AMCA Motocross bumper entry set Brookthorpe - race preview
By Sean Lawless on 10th Aug 18
At the beginning of the year, riders contesting the 2018 AMCA British Motocross Championship powered by Datatag and supported by Dunlop were offered the unique opportunity to enhance their potential final finishing position.
The only criteria to add an extra 300 points to their tallies was that they should enter and compete in five AMCA Group events. So with just a couple of weeks remaining of this offer and going into Sundays penultimate round of the series at Brookthorpe in Gloucestershire, the tables now show a slightly different appearance!
Last time out at Culham in MX1 Ray Rowson bagged a maiden overall win but series leader Josh Waterman was again on the podium. That result means that Waterman, a Brookthorpe track specialist, leads the standings by 94 points with Shane Carless, Rowson, James Dodd, Ryan Crowder and Gary Gibson currently rounding out the top six.
Although he was only second overall at Culham, Luke Burton is now really stretching his MX2 series advantage and is 131 points clear of Clinton Barrs who scored a very popular win at the Oxfordshire venue. Despite what now appears to be too big a deficit, Barrs will as always be giving it his all during the remaining motos and is certainly a rider well worth watching.
Like Clinton, Lee Sealey has also utilised the benefit of those extra 300 points on offer to jump up into third in the MX2 standings just ahead of Lewis King, Bradley Tranter, Jack Gardner and Matt Ridgway.
Only a collapsed rear-wheel denied Two-stroke series leader Richard Cannings another maximum at the last round. Despite his season-long dominance, Cannings is only 38 points better-off than an equally consistent and determined Sean Eckersley.
Eckersley looks like keeping himself right in the title mix while Bradley Doyle, Jordan Saunders, James Lane and Adam Hill appear to be the most likely riders to remain in the frame for an eventual medal position.
During the recent Culham round, Jake Parker scored a great maiden overall 2T win but is currently down in 14th and looks to have too much work to do in the remaining motos to trouble the top three in the championship table.
After winning both Vets motos last time out, Simon Lane is on course to earn another AMCA title. This weekend at Brookthorpe, Lane will be racing very much on home territory and you can be sure that he will also be receiving plenty of trackside support!
At present in the Vets it's Sean Smith whos next best from Gary Jones, Colin Conduit, Brian Staples and Paul Wieczorek.
Incredibly, Joseph Brookes has won every Youth 85/150cc moto but somehow still finds himself lying second in the standings and 86 points behind Charlie Palmer whos bagged those 300 bonus points on offer.
Brookthorpe in on the outskirts of Gloucester with the local postcode GL4 0UT.
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