2004 Race Results & Reports
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Round 1 Championship 07/03/2004 Milborne St Andrew
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Round 2 Championship 21/03/2004 Bere Regis
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Round 3 Championship 04/04/2004 Bere Regis
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Results
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Round 4 Championship 18/04/2004 Bishopstone
Race meeting abandoned.
2 day Non-Championship 2&3/05/2004 Martinstown
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Round 5 Championship 16/05/2004 Matchams
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Results
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Round 6 Championship 30/05/2004 Milborne St Andrew
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Results
Round 7 Championship 27/06/2004 Henstridge
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Round 8 Championship 11/07/2004 Matchams
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Results
Round 9 Championship 25/07/2004 Bishopstone
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Results
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2 day Non-Championship 7/08/2004 Martinstown
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Round 10 Championship 22/08/2004 Hazelbury Bryan
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Results
Round 11 Championship 05/09/2004 Henstridge
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Results
Round 12 Championship 19/09/2004 Allington Lane
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Round 13 Championship 03/10/2004 Matchams
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Round 14 Championship 17/10/2004 Milborne St Andrew
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Results
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All results are provisional, do not take into account visitors,
penalties (eg non-track clearance) and are therefore not the definitive
championship standings.
GANE AGAIN AT
MILBORNE ST ANDREW
ONLY Expert Plus ace David Gane carried on
where he had left off last season as the reshuffled Hants and Dorset YMC
pack was dealt out for the first hand of the 2004 season.
With a full house in several of the groups and a welter of riders upgraded
by virtue of age and ability there were bound to be some surprise results.
And an extended Milborne St Andrew track complete with green grass and
adverse cambers also played its hand by catching out the unwary and those
who were slow out of the blocks.
Jack Alderton floated to the top of the depleted water-cooled autos group,
outnumbered this time by the air-cooled equivalents headed by Jack Dudman
with both riders respectively conceding their first race to watery
runner-up Sam Lee and airy Ben Harrison whose riding number 13 lived up to
its unlucky reputation.
Erstwhile auto pilots found the going tougher in a populous Juniors group
where it was second year veterans Lee Wren and Ross Churchill who vied for
second overall behind an unstoppable Jake Shipton making a return to the
club where he cut his moto-cross teeth.
Last year's junior champion Dean Cummings sporting a higher number and a
bigger bike mixed to best effect with the bigger boys of the Inter 85s
class with a fighting fifth overall behind last year's nearly men Ben
Weeden, Carl Miles and Ryan Carter taking advantage of the graduation of
their former peers.
New kids on the Inter 100 block made an immediate impression on the
results with Tony Cook notably getting in among the older hands led by
Neil Watton, Tom Speer and Aaron Carmichael.
Likewise last year's 100s hot shot Marcus Feltham made his presence felt
in the Senior echelons where Chris Patrick, Ashley Smith and, overall
winner, Lee Cummings all notched a race win to presage a close-fought
campaign for the crown vacated by Danny Nash.
And young Mr Nash was the young whipper snapper snapping at the heels of
the Expert Plus elite where he took a second race second en route to third
overall.
With Messrs Bain and Parker seeking new challenges Mark Honeybun was
ante-post favourite for novice honours, but Frank Morley upset the odds on
his return to the H & D fold.
