Last weekend's British Schools Cycling Association track championships brought out the best from Southampton youngster Tom Butt.

Butt, who was riding in the championships for the Community Sports College in Southampton, came home with the overall omnium in both the south and national titles with a truely dominant performance.

An omnium is a way of classifying a day's track racing. The riders' places in each race are added up at the end of the day and the winner is the competitor with the lowest score.

Butt showed true class and versatility to win both the sprint and endurance events. At his young age this shows he has the muscle make-up to be both a good endurance rider and also posses a great kick to win in the sprints - a fantastic combination to have.

Justin Hoy of the Evans Cycles RT was one of the most successful circuit race riders of 2005. Hoy is a fearsome sprinter and someone that most riders do not want to come into the finish with. They know that in an all out gallop to the line. he is very hard to beat.

Hoy, from Andover, showed a return to form in time for the national circuit race series that starts in June with a win in the Ray Martin Circuit League. These short, sharp races take place on the Mountbatten centre track in Portsmouth.

Previous editions of this league have seen riders lapping the entire field, but this one was for the sprinters. In a blanket finish Hoy pushed Ian Legg of Red Kite Cycles into second with Simon Saunders of the Isle of Wight based SP Systems team in third.