Steve and Ian tame the dirty Dyfed dirt
By TMX Archives on 18th May 07
AFTER hopefully picking a decent day for their Brechfa Enduro event on Sunday, Dyfed Dirt Bike Club had to suffer the wettest day of the year so far as a huge solo and excellent Sidecar entry turned up at the start and were well and truly soaked before the event got underway.
Running as round one of the British Sidecar Enduro Championships, 11 Expert and 12 Clubman crews entered but, at the end of an appalling day when the Expert course was cut down to two special tests, and the Clubmen one, only two Expert and three Clubmen partnerships crossed the finish line, and all lost time on the road.
Best of the Experts, current champions Steve and Ian Barnett easily won both tests, and dropped four minutes in time penalties as runners-up Graham Jones and Simon Brown were 24 minutes late, after a troublesome second test.
The best of the Clubmen, Richard and Nigel Smith scooped maximum points, two minutes late after their one required test, as Chris Mallaber and Graham McPhee, who won their special, easily lost five minutes in road penalties and lost out to the Smith brothers by seven seconds, but still far ahead of Phil and son, Matt Sparkes. The rest of the entry had to pull out with mechanical problems or gave up in the dreadful conditions, but no one blamed the superb course.
The Non-championship entry included 38 Experts who used the event to impress the British ISDE team manager who is using selected events before picking his teams for Chile later in the year and, as expected, even in the atrocious conditions, fast times were recorded through their three special tests.
BRITISH SIDECAR ENDURO CHAMPIONSHIPS
Rd 2 - Brechfa Enduro (Dyfed DBC)
SIDECAR EXPERT: Steve/ Ian Barnett (650 BSU BEL) 1223.58, Graham Jones/ Simon Brown (525 VMC KTM) 2751.35.
CLUBMAN SIDECAR: Nigel/ Richard Smith (620 BSU KTM) 788.33, Chris Mallaber/ Graham McPhee (500 Kawasaki) 795.56, Phil/ Matt Sparkes (520 Wessex KTM) 2540.48.
EXPERT SOLO: Edward Jones (125 KTM) 929.63, Andrew Edwards (125 KTM) 937.15, Ollie Moyce (250 Yamaha) 955.25, Ashley Wood (125 PAR Honda CRF) 972.59, Lee Edmondson (250 Honda) 985.89, Carl Tiley (250 TM) 987.10, Dylan Jones (125 Yamaha) 991.49, Chris Hockey (250 Husky WR) 998.23, Greg Evans (250 KTM) 1017.83, Richard Hay (125 KTM) 1031.19, Rowan Jones (250 Yamaha) 1036.71, Robert Reece (250 KTM) 1040.44, Gethin Price (250 Yamaha) 1070.02, Jamie Paget (250 KTM) 1074.66, Jon Hinam (250 KTM) 1106.93, Craig Bounds (250 Yamaha) 1107.03, David Brick (125 KTM) 1132.11, Barry Furber (250 Gas Gas) 1214.68, Shane Lewis (300 Gas Gas) 1219.82, Scott Faulkner (300 KTM) 1245.27, Chris Hooper (250 Yamaha) 1257.47, Jonathan Williams (300 Gas Gas) 1264.37, Alun Davies 1271.01, Calvin Williams (250 KTM) 1330.11, Neil Williams (250 Gas Gas) 1338.83, Daz Hughes (250 REME Yamaha) 1462.09, David Cadwallader (250 KTM) 1508.61.
OVER 40s: Paul Davies (200 KTM) 790.59, Stephen Davies (300 KTM) 791.83, Katrina Price (200 Gas Gas) 827.13, Paul Morgan (250 Husky) 919.94, Ian Spence (200 KTM) 922.55, Carl Davies (200 KTM) 933.05, Nick Morgan (300 Gas Gas) 945.54, Gary O'Shaughnessy (525 KTM) 953.37, Arwyn Jones (250 KTM) 982.20.
CLUBMEN: Gareth Hopkins (250 KTM) 726.82, Ricky Penhaligon (250 Yamaha WR) 737.51, Tony Gush (125 Honda) 738.77, Mike Bailey (125 REME Yamaha) 773.86, D Lloyd Jones (125 KTM) 807.10, Myles Rosser (450 KTM) 888.46, Ryan King (125 KTM) 892.67, Chris Larkin (250 KTM) 906.92, Ryan Golding (250 KTM) 908.98, Steve Martin (250 KTM) 917.94, Koan Jones (125 Yamaha) 924.33, Nick Smalley (250 Yamaha) 959.22, Kevin Woodley (250 Honda CRF) 966.28.
SPORTSMEN: Keith Fletcher (250 KTM) 528.85, Colin Newman 638.51, Phillip Jenkins (125 KTM) 651.55.
For full report, results and pictures see T+MX NEWS, Friday, May 18, 2007.