As
has been usual over the past few years, the last race of the season's Grand
Prix was the Brampton to Carlisle 10 mile Road Race. With the winners of each division having virtually
been decided beforehand the race was on for the minor placings.
In Division One, Robbie was again the winner, and in the process,
equalling Andy Browns record of six Division One titles. In his first year of racing in the Grand
Prix, Sam Dodd was a close second and will surely run Robbie close in next year's
event. Third place went to Graeme
Stewart.
In Division Two Chris Stone and Heather Christopher both still
had a chance at the title, with Chris needing no worse than fifth place to
guarantee being the winner, assuming Heather won at Brampton. Unfortunately however Heather was ill and not
able to race giving Chris an easy day out.
So Chris was the Division Two winner, with Heather second and Shaun Dodd
third.
The top of Division Three was the closest finish out of all the
divisions with Susanne Hunter beating Steve Dobby by 3 points. Susanne won five and was second in the other
of her six counting races, hence only dropping one point from the maximum
possible. Third place went to Ron
Ingram, just one point in front of Cath Young.
Division
Four was won comfortably by last year's division five winner Phillippa Baxter who, like Susie, also had five wins and
one second in her six counting races.
Second place went to Claire Riches, a one place improvement over last
year, and third place was taken by Davina Lonsdale.
Finally,
a few facts and figures for the anoraks amongst us:-
Ø Six
people competed in all nine races, Sam Dodd, Peter Holmback,
Ron Ingram, Heather Barrass, Davina
Lonsdale and Phillippa Baxter.
Ø Most
popular race - the Northumberland half
Ø Least
popular race - Brampton to Carlisle 10M
Ø Division
with best turnout to races - division 3 with 72.8%
Ø Division
with worst turnout - division 4 with 54.5%
Ø Overall
turnout to races - 52.1%, an increase of 8% over last year
Ø Robbie
has now won division 1 six times, equal with Andy Brown
For all the results from the 2011
Grand Prix click here and for the Final Grand Prix tables
click here.