High Payne threshold

And what a weekend of racing it was as Lee Payne won all three of his MX1 races – event though he didn't have things all his own way.

 

In the more closely-run MX2 class Jack Cox took two wins and a second. 

 

The weather was kind to the club, with two overcast days, combined with a decent temperature making for comfortable racing and spectating.

 

Luke Dean was fastest in qualifying by more than two seconds from the rest of the field.

 

But it was the on-form Payne that made the holeshot in the first MX1 race from last year's champion, Lee Dunham, with series leader Clinton Barrs riding in his wheel tracks and Dean fourth.

 

Barrs made a mistake on lap two that dropped him down two places behind Dean and Stephen Tillotson and into the sights of Shaun Pearce, but within three laps of the testing track he was back up to fourth place. 

 

With three laps to go it was Payne from Dean and Dunham with Barrs still fourth and Pearce all over the back of Tillotson, as the pair fought over fifth.

 

Payne stretched out a lead of just over eight seconds as the race come to a close, with Dean a comfortable second from Dunham, Barrs and Pearce.

 

Once again it was Payne who got the holeshot at the start of the second race and he set off at a blinding pace, leaving the rest to fight over second place. 

 

As Dean, Dunham and Barrs were caught in a battle for second they were letting Payne escape, but as the race reached the halfway stage they started to reel him in.

 

Lap after lap Dean and Dunham chased him down, dropping Barrs in the process.

 

With two laps to go the three fastest riders were wheel to wheel and it looked like it was going to be a very close finish.

 

Payne seemed to find that extra bit of speed though, taking his second win of the day, almost three seconds clear of Dean, who was in turn just over eight seconds up on Dunham. 

 

Barrs was a distant fourth from Tillotson and Chad Yarranton.

 

The last MX1 race of the weekend was once again all about Payne as he made it three holeshots from three starts and was never really challenged the whole race, winning by almost 13 seconds.

 

Behind him, Dunham gated second and finished in that place while Pearce, third placed man for most of the race, was overtaken on the last lap by Barrs, who had had an eighth place start.

 

Pearce had to settle for fourth with Tillotson fifth, as Dean crashed on the opening lap and was down in 34th, but ended the race 17th.

 

 

Rd 4 – Canada Heights, Swanley (Eastbourne MXC)

 1 Lee Payne (Rocket Centre KTM) 60 + 60 + 60 = 180

 2 Lee Dunham (Maxxis Henderson Kaw) 50 + 50 + 54 = 154

 3 Clinton Barrs (DK Off-Road Kawasaki) 47 + 47 + 50 = 144

 4 Luke Dean (Transporterland Honda) 54 + 54 + 24 = 132

 5 Stephen Tillotson (450F Honda) 41 + 45 + 45 = 131

 6 Shaun Pearce (Peter Jones Honda) 45 + 37 + 47 = 129

 7 Jamie Smith (450F Suzuki) 43 + 41 + 41 = 125

 8 Chad Yarranton (Passion Kawasaki) 29 + 43 + 35 = 107

 9 Elliot Barrs (LRT Honda) 21 + 39 + 43 = 103

10 Tye Barrs (450F Kawasaki) 33 + 29 + 39 = 101

11 Lewis Belfield (250 Hazport KTM) 39+31+31=101, 12 Luke Meredith (???) 37+22+37=96, 13 Michael Reynolds (450F KTM) 31+33+26=90, 14 Scott Bates (IDS Transport KTM) 23+35+29=87, 15 Aran Agius (450F Kawasaki) 35+25+20=80, 16 Kristofer Ayres (250 KTM) 25+27+27=79, 17 Jamie Dobson (MTR KTM) 26+26+25=77, 18 Michael Smith (Auto Repairs Honda) 22+24+22=68, 19 Joshua Scott (???) 20+20+19=59, 20 Simon Lane (LRT Honda) 24+0+33=57, 21 Joshua Williams (450F Kawasaki) 19+17+21=57, 22 James Price (450F Honda) 18+16+17=51, 23 Darren Marklove (450F Kawasaki) 16+19+16=51, 24 Gary Brown (450F Honda) 27+21+0=48, 25 Craig Chamberlain (???) 13+18+13=44,...

RACE ONE: 1 Payne, 2 Dean, 3 Dunham, 4 Clinton Barrs, 5 Pearce, 6 Jamie Smith, 7 Tillotson, 8 Belfield, 9 Meredith, 10 Agius, 11 Tye Barrs, 12 Reynolds, 13 Yarranton, 14 Brown, 15 Dobson, 16 Ayres, 17 Lane, 18 Bates, 19 Michael Smith, 20 Elliot Barrs.

RACE TWO: 1 Payne, 2 Dean, 3 Dunham, 4 Clinton Barrs, 5 Tillotson, 6 Yarranton, 7 Jamie Smith, 8 Elliot Barrs, 9 Pearce, 10 Bates, 11 Reynolds, 12 Belfield, 13 Tye Barrs, 14 Ayres, 15 Dobson, 16 Agius, 17 Michael Smith, 18 Burrows, 19 Meredith, 20 Brown.

RACE THREE: 1 Payne, 2 Dunham, 3 Clinton Barrs, 4 Pearce, 5 Tillotson, 6 Elliot Barrs, 7 Jamie Smith, 8 Tye Barrs, 9 Meredith, 10 Yarranton, 11 Lane, 12 Belfield, 13 Bates, 14 Ayres, 15 Reynolds, 16 Agius, 17 Michael Smith, 18 Burrows, 19 Meredith, 20 Brown.

