Location: Meigle, Scotland
Event: 15 July 2012
Report: Snowdon Sports
Veli-Matti Raikonnen (Granite City RT) won the Dundee Wheelers Road Race by just a couple of seconds after a hard fought race in Meigle.
The 50-mile race caused two breaks in the field with the first group being led home by the Finnish rider.
As the finish line approached, he managed to get a couple of seconds on his rivals and held on to take victory.
Nine other riders sprinted for the remaining places in the top ten with Neil Paylor of Edinburgh RC nothing second place.
Results:
E/1/2/3/4:
1 Veli-Matti Raikkonen (Granite City RT)
2 Neil Taylor (Edinburgh RC)
3 Ewan McDougall (Elgin CC)
4 Eddie Addis (Velo Ecosse)
5 Paul McInally (Rock and Road Cycles)
6 Tim Blathwayt (Velo Club Edinburgh)
7 Martin Lonie Dooley’s Cycles)
8 Lewis Hodgart (Glasgow Couriers)
9 Daniel Halliday (Velo Club Edinburgh)
10 Mark Stewart (Spokes RT)
British Cycling would like to thank the organising team, officials and everyone else who helped promote this event. Our sport could not exist without the hundreds of people, many of them unpaid volunteers, who put in many hours of hard work running events, activities and clubs.
