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When asked if he expected to win on his home SX track Liam answered: "You can never expect to win, it's BMX isn't it? It was difficult doing practice and then go for a full lap 5 hours later on this challenging track. It's difficult to ride because it's so fast. The jumps are big but you're just hauling so it's hard to put a good lap together." Liam is ready for tomorrow's World Cup race: "I've done the work I needed to do in order to be competitive so I need a few good starts and a few good laps and we'll see what happens." Edzus Treimanis completed the top three of the first Time Trials final of 2014.

Also the women enjoyed racing in the amazing facility. The girls rode impressive and the big jumps were a challenge for most. American Brooke Crain conquered the hot seat early on in the finals but it was Olympic bronze medalist Laura Smulders who set the fastest time of the night after a long winter of hard training. "I was out most of last summer with a knee injury and couldn't wait to be back on the bike again. I felt strong the last few weeks but you never know how hard the competition has trained during the winter months." The Dutch National team rider added: "With this win I get to pick the starting position on the gate for tomorrow's races which is an advantage." French Champion Manon Valentino scored third place.

The permanent indoor BMX supercross track at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester is one of a kind with all facilities available to hold a great World Cup race. 64 men and 32 women have qualified to go head to head on the track tomorrow evening.

The race can be viewed live at: www.bmxlive.tv

Results Time Trials Men final:
1 1 PHILLIPS Liam GBR 28.942 0.000
2 P 11 FIELDS Connor USA 29.156 +0.214
3 P 127 TREIMANIS Edzus LAT 29.253 +0.311
4 P 39 ANDRE Sylvain FRA 29.309 +0.367
5 5 NYHAUG Tory CAN 29.313 +0.371
6 P 120 PELLUARD Vincent FRA 29.581 +0.639
7 P 500 REZENDE Renato BRA 29.594 +0.652
8 P 14 CALEYRON Quentin FRA 29.628 +0.686
9 P 144 DEAN Anthony AUS 29.699 +0.757
10 P 566 OQUENDO ZABALA Carlos Mario COL 29.748 +0.806
11 P 69 GODET Damien FRA 29.752 +0.810
12 P 33 DAUDET Joris FRA 29.835 +0.893
13 P 37 van GORKOM Jelle NED 29.944 +1.002
14 4 JASPERS Martijn NED 30.808 +1.866
15 P 148 van GENDT Twan NED 31.186 +2.244
16 P 187 GARCIA Jared USA 44.120 +15.178

Results Time Trials Women final:
1 P 110 SMULDERS Laura NED 33.251 0.000
2 P 32 CRAIN Brooke USA 33.561 +0.310
3 P 971 VALENTINO Manon FRA 34.495 +1.244
4 P 39 CARR Amanda THA 34.624 +1.373
5 P 33 GEORGE Dani USA 35.045 +1.794
6 P 21 REYNOLDS Lauren AUS 35.187 +1.936
7 P 171 O'KEEFFE Teagan RSA 35.677 +2.426
8 P 11 POST Alise USA DNS