RESULTS - Milborne St
Andrew, 7th March 2004
Expert Plus
1) 33 David Gane 2) 15 Joe Clark 3)
11 Danny Nash 4) 34 Chris Adlem 5) 78 Tim Howarth 6) 8 Lee
Pottinger
Novice
1) 39 Frank Morley 2) 3 Mark Honeybun
3) 11 Darren Veal 4) 54 Ben Rose 5) 94 Stephen Gane 6) 81 Chris
Kimpton
Senior
1) 3 Lee Cummings 2) 19 Chris Patrick
3) 46 Ashley Smith 4) 15 Dean Clark 5) 68 Marcus Feltham 6) 31 Sean
Locke
Inter 100
1) 7 Neal Watton 2) 78 Thomas Speer
3) 80 Aaron Carmichael 4) 76 Gary Malkin 5) 31 Tony Cook 6) 27
Robert Hartley
Inter 85
1) 7 Ben Weeden 2) 63 Carl Miles 3) 4
Ryan Carter 4) 97 Steve Bain 5) 8 Dean Cummings 6) 171 Ben Butler
Junior
1) 188 Jake Shipton 2) 50 Lee Wren 3)
28 Ross Churchill 4) 58 James Harrison 5) 55 Magnus M-Chubb 6) 60
Grant Adlem
Auto (watercooled)
1) 40 Jack Alderton 2) 7 Samuel Lee-Duggan
3) 4 Daniel Howting 4) 22 Jay Lee Arnold 5) 82 Joshua Barton 6) 16
Claire Goodson
Auto (aircooled)
1) 72 Jack Dudman 2) 23 Harry Shearman
3) 45 Nathan Wakefield 4) 17 Lewis Dowding 5) 10 Matthew Sturmey 6)
18 Jac Monks
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PRODIGALS
RETURN AT BERE REGIS
ON MOTHERING Sunday it was only right that a
number of long lost sons should be returned in glory to the bosom of their
Hants and Dorset family as across all age groups once familiar names
packed the results on March 21st.
Rain - and occasional hail - failed to put a damper on a packed programme
of fast and furious racing over a twisting, hilly track that remained in
prime condition throughout, even if the bigger boys kept stealing the
tapes and incurred the wrath of the clerk of the course.
Inter 85s acted as ground breakers with visitor and erstwhile H & D member
Lewis Trickett setting the pace to notch up a hat trick of wins at the
expense Ben Weeden and Ryan Carter.
One age group up the ladder, Damien Weeden was in ominous form to capture
Inter Open honours with unbeaten run while Gary Malkin cast his spell on
the rest of the pack.
There was a similar maximum in the air-cooled autos for Ben Harrison who
bounced back from the prang which stopped him achieving the feat a
fortnight earlier leaving Jack Dudman and the ever-improving Harry
Shearman to scrap in his wake.
A last race win for Jay Lee Arnold burst the unbeaten bubble of Jack
Alderton in the water-cooled autos category but failed to dislodge him
from the number one spot overall.
With the first two race wins in his pocket, Brett Wheeler, making his H &
D comeback after a fallow year or two, could afford to let Ricky Fenton
take the honours in the final heat and still take the Expert Plus laurels
while evergreens Pete Broomfield and Phil Whetren mixed it with the
burgeoning talents of Joe Clark and Peter Wright.
Likewise Lee Wren had his wings clipped after taking a brace of wins in
the Juniors but kept his top perch by finishing second behind last race
winner Ryan Butler.
But a third race slip was calamitous for Ashley Smith as the winner of the
first two Senior encounters slid to an overall sixth leaving Dean Cummings
to take the chequered flag and Dean Clark to claim the top step of the
podium.
Once again Mark Honeybun was denied the novice no 1 spot, this time by
Paul Feltham making one of his occasional wolfish forays among the sheep
in the Hants and Dorset fold.
