Kev’s hard to beat

While KTM-mounted Strijbos was doing his thing in the MX1 class its was a 

 

Monster Energy Yamaha fest in the MX2 class, as all three of their riders finished in the top four overall.

 

American ace Zach Osborne won, his Swiss team mate Arnaud Tonus claimed second and series leader and red-plate holder Mel Pocock nailed fourth, as Elliott Banks-Browne crashed the party by finishing third on his HM Plant KTM, tied on points with Pocock.

 

For once the weather forecast was wrong and the promised showers didn't turn up, making the hard-working Langrish club turn on the impressive track sprinkler system to keep the dust down.

 

Strijbos made his intentions clear from the very start of qualifying by setting the fastest time, but the on-form Jason Dougan was pushing him all the way and was just under two hundredths of a second behind.

 

And he turned the tables come Superpole, as Strijbos slumped to third.

 

Strijbos led the pack into turn one at the start of the first MX1 race, with Dougan and Jamie Law in his wheel tracks, as Dorron Coutts looped his Honda on the start line.

 

By the halfway stage, Simpson was in third and closing in on Dougan with Alfie Smith fourth, Martin Barr fifth and Law slipping down to sixth. 

 

The likeable Gordon Crockard was revisiting the British championship on the injured Ray Rowson's LPE Kawasaki and holding seventh.

 

With two laps to go Simpson stole second from Dougan as Bass snatched fourth from Smith, which is how they finished.

 

Crockard was sixth, followed by Gert Krestinov and Law.

 

The start of race two was almost the same as the opener, with Strijbos getting his second holeshot of the day, from 

Dougan and Simpson and Coutts making up for his first aborted start, in fourth.

 

But behind them all hell was breaking loose as Barr touched Coutts's rear wheel and took a trip over the bars, taking five or six of his fellow racers with him. 

 

All excpet Barr got up, remounted and rejoined the race, as he was helped off to be checked-out by the first aid people, who found he was just bumped and bruised.

 

Dougan crashed out on lap two as Krestinov started to put pressure on Coutts and Smith and Law fought over sixth.

 

Things stayed the same to the end of the race as Strijbos notched up his second win, from Simpson, Krestinov and Coutts, with Smith getting the better of Law for fifth and Dougan coming home in ninth, after sitting 25th on the third lap.

 

Strijbos again led the pack into turn one at the start of the third and final MX1 race and was followed round the lap by Smith and Simpson, as Law and Dougan disputed fifth followed by Coutts and Krestinov.

 

Smith crashed out at the top of the hill on lap four, handing the task of trying to stay with Strijbos to Simpson, as Krestinov passed both Dougan and Law to finish a distant third to Strijbos and Simpson.

 

Rd 7 – Manor Farm, Langrish, nr Petersfield 

(Langrish MCRC)

 1 Zach Osborne (Monster BikeIt Yamaha) 25 + 22 + 22 = 69

 2 Arnaud Tonus (Monster BikeIt Yamaha) 15 + 25 + 25 = 65

 3 Elliott Banks-Browne (HM Plant KTM) 18 + 20 + 20 = 58

 4 Mel Pocock (Monster BikeIt Yamaha) 22 + 18 + 18 = 58

 5 Bryan MacKenzie (Rockstar KTM) 20 + 15 + 16 = 51

 6 Neville Bradshaw (Evotech Stevens Hon) 13 + 14 + 14 = 41

 7 Graeme Irwin (Emberson RFX Yamaha) 16 + 12 + 13 = 41

 8 Steven Lenoir (Emberson RFX Yamaha) 12 + 13 + 15 = 40

 9 Stuart Edmonds (Tyco TAS Suzuki) 11 +  8 + 11 = 30

10 Nicolas Aubin (Buildbase Honda) 14 + 16 +  0 = 30

11 Lewis Gregory (Apico Suzuki) 8+7+10=25, 12 Liam Garland (RFX Kawasaki) 5+10+9=24, 13 Kieran Scheele (DBG Eastwood Honda) 7+4+12=23, 14 Adam Sterry (PAR Honda) 10+11+0=21, 15 Luke Mellows (Meredith Suzuki) 6+5+8=19, 16 Lewis Trickett (Twisted7 PC Monster Kawasaki) 0+9+6=15, 17 Lewis Tombs (John Banks Honda) 9+6+0=15, 18 Connor Walkley (Maxxis Henderson Kawasaki) 4+0+5=9, 19 Luke Norris (MNE Kawasaki) 0+1+7=8, 20 Luke Remmer (MX Protech Yamaha) 0+3+4=7, 21 Matt Burrows (SBW Honda) 2+2+3=7, 22 Tom Kelly (Rev Racing Honda) 3+0+2=5, 23 Damon Strydom (Apico Suzuki) 0+0+1=1, 24 Sebastian Osbourne (???) 1+0+0=1.

