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2003 Results & Race Reports Round 1 Championship 02/03/2003 Martinstown Report Results Round 2 Championship 16/03/2003 Winterbourne Stickland Report Results Round 3 Championship 30/03/2003 Milborne StAndrew Report Results Round 4 Championship 13/04/2003 Bishopstone Report Results Round 5 Championship 27/04/2003 Martinstown Report Results Photos Inter Club Challenge 4&5/05/2003 Rusper Report Results Round 6 Championship 11/05/2003 Trigon Report Results Photos Non-Championship 25&26/5/2003 Bere Regis Results Round 7 Championship 08/06/2003 Henstridge Report Results Round 8 Championship 22/06/2003 Milbourne StAndrew Report Results Round 9 Championship 06/07/2003 Matchams Report Results Photos Round 10 Championship 20/07/2003 Bere Regis Report Results Photos Non-Championship 2&3/08/2003 Martinstown Results Round 11 Championship 17/08/2003 Henstridge Report Results Photos Round 12 Championship 31/08/2003 Matchams Report Results Round 13 Championship 14/09/2003 Bishopstone Report Results Round 14 Championship 28/09/2003 Langton Long Report Results Photos MARCH, first meeting of the season at Martinstown, cold and wet, lots of mud and most of the meagre entry still race rusty after the winter lay off - NOT A BIT OF IT! Gloriously sunny weather, capacity crowds in both adult classes and riders of all ages revved up and ready to go for it, either where they left off last year or making their mark in new and new-look groups. Tim Chard displayed the unerring consistency which saw him crowned expert plus champion in 2002 to earn the overall honours in the blue riband group with two fifths and fourth place while visiting whizz kid Lee Gillard's two race wins were negated by a no score in the second heat and an uncustomary last race DNF knocked second race winner Pete Broomfield out of the reckoning. With last year's top dogs elevated to the expert plus kennel, Steve Bain and Alan Parker looked set to dominate the novice group after the first race, but after running in the engine he only rebuilt the previous day, club secretary Paul Grubb rewrote the agenda with two storming rides in the afternoon. A seniors group bereft of stars who graduated from the class of '02 allowed last year's hardest trier Joe Clark to sweep all before him while Lee Cummings, emerging from a somewhat fallow debut season, and Richard Pile, building on his solid past results, scrapped for the next two placings. Among the junior schoolboy ranks Lee's little brother Dean also returned to the pre-eminence of the season before last, going straight to the top of the class with three gold stars. Jordan Murphy was lined up to be his closest rival until a last race mishap let the unshakeable Chris Gunther get the silver star and there were lots of housepoints for Grant Adlem, Clinton Townsend and Danny Wakefield. For the first time the Autos were split into two concurrently run classes with the intriguingly named Soul Ki-Aries besting Nathan Wakefield and Alice Monks in the 50cc category and hat trick hero Oliver Jones heading a trio of jumping Jacks in the 65cc bracket. Carl Miles pounced on mistakes made by the faster starting Tony Cook to seize the honours with Liam Perry, Ryan Carter and Sam Nicholls never far astern in the Inter 85 group burgeoning despite the elevation and absence of several regular runners from last year. Jamie Anstis emerged from hibernation to hit the ground running in the Inter 100 group with an untroubled maximum ahead of Marcus Feltham who upped his pace after a sluggish first race to see off the challenge of Buster Whetren and Neil Watton. RESULTS - Martinstown, 2nd March 2003 Expert Plus 1) 49 Tim Chard 2) 87 Carl Warwick 3) 39 Philip Read 4) 124 Alex Howarth 5) 18 Jon Sibley 6) 34 Chris Adlem Novice 1) 28 Paul Grubb 2) 56 Lee Perks 3) 74 Stephen Bain 4) 77 Alan Parker 5) 42 Fraser McKendry 6) 79 Richard Beattie Seniors 1) 15 Joe Clark 2) 3 Lee Cummings 3) 12 Richard Pile 