2013 Herne Hill Track League (sponsored by Cycling Weekly)

FWIW I don't think c's were promoting themselves. The race was billed as B+C scratch race, but obviously all the A's who hadn't made it through the derny heats were in there sandbagging too.
I know it's a struggle to run a good programme of events for everyone, but really that was poor planning - especially since most people had been sitting about for the previous hour and were either chomping at the bit, or tired and not well warmed up.

It was not poor planning, it was poor riding that caused the crash, and I don't think it was particularly riders from the C's either who caused the crash. That is an easy cop out to make. The first riders to go down were about two to three bike lengths from the front and we were around 4-5 riders wide across the track when crash happened going at not much more than warm up pace.

It was riders dicking about that caused the crash, simple. Please don't make excuses for bad riding and certainly do not blame the organisers.