Crowned at Blaxhall!
By TMX Archives on 23rd Jul 08
ITS ONLY mid-July but already two championships have been decided at last weekend's round of the British MMX Championship staged by the Woodbridge club's excellent Blaxhall circuit in Suffolk.Third place overall gave Pioneer Yamaha's Wayne Smith enough of a points advantage to take the Open Championship for a second successive year, while in the Quad championship it was Paul Winrow on his Winrow Racing Honda all the way as John Mitchell did all he could to beat him. Two more wins gave Winrow a point's lead of 105, and with a maximum 100 points up for grabs in the two remaining rounds, Winrow is the 2008 Champion.With another overall win, Alex Snow on his KTM UK machine will take the decider of the PAR Homes-sponsored Under 21 championship to the sixth and final round where only CCM's Kristian Whatley, and Ashley Greedy on his Talbot Cars Suzuki can stop him.
OPEN
PREVIOUS round winner Ray Rowson led the pack into turn one at the start of the first Open race but as the riders disappeared from view Danny Smyth was seen picking up his Wiseco Honda in turn two.
Rowson came back into view with Gordon Crockard on another PAR Honda second and Swift Suzuki's Brad Anderson third in front of series leader, Smith.
Rowson made a mistake on lap three and dropped back to seventh place and handed the lead to Anderson as Crockard, Smith and Bryan MacKenzie all moved up a place.
By the halfway stage, Anderson had a four-second lead over Crockard, with Smith 15-seconds behind him. Rowson had fought his way back up to fourth. Rowson caught and passed Smith with six laps to go.
Anderson took the win, just under 13-seconds ahead of Crockard, with Rowson third just over 40-seconds behind the leader.
BRITISH OPEN MOTOCROSS CHAMPS
Rd 5 – Blaxhall MP, nr Woodbridge
(Woodbridge & DMCC)
1 Ray Rowson (PAR Homes Honda) 20 + 25 = 45
2 Brad Anderson (Swift Suzuki) 25 + 20 = 45
3 Wayne Smith (Pioneer Yamaha) 18 + 22 = 40
4 Gordon Crockard (PAR Homes Honda) 22 + 18 = 40
5 Bryan MacKenzie (Twisted7 Kawasaki) 15 + 16 = 31
6 Alex Rach (Eurotech KTM UK) 14 + 14 = 28
7 Danny Smyth (Wiseco Honda) 9 + 15 = 24
8 Aston Bird (SMX Honda) 10 + 13 = 23
9 Jordan Rose (STR Honda) 13 + 10 = 23
10 Neville Bradshaw (Honda) 16 + 6 = 22
11 Luke Mellows (Dirt Bike Scote.com KTM) 11+9=20, 12 David Willett (250 Yamaha) 7+11=18, 13 Jim Murro (STR Honda) 4+12=16, 14 Jonathan Pettitt (TM UK) 8+7=15, 15 Scott Probert (Relentless Suzuki) 12+0=12, 16 James Lassu (Lassu Suzuki) 3+8=11, 17 Alex Rockwell (Danger UK Honda) 2+5=7, 18 Syd Bales (GH/ Finch Suzuki) 6+0=6, 19 Alex Butler (Honda) 5+0=5, 20 Jason Morland (Jim Aim KTM) 0+4=4, 21 Paul Edge (DBC Honda) 1+3=4, 22 Kevin Wells (RJ&I Wells Honda) 0+2=2, 23 Michael Hand (Honda) 0+1=1.
RACE ONE: 1 Anderson, 2 Crockard, 3 Rowson, 4 Wayne Smith, 5 Bradshaw, 6 MacKenzie, 7 Rach, 8 Rose, 9 Probert, 10 Mellows, 11 Bird, 12 Danny Smyth, 13 Pettitt, 14 Willett, 15 Bales, 16 Butler, 17 Murro, 18 Lassu, 19 Rockwell, 20 Edge.
RACE TWO: 1 Rowson, 2 Wayne Smith, 3 Anderson, 4 Crockard, 5 MacKenzie, 6 Danny Smyth, 7 Rach, 8 Bird, 9 Murro, 10 Willett, 11 Rose, 12 Mellows, 13 Lassu, 14 Pettitt, 15 Bradshaw, 16 Rockwell, 17 Morland, 18 Edge, 19 Wells, 20 Hand.