4) 87 Dean Hillier 5) 10 Danny Nash 6) 4 Keith Martin Inter 100 1) 28 Jamie Anstis 2) 68 Marcus Feltham 3) 7 Neil Watton 4) 2 Buster Whetren 5) 20 Dean Clark 6) 64 Josh House Inter 85 1) 63 Carl Miles 2) 31 Tony Cook 3) 62 Liam Perry 4) 4 Ryan Carter 5) 33 Sam Nicholls 6) 32 Ben Carter Junior 1) 2 Dean Cummings 2) 37 Chris Gunther 3) 22 Jordan Murphy 4) 60 Grant Adlem 5) 24 Clinton Townsend 6) 45 Danny Wakefield Auto (65cc) 1) 5 Oliver Jones 2) 20 Jack Howe 3) 3 Jack Whetren 4) 40 Jack Alderton 5) 47 George Goodhall 6) 80 Megan Berry Auto (50cc) 1) 7 Soul Ki-Aries 2) 45 Nathan Wakefield 3) 2 Alice Monks SOME FELL ON STONY GROUND AT STICKLAND SUMER IZ A'Cumen in, as the old Darset folk song goes - and so it was in the heart of the county at Winterbourne Stickland when the second meeting of the HDYMC 2003 season took place in glorious spring sunshine. The only black cloud over the day was the unabated hail of stones which pitted and punctured following bikes and riders. It may even have been an errant stone that derailed the chain of Marcus Feltham's Kawasaki leaving him to push home for a DNF in the final Inter 100 race when a hat trick of victories seemed on the cards. Instead the laurels fell to Joshua House in a tie-break with last race winner Daniel Moyse while third placed Alex White was only two points behind the leading pair. There was no disputing Tony Cook's dominance of the Inter 85 group where he kept well clear of the chasing pack headed by returning prodigal Luke Wilkinson who pipped Alex Hussey at the end of a day-long duel for runner-up spot. Dean Cummings in the Junior ranks also reeled off three straight wins to remain unbeaten so far this season, while Jordan Murphy and Clinton Townsend each moved up one place from their Martinstown scores. No such change in the watercooled autos where the results were a carbon copy of the previous meeting with Oliver Jones the ace card that trumped three Jacks. And while Joe Clark was again top dog in the Seniors he was led home in the first encounter by Lee Cummings and last year's 100cc champion Ross Copsey on his delayed debut in the quarter litre group also made his presence felt with two second spots ahead of perennial third placed Danny Nash. Among the big boys it was Carl Warwick who ruled the roost after bouncing back from a poor first race to snatch overall honours from Mike Walbrin with stalwart Pete Broomfield third ahead of veteran Chris Adlem. Martinstown stars Steve Bain and Alan Parker renewed their rivalry in the Novice class but they were totally eclipsed by Mark Williamson whose three race wins was the only hint of consistency in a group characterised by the triumph of exuberance over expertise. RESULTS - Winterbourne Stickland, 16th March 2003 Here for all points scorers Expert Plus 1) 87 Carl Warwick 2) 6 Mike Walbrin 3) 44 Pete Broomfield 4) 34 Chris Adlem 5) 30 Gress Woods 6) 142 Wayne Noble Novice 1) 4 Mark Williamson 2) 74 Stephen Bain 3) 77 Alan Parker 4) 41 Colin Ayres 5) 5 Steve Groom 6) 22 Steve Carter Senior 1) 15 Joe Clark 2) 10 Danny Nash 3) 2 Ross Copsey 4) 87 Dean Hillier 5) 4 Keith Martin 6) 11 Matt Nicholls Inter 100 1) 64 Josh House 2) 30 Daniel Moyse 3) 19 Alex White 4) 7 Neil Watton 5) 9 Robert Hartley 6) 14 Thomas Thorne Inter 85 1) 31 Tony Cook 2) 98 Luke Wilkinson 3) 1 Alex Hussey 4) 33 Sam Nicholls 5) 63 Carl Miles 6) 86 Adam Arnold Junior 1) 2 Dean Cummings 2) 21 Jordan Murphy 3) 24 Clinton Townsend 4) 60 Grant Adlem 5) 37 Chris Gunter 6) 28 Ross Churchill Auto (watercooled) 1) 5 Oliver Jones 2) 20 Jack Howe 3) 3 Jack Whetren 4) 40 Jack Alderton 5) 47 George Goodhall 6) 38 Samuel Duggan Auto (aircooled) 1) 7 Soul Ki-Aries 2) 22 Jaylee Arnold 3) 41 Billy Savage 4) 45 Nathan Wakefield 5) 21 Bill Buck MOTHERS PRIDE AT SUN-BLESSED MILBORNE THREE dry meetings in March - it may not be a record but it certainly is a drought as the superficially greensward of Milborne St Andrew was turned into a dry and dusty desert for