TOM Stewart has made it a personal summer to remember on the roads of Wales after he took the Motorpoint Grand Prix/Grand Prix of Wales title in Monmouthshire on Sunday.

The Madison Genesis rider came home first in the Grand Prix, which was cut short due to an accident near Grosmont that held up the race for 20 minutes.

Indeed, it was a one-two for Stewart’s outfit with team-mate Erick Rowsell in second. Last year’s Grand Prix of Wales champion Chris Lawless was third but retains the overall lead in the Grand Prix Series after an excellent year so far.

Stewart won the Velothon, which was a race out from Cardiff to the Tumble Mountain near Abergavenny and back, earlier this year and also added the Lincoln Grand Prix title to his list of successes in 2016.

Sunday’s effort saw Stewart at the sharp end off the race for much of the day. He was in the six-man break that was chasing leader Matthew Boys, from the Envelopemaster-Giant Sheffield team, up the main street of Grosmont when the accident happened behind him.

The race was stopped, though, when a rider in the peloton behind the six-man break that included Stewart was hurt when believed to have hit a car on the side of the road. It meant that the intended three laps of Grosmont village were reduced to two.

When the race was restarted, the riders roared into Abergavenny for ten laps of the town - and the race hotted up as the group of six riders was more than doubled to 14 before it was whittled back down to the leading three that ended on the podium at the end.

Rowsell attacked on the final lap but Stewart countered and just went past his team-mate in the last metres of the race and won by a bike-length after an exhausting day on the undulating roads of Monmouthshire.

Newport’s Jon Mould, riding his first road race since damaging his shoulder in a Tour Series crash at the end of May, finished 15th but was glad enough to get his race legs back after time away from the saddle.

After receiving his bottle of champagne on the winner’s podium, Stewart said, "It worked out perfect in the end. It was a difficult day and the circuit was very grippy. I wasn’t too surprised on how it all panned out in the end to be honest.

"It was difficult terrain and what I mean by that is you don’t get that much of an advantage sitting in the peloton. You are fighting with other riders all the time and looking at moves.

"I was out in the break all day and, when I got caught by the peloton with half-a-lap to go, I looked around me and thought ’these guys are in a right state’, people had a hard day and were not happy.

"Erick was away on his own so I just went with Chris to catch him. Everyone had let us go."

Stewart said it was frustrating but understandable that the race had to be stopped because of the accident.

"It’s not what you want to hear and you are very worried about what has happened. We didn’t have any information but I’m glad everyone is alright."

While the riders were out circling Monmouthshire, the Para Grand Prix of Wales took centre stage in Abergavenny with National champion Steve Arnold winning the MH4 category from Alex Brooke-Tanner.

The MH3 title went to Luke Jones who came out on top ahead of that category’s National champion Chris Madden. Alison Webb was the first lady home and Cillan Cook won the tandem race.