SERIES STANDINGS after 5 (of 6) rounds: 1 Wayne Smith 220 points, 2 MacKenzie 157, 3 Rowson 142, 4 Lawson 115, 5 Rach 115, 6 Rose 106, 7 Murro 102, 8 Hucklebridge 100, 9 Bradshaw 84, 10 Danny Smyth 82, 11 Law 71, 12 Rockwell 71, 13 Mellows 58, 14 Michael Phillips 54, 15 Yelland 53, 16 Hill 49, 17 Anderson 45, 18 Crockard 40, 19 Pettitt 40, 20 Garrett 39,...
FINAL ROUND: Aug 31 – Cusses Gorse, Winterbourne Gunner, Wilts (Promoter tba).
UNDER 21
ALEX Snow got the holeshot at the start of the first Under 21 race but as he went round the first turn and a heap of riders went down in the sand with championship contenders Joe Dark and Whatley both involved.
Back at the front Snow had got into an early rhythmn and was already pulling out a lead over Ash Greedy and Robert Hamilton.
Greedy made a mistake on lap four and went down to fifth but a lap later he was already making his way forward.
By the time the race was half over Snow had a 15-second lead over Hamilton, who had Greedy on his tail, while Whatley, from 17th at the end of lap one, was in seventh and pushing hard.
Snow cruised to the win just over 13-seconds clear of Greedy and Alan Keet, with Hamilton hanging onto fourth and the flying Whatley, fifth.
Once again Snow lead the pack into turn one on a track that was rutting up, with Dark second and Whatley third, and after three laps the top six riders of Snow, Dark, Whatley, Greedy, Keet and Carless couldn't be separated.
PAR HOMES BRITISH UNDER 21 MX CHAMPS
Rd 5 – Blaxhall MP, nr Woodbridge
(Woodbridge & DMCC)
1 Alex Snow (KTM UK) 25 + 20 = 45
2 Kristian Whatley (CCM) 16 + 25 = 41
3 Ashley Greedy (Suzuki) 22 + 18 = 40
4 Robert Hamilton (Pioneer Yamaha) 18 + 14 = 32
5 David Games (KTM) 15 + 13 = 28
6 Joseph Dark (Meredith Suzuki) 10 + 16 = 26
7 Alan Keet (KTM) 20 + 6 = 26
8 Lewis King (Electraction Wulfsport TM) 12 + 11 = 23
9 Ashley Wilde (Sandiford Honda) 13 + 10 = 23
10 Shane Carless (PAR Honda) 0 + 22 = 22
11 Luke Benstead (Stamford Suzuki) 2+15=17, 12 Sean MacDonald (TWMA Kawasaki) 6+9=15, 13 Joe Gregory (Danger Honda) 14+0=14, 14 Vytautas Bucas (ARB Kawasaki) 0+12=12, 15 Daniel Arnold (Pioneer Yamaha) 11+0=11, 16 Richard Cannings (Wadsworth Kawasaki) 5+5=10, 17 Edward Allingham (PAR Honda) 9+0=9, 18 Richie Worrall (CCM) 0+8=8, 19 Ashley Thomas (Ride MX Yamaha) 7+1=8, 20 Danial Preston (Kawasaki) 8+0=8, 21 Jamie Smith (LPE Kawasaki) 0+7=7, 22 Jack Hawes (Animal Kawasaki) 0+4=4, 23 Michael McCammond (Moto One Suzuki) 4+0=4, 24 Brad Tomlin (GH Suzuki) 0+3=3, 25 Ross Hill (Poole Yamaha) 3+0=3, 26 James Dodd (Sandiford Honda) 0+2=2, 27 Warwick French (Yamaha) 1+0=1.
RACE ONE: 1 Snow, 2 Greedy, 3 Keet, 4 Hamilton, 5 Whatley, 6 Games, 7 Gregory, 8 Wilde, 9 King, 10 Arnold, 11 Dark, 12 Allingham, 13 Preston, 14 Thomas, 15 MacDonald, 16 Cannings, 17 McCammond, 18 Hill, 19 Benstead, 20 French.
