It’s Green for go!
By TMX Archives on 25th Feb 15
Billy Green won the opening round of the new-look British Class B trials championship on Saturday in West Yorkshire, where the compact course housed varied sections over four routes.
It was on the cards that Billy would feature at the sharp end of the 20 contestants and Yorkies Kieran Child and Will Tolson were expected to be up there with him.
But George Taylor and Jack Biggins forced their way onto the podium alongside Green, while Duncan MacColl added insult to injury by snatching fourth place ahead of Yorkshire's 2014 Class B trials champion Tolson.
The top three cleaned the easy first section at the Bumpy estate, where the soft going left many of the 70 starters fatigued.
Billy then cleaned the remaining 11 sections, planned and marked out by Graham Wilson and Dan Thorpe.
Ulster visitor Josh Hanlon foundered at the tenth where the gully and deviation round a stout tree got him for a maximum – but he bettered Green's second lap by a dab.
Jack Biggins was consistent in the mud and kept in touch with the leaders, before stopping in the 12th, where three tight grassy banks and turns on the left of the section and a final right turn to the ends cards made it tricky to get the right line.
