2019 Totnes Vire – Race Report

The smallest winning margin in the 45-year history of the race – three-tenths of a
second – saw Truro’s Steve Lampier lift his second Totnes-Vire Two-Day title for
Cornwall’s Saint Piran team.

Former British Elite Series pro champion 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.”

Lampier made 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.

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.

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.

The bunch heading out of Avonwick

Local rider George Pym from Madison Genesis leads the bunch from the Welsh Racing Academy.

Position	First name	Last name	Team	Time
GC
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

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

Writing Credit: David Thomas

Mid Devon CC extends its thanks to its members and helpers, the SW NEG, Accredited Marshals and SWRWG for their support.