Neil White Memorial Pursuit
3-Jul-1998

GIVING the head of the race 10 minutes, Chris Newton (Team Brite) produced a superb ride to finish a lone winner of the Neil White Memorial Pursuit at Stokesley, North Yorkshire, on Sunday.

Only Newton and Ian Hellawell (Middridge CRT) got up to the main body of the field from a five-strong scratch group, and the eventual winner jumped across to leader Andrew Jackson (Cleveland Wheelers) on his own with one and a half laps of the nine-mile circuit left before going clear over the final seven miles.

1. Chris Newton (Team Brite) 54m in 2-18-40
2. A. Jackson (Cleveland Wh) at 1-50
3. I. Hellawell (Middridge CRT) at 2-32
4. A. Elphick (Durham Univ CC)
5. A. Stewart (CCS Racing) both st
6. P. Donohue (Middridge CRT) at 2-42
7. J. Marshall (Middridge CRT)
8. J. Severn (Mansfield RC)
9. S. Middleton (Swaledale CC)
10. P. Green (Leeds RRC) all st.


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