OutFoxed on the hill
By TMX Archives on 18th Oct 07
WELSHMAN Mark Jones totally dominated the final round of the Wulfsport British Masters Motocross Championships at famous Foxhill Moto Park on Sunday.
The Wulfsport Kawasaki rider annihilated the restof the field in the Pro Open class, scorching to two brilliant racewins and the overall victory at the former Grand Prix circuit.
Team-mate Shaun Simpson almost made it a WulfsportKawasaki clean sweep, but after dominating the first leg of the Pro 125class he relinquished the lead of the second moto to the hard chargingRelentless Suzuki of Lewis Gregory when in sight of the flag.
Championship leader of the Pro Open class goinginto the event, Brad Anderson, already had one hand on the trophy andneeded nothing short of a disaster to be denied the crown, but by hisown admission made life difficult for himself by having ''A bad day''.His Pioneer Yamaha bogged down and stalling at the start of the openingmoto, seemingly leaving him facing an impossible task. ''It was like Iwas trying to pull away in fifth gear, it stalled and then it wouldn'tstart.'' he commented afterwards as he joined the race from dead lastposition. But in typical hard charging fashion the popular NorthEasterner wasted no time in clawing his way through the pack to stealsecond at the flag, ahead of his main title rival Danny Smyth.
Similarly in the second moto whilst trying to makehis way through the pack after an indifferent start, a tangle withdouble class riding Shaun Simpson on lap two again left him welldownfield, as the young Scot struggled to extricate himself from therear of Anderson's Yamaha. ''We clashed at the bottom of the big hill,I couldn't get away and turned round to see Shaun stuck in therear-wheel of my bike,'' added the new champion after the race
Still Anderson did enough again to comfortablyclaim the 2007 title, to follow up his 125cc crown of 2006. Similarly,young PAR Honda teamster Ashley Greedy had a less than stellar day, butalready carrying a nearly 100-point lead coming into the event theWelshman comfortably claimed his first adult championship with the Pro125 crown.
WULFSPORT BRITISH MASTERS MX Rd 5 - Foxhill Moto Park, Wiltshire
PRO OPEN
1 Mark Jones (Kawasaki) 50 + 50 = 100
2 Brad Anderson (Yamaha) 47 + 47 = 94
3 Danny Smyth (Honda) 45 + 43 = 88
4 Scott Probert (Kawasaki) 41 + 41 = 82
5 Mark Hucklebridge (Kawasaki) 27 + 45 = 72
6 Ben Saunders (Honda) 35 + 37 = 72
7 Jamie Law (Suzuki) 39 + 31 = 70
8 Glen Phillips (KTM) 30 + 39 = 69
9 Aston Bird (KTM) 37 + 30 = 67
10 David Campbell (Honda) 33 + 33 = 66
11 Jamie Lewis (Honda) 29 + 35 = 64
12 Nathan Rooks (Yamaha) 26 + 27 = 53
13 Charlie Hollis (Honda) 24 + 28 = 52
14 Danny Tollet (KTM) 25 + 26 = 51
15 Stuart Rawlings (Yamaha) 23 + 24 = 47
Final Series Standings: 1 Brad Anderson 477points, 2 Danny Smyth 402, 3 Brett Hillman 275, 4 Glen Phillips 273, 515 Jamie Lewis 269, 6 Neville Bradshaw 268, 7 Charlie Hollis 264, 8Jody Smyth 244, 9 Jamie Law 238, 10 Dorren Coutts 232.
WULFSPORT BRITISH MASTERS MX Rd 5 - Foxhill Moto Park, Wiltshire
PRO 125
1 Shaun Simpson (Kawasaki) 50 + 47 = 97
2 Lewis Gregory (Suzuki) 45 + 50 = 95
3 Elliot Banks-Browne (Suzuki) 43 + 45 = 88
4 Jonathan Pettiit (TM) 41 + 43 = 84
5 Kristian Whatley (KTM) 47 + 33 = 80
6 Ashley Greedy (Honda) 37 + 41 = 78
7 Alex Butler (Honda) 39 + 37 = 76
8 Luke Remmer (Yamaha) 35 + 39 = 74
9 Scott Probert (Kawasaki) 31 + 35 = 66
10 Phil Mercer (Kawasaki) 33 + 31 = 64
11 Dominic Foreman (Honda) 29 + 30 = 59
12 Lewis King (Kawaski) 30 + 28 = 58
13 Jack Hawes (Kawasaki) 28 + 29 = 57
14 Ashley Thomas (Yamaha) 19 + 26 = 45
15 Joe Gregory (Honda) 24 + 21 = 45
Final Series Standings: 1 Ashley Greedy 442points, 2 Lewis Gregory 362, 3 Alex Butler 345, 4 Phil Mercer 305, 5Shaun Simpson 294, 6 Lewis King 286, 7 Kristian Whatley 272, 8 AndrewWilson 264, 9 Ashley Thomas 245, 10 Dominic Foreman 199.