RESULTS - Bere Regis,
21st March 2004
Expert Plus
1) 74 Brett Wheeler 2) 66 Ricky Fenton
3) 15 Joe Clark 4) 44 Pete Broomfield 5) 45 Peter Wright 6) 1 Phil
Whetren
Novice
1) 95
Paul Feltham 2) 3 Mark Honeybun 3) 41 Colin Ayles 4) 4 Mark
Williamson 5) 60 Richard Wareham 60 54 Ben Rose
Senior
1) 15
Dean Clark 2) 3 Lee Cummings 3) 31 Sean Locke 4) 84 Neal Paddington
5) 10 Lewis Palmer 6) 46 Ashley Smith
Inter 100
1) 5
Damien Weeden 2) 76 Gary Malkin 3) 80 Aaron Carmichael 4) 31 Tony
Cook 5) 77 T. White 6) 72 B. Carter
Inter 85
1)
141 Lewis Trickett 2) 7 Ben Weeden 3) 4 Ryan Carter 4) 63 Carl Miles
5) 8 Dean Cummings 6) 12 Jordan Murphy
Junior
1) 50
Lee Wren 2) 12 Ryan Butler 3) 28 Ross Churchill 4) 77 Robbie Lapham
5) 60 Grant Adlem 6) 58 James Harrison
Auto (watercooled)
1) 40
Jack Alderton 2) 22 Jay Lee Arnold 3) 4 Daniel Howting 4) 7 Sam
Duggan 5) 82 Joshua Barton 6)
Auto (aircooled)
1) 13
Ben Harrison 2) 72 Jack Dudman 3) 23 Harry Shearman 4) 10 Matthew
Sturmey 5) 5 Bradley Jones 6) 17 Lewis Dowding
RAIN REIGNS AND REINS IN BERE REGIS
NOT FOR the first time in the annals of
Hants and Dorset YMC rain stopped play early at Bere Regis as April
showers put a damper on the Club's third championship meeting of the 2004
season when racing was abandoned before the completion of the second block
of racing.
Overnight rain also made April fools of
many on the slippery slopes of the paddock and it took the sterling
efforts of chairman Paul Cummings with Steve Bain at the wheel of the
trusty ex-army Bedford 4x4 who towed in the whole lot of vans making a
meal of getting into the paddock before the meeting could start on time.
The novices went out first and used bikes
and bodies to remove as much as possible of the surface slime for the
benefit of those who followed, but the new variable race order gave them
plenty of time to clean up their act before going back out again. When
they did, Frank Morley twice showed a clean pair of wheels to Paul Feltham
at the head of the field depleted by non-starters and non-finishers.
Conversely there was only one DNF among a
well-supported Junior field where Ryan Butler's win in the first race gave
him the nod in a tie-break over visiting Jake Shipton for top honours with
Lee Wren third in the pecking order in both races.
Lewis Abbott also returned as a visitor to
the Club where he cut his moto-cross teeth and promptly put the bite on
the Inter 85 group to leave Carl Miles and Ben Weeden to chew over the
scraps for the runner-up spot.
Meanwhile Ben's big brother Damien was
enjoying a double helping of the sweet taste of success as he scored an
unbeaten record in the Inter 100s where only a handful of points covered
the next four places.
The Seniors group turned out to be a single
race shoot-out with Ashley Smith the hottest shot among the posse of young
guns hot on his trail.
Likewise the autos, already riding a
shortened course found their programme equally curtailed to one mini-mudlark
before the Heavens opened leaving Jack Alderton (water) and Harry Shearman
(air) as the elementary winners of their respective categories.
Brett Wheeler must have wished the Experts
had only one race too after winning the opening encounter but slipping to
fifth in second heat which allowed Jonathan Courage to slide into the
overall top slot.
RESULTS - Bere Regis, 4th April 2004
Expert Plus
1) 95 Jonathan Courage 2)
74 Brett Wheeler 3) 33 David Gane 4) 57 Mike Bailey
Novice
1) 39 Frank Morley 2) 95
Paul Feltham 3) 3 Mark Honeybun 4) 94 Steven Gane 5) 4
Mark Williamson 6) 92 Ashley Clarke
Senior
1) 46 Ashley Smith 2) 24
Ryan Webster 3) 84 Neal Paddington 4) 31 Sean Locke
5) 3 Lee Cummings 6) 10 Lewis Palmer
Inter 100
1) 5 Damien Weeden 2) 76
Gary Malkin 3)80 Aaron Carmichael 4) 25 Bradley King 5) 31
Tony Cook 6) 30 Daniel Moyse
Inter 85
1)155 Lewis Abbott 2) 63
Carl Miles 3)7 Ben Weeden 4) 91 Matt Ogeden 5) 4 Ryan
Carter 6) 1 Oliver Rusby
Junior
1) 12 Ryan Butler 2) 188
Jake Shipton 3) 50 Lee Wren 4) 58 James Harrison 5) 51
Jamie Mole 6) 95 Jack Jenner
Auto (watercooled)
1) 40 Jack Alderton 2)25
Liam Taylor 3) 4 Daniel Howting 4) 82 Joshua Barton 5)7
Samuel Lee-Duggan 6) 22 Jay Lee Arnold
Auto (aircooled)
1) 23 Harry Shearman 2)72
Jack Dudman 3)10 Matthew Sturmey 4) 18 Jac Monks 5) 17 Lewis
Dowding 6) 45 Nathan Wakefield
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RESULTS –
Martinstown,
2/3rd May 2004
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FOR half a century Matchams with its undulating
sandiness has naturally been extremely demanding; the addition of myriad
man-made jumps since Hants & Dorset last visited has only served to make
it demandingly extreme. And it was the hottest day of the year so far.
