Them Jones, them Jones!
By TMX Archives on 30th Jan 08
AT the weekend the Mid-Wales team of Dylan Jones (125 Yamaha), Edward Jones (250 KTM) and Robert Jones (125 Yamaha) won the 2008 Inter Centre Team Enduro, an event that has been resurrected after falling out of favour in the mid 1990s.
The hard working members of the South Eastern Enduro Combine – a cooperative of nine clubs within the South Eastern Centre – laid out a 20-mile lap on military land just outside Aldershot in Hampshire, starting and finishing at Rushmoor Arena.
The course consisted of most surfaces to challenge the riders ranging form hard-pack, loose loamy soil, bogs, sand and even areas of tarmac.
At 10am the rider set off, in fours, at one-minute intervals for the first of six gruelling laps for the Expert class. The Clubman class was required to do one lap less. Laps two and three included a timed special test conveniently sited close to the parc ferme area.
With two time checks round the lap, and an ever decreasing time allocation to do the fourth circuit was going to be the hardest.
Dylan Jones set the first fastest special test time of the day, just two-seconds faster than his cousin Edward Jones who was third fastest, but the South Eastern Centre's own Ollie Moyce split the pair and was just a fraction of a second behind Dylan.
Both Jones boys lost time penalties on lap four where they checked in five minutes late after their one minute allowance. Their team-mate Robert Jones, Ed's brother, was seven minutes late with a further minute late on the second lap giving them a cumulative total of 2,740.5 penalty points.
The Cornish team of Jason Fraser (250 Husqvarna), Tim Lewis (125 TM) and Steve Dunstow (250 KTM) finished second, just over 300-points behind the winners with a total of 3,046.3.
Most of their points once again were racked up on lap four with a further couple of minutes slipping by on lap five.
INTER CENTRE TEAM ENDURO
Rushmoor Arena, nr Aldershot (South Eastern Enduro Combine)
TROPHY CLASS (Expert):–
1 Mid Wales Centre 2,740.5 penalty points – Dylan Jones (125 Yamaha), Edward Jones (250 KTM), Robert Jones (125 Yamaha).
2 Cornwall Centre 3,046.3 – Jason Fraser (250 Husqvarna), Tim Lewis (125 TM), Steve Dustow (250 KTM).
3 Eastern Centre 3,335.6 – Chris Hockey (250 Honda), Julian Harvey (144 KTM), Jamie Roper (250 Yamaha).
4 South Eastern Centre 3,757.3 – Ollie Moyce (250 Yamaha), James Jackman (250 Husqvarna), Russ Jarman (450 KTM).
5 South Midland Centre 3,969.7 – Darren Wheeler (380 Husaberg), Ashley Wood (250 Honda), Rich Warner (250 KTM).
6 Yorkshire Centre 5,352.1 – Gavin Houson (125 Husqvarna), Jim Wright (300 KTM), Mark Houson (250 Husqvarna),
7 Southern Centre 9,334.3 – Tim Hunt (450 Husaberg), Brad Armstrong (250 Kawasaki), Paul Armstrong (450 Kawasaki).
VASE CLASS (Clubman):–
1 Cornwall Centre 1,951.2 penalty points – Max Hembroke (250 KTM), Sam Chapman (125 KTM), George Edyvean (250 Suzuki).
2 Mid Wales Centre 2,207.9 – David Lloyd-Jones (125 Husqvarna), Tudur Davis (125 KTM), Mike Evans (250 KTM).
3 Wessex Centre 3,001.6 – Freddie Broadway (250 Yamaha), Ian Shuttleworth (250 Yamaha), Stuart Keedwell (380 Husaberg).
4 Yorkshire Centre 3,131.2 – Gay Hutchinson (125 Husqvarna), Tim Pattinson (250 KTM), Vince Harker (250 Husqvarna).
5 East Yorkshire Centre 3,142.5 – Neil Boyd (250 Honda), Keith Readman (125 Honda), Nigel Finnegan (125 Suzuki).
6 Eastern Centre 3,314.5 – Chris Nunn (450 Honda), Jason Narusewicz (450 KTM), Phil Maltby (250 Husqvarna).
7 South Midland Centre 3,529.3 – David Grimshaw (480 Honda), Simon Stebbings (250 KTM), Matthew Lefevre (250 Honda).
8 Southern Centre 3,819.1 – James Giddings (125 Husqvarna), Dave Coles (125 TM), Chris Collins (250 Yamaha).
9 South Western Centre 4,172.1 – Andy Elliott (250 Yamaha), Gary McCoy (250 KTM), Gary Wright (250 Yamaha).
10 South Eastern Centre 4,446.8 – Joe Beard (250 KTM), James Brown (250 Yamaha), Richard Benham (250 Yamaha).
11 Coastguard Centre 5,017.4 – Tim Penhaligon (250 Suzuki), Jason Roberts (250 Honda), Mark Roberts (250 Honda).
CLUB TEAMS:–
1 Kingston Club 5,203.9 – Jeff Cannons (250 KTM), Steve Dopson (300 KTM), Andy Gore (250 TM).
2 Portsmouth Club 5,576.2 – Andy Stevenson (250 Yamaha), David Machinek (300 KTM), Joe Gordon (250 Gas Gas).
3 Normandy Club 7,684.4 – Roger Bailey (250 Honda), Ray Jones (250 Yamaha), Andrew Rixon (650 BMW).
For full report, and pictures see T+MX News, Fiday, February 1, 2008