Last chance for British champs!
By TMX Archives on 14th Sep 12
The final round of the ACU British Trials Championships takes place this weekend organised by the East South Wales centre and for the second year in succession the venue is Glebe Farm, Twyn Gwyn Lane, Mynyddislwyn, Newport, NP11 7BA.
The event ran here in 2011 for the first time and the organisers obviously feel that the ground is better suited to the current no-stop rules.
This year's series has been reduced from eight to six rounds to encourage entries and this is the first time the Championship has visited Wales this season.
However many rounds there may be it comes as no surprise that the two people fighting it out for supremacy in the Championship are James Dabill and MIchael Brown.
No one else can challenge this pair for the 2012 crown but with only two points between them (reigning champ Dibs holds the advantage) then anything could still happen.
An event win scores 20 points and second place 17 so a win for Browny is what is needed if he is to annexe his first senior Championship.
Dibs has of course been here three times before and he has ridden under this sort of pressure many times.
There could still be other riders who could spoil the best laid plans and let's not forget that Ross Danby won down in Devon at the Anthony Rew event and the Midland rider is very much at home on banks, climbs and cambers.
He is also after that #3 bib for 2013 which would be his highest ranking in the Brits and reward a great first year of his partnership with Steve Saunders and the Jotagas machine.
Ross in turn could come under pressure from Alexz Wigg and, amongst others, Sam Connor who has reminded everyone this year that he is still a class act on the trials scene.
Bradley Cox has the 125cc Championship tied up from Tom Dexter but these guys will just remind you how well they can make the small capacity machines go.
In the Expert class both John Crinson and Richard Timperley have two wins apiece with Simon Kershaw taking top place at Scarborough.
It is however Crinson, the North Easternrider, who holds a significant advantage of 10 points with this final round remaining.
Just one bad result has made Richard Timperley's task very difficult as Crinson only needs a top five finish to take the title
irrespective of what his rival does.
The battle for third place in the class could go to any one of four riders with Tom Affleck, Adam Milner, Thomas Hick and Simon Kershaw all very close.
Milner in fact rode the Championship course last time out on a non points scoring basis whilst Affleck took a very solid third place.
Tom has got better and better as the series has progressed so he is very much a rider to look out for.
If you are keen to have a look at the final action from this year's series then practise is being held on Saturday between 2.30 - 5.30 pm with the trial starting Sunday at 9.30.