Exciting, yes; excessive, maybe; exhausting,
certainly. In fact the new-look Matchams was so ex-rated that huge
swathes were cut out for the autos, only slightly less for the juniors and
everyone else by-passed the whoops.
But not everyone avoided the ‘whoops’ factor as
the combination of sky-high ski jumps and bottomless sandpits which
churned into pitiless bottoms took their toll on the exhausted and
over-exuberant.
Only expert-plus hotshot Ricki Fenton was
clearing the startline table top as he leap-frogged almost the entire
field after a first race spill and eventually overhauled double race
winner Peter Wright for the overall honours ahead of Joe Clarke.
New kid on the novice block Matt Nicholls won
the generation game battle played out with twin-shock jockey Richard
Wareham whose third race DNF allowed fellow veteran Frank Morley to take
the runner-up spot in a group where the full grid had shrivelled to barely
half for the day’s final encounter.
Lewis Hall emerged peerless in the Senior
category with Lee Cummings and Ryan Webster scrapping for the runner-up
spot as several of the usual major players in the group found themselves
demoted to the minor placings.
Similarly Lee Wren ruled the roost in the
junior group where neither visitor Oliver Paine nor regular rivals Ross
Churchill and James Harrison could knock him off the top perch.
Ben Weeden’s hat trick hopes were dashed by a
last race disaster but he still took the overall honours in the Inter 85
group so closely matched that only two points and two tie breaks separated
the first four places.
But two wins for Ben’s big brother Damien was
not enough to clinch victory in the Inter 100s which fell to the verdant
Bradley King whose Kawasaki and kit provided a rare bit of greenery in the
Matchams desert.
High flying auto pilot Ben Harrison took the
air cooled honours at the end of a day-long dog fight with Matthew Sturmey
and Jaylee Arnold trumped Jack Alderton in a three-handed deal for the
water pumpers.
RESULTS
– Matchams, 16th May 2004
Expert Plus
1) 66 Riki Fenton 2) 15 Joe Clarke 3) 47 Peter Wright
4) 1 Phil Whetren 5) 18 Jon Sibley 6) 112 Daniel Lynn
Novice
1) 82 Matt Nicholls 2) 39 Frank Morley 3) 87 Andy Curtis
4) 4 Mark Williamson 5) 2 Peter Barnes 6) 13 Lee
Freemantle
Senior
1) 28 Lewis Hall 2) 3 Lee Cummings 3) 24 Ryan
Webster 4) 19 Chris Patrick 5) 46 Ashley Smith 6) 84 Neal
Paddington
Inter 100
1) 25 Bradley King 2) 5 Damien Weeden 3) 80 Aaron Carmichael
4) 76 Gary Malkin 5) 20 Josh Ogden 6) 72 Ben Carter
Inter 85
1) 7 Ben Weeden 2) 16 Alex Hussey 3) 91 Matt Ogden 4) 63 Carl
Miles 5) 4 Ryan Carter 6) 8 Dean Cummings
Junior
1) 50 Lee Wren 2) 58 James Harrison 3) 28 Ross Churchill 4)
32 Thomas Rogers 5) 95 Jack Jenner 6) 5 Oliver Jones
Auto (watercooled)
1) 22 Jay Lee Arnold 2) 40 Jack Aldertonn 3) 82 Joshua
Barton
Auto (aircooled)
1) 13 Ben Harrison 2) 10 Matthew Sturmey 3) 8 George
Pool 4) 45 Nathan Wakefield 5) 6 Keiron Whitlock
6)
72 Jack Dudman
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IN TOTAL
contrast to the previous meeting at humpy-bumpy soft and sandy Matchams,
the track at Milborne St Andrew was flat and grassy – and ultimately dry
and dusty.
