They include Rob Hayles who won two gold medals at the recent World Track Championships in Los Angeles.

Riders are competing in the Crawley Town Centre Race.

The 50-minute event will start at 7.40pm and riders will cover more than 40 laps of a 1km closed circuit around The Boulevard, High Street and Queens Square.

There is also a good field for a senior amateur race at 6.50pm.

Also entered are Russell Downing, who won the Lincoln International Grand Prix at the weekend, former world track champion Chris Newton, national madison champion Tony Gibb, 2004 Premier Calendar Series winner Malcolm Elliott and New Zealander Warwick Spence who were first and second in last year's Crawley's event.

Hastings star Peter Tadros continued his winning form in GS Stella ten-mile time trial at Washington despite the unfavourable conditions.

Rain and a cold wind froze riders as they waited to start but Tadros (In Gear) still recorded an excellent 21min.1sec.

Brighton rider Mike Coyle (VC Etoile) was second (21min.21sec) and Stewart Jardine (21st Century Airports) third (22min.2sec).

John Limpus (GS Stella) placed fourth (22m.29sec) and Stella's Mark Jones tied for fifth with Boyd Johnson (Eastbourne Rovers) in 22m.in35sec.

The In Gear team of Tadros, Steve Walkling (22min.39sec) and Jimmy George (23min.3sec) won the team event.

Richard Middlemiff (Sheffield Sports) snatched victory in the opening track meeting at Preston Park over six laps.

Paul Gosling (Brighton Excelsior) and Rob Fuller (Brighton Mitre) were second and third while Lee Povey, who has yet to sign for a new club, won the sprint event. Alex Roberts (Crawley CC) won two of the under-16s races.