Hants & Dorset YMC on March 30th. Mothering Sunday was more like smothering Sunday for the mums who marshalled in the swirling sandstorm that clouded the increasingly rugged track - and it wasn't much fun for any rider who failed to make the holeshot. A seriously short start straight upped the ante in the numbered peg lottery for gate positions and the resulting dicing for advantage in the first few corners frequently caused carnage among the bigger groups. Training school coach Ben Milward gave a master class in the expert plus division while Jonathan Courage lived up to his name with a spirited challenge to keep pace with the lanky young Wiltshireman while only a single point separated regular runners Tim Chard and Mike Walbrin in the scrap for minor placings. Lee Perks, Mark Williams and Alan Parker each won a race in the novices with the hard-charging Lee securing overall victory ahead of Alan and a first race no-score consigning Mark to obscurity while Steve Carter's hopes of making the frame ended in a race-long tangle with the plastic netting. With Lee Cummings on sick leave, GI Joe Clark easily overcame the opposition in his march to victory in the minor desert storm of the seniors where his rivals were quickly left crying in the wilderness of a sparse and spread out group. In contrast, the baby boomers of the Inters - both 100s and 85s - ensured close racing all the way down the field with double race victor Neil Watton taking the larger laurels from first heat winner Alex White and Tony Cook's first race falter allowing Alex Hussey to take the chequered flag en route to the top step of the podium. Dean Cummings maintained his unbeaten record in the junior league ahead of Jordan Murphy and Lee Wren and Oliver Jones remains equally peerless among the water-cooled autos. But a new name appeared at the top of the air-cooled autos with George Pool heading home Daniel Howting and Alice Monks.
RESULTS - Milborne St Andrew, 30th March 2003 Here for all points scorers Expert Plus1) 2 Ben Milward 2) 95 Jon Courage 3) 49 Tim Chard 4) 6 Mike Walbrin 5) 34 Chris Adlem 6) 116 Daniel Lillington Novice1) 56 Lee Perks 2) 77 Alan Parker 3) 28 Paul Grubb 4) 74 Stephen Bain 5) 5 Steve Groom 6) 41 Colin Ayles Senior 1) 15 Joe Clark 2) 10 Danny Nash 3) 4 Keith Martin 4) 87 Dean Hillier 5) 2 Ross Copsey 6) Dean Clark Inter 100 1) 7 Neil Watton 2) 19 Alex White 3) 27 Lewis Hall 4) 68 Marcus Feltham 5) 64 Josh House 6) 9 Robert Hartley Inter 85 1) 1 Alex Hussey 2) 121 Ross Keyworth 3) 31 Tony Cook 4) 4 Ryan Carter 5) 63 Carl Miles 6) 62 Liam Perry Junior1) 2 Dean Cummings 2) 22 Jordan Murphy 3) 50 Lee Wren 4) 37 Chris Gunter 5) 60 Grant Adlem 6) 28 Ricky Dowding Auto (watercooled) 1) 5 Oliver Jones 2) 20 Jack Howe 3) 3 Jack Whetren 4) 40 Jack Alderton 5) 31 Tyler Hoare 6) 22 Jay Lee Arnold Auto (aircooled) 1) 32 George Pool 2) 4 Daniel Howting 3) 2 Alice Monks 4) 7 Soul Ki-Aries 5) 45 Nathan Wakefield 6) 41 Billy Savage IN THE absence of forecast April showers, only the rocks rained down from clouds of dust for Hants and Dorset's first Bishopstone bash of the season. Caution exercised by the organisers in sending out Steve Bain as pacemaker for the first lap of practice quickly evaporated into unbridled enthusiasm for the ample air time offered by the Bishopstone bumps. And the like the mythological monsters of old these man-made Sirens lured several unwary sailors to a painful downfall on the rock strewn slopes. Showing a contemptuous ease born of his extreme familiarity with the track resident Bishopstone hotshot Paul Cowshall sailed serenely and spectacularly to an untroubled triple triumph in the Expert plus group and when his dust had settled the greater consistency of regular runners Mike Walbrin and Tim Chard gave them the verdict over others who were faster but failed to stay the course. Steve Groome's investment in go faster goodies over the winter paid off with a debut novice race win and despite having to borrow