SERIES STANDINGS after 4 (of 7) rounds: 1 Payne 619 points, 2 Clinton Barrs 618, 3 Dunham 617, 4 Pearce 510, 5 Dean 455, 6 Tillotson 443, 7 Belfield 438, 8 Elliot Barrs 436, 9 Yarranton 386, 10 Jamie Smith 379, 11 Bates 368, 12 Reynolds 353, 13 Tye Barrs 332, 14 Dobson 330, 15 Michael Smith 321, 16 Agius 315, 17 Burrows 303, 18 Lewis 284, 19 Ayres 226, 20 Lane 198,...

FINAL ROUND: September 30 – Norley, nr Frodsham, Cheshire (Mid Cheshire MXC).

 

Rd 4 – Canada Heights, Swanley (Eastbourne MXC)

 1 Jack Cox (Cox Hire Yamaha) 60 + 47 + 60 = 167

 2 Ben Saunders (150 AJP KTM) 47 + 50 + 47 = 144

 3 Shane Holmes (IDS Transport KTM) 45 + 41 + 50 = 136

 4 Paul Neale (RaceSpec Kawasaki) 20 + 60 + 54 = 134

 5 Sean Frayne (SPS Honda) 35 + 54 + 45 = 134

 6 Ryan Crowder (Rocket Centre Honda) 43 + 39 + 37 = 119

 7 Adam Wells (Underdog Honda) 41 + 45 + 33 = 119

 8 Joseph Del-Busso (250F Honda) 39 + 35 + 43 = 117

 9 Ryan Jones (250F KTM) 29 + 37 + 35 = 101

10 Scott Williams (250F Suzuki) 27 + 31 + 39 = 97

11 Ryan Morris (Cradley Kawasaki) 54+43+0=97, 12 Edward Briscoe (250F Suzuki) 26+29+41=96, 13 Martin Jones (250F Kawasaki) 33+27+25=85, 14 Stuart Owen (250F Yamaha) 23+26+29=78, 15 Luke Smith (???) 19+25+27=71, 16 Carl Benjamin (Thornbury Red11 Kaw) 37+33+0=70, 17 Craig Reynolds (???) 22+23+21=66, 18 Richard Gray (250F Kawasaki) 17+22+26=65, 19 Matthew Nash (???) 21+21+23=65, 20 Cory McShane (???) 25+0+31=56, 21 Matthew Bath (???) 14+20+22=56, 22 James Lane (LRT Honda) 31+0+24=55, 23 Daniel Hill (250F Yamaha) 16+24+13=53, 24 Steven Owen (???) 18+15+18=51, 25 Scott Mathia (Wulfsport Honda) 50+0+0=50,...

RACE ONE: 1 Cox, 2 Morris, 3 Mathia, 4 Saunders, 5 Holmes, 6 Crowder, 7 Wells, 8 Del-Busso, 9 Carl Benjamin, 10 Frayne, 11 Martin Jones, 12 Lane, 13 Ryan Jones, 14 Scott Williams, 15 Edward Briscoe, 16 McShane, 17 Russell, 18 Stuart Owen, 19 Reynolds, 20 Nash.

RACE TWO: 1 Neale, 2 Frayne, 3 Saunders, 4 Cox, 5 Wells, 6 Morris, 7 Holmes, 8 Crowder, 9 Ryan Jones, 10 Del-Busso, 11 Carl Benjamin, 12 Scott Williams, 13 Edward Briscoe, 14 Martin Jones, 15 Stuart Owen, 16 Luke Smith, 17 Daniel Hill, 18 Reynolds, 19 Gray, 20 Nash.

RACE THREE: 1 Cox, 2 Neale, 3 Holmes, 4 Saunders, 5 Frayne, 6 Del-Busso, 7 Edward Briscoe, 8 Scott Williams, 9 Crowder, 10 Ryan Jones, 11 Wells, 12 McShane, 13 Stuart Owen, 14 Luke Smith, 15 Gray, 16 Luke Smith, 17 Daniel Hill, 18 Reynolds, 19 Gray, 20 Nash.

SERIES STANDINGS after 4 (of 5) rounds: 1 Cox 630 points, 2 Neale 568, 3 Saunders 567, 4 Holmes 502, 5 Crowder 492, 6 Carl Benjamin 458, 7 Frayne 444, 8 Mathia 420, 9 Scott Williams 377, 10 Ryan Jones 375, 11 Martin Jones 369, 12 Del-Busso 319, 13 Lane 318, 14 Edward Briscoe 294, 15 Wells 280, 16 Luke Smith 255, 17 Brandon Benjamin 252, 18 Swift 231, 19 Gray 229, 20 Nash 226,...

NEXT ROUND: September 30 – Norley, nr Frodsham, Cheshire (Mid Cheshire MXC).

SUPPORT CLASSES

Non-Qualifiers: 1 Paul Lloyd, 2 Barry James, 3 Scott Mullard, 4 Ben Llewellyn, 5 Nathan Smith, 6 Stephen Hurst.

Expert: 1 Jamie McCarthy, 2 Lee Truman, 3 Adam Smith, 4 Lloyd Pettet, 5 Ben Reeves, 6 Archie Knight.

Senior: 1 Jake Lawes, 2 Joshua Smith, 3 James Benson, 4 Andrew Prosser, 5 Stephen Jones, 6 Perry Waison.

Junior: 1 Paul Keet, 2 Benjamin Prosser, 3 Jon Alldritt, 4 Phil Duckett, 5 Michael George, 6 Oliver Burbidge.