RACE ONE: 1 Osborne, 2 Mel Pocock, 3 MacKenzie, 4 Banks-Browne, 5 Irwin, 6 Tonus, 7 Aubin, 8 Bradshaw, 9 Lenoir, 10 Stuart Edmonds, 11 Sterry, 12 Tombs, 13 Gregory, 14 Scheele, 15 Mellows, 16 Garland, 17 Walkley, 18 Kelly, 19 Burrows, 20 Osbourne.

RACE TWO: 1 Tonus, 2 Osborne, 3 Banks-Browne, 4 Mel Pocock, 5 Aubin, 6 MacKenzie, 7 Bradshaw, 8 Lenoir, 9 Irwin, 10 Sterry, 11 Garland, 12 Trickett, 13 Stuart Edmonds, 14 Gregory, 15 Tombs, 16 Mellows, 17 Scheele, 18 Remmer, 19 Burrows, 20 Norris.

RACE THREE: 1 Tonus, 2 Osborne, 3 Banks-Browne, 4 Mel Pocock, 5 MacKenzie, 6 Lenoir, 7 Bradshaw, 8 Irwin, 9 Scheele, 10 Stuart Edmonds, 11 Gregory, 12 Garland, 13 Mellows, 14 Norris, 15 Trickett, 16 Walkley, 17 Remmer, 18 Burrows, 19 Kelly, 20 Strydom.

SERIES STANDINGS after 7 (of 8) rounds: 1 Mel Pocock 401 points, 2 Banks-Browne 385, 3 Bradshaw 312, 4 Lenoir 294, 5 MacKenzie 286, 6 Irwin 280, 7 Aubin 269, 8 Stuart Edmonds 204, 9 Tombs 156, 10 Cottrell 152, 11 Booker 139, 12 Osborne 138, 13 Watson 123, 14 Tonus 115, 15 Sterry 101, 16 Remmer 98, 17 Walkley 98, 18 Keet 94, 19 Carless 67, 20 Harwood 50,...

FINAL ROUND: October 7 – Little Silver MP, nr Exminster, Devon (Little Silver Off Road Promotions).

 

Rd 5 – Manor Farm, Langrish, Petersfield 

(Langrish MCC)

 1 James Harrison (Lanes Kawasaki) 25 + 25 = 50

 2 Rob Muscat (Honda) 22 + 20 = 42

 3 Fraser Wakeford (Dixon Academy Yamaha) 16 + 22 = 38

 4 Lloyd Pettett (MRS Honda) 20 + 16 = 36

 5 Glen McCormick (Watt Kawasaki) 18 + 13 = 31

 6 Daniel Maxey (Kawasaki) 13 + 15 = 28

 7 Joe Bamfield (Evotech Stevens Honda)  9 + 18 = 27

 8 Robert Davidson (Honda) 14 + 12 = 26

 9 Dan Thornhill (Meredith Suzuki) 15 + 11 = 26

10 Matthew Callaghan (Honda) 10 + 14 = 24

11 Damon Brooks (Kawasaki UK) 12+5+0=17, 12 Christopher Bayliss (Wooldridge Helyar Honda) 6+10+0=16, 13 Adam Darbyshire (Honda) 7+9+0=16, 14 Dima Fricks (Motoward Yamaha) 5+7+0=12, 15 James Rutter (Spectrum Hose Honda) 8+4+0=12, 16 Oliver Osmaston (MXW Honda) 11+0+0=11, 17 Jordan Carrier (Trevor Pope Kawasaki) 0+8+0=8, 18 George Clarke (???) 1+6+0=7, 19 Ryan Monckton (Honda) 4+3+0=7, 20 Brad Todd (Rev Racing Honda) 3+0+0=3.21 Jack Gardner (MX Racing KTM) 0+2+0=2, 22 Michael Eccles (WPR KTM) 2+0+0=2, 23 Liam Knight (Maverick KTM) 0+1+0=1.

RACE ONE: 1 James Harrison, 2 Muscat, 3 Pettett, 4 McCormick, 5 Wakeford, 6 Thornhill, 7 Davidson, 8 Maxey, 9 Brooks, 10 Osmaston, 11 Callaghan, 12 Bamfield, 13 Rutter, 14 Darbyshire, 15 Bayliss, 16 Fricks, 17 Monckton, 18 Todd, 19 Eccles, 20 Clarke.

RACE TWO: 1 James Harrison, 2 Wakeford, 3 Muscat, 4 Bamfield, 5 Pettett, 6 Maxey, 7 Callaghan, 8 McCormick, 9 Davidson, 10 Thornhill, 11 Bayliss, 12 Darbyshire, 13 Carrier, 14 Fricks, 15 Clarke, 16 Brooks, 17 Rutter, 18 Monckton, 19 Gardner, 20 Knight.