a bike for the second encounter he compiled two second spots to secure a clear overall victory from Alan Parker and the aforementioned pace-setting Steve Bain. Joe Clark maintained his unbroken dominance of the Seniors group bolstered the emergence of several late starters to the Hants & Dorset season. Ashley Smith emerged from the dust to snatch second by the narrowest of margins from visitor Sean Locke. The water and air mixture of Autos boiled down to clear wins for Oliver Jones and Daniel Howting in their respective wet and dry cooled categories although in the latter Soul Ki Aries took a win on his way to runner-up spot ahead of leading little lady Alice Monks. Lewis Trickett left his Junior rivals to eat dust while biting the dust in the first race cost nearest challenger Dean Cummings a top six place. Instead it was left to Lee Wren to claim the second place perch from Jordan Murphy. Tony Cook revelled in the conditions to set a blistering pace which none could match in the Inter 85 ranks where only two points separated the next three placings and only a tie-break split Carl Miles and Ryan Carter. Neil Watton bounced back from a first race spill but could not catch overall winner Lewis Hall who was the most consistent of the front runners on a day of thrills and spills. RESULTS - Bishopstone, 13th April 2003 Here for all points scorers Expert Plus1) 111 Paul Cowshall 2) 6 Mike Walbrin 3) 49 Tim Chard 4) 91 Tommy Henry 5) 87 Carl Warwick 6) 1 Phil WhetrenNovice1) 5 Steve Groom 2) 77 Alan Parker 3) 74 Stephen Bain 4) 28 Paul Grubb 5) 3 Mark Honeybun 6) 41 Colin AylesSenior1) 15 Joe Clark 2) 14 Ashley Smith 3) 110 Sean Locke 4) 87 Dean Hillier 5) 4 Keith Martin 6) 83 Mike LynnInter 1001) 27 Lewis Hall 2) 7 Neil Watton 3) 68 Marcus Feltham 4) 76 Gary Malkin 5) 9 Robert Hartley 6) 5 Damien WeedonInter 851) 31 Tony Cook 2) 63 Carl Miles 3) 4 Ryan Carter 4) 98 Luke Wilkinson 5) 81 Oliver Rusby 6) 33 Sam NichollsJunior1) 4 Lewis Trickett 2) 50 Lee Wren 3) 22 Jordan Murphy 4) 28 Ross Churchill 5) 37 Chris Gunter 6) 45 Danny WakefieldAuto (watercooled)1) 5 Oliver Jones 2) 31 Tyler Hoare 3) 3 Jack Whetren 4) 40 Jack Alderton 5) 22 Jay Lee Arnold 6) 47 George GoodallAuto (aircooled)1) 4 Daniel Howting 2) 7 Soul Ki-Aries 3) 2 Alice Monks 4) 45 Nathan Wakefield 5) 18 Jac Monks 6) 72 Finn LeeDAMP grass - two words absent from the Hants and Dorset vocabulary so far this year - set the tone for the Martinstown meeting on April 29 and gave a new look to the leaderboard in most groups. While the two hedge-hopping jumps allowed the bravado boys to show off their aerial antics, the slick surface and tight corners required more precision than panache and a gentle touch on brake and throttle to avoid the embarrassment of a sudden about face. Seniors had the pleasure of breaking the ground - and the mould - as Danny Nash ended Joe Clark's unbeaten run with three straight wins while the KTM campaigner could only manage a second place in his one finish. Keith Martin's high hopes evaporated along with the fuel in his Kawasaki but Ross Copsey and Dean Hillier had enough in their tanks to complete the podium places. Oliver Jones stayed ahead of the Jack pack in the water-cooled autos but visitor Connor Jocelyn showed a clean pair of wheels to the home club heroes in the air-cooled category. Juniors unleashed a spray of fizzing orange at the head of each race with Dean Cummings the corker that kept fellow KTM campaigners Jordan Murphy and Lee Wren bottled up behind him. Ross Keyworth gambolled to three straight wins as the joker who trumped the regular aces in a reshuffled Inter 85 pack with Carl Miles the best of the rest in a group that is as highly competitive as it is populated. After winning the first Inter 100 race and taking second next time out, Robert Hartley looked to be in a jam with a third race eighth but the spread of results still gave him the overall spoils on a tie-break with Marcus Feltham. Another group with a