Shot in the Dark
By TMX Archives on 22nd Mar 07
NANTMAWR Quarry is getting quite used to being lit up at night time by the bright lights of the WOR Events road show.
After the second running in the dark of the ToughOne' event there in January, the organising team of WOR was back to runthe final round of the Trail Tech UK Dark One' series.
A two-hour multi-lap enduro battle, around the famous quarry and surrounding Shropshire mountainside and woodlands in the darkness night time.
After round one in an icy setting in Corwen theseries moved 30-miles overland to one of WOR's more prestigious venuesand fingers were crossed for some good weather.
Rain did put in an appearance but did nothing todampen the spirits of the riders and the course stayed bone dry throughout with dust even bursting out of some of the berms along thefantastic circuit.
Trail Tech Dark One (Sat)
Rd 2 - Nantmawr Quarry, nr Oswestry
Open: 1 Rowland Morris 12 laps - 0:42 timepenalties, 2 Edward Jones 12 - 1:45, 3 Paul Bolton 12 - 8:58, 4 AndrewEdwards 11 - 1:16, 5 Lincoln Brewster 11 - 2:31, 6 Ashley Wood 11 -7:09, 7 Shaun Turner 11 - 8:49, 8 Tom Knill 11 - 8:55.
Clubman: 1 Jim Buchanan 11 - 10:41, 2 CraigReynolds 11 - 12:26, 3 Nathan Bolton 10 - 4:12, 4 Jim Barrie 10 -10:01, 5 Mick Hammond 10 - 10:23.
Veteran: 1 Steve Plain 11 - 10:10, 2 Andy Daniels11 - 10:19, 3 Neil Williams 11 - 11:44, 4 Ian Barnett 10 - 0:32, 5Gareth Lloyd 10 - 10:05.
Sportsman: 1 Scott Smith 9 - 2:00, 2 Glyn Pugh 9 -4:27, 3 Iwan Edwards 9 - 11:21, 4 Delwyn Pugh 9 - 12:57, 5 RogerGamblin 9 - 14:33.
Gas Gas XC 2.5-hour (Sun)
Rd 1 - Nantmawr Quarry, nr Oswestry
Open: 1 Rowland Morris 14 laps - 12:00 timepenalties, 2 Lincoln Brewster 13 - 0:39, 3 Paul Bolton 13 - 1:14, 4Conan Mayman 13 - 8:09, 5 Aled Evans 13 - 9:19, 6 Ashley Fox 13 - 9:26,7 Ben Wootton 13 - 11:35, 8 Craig Bounds 13 - 11:53.
Clubman 2T: 1 Craig Reynolds 12 - 6:43, 2 HarryHillas 12 - 7:56, 3 Marcus Jones 12 - 8:41, 4 Darryl Worthington 12 -9:35, 5 Mike Evans 12 - 9:45, 6 Warren Hazlett 12 - 10:04, 7 DafyddJones 12 - 10:34, 8 Andy Noakley 12 - 11:50, 9 Mick Hammond 12 -12:16,10 Carl Critchlow 12 - 12:35.
Clubman 4T: 1 Jim Buchanan 12 - 8:37, 2 RudyAustin 11 - 0:05, 3 Paul Waterhouse 11 - 2:49, 4 Chris Duckworth 11 -8:55, 5 Matt Keeling 11 - 11:18, 6 Steven Hewitt 10 - 5:19.
Sportsman: 1 Steffan Kojs 11 - 8:14, 2 GarethRoberts 11 - 11:43, 3 Lee Jones 11 - 11:56, 4 Simon Hammond 11 - 14:15,5 Chris Berry 10 - 0:04, 6 John Burgess 10 - 0:10, 7 Mark Rogers 10 -1:50, 8 Henry Snelson 10 - 3:00, 9 Simon Clutton 10 - 4:12, 10 StephenPrice 10 - 6:03.
Over 35: 1 Jack Twentyman 12 - 2:10, 2 RichardMain 12 - 4:49, 3 Ian Barnett 12 - 6:07, 4 Rob Morris 12 - 9:21, 5Darren Griffiths 12 - 13:24, 6 Gary Benniman 11 - 0:29, 7 Anthony Crowe11 - 2:03, 8 Philip Poulter 11 - 2:36, 9 Mark Dean 11 - 3:19, 10 SimonDouglas 11 - 8:17.
Over 45: 1 Dave Smith 12 - 12:07, 2 Colin Jones 12- 12:09, 3 Gareth Lloyd 11 - 0:47, 4 Nigel Pugh 11 - 4:24, 5 PaulDavies 11 - 12:39, 6 Chris Simm 10 - 4:16.
Gas Gas XC - 2-hour (Sun)
Beginner: 1 Jack Evans 9 - 13:42, 2 Ieuan Brooks 8- 2:21, 3 John Roberts 8 - 3:04, 4 Damien Groves 8 - 8:53, 5 StanBrooks 8 - 9:06, 6 Andy Latham 8 - 9:56, 7 Stuart Middleton 8 - 11:40,8 Joe Frost 8 - 11:51, 9 Ben Roberts 8 - 12:26, 10 Johnny Owen 8 -12:59, 11 Eiddon Davies 8 - 13:49, 12 Rob Morphet 8 - 15:10.
Youth: 1 Scott Hughes 9 - 9:24, 2 Josh Taylor 8 -0:54, 3 Tom Beedles 8 - 1:09, 4 Gary Daniels 8 - 4:33, 5 Joe Deakin 8 -4:58, 6 Gareth Lee 8 - 5:54, 7 Simon Jones 8 - 6:42, 8 Huw Jones 8 -10:27.
Sportsman: 1 Richard Buckley 9 - 9:15, 2 JamieCarroll 9 - 14:38, 3 Lee Cotterill 8 - 1:43, 4 Gareth Jones 8 - 4:56, 5Ashley Jones 8 - 5:17, 6 Gordon Johnson 8 - 9:20.
Ladies: 1 Sophie Thomas 7 - 8:36, 2 Emma Clack 7 - 16:20, 3 Jane Daniels 6 - 6:19, 4 Kate Lloyd 6 - 12:14.
Novice: 1 Rhodri Ellis 8 - 0:42, 2 Ben Ball 8 -1:48, 3 Rob Lambert 8 - 2:17, 4 Paul Bright 8 - 4:29, 5 Karl Chadwick 8- 8:42, 6 Colin Newman 8 - 9:01, 7 Andrew Roberts 8 - 11:34, 8 DelwynPugh 8 - 12:18, 9 Ryan Faulks 8 - 15:08, 10 Andrew Donald 8 - 15:35.
For full report, results and pictures see T+MX NEWS, Friday, March 23, 2007.