The exodus of a
number of regulars preferring to watch the Grand Prix on the Isle of Wight
was the genesis of a revised version of the results sheet as several new
names took the chance to make hay while the sun shone.
While they may
have struggled at Matchams, flat track specialists were notably to the
fore in the unusually sparse novice group with Colin Ayles, back on his
own bike, uncatchable and Paul Grubb revelling his road racing roots
on a circuit that was as hard and flat as any tarmac to mix it with the
back-from-injury Mark Honeybun and a resurgent Ricky Burt.
There was a
similar story in the Experts with hot shot David Gane emerging from his
total eclipse at Matchams to star as the leading light in all three races,
followed home each time by the mercurial Joe Clark and saturnine reigning
champion Phil Whetren.
No one enjoyed a
clear run in the highly-competitive seniors group which saw three
different race winners and only two points separating the leading trio
with a tie-break needed to give the top spot to Lewis Palmer.
Racing was
equally close-fought in the Inter 100s – the day’s largest group – topped
by Neil Watton with Damien Weeden, Gary Malkin, and Aaron Carmichael all
snapping at his wheels in a dog fight for the next steps on the podium.
In the Inter 85
group overall winner Ashley Bailey didn’t have it all his own way on one
of his infrequent Hants and Dorset forays and was bested in the final heat
by Carl Miles who like third placed Ben Weeden owed their final placings
to the last race DNF of Liam Perry.
Conversely, Ross
Churchill dropped the first Juniors race to James Harrison before winning
the next two leaving Jamie Mole to emerge from their dusty wake ahead of
Thomas Rogers and Robbie Lapham.
Ben Harrison
ruled the roost in the air-cooled autos where the strict pecking order was
followed by George Pool, Jack Dudman and Matthew Sturmey respectively
second, third and fourth each time out and the only deviation in the flow
of water-coolers came in the final heat when Jaylee Arnold took the flag
from Jack Alderton to reverse the two earlier results.
RESULTS
– Milborne St Andrew, 30th May 2004
Expert Plus
1) 33 David Gane 2) 15 Joe Clarke
3) 1 Phil Whetren 4) 11 Danny Nash 5) 4 Mark
Teggin 6) 41 Matt Carter
Novice
1) 41 Colin Ayles 2) 3 Mark Honeybun 3) 68 Ricky
Burt 4) 28 Paul Grubb 5) 87 Andy Curtis 6) 81 Chris
Kimpton
Senior
1) 10 Lewis Palmer 2) 46 Ashley Smith
3) 84 Neal Paddington 4) 31 Sean Locke 5) 62 Ryan Gower 6)
2 Buster Whetren
Inter 100
1)
7 Neil Watton 2) 5 Damien Weeden
3) 76 Gary Malkin 4) 80 Aaron Carmichael 5) 25 Bradley King 6)
31 Tony Cook
Inter 85
1)
88 Ashley Bailey 2) 63 Carl Miles
3) 7 Ben Weeden 4) 91 Matt Ogden 5) 4 Ryan Carter 6)
12 Jordan Murphy
Junior
1) 28 Ross Churchill 2) 58 James Harrison
3) 51 Jamie Mole 4) 32 Thomas Rogers 5) 77 Robbie Lapham
6) 27 Bradley Margetts
Auto (watercooled)
1) 40 Jack Alderton 2) 22 Jay Lee Arnold
3) Joshua Barton 4) 7 Samuel Lee Duggan 4)) 4 Daniel Howting
Auto (aircooled)
1) 13 Ben Harrison 2) 8 George Pool
3) 72 Jack Dudman 4) 10 Matthew Sturmey 5) 45 Nathan Wakefield
6) 41 Billy Savage
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HENSTRIDGE HIGH FLIERS
HAVING been grounded a fortnight earlier, Hants and Dorset’s high
fliers were cleared for take off at the Henstridge airfield track on
June 27 where slick conditions in practice and again at the end of the
day when the Heavens opened caused several forced landings.
