It's the right way for Brown at Wrangway
By TMX Archives on 9th Jul 09
DEFENDING champ-ions, Stuart Brown and Luke Peters, notched up yet another win at the weekend with two wins and a second place at the sixth round of the Maxxis British Sidecarcross Cham-pionship at Wrangway, Wellington, Somerset. It turned out to be another great day's racing in the sunshine as there was only a little drizzle all day, despite rain being forecast.
Brown and Peters took two of the three wins in the championship to maintain their championship lead with an 89-point advantage.
Brown and Peters blasted into the lead from the start of race one and held the front throughout for a fantastic win.
John Lyne and Steve Kirwin tucked into second with Andy and Tim Breacher third, ahead of Dean Hyde and Sam Harris.
The battle for fifth was tough with Mark Kinge and Kevin Foyle fighting hard to find a gap to pass Rob Oldfield and Gary Kinge on the narrow track.
Then, just after the mid-way point, disaster struck. The Pannell brothers were trackside at the top of the steepest hill, with yellow flags to slow the other teams. Then Jon Rutherford and Elliott Browne flew up the middle of the hill, avoiding the accident, but they touched, together with Ross Bowers and Darren Bishop.
Rutherford was the casualty, with both driver and passenger laying in the track and the bike balanced on the hill.
The other crews quickly stopped and the race was red-flagged. The race was not re-run and the results stood.
MAXXIS BRITISH SIDECAR-CROSS CHAMPIONSHIP
Rd 6 – Wrangway, nr Wellington, Somerset (Broadhembury & DMC)
1 Brown/ Peters (Husaberg VMC) 25+25+22=72
2 Lyne/ Kirwin (CCM VMC) 22+20+20=62
3 Millard/ Millard (Husaberg WSP) 11+22+25=58
4 Breacher/ Breacher (KTM VMC) 20+16+18=54
5 Oldfield/ Kinge (Pope KTM VMC) 15+15+15=45
6 Jenkins/ Chamberlain (Zabel VMC) 13+13+16=42
7 Topp/ Geraghty (TQS KTM) 12+14+14=40
8 Hodges/ Ide (Hodges MTH KHC) 14 +11+13=38
9 Hyde/ Harris (KTM VMC) 18+ 2 +11=31
10 Jarvis/ Dunkley (SBR VMC) 10+18+ 0 =28
11 Mark Kinge/ Kev Foyle (PJK Honda KHR) 16+12+0=28,
12 Brett Wilkinson/ Ryan Humphrey (KTM VMC) 3+10+12=25,
13 Ross Bowers/ Darren Bishop (M&D Yamaha VMC) 7+8+10=25,
14 Ben Blyth/ Dan Phelps (Colwyn Ent Zabel VMC) 8+7+4=19,
15 Nick Bowers/ Ben Millard (KTM VMC) 9+9+1=19,
16 Roger Blackman/ Steve Baughan (KTM AYR) 0+6+9=15,
17 Jon Rutherford/ Elliott Browne (KTM VMC) 0+5+7=12,
18 Paul Rutherford/ Mike Hedges (DRC KTM VMC) 5+1+6=12,
19 Adam Field/ Ian Watkins (MTH VMC) 1+0+8=9,
20 Gary Patey/ Adie Sarfas (SBR KTM) 4+0+5=9,
21 Peter Batt/ Tony Hannah (KTM) 6+3+0=9,
22 Stephen Parr/ Brian Parr (MTH BSU) 0+4+2=6,
23 David Millard/ Eric Maguire (Shoestring MTH BSU) 0+0+3=3,
24 Neil Hiscock/ Steve Randall (Yamaha) 2+0+0=2.
RACE ONE: 1 Brown, 2 Lyne, 3 Hodges, 4 Field, 5 Kinge, 6 Topp, 7 Nick Bowers, 8 Bradford, 9 Ross Bowers, 10 Dan Millard, 11 Breacher, 12 Hyde, 13 Blackman, 14 Turner, 15 Oldfield, 16 Taylor, 17 Lines, 18 Patey, 19 Blyth, 20 Wilkinson.
RACE TWO: 1 Brown, 2 Dan Millard, 3 Lyne, 4 Breacher, 5 Hodges, 6 Topp, 7 Ross Bowers, 8 Bradford, 9 Kinge, 10 Nick Bowers, 11 Patey, 12 Hyde, 13 Turner, 14 Blackman, 15 Jenkins, 16 Jon Rutherford, 17 Jarvis, 18 Oldfield, 19 Field, 20 Taylor.
RACE THREE: 1 Dan Millard, 2 Brown, 3 Lyne, 4 Hodges, 5 Bradford, 6 Topp, 7 Ross Bowers, 8 Nick Bowers, 9 Patey, 10 Field, 11 Turner, 12 Jenkins, 13 Wilkinson, 14 Jon Rutherford, 15 Taylor, 16 Lines, 17 Blackman, 18 Keane, 19 Jarvis, 20 Hyde.
SERIES STANDINGS after 5 (of 7) rounds: 1 Brown 372 points, 2 Lyne 283, 3 Breacher 258, 4 Dan Millard 244, 5 Jenkins 193, 6 Bradford 191, 7 Oldfield 182, 8 Kinge 171, 9 Topp 165, 10 Jarvis 153, 11 Blackman 146, 12 Nick Bowers 113, 13 Wilkinson 105, 14 Ross Bowers 105, 15 Hyde 101, 16 Keane 54, 17 Hodges 46, 18 Jon Rutherford 42, 19 Lines 41, 20 Blyth 39,...
FINAL ROUND: September 20 – Winterpick Farm, Horsham, West Sussex (YDP Racing Ltd).
SOLO SUPPORT CLASSES OVERALL
Expert: 1 Luke Hill (450F Maunders Honda), 2 Josh Wyatt (450F Wyatt Fencing Kawasaki), 3 Ryan Pryer (250F TC Suzuki).
Over 35: 1 Gary Down (450F GT Suzuki), 2 Rob Lewis (450F Honda), 3 Richard Tapscott (250F KTM).
Junior Support One: 1 Alex Cox (500 Honda), 2 Scott Gaines (250F KTM), 3 Jack Phelps (450F Kawasaki).
Junior Support Two: 1 Paul Healy (250F Yamaha), 2 Dan Griffin (250F Kawasaki), 3 Michael Ell (250 Kawasaki).
For full report, see T+MX NEWS, Friday, July 10, 2009
Dan and Joe Millard had a good day, taking their Husaberg outfit to third place overall.