new name at the top was the Expert Plus where double race winner Jamie Chapman and ultra consistent Chris Adlem made hay while the usual front runners slithered out of contention. Even a first corner crash couldn't prevent Stephen Bain racing to the overall win in the Novices, but it did allow Colin Ayles to claim a race win en route to third place behind Alan Parker. RESULTS - Martinstown, 27th April 2003 Here for all points scorers Expert Plus1) 31 Jamie Chapman 2) 34 Chris Adlem 3) 33 David Gane 4) 1 Phil Whetren 5) 112 Peter Dixon 6) 82 Trevor BartonNovice1) 74 Stephen Bain 2) 77 Alan Parker 3) 41 Colin Ayles 4) 81 Chris Kimpton 5) 22 Steve Carter 6) 79 Richard BeattieSenior1) 10 Danny Nash 2) 2 Ross Copsey 3) 87 Dean Hillier 4) 190 Chris Bennett 5) 12 Richard Pile 6) 81 Joe RichardsInter 1001) 9 Robert Hartley 2) 68 Marcus Feltham 3) 19 Alex White 4) 5 Damien Weedon 5) 27 Lewis Hall 6) 28 Jamie AnstisInter 851) 20 Ross Keyworth 2) 63 Carl Miles 3) 4 Ryan Carter 4) 33 Sam Nicholls 5) 31 Tony Cook 6) 7 Ben WeedonJunior1) 2 Dean Cummings 2) 22 Jordan Murphy 3) 50 Lee Wren 4) 51 Jamie Mole 5) 37 Chris Gunter 6) 32 Thomas RogersAuto (watercooled)1) 5 Oliver Jones 2) 20 Jack Howe 3) 3 Jack Whetren 4) 31 Tyler Hoare 5) 9 Jack Jenner 6) 40 Jack AldertonAuto (aircooled)1) 139 Connor Jocelyn 2) 7 Soul Ki-Aries 3) 41 Billy Savage 4) 45 Nathan Wakefield 5) 72 Finn LeeMid Sussex hosted, for the first time, the Hants and Dorset, Stevenage and Mid Sussex club challenge at the weekend. The wind and rain on Friday night put a few of the riders off but the lovely weather Saturday and Sunday dried the track well giving 2 good days racing. Hants and Dorset put on a good performance despite the reduced number of riders gaining a total score of 2087. At the end of Saturday Stevenage was ahead of Mid Sussex by 40 points but Mid Sussex fought back on the Sunday to take the overall win with 2761 points against Stevenage’s 2722. The committee and members of Mid Sussex would like to thank all the riders that took part to make this an enjoyable weekend and we are looking forward to visiting Hants and Dorset next year. In the Auto group there was a good start for Stevenage with Harry Bradley taking the win in all 3 races but he left at the end of the first day due to bike problems and on the second day the wins went to Steven Robinson, Harry Loseby and Sam Lindsay, which gave Harry Loseby the overall win. Lloyd Pettet and Toby Harkness had 3 wins each in the Novice Junior group but consistent riding from Toby gave him the overall win by 9 points. In the main Junior group, Jack Rowe took all three wins and Joe Walklett all but one of the seconds, which went to Daryl Maxwell. Daniel Goodwin had three comfortable wins in the SW 85 group with Charlie Hughes, Lewis Gillett and Owen Brigdewater spreading out second place between them. In the 100’s group the wins went to Chris Bastick and Bradley Clements with Chris taking 4 of them to gain the overall win. The youth 125 group was a small but very fast group with the battle on between the top five, Nathan Braithwaite, Sean Barnsdale, Sean Young, Harry Boxell and Joe Clark who all rode well to give probably the most exciting racing of the weekend. The Adult B group was dominated by Roger Melling with Ashley Cox in second on the first day, on the second day Tony Verbeeton and Steven Bain pulled out the stops to take the seconds between them. On day 1 the Adult A group was dominated by Pete Gomm but on the second a couple of good starts from Tony Priestly left Pete unable to get past and he had to settle for second. Consistent riding from Kestor Gibbons resulted in 5 thirds and a DNF to give him third overall. May 2003 Cadets1. Harry Loseby, 2. Sam Lindsay, 3. Steven Robinson, 4. Oliver Townsend, 5. Chad Kirby, 6. Kieron Fry,Novice Junior
1. Toby Harkness, 2. Lloyd Pettet, 3. Luke Passey, 4. Luke Coker, 5.
Adam Van Neirek, 6. Paul Bassett
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