Super Venske shows he's Elite
By TMX Archives on 9th Jul 10
ONCA again and for the third time in it's history the British Supermoto Championships came to the heart of Manchester and to one of football's iconic landmarks, Sports City, for round five of the 2010 series where hard man South African, Craig Venske, rode through pain from a broken leg to take the lion's share of the points and propel himself into a comfortable lead in both Elite class championship.
Full story in T+MX News, issue dated July 19, 2010.
RESULTS
British Supermoto Championship Rd 5 – Sports City, Manchester (NORA-Sport)
ELITE 450cc
RACE ONE: 1 Craig Venske, 2 James Addy, 3 Richard Sharp, 4 David Hartley, 5 Richard Blakeman, 6 Chris Walker, 7 Chris Hodgson, 8 Andy Mitchell, 9 George Clements, 10 Ryan Dixon.
RACE TWO: 1 Venske, 2 Addy, 3 Hartley, 4 Walker, 5 Sharp, 6 Blakeman, 7 Dixon, 8 Clements, 9 Hodgson, 10 Lewis Cornish.
RACE THREE: 1 Venske, 2 Walker, 3 Addy, 4 Hodgson, 5 Sharp, 6 Blakeman, 7 Hartley, 8 Mitchell, 9 Clements, 10 Dixon.
CLUBMAN 450cc
RACE ONE: 1 Phil Gee, 2 Jay Matthews, 3 Michael Craig, 4 Chris Lambourne, 5 James Moore, 6 Ryan Metcalf, 7 Gary Paul, 8 Paul Plevin, 9 Jason Metcalf, 10 Michael Whittemore.
RACE TWO: 1 Gee, 2 Craig, 3 Lambourne, 4 Matthews, 5 Moore, 6 Metcalf, 7 Kris Norris, 8 Plevin, 9 Metcalf, 10 Paul.
RACE THREE: 1 Gee, 2 Craig, 3 Moore, 4 Metcalf, 5 Plevin, 6 Paul, 7 Metcalf, 8 Lambourne, 9 Whittemore, 10 Norris.
JUNIOR/ 250cc
RACE ONE: 1 Ben Stafford, 2 Malachi Mitchell-Thomas, 3 Michael Ford, 4 Stuart Sharp, 5 Owen Connell, 6 Sam Gilbody, 7 Ryan Rudd, 8 Ashley Rudd, 9 George Tilbury, 10 Thomas Booth-Amos.
RACE TWO: 1 Mitchell-Thomas, 2 Stafford, 3 Gilbody, 4 Ford, 5 Sharp, 6 Connell, 7 R Rudd, 8 A Rudd, 9 Tilbury, 10 Booth-Amos.
RACE THREE: 1 Mitchell-Thomas, 2 Stafford, 3 Gilbody, 4 Ford, 5 Sharp, 6 Connell, 7 R Rudd, 8 A Rudd, 9 Tilbury, 10 Ashley Saunders.
QUAD
RACE ONE: 1 Cathal McCarten, 2 Craig Kilner, 3 Mike Taylor, 4 Joe Hodgson, 5 Mat Lawry, 6 Lee Hazelwood, 7 David Holman, 8 Chris Wright, 9 Sam Hodgson, 10 Marc Beevers.
RACE TWO: 1 McCarten, 2 Kilner, 3 Hodgson, 4 Lawry, 5 Hazelwood, 6 D Holman, 7 Beevers, 8 Luke Holman, 9 Wright, 10 Ian Russell.
RACE THREE: 1 McCarten, 2 Lawry, 3 Kilner, 4 D Holman, 5 Hazelwood, 6 Wright, 7 Russell, 8 Beevers, 9 Tony Nash, 10 Tim Clark.
SUNDAY
OPEN ELITE
RACE ONE: 1 Craig Venske, 2 James Addy, 3 David Hartley, 4 Chris Walker, 5 Lee Williams, 6 George Clements, 7 Ryan Dixon, 8 Lewis Cornish, 9 Sami Salstola, 10 Oliver Harrison.
RACE TWO: 1 Addy, 2 Hartley, 3 Clements, 4 Williams, 5 Salstola, 6 Dixon, 7 Cornish, 8 Richard Blakeman, 9 Harrison, 10 Venske.
RACE THREE: 1 Addy, 2 Venske, 3 Richard Sharp, 4 Walker, 5 Hartley, 6 Salstola, 7 Blakeman, 8 Clements, 9 Williams, 10 Cornish.
NATIONAL OPEN CLASS
RACE ONE:1 Graeme Norris, 2 Robert Hartley, 3 Malachi Mitchell-Thomas, 4 Ben Stafford, 5 Phil Gee, 6 Lee Metcalf, 7 Dean Wingate, 8 Michael Craig, 9 Ben Kirkman, 10 Chris Jones.
RACE TWO: 1 Mitchell-Thomas, 2 Norris, 3 Hartley, 4 Stafford, 5 Gee, 6 Wingate, 7 Jones, 8 Metcalf, 9 Kirkman, 10 Peter Bennett.
RACE THREE: 1 Gee, 2 Norris, 3 Mitchell-Thomas, 4 Wingate, 5 Hartley, 6 Stafford, 7 Bennett, 8 Dave Jolly, 9 Metcalf, 10 Craig.
CLUBMAN OPEN CLASS
RACE ONE: 1 Sam Gilbody, 2 Brad Hardy, 3 Kevin Henderson, 4 Michael Ford, 5 Stuart Scarlett, 6 Ricky Grimshaw, 7 Paul McNamara, 8 Rob Dickens, 9 Ryan Metcalf, 10 Harry Kempz.
RACE TWO: 1 Henderson, 2 Scarlett, 3 Gilbody, 4 Grimshaw, 5 McNamara, 6 Tom Hallam, 7 Scott Wright, 8 Metcalf, 9 Paul Fletcher, 10 Craig Brisby.
RACE THREE: 1 Gilbody, 2 Grimshaw, 3 Henderson, 4 Wright, 5 Metcalf, 6 Fletcher, 7 Dickens, 8 Brisby, 9 McNamara, 10 Kempz.