RON GRAY ROAD RACE (VERULAM CC) - WHITWELL, HERTS 60 miles 2/3 - SUNDAY
20th
JUNE
Tony Bradford raced in the Ron Gray
Road Race for 2/3 category riders around the Whitwell circuit . This 60
mile course takes riders 6 times up the St Paul's Walden
hill. A rain cloud had settled over the hamlet of St Paul's
Walden by lap 3. Riders were soaked each time down this 40mph
decent only to be dried off again in the gentle head wind they faced
as they travelled back towards Hitchin.
Tony Bradford made a number of efforts to
break away from the pack as did a number of others, all to no avail.
The race came down to a bunch sprint. As the riders jostled for
position a mile from the finish a touch of wheels and the clatter of
expensive bikes signalled that 3 riders had fallen to the tarmac.
Tony was ahead of this mess and managed to take eighth place in the
bunch sprint.
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