Seymour prevails in Tymon Park after tight early battle with O'Shaughnessy and O'Regan

Series leader Robin Seymour gets his nose in front on the opening lap of the Fixx Coffeehouse Supercross Series round 3 in Tymon Park yesterday (Photo: Gareth Gibbons)

 

Robin Seymour has taken victory in round 3 of the Fixx Coffeehouse Supercross Series, riding away from the rest of the field after a tight start.

The man who pushed Seymour closest in those early laps, Ray O’Shaughnessy (Cuchulainn CC) took a very good 2nd place on the day and kept the master to within 1:11 at the end of 9 laps and just over an hours racing.

Indeed O’Shaughnessy looked yesterday like he could push former multi national champion Seymour a little closer as the season goes on and he gets his technique honed a little better.

In 3rd place yesterday was noted road rider Tim O’Regan (DID Dunboyne) who was just 19 seconds behind the runner up, with a larger gap to Anthony ‘Zippy’ Doyle in 4th place; a rider starting to show the kind of form that brought him 5th place in the national championships two years ago.

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It was a very close opening lap on the Tymon Park cyclocross course in west Dublin yesterday, Sunday, with Seymour, O’Shaughnessy and O’Regan all coming through the start finish area together to commence the second lap.

Next time around O’Regan had relinquished four seconds on the leading two as O’Shaughnessy was still level with Seymour. On the 3rd lap Seymour still could not get rid of O’Shaughnessy who trailed the leader by just one second going out onto the 4th lap of 9.

O’Regan put in a very strong 3rd lap to match the time of the two leaders and keep the gap at five seconds to Seymour.

However, while it was tighter at the head of affairs on those opening three laps than Seymour is used to, he began to pull ahead from that point as a now familiar pattern set in.

Pressing on towards the halfway point and out onto the 4th lap, Seymour put in a 6:43 lap, as quick as the opening circuit. That stretched his lead on O’Shaughnessy from one second to 20, changing the nature of the contest as O’Regan briefly grabbed second place from O’Shaughnessy just behind.

From that stage, Seymour relentlessly built on his lead, putting a further 12 seconds into O’Shaughnessy on the 5th lap as O’Shaughnessy and O’Regan remained cheek by jowl in 2nd and 3rd places.

On the 6th lap Seymour extended his lead by 22 seconds on O’Shaughnessy, who in turn began to gain the upper hand in the race for 2nd place, putting 5 seconds into O’Regan. And that was how the race would continue for the remaining third; Seymour nudging further ahead of O’Shaughnessy, who in turn would gain a few seconds each lap on O’Regan.

By the finish, Seymour’s time of 1hr 1min 30secs was 1min 11secs ahead of O’Shaughnessy, with O’Regan just 19 seconds back and Doyle 1:51 behind him.

 

Fixx Coffeehouse Cyclocross Series

Round 3: Sunday, November 10th

Tymon Park, Tallaght, West Dublin

A Race Results (9 to 4; number of laps completed)

1

 ROBIN SEYMOUR

9

01:01:30

2

 RAY O'SHAUGHNESSY

9

01:02:41

3

 TIM REGAN

9

01:03:00

4

 ANTHONY DOYLE

9

01:04:51

5

 CIARAN BYRNE

9

01:05:04

6

 AIDEN DONALD

9

01:05:13

7

 JASON HENRY

9

01:06:08

8

 EVAN RYAN

9

01:06:08

9

 PETER CONVILLE

9

01:06:09

10

 MACIEJ STARONIEWICZ

9

01:06:25

11

 JOHNNY MCCABE

9

01:06:56

12

 ERIC DOWNEY

9

01:07:10

13

 STUART GALLOWAY

9

01:07:18

14

 ROB TOBIN

9

01:07:21

15

 COLM MCGARVEY

9

01:07:22

16

 NAILL SOMERS

9

01:07:25

17

 ALAN CODY

9

01:07:49

18

 DANIEL MORROGH

9

01:07:53

19

 ALFIE WALLACE

9

01:08:05

20

 MARK PAGELL

9

01:08:08

21

 RONAN BUGGLE

9

01:08:08

22

 ROSS COLLINS

9

01:08:19

23

 DAVID CARROLL

9

01:08:22

24

 LIAM HOWARD

9

01:08:25

25

 DANIEL BRICKENDEN

9

01:08:33

26

 DAVID LAWLESS

9

01:08:34

27

 KEITH MEGHEN

9

01:08:50

28

 PADDY MICHAEL
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9

01:09:17

29

 JOHN MCCARTHY

9

01:09:45

30

 DES WOODS

8

01:00:28

31

 GERRY CABE

8

01:01:30

32

 VINCENT COLGAN

8

01:01:34

33

 GENE R

8

01:01:38

34

 REDMOND O'TOOLE

8

01:02:02

35

 RUSSELL TREACY

8

01:02:03

36

 ALAN CLOGHER

8

01:02:05

37

 DAMIEN CREIGHTON

8

01:02:13

38

 GARY DONALD

8

01:02:15

39

 PADDY DALY

8

01:02:18

40

 GERARD O'DONNELL

8

01:02:24

41

 STEVEN FRANZONI

8

01:02:27

42

 JAMES LATTIMORE

8

01:02:39

43

 SEAN FEENEY

8

01:02:43

44

 DAVE O'CONNOR

8

01:02:51

45

 VINNIE FITZSIMON

8

01:03:03

46

 PHIL O'NEILL

8

01:03:03

47

 GREG CAMPBELL

8

01:03:27

48

 DARAGH MORTIMER

8

01:03:37

49

 PAUL OREILLY

8

01:04:00

50

 KIERAN GLYNN

8

01:04:00

51

 JIM HAIDE

8

01:05:24

52

 COLM BRACKEN

8

01:05:59

53

 CHRIS BYRNE

8

01:07:57

54

 MARK KENNY

8

01:08:27

55

 COREY HAYES

7

01:03:50

57

 Sean TUATHAIL

5

00:45:31

56

 GARY SHEILS

4

00:30:33

 

Robin Seymour takes the flag at the end of a tough contest where the leaders picked their way through the back markers from the very early stages (Photo: Adrian van der Lee)

 

Zippy Doyle, centre in pink, took a strong 4th place with Tim O'Regan (No 24) taking 3rd on the day (Photo: Adrian van der Lee)

 

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