First blood to Danby!
By TMX Archives on 11th Jan 07
ANOTHER superb performance came from Dan Thorpe when he won the ACU Midland Centre's Vic Brittain Trophy Trial in the Clee Hill area of Shrop-shire for a record sixth time on Sunday.
While Thorpe took the Premier, maximum Novogar points were scored by local ace Ross Danby who headed off Alexz Wigg and Lee Sampson in a three-way battle of the teenagers.
Never at any time bothered by their new experience in riding as Adults and on the road, winner Ross Danby, and Alexz Wigg, who have both enjoyed riding at Youth World Trials level, and Alexz already 125cc Youth World champion, were second and third overall, just one mark apart.
First to lose marks, Danby dropped a single at section four, in the opening group at Starvecrow, and three in the second at Park Farm where Wigg failed to negotiate a sharp turn out after a steep drop, but still led as Danby added two in the third section.
NOVOGAR TRIALS CHAMPS
Rd 1 – Vic Brittain Trial (Midland Centre ACU)
NOVOGAR POINTS SCORERS: Ross Danby (125 JST Gas Gas) 13 marks lost, Alexz Wigg (125 JST Gas Gas) 14, Lee Sampson (290 MRS Sherco) 14, Gary Jenkins (290 MRS Sherco) 22, Steve Saunders (250 Repsol Beta) 23, Dan Farrer (300 JST Gas Gas) 25, Richard Timperley (250 Scorpa) 35, Mathew Jones (290 Sherco) 37, Eddie Roberts (300 Kelcoat Gas Gas) 40 (24x0), Wayne Holdsworth (280 INTA Gas Gas) 40 (20x0), John Sunter (250 Sandiford Montesa 4RT) 45, Simon Welch (270 Beta) 46, James Fry (290 MRS Sherco) 48 (20x0), John Crinson (290 MRS Sherco) 48 (18x0), John Cowley (250 Beta) 48 (16x0).
SERIES STANDINGS after 1 of (9) rounds: 1 Danby 20 points, 2 Wigg 17, 3 Sampson 15, 4 Jenkins 13, 5 Saunders 11, 6 Farrer 10, 7 Timperley 9, 8 Mathew Jones 8, 9 Roberts 7, 10 Holdsworth 6, 11 Sunter 5, 12 Welch 4, 13 Fry 3, 14 Crinson 2, 15 John Cowley 1.
NEXT ROUND: February 25 – Wallace Cup Trial (North Berks MCC).
EXPERT CLASS: Dan Thorpe (300 JST Gas Gas) 8 marks lost, Sam Haslam (280 JST Gas Gas) 22, Chris Pearson (290 MRS Sherco) 26.
Ladies: Becky Cook (JST Gas Gas UK) 88, Maria Conway (250 Repsol Beta) 95, Katy Sunter (250 JST Gas Gas UK) 116.
For full report, results and pictures see T+MX NEWS, Friday, January 12, 2007