team Ford Ecoboost
7 116 Elizabeth Bennett Liv Cycling Club – Epic Coaching
8 117 Lauren Murphy Liv Cycling Club – Epic Coaching
9 137 Sarah Bradford Team Jadan
10 119 Emily Tillett Liv Cycling Club – Epic Coaching
11 124 Natasha Reddy RP Vision Racing Team
12 139 Jenny Holl Team Jadan
13 131 Samantha Verrill Team 22
14 126 Sophie Thackray SunSport Velo
15 133 Hetty Niblett Team Footon Velosport
16 123 Connie Hudson RP Vision Racing Team
17 138 Rhona Callander Team Jadan
WOMENS' MICHAELGATE TROPHY. PRESENTED BY IAN EMMERSON
POS No NAME TEAM POINTS
1 20 Rebecca Durrell Drops Cycling Team 13
2 18 Alice Barnes Drops Cycling Team 8
3 54 Grace Garner Podium Ambition p/b Club La Santa 7
4 21 Laura Massey Drops Cycling Team 6
5 84 Nicola Juniper Team Ford Ecoboost 5
6 98 Jo Tindley Team WNT 3
7 40 Louise Mahe Les Filles Racing Team 2
8 74 Melissa Lowther Team Breeze 1
9 17 Kimberley Ashton Aprire Bicycles/HSS Hire 1
10 76 Annasley Park Team Breeze 1
11 16 Niki Kovacs Aprire Bicycles/HSS Hire 1
LAP 1 POINTS
1 54 Grace Garner Podium Ambition p/b Club La Santa 3
2 40 Louise Mahe Les Filles Racing Team 2
3 84 Nicola Juniper Team Ford Ecoboost 1
LAP 2 POINTS
1 20 Rebecca Durrell Drops Cycling Team 3
2 18 Alice Barnes Drops Cycling Team 2
3 54 Grace Garner Podium Ambition p/b Club La Santa 1
LAP 3 POINTS
1 18 Alice Barnes Drops Cycling Team 3
2 54 Grace Garner Podium Ambition p/b Club La Santa 2
3 76 Annasley Park Team Breeze 1
LAP 4 POINTS
1 98 Jo Tindley Team WNT 3
2 21 Laura Massey Drops Cycling Team 2
3 54 Grace Garner Podium Ambition p/b Club La Santa 1
LAP 5 POINTS
1 20 Rebecca Durrell Drops Cycling Team 3
2 84 Nicola Juniper Team Ford Ecoboost 2
3 74 Melissa Lowther Team Breeze 1
LAP 6 POINTS
1 20 Rebecca Durrell Drops Cycling Team 3
2 84 Nicola Juniper Team Ford Ecoboost 2
3 17 Kimberley Ashton Aprire Bicycles/HSS Hire 1
LAP 7 POINTS
1 21 Laura Massey Drops Cycling Team 3
2 20 Rebecca Durrell Drops Cycling Team 2
3 66 Charlotte Alston Team 22 1
FINISH POINTS
1 18 Alice Barnes Drops Cycling Team 3
2 20 Rebecca Durrell Drops Cycling Team 2
3 21 Laura Massey Drops Cycling Team 1
Motorpoint Spring Cup Lincoln GP top ten. Words by Lincoln GP, Images by Chris Maher | Photography for Cycling Shorts CC
The 2016 Lincoln Grand prix was another ferociously fought battle with Tom Stewart from Madison Genesis taking the win with a last corner move up the inside of Russell Downing to take the win.
1 46 Tom Stewart Madison Genesis 3:52:28
2 31 Russell Downing JLT Condor
3 62 Ian Bibby NFTO @4sec
4 64 Joshua Edmondson NFTO @12sec
5 76 Dexter Gardias Pedal Heaven @14sec
6 39 Alex Blain Madison Genesis @24sec
7 101 Adrià Moreno Sala Raleigh GAC @32sec
8 61 Dale Appleby NFTO @35sec
9 77 James Gullen Pedal Heaven @40sec
10 78 Jack Pullar Pedal Heaven @1:32
UNDER 23 AWARD
1 120 Jacob Hennessy Spirit Bikes Racing Team U23
2 130 Sam Lowe Team Wiggins U23
3 11 Owen James Catford CC Equipe/Banks U23
THE BRIAN COSSAVELLA MICHAELGATE TROPHY - POINTS
1 46 Tom Stewart Madison Genesis 13
2 31 Russell Downing JLT Condor 10
3 62 Ian Bibby NFTO 9
4 33 Christopher Lawless JLT Condor 6
5 45 Eric Rowsell Madison Genesis 5
MOTORPOINT SPRING CUP INDIVIDUAL - POINTS
1 101 Adrià Moreno Sala Raleigh GAC 98
2 77 James Gullen Pedal Heaven 93
3 62 Ian Bibby NFTO 93
MOTORPOINT SPRING CUP TEAM POINTS
1 NFTO 270
2 MADISON GENESIS 249
3 PEDAL HEAVEN 245
Hall of Fame from 1990
- 2015 Peter Kennaugh – Team Sky
- 2014 Yanto Barker – Team Raleigh
- 2013 Peter Kennaugh – Team Isle Of Man
- 2012 Russell Downing – Endura Racing
- 2011 Scott Thwaites – Endura Racing
- 2010 Chris Newton – Rapha Condor Sharp
- 2009 Russell Downing – Candi TV Racing Team
- 2008 Russell Downing – Pinarello Racing Team
- 2007 Dean Downing – Rapha Condor Racing Team
- 2006 Kristian House – recycling.co.uk
- 2005 Russell Downing – recycling.co.uk
- 2004 David O’Loughlin – Total Cycling (Ireland)
- 2003 Mark Lovatt – Life Repair CRT
- 2002 Huw Pritchard – Angliasport
- 2001 John Tanner – Ribble – Pro Vision
- 2000 Chris Newton – Middridge Cycle Racing Team
- 1999 Saulius Ruskis – Team Oktos – MBK(France)
- 1998 Chris Lillywhite – Harrods
- 1997 John Tanner – Controlware
- 1996 Kevin Dawson – Optimum Performance
- 1995 Mark Walsham – Tritech
- 1994 Chris Walker – Lex – Townsend
- 1993 Keith Reynolds – Banana Energy Fruit
- 1992 John Charlesworth – Ace Racing Team
- 1991 Paul Curran – Manchester Wheelers
- 1990 Brian Smith – Velo Club d’Or
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