FINAL SERIES STANDINGS after 5 rounds: 1 Dan Thornhill 196 points (CHAMPION), 2 Rob Muscat 183, 3 Robert Davidson 158, 4 James Harrison 148, 5 Wakeford 126, 6 Watson 116, 7 Bayliss 108, 8 Alba 93, 9 McCormick 93, 10 Darbyshire 84, 11 Jasikonis 80, 12 Callaghan 78, 13 Eccles 70, 14 Bamfield 69, 15 Winterburn 55, 16 Howell 52, 17 Pettett 48, 18 Osmaston 48, 19 Brooks 38, 20 Todd 36,...

 

Rd 7 – Manor Farm, Langrish, nr Petersfield 

(Langrish MCRC)

 1 Kevin Strijbos (HM Plant KTM UK) 25 + 25 + 25 = 75

 2 Shaun Simpson (Monster BikeIt Yamaha) 22 + 22 + 22 = 66

 3 Gert Krestinov (Route 77 MVRD Honda) 14 + 20 + 20 = 54

 4 Jason Dougan (Route 77 MVRD Honda) 20 + 12 + 16 = 48

 5 Jamie Law (D3 Racing KTM) 13 + 15 + 18 = 46

 6 Dorren Coutts (PAR Honda)  9 + 18 + 15 = 42

 7 Shane Carless (Rockstar KTM) 12 + 14 + 13 = 39

 8 Tony Craig (Mickey Oates Honda) 11 + 13 + 14 = 38

 9 Alfie Smith (JK Rinaldi Yamaha) 16 + 16 +  0 = 32

10 Jamie Skuse (Apico Suzuki)  8 + 11 + 11 = 30

11 Gordon Crockard (Maxxis Henderson Kawasaki) 15+0+12=27, 12 Josh Waterman (Dyer & Butler Suzuki) 6+9+9=24, 13 Sam Simmons (Motoward Yamaha) 7+10+5=22, 14 Ross Hill (Danger UK Suzuki) 10+8+0=18, 15 Martin Barr (Maxxis Henderson Kawasaki) 18+0+0=18, 16 Michael Mahon (VMX KTM) 5+0+8=13, 17 Brad Tomlin (GH M/cs Yamaha) 2+3+6=11, 18 Jake Shipton (Poole Yamaha) 0+0+10=10, 19 Aston Bird (Gateway Kawasaki) 3+0+7=10, 20 Ross Rutherford (Bikesport Honda) 4+1+4=9, 21 Luke Blanchard (Yamaha) 0+7+0=7, 22 Ross Keyworth (???) 1+4+1=6, 23 Daniel Latham (Kawasaki) 0+6+0=6, 24 Daniel Hutchinson (Bikesport KTM) 0+5+0=5, 25 George Purchase (DK Off-Road Kawasaki) 0+0+3=3, 26 Jamie Tempest (Rip ‘n' Roll Yamaha) 0+0+2=2, 27 David Frankland (Danger UK Honda) 0+2+0=2.

RACE ONE: 1 Strijbos, 2 Simpson, 3 Dougan, 4 Barr, 5 Alfie Smith, 6 Crockard, 7 Krestinov, 8 Law, 9 Carless, 10 Craig, 11 Hill, 12 Coutts, 13 Skuse, 14 Simmons, 15 Waterman, 16 Michael Mahon, 17 Rutherford, 18 Bird, 19 Tomlin, 20 Keyworth.

RACE TWO: 1 Strijbos, 2 Simpson, 3 Krestinov, 4 Coutts, 5 Alfie Smith, 6 Law, 7 Carless, 8 Craig, 9 Dougan, 10 Skuse, 11 Simmons, 12 Waterman, 13 Hill, 14 Blanchard, 15 Latham, 16 Hutchinson, 17 Keyworth, 18 Tomlin, 19 Frankland, 20 Rutherford.

RACE THREE: 1 Strijbos, 2 Simpson, 3 Krestinov, 4 Law, 5 Dougan, 6 Coutts, 7 Craig, 8 Carless, 9 Crockard, 10 Skuse, 11 Shipton, 12 Waterman, 13 Michael Mahon, 14 Bird, 15 Tomlin, 16 Simmons, 17 Rutherford, 18 Purchase, 19 Tempest, 20 Keyworth.

SERIES STANDINGS after 7 (of 8) rounds: 1 Strijbos 463 points, 2 Simpson 405, 3 Krestinov 318, 4 Karro 308, 5 Barr 261, 6 Law 246, 7 Coutts 212, 8 Whatley 201, 9 Sword 198, 10 Snow 186, 11 Alfie Smith 157, 12 Dougan 150, 13 Parker 140, 14 De Reuver 136, 15 Moffat 97, 16 Craig 84, 17 Bird 77, 18 Wilde 69, 19 Waterman 65, 20 Anstie 64,...

FINAL ROUND: October 7 – Little Silver MP, nr Exminster, Devon (Little Silver Off Road Promotions).