Gav's the guy of Gisburn
By TMX Archives on 9th Aug 07
DIRTBIKE-TRAXS staged round six of the UK's best supported Hare Scramble Championship at the popular Gisburn venue, once again attracting 400 riders to the weekend's proceedings.
With the unpredictable summer weather causinghavoc with events around the country, the organising team was subjectedto 15 hours of rain which started early Saturday morning and did notease until 10pm on Saturday night. This caused havoc with the carparking and track, but the experienced crew modified their plans.
Unfortunately, the revised car-parking was a longway from the start and DBT would like to thank the riders for theirunderstanding over this.
The Youth races for the Juniors and Senior Briders got underway at 2.30pm on Saturday with conditions wet andslippery. In Senior B, Billy Robinson and Joe Deakin swapped the leadduring the first hour with Deakin eventually claiming the win. In theJunior ranks, Luke Flack was the victor from Harrison Bell second andMichael Tatham. It was hard work for the riders.
However, conditions had changed dramatically bySunday morning. The sun was shining though and the underfoot conditionswere still very wet, and this caused the sportsmen problems early on.
The first race, with a race duration of 2.5 hours, got underway at 9am, with 220 Sportsmen, Novices and Senior A Youth riders.
The track had been substantially revised due to the conditions - the famous ‘Barnes Banks' were cut out.
As the leaders came back to time control for thefirst time, young Liam Ward came through the newly constructed Putolinerock and log section first. He maintained his lead for the first houruntil he suffered throttle trouble. Despite this problem he hung on tofinish in third place.
Rob Wright emerged to take the E1 class win fromChris Berrill. Meanwhile, in Sportsman Open, Peter Carr took top spotfrom Richard Spencer and Ryan Patrick.
By the time the race finished, the trackconditions had dramatically improved. The hot sunshine and light breezehad dried it so much that the course team were busy remarking thecourse to include the famous ‘Barnes Banks' again for the main race ofthe day.
NATIONAL PUTOLINE HARE SCRAMBLE CHAMPS Rd 6 - Gisburn, Lancashire (DirtBike Traxs)
CHAMPIONSHIP RACE
Expert: 1 Gav Houson 15 laps, 2 Biff Smith 14, 3 Jason Crossland 13, 4 Anthony Ayrton 13, 5 Ed McIntosh 11, 6 Nathan Bolton 11.
Clubman E1: 1 Rob Taylor 12, 2 Damian Butler 12, 3 Harry Hillas 12, 4 Niki Walker 11, 5 Ben Haigh 11, 6 Richard Dakin 10.
Clubman Open: 1 Pete Brown 12, 2 Anthony Cooper 12, 3 Marcus Firth 12, 4 Adrian Clarke 12, 5 Phil Corner 12, 6 Ben Airlie 12.
Over 40: 1 Brett Haley 12, 2 No 190 11, 3 Anthony Crowe 11, 4 Phil Darwin 11, 5 Geraint Rogers 9, 6 Andy Chapman 9.
SPORTSMAN RACE
Sportsman E1: 1 Rob Wright 11, 2 Chris Berrill 10, 3 Liam Ward 10, 4 Craig Scott 10, 5 Terry Watson 9, 6 Mick Rayson 9.
Sportsman Open: 1 Peter Carr 11, 2 Richard Spencer10, 3 Ryan Patrick 10, 4 Simon Foulke 10, 5 Stuart Gordon 9, 6 MickRobson 10.
Senior A: 1 Michael Briggs 10, 2 Josh Taylor 9, 3 Josh Bendill 8, 4 George Knowles 7, 5 Thomas Healey 7, 6 James Allinson 7.
Novice: 1 Robert Berry 8, 2 Mark Southwick 7, 3 Richard Birkett 7, 4 Matthew Waddington 7, 5 Colin Blunt 7, 6 Stephen Moon 7.
YOUTH RACE (Saturday)
Seniors B: 1 Joe Deakin 17, 2 Billy Robinson 17, 3 William Hillas 15, 4 Robert Johnson 15, 5 Josh Nellis 13, 6 Billy Grimmer 13.
Junior: 1 Luke Flack 13, 2 Harrison Bell 12, 3 Michael Tatham 10, 4 Billy Steinman 9, 5 Charlie Robinson 6, 6 Dan Suddaby 6.
NEXT ROUND: August 19 - Bolton by Bowland, Lancashire.
For full story and pictures see T+MX NEWS, Friday, August 10, 2007.
