Dazzling Heights!
By TMX Archives on 9th Jul 08
THIS week the Ian Durston Plant Services British Sidecarcross Championship moved to round six at Canada Heights. Although there was some rain on the day, track conditions were good, however the sand cut into deep ruts making it hard doing for the teams. It was great to see Luke Peters back on the sidecar with Stuart Brown, and with three good wins, the injuries picked up at the start of the season seem to be in the past!
The first race stared with an early lead for Brown and Peters, holding a good advantage throughout. Behind, Dan Millard and Joe Millard held second with Scott Balsillie and Neal Bann close behind until their electrics expired leaving them track side. This left John Lyne and Pete Girling third and battling to get ahead, with Scott Wilkinson and Gary Burt in fourth racing closely with Andy Eastman and Steve Kirwin. Lyne and Girling stayed on the Millard brothers rear wheel, trying to find a way past on the narrow bends, eventually blasting ahead. Wilkinson and Burt recovered from a slow start to challenge the Millards and take third. Behind, Eastman and Kirwin stayed close but settled for fifth ahead of Andy Breacher and Adam Hillyard.
In Race two the Millard brothers headed the battle into the first bend with Brown and Peters close, they fought hard for the first lap until Brown took the advantage and pulled out a safe lead going on to take their second win of the day. Wilkinson and Burt were behind, taking a few laps to blast through to second after the Millards stalled the engine in one of the tight corners. The Millards held third with Rob Topp and Mike Geraghty close in fourth.
At the back both Eastman and Lyne had problems in the first few bends, they fought through the field ending with a three way battle in the final few laps for fourth place. Lyne and Girling managed to fight ahead with Topp and Geraghty managing to hold off Eastman and Kirwin.
The final race of saw Brown and Peters leaving nothing to chance. They took the lead into bend one and pulled out a long lead with the main battle behind. Mark and Gary Kinge held second off the start line, with Lyne and Girling managing to recover from a first bend incident which left Wilkinson and Burt in the fence with Breacher and Hillyard. Lyne and Girling fought past the Kinge brothers to take second.
Eastman and Kirwin fought to stay ahead of the Millard brothers who stayed close in fifth. Wilkinson and Burt recovered from their problems to take sixth, just getting past Topp and Geraghty in the final part of the race.
So at the end of another great days racing. Brown still holds the championship lead with Wilkinson holding second and the Millards now in third. The next round is at Wrangway in Somerset on the July 27. Lyne, Kinge, and Eastman will be fighting to get back into the top three, expect the action to be electric!
IAN DURSTON PLANT
BRITISH SIDECAR-CROSS CHAMPS
Rd 6 – Canada Heights, Swanley (Sidcup & DMCC)
1 S Brown/ L Peters (700 Zabel VMC) 25 + 25 + 25 = 75
2 J Lyne/ P Girling (Zabel VMC) 22 + 16 + 22 = 60
3 S Wilkinson/ G Burt (700 Zabel VMC) 20 + 22 + 15 = 57
4 D Millard/ J Millard (650 H'berg WSP) 18 + 20 + 16 = 54
5 A Eastman/ S Kirwin (580 KTM VMC) 16 + 15 + 18 = 49
6 R Topp/ M Geraghty (525 KTM EML) 13 + 18 + 14 = 45
7 M Kinge/ G Kinge (525 KTM VMC) 11 + 11 + 20 = 42
8 R Jenkins/ T Breacher (700 Zabel VMC) 14 + 10 + 13 = 37
9 M Hodges/ C Ide (KTM VMC) 7 + 9 + 12 = 28
10 A Breacher/ A Hillyard (KTM VMC) 15 + 12 + 0 = 27
RACE ONE: 1 Stuart Brown, 2 John Lyne, 3 Scott Wilkinson, 4 Dan Millard, 5 Andy Eastman, 6 Andy Breacher, 7 Richard Jenkins, 8 Rob Topp, 9 Stickle Jarvis, 10 Mark Kinge, 11 David Keane, 12 Craig Parmenter, 13 Roger Blackman, 14 Michael Hodges, 15 Rob Oldfield, 16 David Short, 17 David Millard, 18 Nick Bowers, 19 Gary Patey, 20 Alan Sturt.
RACE TWO: 1 Stuart Brown, 2 Scott Wilkinson, 3 Dan Millard, 4 Rob Topp, 5 John Lyne, 6 Andy Eastman, 7 Stickle Jarvis, 8 Scott Balsillie, 9 Andy Breacher, 10 Mark Kinge, 11 Richard Jenkins, 12 Michael Hodges, 13 Roger Blackman, 14 David Short, 15 Rob Oldfield, 16 Steve Pannell, 17 David Millard, 18 Gary Patey, 19 Nick Bowers, 20 Carl Kirwin.
RACE THREE: 1 Stuart Brown, 2 John Lyne, 3 Mark Kinge, 4 Andy Eastman, 5 Dan Millard, 6 Scott Wilkinson, 7 Rob Topp, 8 Richard Jenkins, 9 Michael Hodges, 10 David Keane, 11 Craig Parmenter, 12 Rob Oldfield, 13 Steve Pannell, 14 Gary Patey, 15 David Millard, 16 Nick Bowers, 17 Alan Sturt, 18 Carl Kirwin, 19 Stephen Parr, 20 Ian Durston.
SERIES STANDINGS after 6 (of 8) Rounds: 1 Brown 347 points, 2 Wilkinson 281, 3 Dan Millard 238, 4 John Lyne 237, 5 Kinge 231, 6 Eastman 208, 7 Breacher 170, 8 Hodges 169, 9 Pelling 139, 10 Topp 139, 11 Jarvis 127, 12 Jenkins 117, 13 Keane 92, 14 Oldfield 87, 15 Balsillie 85,...
NEXT ROUND: July 27 – Wrangway, nr Wellington, Somerset (Broadhembury & DMC).