WULFSPORT BRITISH MASTERS MX Rd 5 - Foxhill Moto Park, Wiltshire
AMATEUR OPEN: 1 David Campbell 144, 2 James Shaw137, 3 Thomas Batty 127, 4 Stuart Rawlings 127, 5 Shaun Wigham 119, 6Ben Smith 109, 7 Jason Smith 101, 8 Nathan Parker 100, 9 ChrisBrightmore 98, 10 Barry Teasdale 91, 11 Marcel Hunt 82, 12 Sam Beddows81, 13 Paul Keates 78, 14 Jamie Cooper 78, 15 Lee Buck 76.
Final Series Standings: 1 James Shaw 646, 2 MattLee 561, 3 Ben Smith 495, 4 Shaun Wigham 472, 5 Barry Teasdale 467, 6Chris Brightmore 430, 7 Jonathan Slesser 377, 8 Stephen Wade 371, 9 SamBeddows 348, 10 Matthew Lund 341.
PRO 125cc: 1 Tom Fish 135, 2 Owen Delaney 133, 3Ricky Leathaby 130, 4 Sam Simmons 123, 5 Dean Haughton 112, 6 LukeSpence 106, 7 David Wall 105, 8 Paul Neale 105, 9 Paul Willis 102, 10Dominic Foreman 100, 11 Billy Raffle 91, 12 Joseph Del-Busso 81, 13Thomas Wightman 74, 14 Sam Robertson 74, 15 David Blackburn 72.
Final Series Standings: 1 Owen Delaney 650, 2 SamSimmons 636, 3 Tom Fish 632, 4 Jamie Dobson 518, 5 Luke Spence 502, 6Dean Haughton 451, 7 Sean Tranter 367, 8 Thomas Wightman 365, 9 DavidBlackburn 348, 10 Anthony Kahl 336.
YOUTH 125cc: 1 Lewis King 150, 2 Jack Hawes 137, 3Tom Watts 135, 4 David Games 129, 5 Gavin Foulston 121, 6 Nathan Rooks115, 7 Joe Gregory 111, 8 Max Tranah 97, 9 Ben Mycock 93, 10 Joe Cundle87, 11 Ryan King 86, 12 Ryan Pottenger 77, 13 Daniel Brough 75, 14Jordan Owen 74, 15 Peter Wainwright 72.
Final Series Standings: 1 Lewis King 692, 2 TomWatts 635, 3 David Games 587, 4 Jack Hawes 586, 5 Joe Gregory 549, 6Gavin Foulston 480, 7 Ben Mycock 467, 8 Max Tranah 419, 9 Mel Pocock416, 10 Daniel Brough 414.
BIG-WHEEL 85cc: 1 James Hutchinson 140, 2 RichieWorrall 139, 3 Gavin Corsi 123, 4 Conor Butler 116 , 5 Charles Statt115, 6 Anthony Reville 115, 7 Jonathan Jones 105, 8 Luke Hawkins 100, 9Ian McEwan 97, 10 Jake Carey 94, 11 Ben Griffiths 91, 12 Ben Thomson88, 13 Christian Taylor 84, 14 Karl Haycock 78, 15 Daniel Houlker 77.
Final Series Standings: 1 Richie Worrall 683, 2James Hutchinson 645, 3 Gavin Corsi 539, 4 Christian Taylor 477, 5Jonathan Jones 472, 6 Luke Hawkins 466, 7 Conor Butler 449, 8 AnthonyReville 443, 9 Jake Carey 435, 10 Ben Thomson 399.
SMALL-WHEEL 85cc: 1 Dan Thornhill 144, 2 JamesRutter 133, 3 Luke Norris 131, 4 Tom Rogers 128, 5 Bradley Pocock 122,6 Ben Howell 119, 7 Harry Bradley 111, 8 Danny Blair 101, 9 RobertHales 97, 10 Sam Winterburn 95, 11 Conal Glover 89, 12 Joe Collier 84,13 Aidan Wigger 83, 14 Charlie Cundle 75, 15 Gabrielle Hamlet 73.
Final Series Standings: 1 Bradley Pocock 627, 2Luke Norris 596, 3 Ben Howell 578, 4 James Rutter 539, 5 Harry Bradley489, 6 Sam Winterburn 456, 7 Rob Muscat 439, 8 Joshua Chapman 420, 9Danny Blair 404, 10 Dan Thornhill 361.
For full story and pictures, see T+MX NEWS, Friday, October 19, 2007.