RACE TWO: 1 Whatley, 2 Carless, 3 Snow, 4 Greedy, 5 Dark, 6 Benstead, 7 Hamilton, 8 Games, 9 Bucas, 10 King, 11 Wilde, 12 MacDonald, 13 Worrall, 14 Jamie Smith, 15 Keet, 16 Cannings, 17 Hawes, 18 Tomlin, 19 Dodd, 20 Thomas.
SERIES STANDINGS after 5 (of 6) rounds: 1 Snow 212 points, 2 Whatley 195, 3 Greedy 178, 4 Dark 154, 5 Carless 146, 6 Games 106, 7 Preston 91, 8 Hamilton 84, 9 Moffat 79, 10 Keet 75, 11 King 72, 12 Arnold 70, 13 Shears 68, 14 Jamie Smith 65, 15 Wilde 51, 16 Goosen 45, 17 Benstead 42, 18 Dodd 40, 19 Phillips 36, 20 Gregory 36,...
FINAL ROUND: Aug 31 – Cusses Gorse, Winterbourne Gunner, Wilts (Promoter tba)
QUAD
IT ALL went a bit wrong for second and third in the championship race before racing started and both Richard Tordoff on his Mercuria Yamaha, and Paul Holmes on a ATV World Yamaha just didn't seem to get a good enough qualifying time.
As a result the knew they had to start both races from the second row, and it was a tall order to get some good points from such a position.
Winrow, though, had no such trouble and got the holeshot at the start of the first Quad race with Mitchell second and Stefan Murphy third – and that's the way it stayed all race long.
BRITISH QUAD-CROSS CHAMPS
Rd 6 – Blaxhall Circuit, nr Woodbridge
(Woodbridge & DMCC)
1 Paul Winrow (Winrow Honda) 25 + 25 = 50
2 John Mitchell (ATV World Yamaha) 22 + 22 = 44
3 Stefan Murphy (Winrow Honda) 20 + 18 = 38
4 Joe Maessen (Yamaha) 15 + 20 = 35
5 Carl Bunce (Anderson Suzuki) 18 + 15 = 33
6 Mark Watson (Anderson Suzuki) 16 + 16 = 32
7 Wayne Tyson (KIK Honda) 14 + 14 = 28
8 Michael McAneney (JB Homes Yamaha) 10 + 13 = 23
9 Simon Hammersley (Lamos Yamaha) 9 + 10 = 19
10 Oliver Sansom (Cromwell Trucks Yamaha) 8 + 9 = 17
11 Jonny Kelly (Aglinton Timber Honda) 4+11=15, 12 Richard Tordoff (Mercuria GYTR Yamaha) 2+12=14, 13 Justin Reid (Team Can Am) 13+0=13, 14 Tobias Lenz (KTM) 12+0=12, 15 William Waggott (KIK Honda) 3+8=11, 16 Dave Hammersley (Lamos Yamaha) 5+6=11, 17 David Cowan (Gilchrist Yamaha) 6+5=11, 18 Paul Holmes (ATV World Yamaha) 11+0=11, 19 Sean Goss (ATV World Yamaha) 0+7=7, 20 David Wray (JMK Honda) 7+0=7, 21 Sam Bishop (Fourtech ATV Honda) 1+4=5, 22 James Behan (Fourtech ATV Honda) 0+3=3, 23 Sam Harrison (Yamaha) 0+2=2, 24 Justin Parry (Frenni Transport Yamaha) 0+1=1.
SERIES STANDINGS after 6 (of 8) rounds: 1 Winrow 286 points, 2 Tordoff 181, 3 Mitchell 176, 4 Holmes 165, 5 Stefan Murphy 158, 6 Waggott 139, 7 Dave Hammersley 139, 8 Watson 131, 9 Bunce 128, 10 Beda 110, 11 Tyson 107, 12 McAneney 102, 13 Simon Hammersley 94, 14 Reid 87, 15 Maessen 82,...
NEXT ROUND: Aug 31 – Duns (tbc) (Quad Racing (Scotland)).
For full report see T+MX NEWS, Friday, July 25, 2008