Morris lands Milnthorpe Cup
By TMX Archives on 8th Mar 07
BRITISH Championship challenger Shaun Morris made a welcome visit into the Northern centre from his Charnock Richard north-west base on Sunday to compete in the Westmorland Motor Club's flagship Milnthorpe Cup centre trial and eventually made off with the Premier award on his Gas Gas.
The single lap trial, that is based in the picturesque Lythe Valley, near Kendal, is a cracker of a road-based event taking in numerous groups of sections featuring lots of different groups in the streams and woods that abound in the area.
After a bright start, the appalling weather that affected virtually the whole country blew in and the afternoon was a pretty miserable one for riders and especially for the hardy observers, some of whom stayed out to mark several sections in the wet.
The conditions meant that the trial proved a touch harder than the route-planners had intended although they had tried to anticipate the changing conditions. But a single lap trial is not just as easy to change as ten sections round a field.
RESULTS
HARD ROUTE
Expert: Shaun Morris (Gas Gas) 17 marks lost, Chris Dixon (Scorpa) 23, Richard Gaskell (Beta) 27, Steve Dixon (Scorpa) 32, Robert Shuttleworth (Beta) 51, Michael Irving (Beta) 52.
Intermediate: Glenn Quinn (Sherco) 66, Craig Scott (Montesa) 70, Michael Jenkinson (Gas Gas) 75.
Novice: Sam Myers (Gas Gas) 74.
EASY ROUTE
Novice: James Walker (Sherco) 31, Craig Seward (Scorpa) 50, Karl Ratcliffe (Beta) 64, Mike Fleming (Sherco) 72, Stephen Bower (Scorpa) 78, Ryan Fallows (Scorpa) 83 (fc).
Twin-shock: Michael Batty James 143.
Veteran: Mark Barrow (Scorpa) 33, Gary Bingley (Scorpa) 50, Mike Edwards (Gas Gas) 60, Phil Scott (Montesa 4RT) 63 (fc), Nicholas Moorhouse (Montesa 4RT) 63, Chris Myers Yamaha 64.
Clubman: Stephen ‘Butch' Robson (Beta) 35, John Holland (Scorpa) 46, Brett Arkwright (Montesa) 47, Dan Johnson (Montesa 4RT) 53, Mark Quinn (Beta) 56, John Gornall (Gas Gas) 58.
For full report, results and pictures see T+MX NEWS, Friday, March 9, 2007.