Torr' de force
By TMX Archives on 6th Jul 07
WAYNE Smith on the PAR Homes Honda stretched his lead still further at the top of the CCM British Four-stroke championship by taking the overall at round five of the championship at Torrington, North Devon, as reigning champion Brad Anderson suffered yet another DNF on his Pioneer Yamaha.
In the PAR Homes Under-21 series, Ray Rowson continued his winning ways by taking another two convincing wins aboard his Molson Kawasaki, while in the Quad championship Paul Winrow on his Interlock Lonestar Honda took the top step on the podium for the first time in what seems like an age as a win and a second place gave him the overall and moves him to within points of the serieslead.
The organising Torridge club just doesn't have any luck as, like last year, rain started to fall on Saturday and kept falling til halfway through Sunday morning, turning the paddock area into a boggy mess.
But, they also know the track and took the brave deciusion to go ahead with the meeting and were rewarded as the sun even made an occasional appearance, even if the track was a bit 'one-lined'.
RESULTS
CCM BRITISH FOUR-STROKE MX CHAMPS
Rd 5 Waggadon Farm, Torrington (Torridge & DMCC)
1 Wayne Smith (PAR Homes Honda) 30 + 27 = 57
2 Neville Bradshaw (PAR Homes Honda) 19 + 25 = 44
3 Jody Smyth (Wiseco Honda) 21 + 19 = 40
4 Danny Smyth (Wiseco Honda) 23 + 17 = 40
5 Mark Hucklebridge (Motoxtreme Kawasaki) 27 + 10 = 37
6 Richard Lawson (Twisted 7 Kawasaki) 10 + 21 = 31
7 Brad Anderson (Pioneer Yamaha) 0 + 30 = 30
8 George Davis (Motoxtreme Kawasaki) 17 + 8 = 25
9 Glen Phillips (Kawasaki) 25 + 0 = 25
10 Jordan Rose (Albion KTM UK) 0 + 23 = 23
SERIES STANDINGS after 5 (of 8) rounds: 1 Smith 257 points, 2 Anderson 210, 3 Hucklebridge 202, 4 Jody Smyth 186, 5 Danny Smyth 172, 6 Bradshaw 147, 7 Rose 140, 8 Bales 107, 9 Lewis 102, 10 Gillett 94, 11 Phillips 93, 12 Lawson 90, 13 Yelland 72, 14 May 70, 15 Johnson 59,...
PAR HOMES BRITISH UNDER-21 MX CHAMPS
1 Ray Rowson (Molson Kawasaki) 30 + 30 = 60
2 Jamie Law (Relentless Suzuki) 25 + 21 = 46
3 Ashley Greedy (PAR Homes Honda) 27 + 19 = 46
4 Alex Snow (Relentless Suzuki) 21 + 17 = 38
5 Kristian Whatley (Ruddock KTM) 10 + 25 = 35
6 Luke Remmer (Pioneer Yamaha) 3 + 27 = 30
7 Max Nyberg (KTM) 13 + 13 = 26
8 Luke Hill (Maunders Honda) 19 + 7 = 26
9 James Dodd (Sandiford Honda) 9 + 15 = 24
10 Chris Bastick (Danger UK KTM) 15 + 9 = 24
SERIES STANDINGS after 5 (of 8) rounds: 1 Rowson 297 points, 2 Law 259, 3 Whatley 189, 4 Greedy 181, 5 Remmer 137, 6 Bastick 122, 7 Priit Ratsep 120, 8 Preston 117, 9 Keet 112, 10 Snow 110, 11 Kristjan Ratsep 101, 12 Murro 98, 13 Dark 94, 14 Luke Hill 93, 15 Dodd 77,...
CCM BRITISH QUAD-CROSS CHAMPS
1 Paul Winrow (Interlock Lonestar Honda) 25 + 22 = 47
2 Lindsey Duke (L&G Plant Honda) 22 + 20 = 42
3 John Mitchell (ATV World Yamaha) 15 + 25 = 40
4 Joe Maessen (Mercuria GYTR Yamaha) 18 + 18 = 36
5 William Waggott (KIK Honda) 20 + 14 = 34
6 Carl Bunce (Honda) 12 + 15 = 27
7 Simon Hammersley (Lamos Yamaha) 13 + 13 = 26
8 Richard Tordoff (Anderson ATV Suzuki) 16 + 10 = 26
9 Stefan Murphy (450F Anderson ATV Suzuki) 14 + 8 = 22
10 Paul Holmes (ATV World Yamaha) 5 + 16 = 21
SERIES STANDINGS after 5 (of 9) rounds: 1 Mitchell 192 points, 2 Maessen 187, 3 Winrow 187, 4 Waggott 142, 5 Duke 131, 6 MacBeth 118, 7 Tordoff 116, 8 Toye 100, 9 Bunce 98, 10 Holmes 88, 11 Beda 83, 12 Simon Hammersley 83, 13 Dave Hammersley 69, 14 Reid 66, 15 North 63,...
NEXT ROUND: Jul 15 Dean Moor, nr Workington (West Cumbria MCC).
Full report, results and pictures in T+MX News, issue July 6, 2007.