Watson's in Leuch'
By TMX Archives on 1st Aug 07
IN THE deep rutted sand of the excellently prepared Commerton Farm circuit in Fife, Scotland, the penultimate round of this year's BYMX series hosted by the Glenrothes YMXC proved to be a nerve jangling affair for some but outright consolidation for others.
If there were any nerves they certainly did not show as with the last 11 race victories now
under his belt Ben Watson on the PAR Homes KTM isfast proving to be the ultimate Junior 65cc racer with anotherimmaculate performance as he cleaned-up yet again. The two mainchallengers for the crown which he now seems destined to grab, CallanCooper and Jack Heath, both had relatively disappointing weekends.Although Callan
finished third overall, a reoccurrence of themachine problems which dogged him at the previous round meant a lowpoints score first time out and a weekend battling on spare, well usedmachinery.
Jack, with his usual brand of all out effort,finished the weekend in fifth overall and the scrap with Callan in thechampionship race is now closer than ever.
Corrie Southwood with his best finish of the season in second overall now climbs up a position in the championship standings.
Matthew Fleming with an impressive performance ona course he knows only too well did exactly what he had to do with onerace win and three other top points scores in the Small-wheel 85ccsection. The result saw him increase his points lead over Rob Muscatwho struggled at times in the energy sapping conditions of the richScottish sand.
Andy Reid loomed large in all of the holeshots andfinished in fourth overall, but he had to give sway to the two-strokeflyers with three superb race victories going to Jamie McCanney, andhow close would the championship be if he had not missed a round? Theanswer I suspect is very close!
BYMX NATIONAL YOUTH MOTOCROSS CHAMPS Rd 6 - Commerton Farm, Leuchars
(Glenrothes Youth MXC)
Junior 65cc: 1 Ben Watson 180 points, 2 CorrieSouthwood 156, 3 Callan Cooper 150, 4 Michael Eccles 149, 5 Jack Heath148, 6 Matthew Callaghan 138, 7 Ben Green 132, 8 Chubbie Hammond 131, 9Tom Neal 130, 10 Casey Connelly 123, 11 Robert Davidson 118, 12 BradTodd 116, 13 Max Acres 109, 14 Alfie Bowtell 107, 15 Fraser Pohlen 101.
Small-wheel 85cc: 1 Jamie McCanney 175 points, 2Matthew Fleming 165, 3 Scott Aldridge 146, 4 Andrew Reid 143, 5 NathanWatson 141, 6 Rob Muscat 133, 7 Bradley Pocock 125, 8 Dan Thornhill123,9 Josh Brine 121, 10 Harry Bradley 120, 11 Alex Meadows 118, 12 BradleyBanks 112, 13 Luke Newman 109, 14 Sonny Oliver 106, 15 Luke Norris 101.
Big-wheel 85cc: 1 Dan McCanney 161 points, 2Richie Worrall 158, 3 Christian Taylor 156, 4 Connor Walkley 147, 5Luke Hawkins 143, 6 Sam Davis 143, 7 Daniel Hutchinson 137, 8 EwanMcClaren 126, 9 Josh Spinks 124, 10 James Hutchinson 122, 11 JakeShipton 119, 12 Alfie Smith 117, 13 Chris Johnson 112, 14 Jim O Neill108, 15 Joe Harper 100.
Intermediate 125cc: 1 Will Worden 166 points, 2Scott Elderfield 163, 3 David Games 156, 4 Nathan Rooks 146, 5 LewisTombs 145, 6 Jamie Jackson 136, 7 Bradley Smith 126, 8 Gary Percival125, 9 Lewis Trickett 124, 10 Jack Rowland 122, 11 Steven Smyth 122, 12Michael McCammond 118, 13 Kelvin Townsend 117, 14 Sam Gilston 103, 15Ben Mycock 103.
Premier: 1 Alex Rockwell 164 points, 2 MatthewMoffat 164, 3 Mel Pocock 154, 4 Joe Gregory 149, 5 Gavin Foulson 141, 6Sean McDonald 130, 7 Ashley Wilde 129, 8 Tommy Fenwick 124, 9 JoshWaterman 117, 10 Edward Allingham 116, 11 Jack Hawes 108, 12 StevenMcCaughey 108, 13 Aaron Smith 106, 14 Lewis King 106, 15 Ben Field 102.
For full story and pictures see T+MX NEWS, Friday, August, 2007.