Jack signs-up for TTT Beta!
By TMX Archives on 26th Oct 07
JACK Challoner (16) - he celebrates his 17th birthday on New Years Day - has signed for the Italian Florence-based Beta Top Trials Team after test-riding a special 125cc machine at the Beta factory.
Jack will join Michael Brown in the TTT line-up and has special targets for next season with Jack contesting the FIM Youth World Cup and the European 125 Youth Championship as well as stepping-up a class in the Colin Appleyard ACU British Championship from Youth to Expert.
John Lampkin has been the driving force behind the TTT Team visit. The Silsden importer managed to obtain the special 2007 125cc Beta machines for Jack in the summer and the boy spent his time in Italy test riding the 2008 125 Beta which he described as awesome'.
This is a new direction for TTT as it will be their first venture into the 125s. Said Jack, I am going out with Michael in early November and will be training with Jeroni Fajardo and Daniel Maurino. My father Simon, and Uncle Adam (my minder) thank John Lampkin for all his help this year. Nothing has been spared to get the best Beta for me, added Jack.
Jack is really serious about the Italian Connection and has already enrolled in a night school to learn Italian. He also has a reputation of keeping his focus firmly on the job in hand which is winning, with no outside distractions, just like former Beta rider Dougie Lampkin!
JACK has taken the ACU Class A Youth trials championship title with one round yet to run, Sunday's Mansfield Maun event at Bracken Rocks. Jack, aged 16, won the first four events, then a third at Kent, where MRS Sherco rider Adam Jones, from Scunthorpe, took the 20 points. Challoner bounced back straight away to win the Isle of Wight.
Class B is still in the melting pot with Richmond's 14-year-old Richard Sadler leading on 103 from Jack Sheppard trailing on 100. The title revolves round Sheppard, and how he copes with Bracken Rocks after his lay-off. Sadler is on a roll after winning, overall, Thirsk and Bradford last Sunday overall, and on a brand new MRS Sherco as well. The the other factors are George Gosden, Sam Yeadon, Daniel Knaggs. Luke Walker (C Class champ) Jack Howell and Chris Hunt. And the real unknown quantity Joanne Coles and her MRS Sherco who knows her way round the rocks.
As the clocks move back this weekend (don't forget!) the Mansfield Maun programme fires up at 10am.