Drew drew top spot!
By TMX Archives on 26th May 10
Given two days of wall to wall sunshine on the hottest weekend of the year and with 25 pulsating races to savour how could it possibly fail? The simple fact is it didn't, as round three of this year's Express Insurance BYMX series ticked every single box imaginable as it blasted its way through the soft sandy trenches of Mepal near Ely.
The meeting was hosted brilliantly by the local Cambridgeshire club and phew what a scorcher! The action was quite literally hotter than the weather as the masses gathered on Mepal's sandy banks to take in the craziest and most entertaining weekend's racing anyone had been involved in for years.
We will start with the 65cc brigade, although the Juniors can now be officially labelled the crazy gang. New boy to the BYMX Drew Warren came and laid down the gauntlet down to the regulars with a fantastic overall victory.
Behind Warren all kinds of carnage broke loose as rider after rider found themselves taking a soil sample with no-one putting together a solid set of five races.
Keenan Hird blasted himself to second overall with a glorious final ride from dead last to third. Tied with Hird on day points was Taylor Hammal who picked up the win in heat four. Jamie Osborne was a season's best fourth while star-man for much of the weekend Jake Edey had to be content with fifth despite two race wins. Albie Wilkie still leads the series ahead of Hammal and Hird although he could only manage eighth for the weekend.
Express Insurance BYMX Series
Rd 3 - Mepal, near Ely (Cambridge Junior MXC)
Youth Open: 1 Tom Kelly (Honda) 50, 2 Nathan Watson (KTM) 44, 3 Gary Sharp (KTM) 40, 4 Connor Walkley (Kawasaki) 38, 5 Ryan McLean (Suzuki) 36, 6 Luke Norris (Honda) 35, 7 Jake Gowan (KTM) 34, 8 Damon Wales (KTM) 33, 9 Bradley Pocock (Yamaha) 32, 10 Jake Milward (KTM) 31.
Dunlop Tyre Award: Ryan McLean.
Monster Energy Best Performance Award: Harry McKenna.
CGH Award: Nathan Watson.
Championship Standings: 1 Walkely 138, 2 Watson 132, 3 Kelly 119, 4 Sharp 114, 5 Norris 106, 6 McLean 101.
Big-wheel 85cc: 1 Jack Kelly (KTM) 50, 2 Adam Sterry (Honda) 44, 3 Connor Clark (KTM) 40, 4 Ben Howell (KTM) 38, 5 Corie Southwood (Suzuki) 36, 6 Tom Neal (KTM) 35, 7 James Harrison (Honda) 34, 8 Sam Winterburn (Suzuki) 33, 9 Adam Darbyshire (KTM) 32, 10 Ben Watson (KTM) 31.
Dunlop Tyre Award: Corie Southwood.
Monster Energy Best Performance Award: Adam Darbyshire.
CGH Award: Robert Davidson.
Championship Standings: Watson 131, Howell 122, Kelly 121, Sterry 120, Clark 114, Harrison 108.
Honda Extreme Championship: 1 Adam Sterry, 2 James Harrison, 3 Liam Garland.
Small-wheel 85cc: 1 Oli Osmaston (Honda) 50, 2 Sid Evans (KTM) 44, 3 Robert Yates (Suzuki) 40, 4 Lewis Houghton (KTM) 38, 5 Conrad Mewse (KTM) 36, 6 Alfie Bowtell (Yamaha) 35, 7 Greg Hyett (KTM) 34, 8 Josh Gilbert (KTM) 33, 9 Henry Williams (KTM) 32, 10 Jack Seaborne (KTM) 31.
Dunlop Tyre Award: Robert Yates.
Monster Energy Best Performance Award: Dan Whitehead.
CGH: Alfie Bowtell.
Express Insurance Top Gun Award: Lewis Houghton
Championship Standings: 1 Osmaston 150, 2 Yates 124, 3 Gilbert 115, 4 Evans 113, 5 Mewse 107, 6 Braithwaite 103.
Junior: 1 Drew Warren 50, 2 Keenan Hird 44, 3 Taylor Hammal 40, 4 Jamie Osborne 38, 5 Jake Edey 36, 6 James McFayden 35, 7 Jed Etchells 34, 8 Albie Wilkie 33, 9 Alex Brown 32, 10 Brandon Sharples 31 (All KTM).
Dunlop Tyre Award: Drew Warren.
Monster Energy Best Performance Award: Jake Edey.
CGH: Keenan Hird.
Championship Standings: 1 Wilkie 127, 2 Hammal 124, 3 Hird 120, 4 McFayden 107, 5 Edey 105, 6 Tom Hume 105.
ACU TWO-STROKE:
125cc: 1 Josh Waterman, 2 James Dunn, 3 Bryn Clarke.
Open: 1 Christian Taylor, 2 Stuart Edmunds, 3 Jim Davis.
FOR FULL STORY SEE T+MX NEWS, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 2010
It wasn't such a good day for Bradley Pocock with ninth place in Youth Open.