Elementary dear Watson
By TMX Archives on 25th May 07
ROUND Three of the BYMX championship took place at Brampton in Cumbria, hosted by the East Cumbria Motocross Club. On a course that was fast but tough to master, the undulating terrain served up more than its fair share of thrills and spills which resulted in glory and a bagful of points for some, but real heartache for others.
Ben Watson proved yet again that he has all thenecessary skills and talent to be the top dog in the Junior 65ccsection as he romped home to three classy race wins and a fightingfourth place to take the overall win in style.
In keeping with previous rounds, the scrap for theother placings was as competitive as ever and Matty Callaghan returnedhis best set of results so far, in a typical gutsy and determinedfashion, to claim second overall. Jack Heath had another greatweekend's work in third with excellent performances from Callan Cooperwith a race two win finishing in fourth overall and Corrie Southwood infifth overall.
A sympathetic word also for Oliver Osmaston whosuffered the cruellest of bad luck with a broken leg in the heat of agreat tussle for the lead in race two. Everyone's best wishes for aspeedy return to Oliver.
Matthew Fleming, the New Flying Scotsman' as somehave christened him, completely dominated the Small-wheel 85cc classwith another towering display that took the field apart in the openinglaps of three of his races. Matthew duly went on to secure a hat trickof combatable victories in them all.
The other race win went to Andrew Reid on thefour-stroke Honda who, apart from a disastrous race two, had a greatweekend. Likewise, ultra competitive and consistent Rob Muscat tookthree second place finishes to hoist himself up to second position inthe championship standing. Scott Aldridge had a weekend he would liketo forget in the main but still finished with third place overall.
BYMX BRITISH YOUTH MOTOCROSS CHAMPS
Rd 3 - Low Gelt Farm, Brampton (East Cumbria SSC)
Junior 65cc: 1 Ben Watson 173 points, 2 MatthewCallaghan 164, 3 Jack Heath 156, 4 Callan Cooper 155, 5 CorrieSouthwood 147 6 Casey Connelly 131, 7 Tom Neal 130, 8 Ben Green 125, 9Max Acres 124, 10 Liam Knight 123, 11 Sam Wragg 119, 12 Michael Eccles118, 13 Robert Davidson 114, 14 Stuart Simpson 103, 15 Luke Smith 100.
Small-wheel 85cc: 1 Matthew Fleming 175 points, 2Rob Muscat 166, 3 Scott Aldridge 140, 4 Bradley Banks 137, 5 DanThornhill 135, 6 Josh Brine 131, 7 Andrew Reid 130, 8 Bradley Pocock129, 9 Thomas Moore 124, 10 Harry Bradley 120, 11 James Rutter 118, 12Liam Garland 117, 13 Damon Brooks 97, 14 Jordan Goodwin 92, 15 LukeDean 89.
Big-wheel 85cc: 1 Sam Davis 172 points, 2 JamesHutchinson158, 3 Christian Taylor 149, 4 Daniel Mc Canney 143, 5 ConnorWalkley 139, 6 Richie Worrall 137, 7 Daniel Hutchinson 132, 8 JoshSpinks 126, 9 Jake Shipton 121, 10 Alfie Smith 116, 11 Ewan Mc Claren113, 12 Dean Shallcross 111, 13 Aaron Pipon 103, 14 Jim O NeiL 101, 15Mark Perfect 99.
Intermediate 125cc: 1 Lewis Tombs 166 points, 2Will Worden 153, 3 Bradley Smith 150, 4 David Games 147, 5 Nathan Rooks140, 6 Gary Percival 132, 7 Ben Mycock 132, 8 Jack Rowland 131, 9Steven Smyth 131, 10 Marc Dean 116, 11 Kelvin Townsend 116, 12 CallamWalsh 111, 13 Ryan Watson 103, 14 Stevie Worrall 102, 15 Anthony Smith95.
Premier: 1 Alex Rockwell 170 points, 2 Lewis King156, 3 Ben Brookes 143, 4 Mel Pocock 143, 5 Aaron Smith 141, 6 LukeBurton 138, 7 Josh Waterman 132, 8 Sean McDonald 126, 9 Tommy Fenwick117, 10 Gregory Fisher 115, 11 Gavin Foulson 114, 12 Matthew Moffat111, 13 Tom Watts 107, 14 Jamie Sandham 100, 15 Joe Gregory 99.
For full report, results and pictures see T+MX NEWS, Friday, May 25, 2007.