Water-cooled auto pilots displayed close formation with the last race
reversal of Clare Goodson and Adam Wilkinson the only blip on an oth erwise
unaltered sequence in each race.
Ben Harrison was the squadron leader in the air-cooled auto ranks and
Jack Dudman emerged as his wing man after a dog fight with Matthew
Sturmey.
After winning the opening brace of races senior ace Ryan Webster was
shot down in the third heat to let Neal Paddington and Ashley Smith into
the upper echelons.
Neil Watton was the man on the move in the Inter 100s, winning all
three races while Damien Weeden, Luke Wilkinson and Tony Cook scrapped
in his wake for the minor placings.
Ashley Bailey also enjoyed a triple triumph in the Inter 85s but only
three points separated the next three placings after a slippery last
race for Liam Perry and Carl Miles saw them slide into the clutches of
consistent Ryan Carter.
Jamie Mole took top spot in the juniors despite having to give best
to Lee Wren in the first race.
Visitor Phil Lewis also came off second best to Joe Clarke in the
opening encounter before bouncing back with two wins and the overall
honours.
Mark Honeybun and Frank Morley traded places at the head of the
novice field with Jason Burbidge edging Andy Curtis off the podium while
pre-season casualty Richard Pile eased his way back into the fray with a
fifth overall including a second race third place.
RESULTS – Henstridge,
27th June 2004
Expert Plus
1) 172 Phil Lewis 2) 15 Joe Clarke
3) 33 David Gane 4) 18 Jon Sibley 5) 27 Dean Taylor 6) 28 Matt
Welch
Novice
1) 3 Mark Honeybun 2) 39 Frank Morley
3) 73 Jason Burbidge 4) 87 Andy Curtis 5) 98 Richard Pile 6) 41
Colin Ayles
Senior
1) 84 Neal Paddington 2) 46 Ashley Smith
3) 24 Ryan Webster 4) 10 Lewis Palmer 5) 3 Lee Cummings 6) 62 Ryan Gower
Inter 100
1) 7 Neil Watton 2) 5 Damien Weeden
3) 71 Luke Wilkinson 4) 31 Tony Cook 5) 76 Gary Malkin 6) 25
Bradley King
Inter 85
1) 88 Ashley Bailey 2) 62 Liam Perry 3)
63 Carl Miles 4) 4 Ryan Carter 5) 3 Kyle Newman 6) 91 Matt Ogden
Junior
1) 51 Jamie Mole 2) 50 Lee Wren 3) 28
Ross Churchill 4) 58 James Harrison 5) 32 Thomas Rogers 6) 80 Ryan Mabey
Auto (watercooled)
1) 40 Jack Alderton 2) 22 Jay Lee Arnold
3) 82 Joshua Barton 4) 4 Daniel Howting 5) 7 Samuel Lee Duggan 6) 151
Adam Wilkinson
Auto (aircooled)
1) 13 Ben Harrison 2) 72 Jack Dudman
3) 10 Matthew Sturmey 4) 35 Daniel Knight 5) 6 Keiron Whitlock 6) 45
Nathan Wakefield
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IT TAKES a lot of rain to make Matchams muddy – and despite the mid summer dateline there had been lot of rain on the night of July 10 – and plenty more was to come the following race day.
Graded grains were quickly stirred into a gritty gruel and despite some modifications to the track layout to avoid the worst of sections of the track – especially the so-called horseshoe which proved unlucky for some - riders of all sizes were still battling on a sticky wicket.
The programme was, not for the first time this season, mercifully reduced to just two blocks and racing was more a matter of staying on and keeping going than dicing for positions on a track littered with stranded bikes and riders bogged in the clogging morass.
