MAXX POWER!
By TMX Archives on 14th Jan 15
At the beginning of the 2014 season the Maxxis British Motocross Championship looked like being a very competitive affair, with two of the countrys best performing GP riders coming home to take part in the series for the first time in many yearsAdd to that a very strong field of established runners, plus one of the regular overseas competitors switching from MX1 to MX2 and it was all looked very exciting.
However, as it turned out Shaun Simpson, on his HM Plant KTM, had a virtually unchallenged run for the MX1 title after his main rival and fellow GP runner – Wilvo Forkrent KTM rider Jake Nicholls – had to pull out of the series, and his racing year, after round four when he broke one of his fingers badly in a freak accident.
Meanwhile, in the ultra competitive MX2 class Latvian Wilvo Forkrent KTM rider, and crowd favourite Matiss Karro had such speed he should have run away with the crown.
However at the start of the year he self destructed in many of his races, which meant the title was eventually decided at the final round between Karro and another GP runner Mel Pocock (HM Plant KTM).
It all seems so long ago now as it was back in March 16, when the series started at a surprising dry and mild Landrake, just over the Devon/ Cornwall border and ended six months latter at the legendary Foxhill circuit just outside Swindon in late September.
Apart from the first attempt to run Foxhill that had to be cancelled because of the atrocious weather in mid May the rounds all ran like clock work with reasonable amounts of spectators coming through the gates at most of the rounds.
FOR FULL REPORT AND PICTURES SEE TMX NEWS JANUARY 15 (ISSUE1954)