Proving than when the going gets tough the tough get going, Richard Wareham abandoned his trusty twin shock for his son’s contemporary Yam to take the novice laurels.
First race winner Peter Wright was probably already back home in the dry by the time Joe Clarke sealed expert honours ahead of Mike Bailey and current club champ Phil Whetren who put in a typically gritty performance.
Sean Locke’s consistency was the key to senior success over the regular front runners headed by Lee Cummings.
Neil Watton and Damien Weeden renewed their season-long rivalry at the front of the Inter 100 group to relegate previous Matchams meister Bradley King to fourth behind mud maestro Aaron Carmichael.
Orange invader Jake Hassell hustled his KTM to the front in the inter 80s and home side hero Dean Cummings stopped returning prodigal Joe Crocker from making it a clean sweep for the visitors.
Juniors battled gamely against their lack of horse power to cope with the conditions and Thomas Rogers earned a creditable and credited first overall despite the efforts of James Harrison.
And if the soft sand was hard for the rest, it must have been awful for the autos, but they – along with the mums, dads and marshalls dotted around the foreshortened course – worked hard to get around with Jack Alderton (water) and Matt David (air) the coolest customers.
RESULTS – Matchams, 11th July 2004
Expert Plus
1) 15 Joe Clarke 2) 57 Mike Bailey
3) 1 Phil Whetren 4) 12 Scott Wallis
5) 18 Jon Sibley 6) 53 Dave Wilkins
Novice
1) 60 Richard Wareham 2) 3 Mark Honeybun
3) 54 Ben Rose 4) 87 Andy Curtis
5) 19 Matt Wesby 6) 89 Lee Pennington
Senior
1) 31 Sean Locke 2) 3 Lee Cummings
3) 46 Ashley Smith 4) 84 Neal Paddington 5) 62 Ryan Gower
6) 81 Joe Richards
Inter 100
1) 7 Neil Watton 2) 5 Damien Weeden
3) 80 Aaron Carmichael 4) 25 Bradley King
5) 26 Josh Moores 6) 99 Jake Thompson
Inter 85
1) 133 Jake Hassel 2) 8 Dean Cummings
3) 147 Joe Crocker 4) 7 Ben Weeden
5) 88 Ashley Bailey 6) 3 Kyle Newman
Junior
1) 32 Thomas Rogers 2) 58 James Harrison
3) 51 Jamie Mole 4) 28 Ross Churchill
5) 27 Bradley Margetts 6) 5 Oliver Jones
Auto (watercooled)
1) 40 Jack Alderton 2) 82 Joshua Barton
22 Jaylee Arnold 4) 7 Samuel Lee Duggan
5) 4 Daniel Howting 6) 6 Keiran Whitlock
Auto (aircooled)
1) 81 Matt David 2) 175 Joe Jefferies
3) 13 Ben Harrison 4) 10 Matthew Sturmey
5) 72 Jack Dudman 6) 45 Nathan Wakefield
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CONDITIONS at Bishopstone on July 25 could not have been more different
to Matchams a fortnight earlier – or the Foxholes venue the last time
Hants and Dorset was there.
Instead of deep wet sand, or claggy limestone slime the track was bone
dry and bone-breakingly hard and despite the attentions of the water
bowser the atmosphere of the rolling Wiltshire countryside was soon filled
with choking clouds of chalk dust.
In these dusty desert conditions it was not surprising that some groups
should be ambushed by bandits, not least the Novices where erstwhile
expert Mark Bridgewater made a profitable raid across the border to steal
the overall honours. Richard Pile, obviously well mended from his
pre-season prang, stopped the gringo from making a clean sweep.
Inter 85s were also invaded by a squadron high-flying, fast-moving
unidentified aliens from another world as visitors led by Jackson Evans
packed the top places with only Ben Weeden and the recently assimilated
Joe Crocker able to resist the influx.
Orbiting above the earthbound dust cloud, Thomas Speer was master of
the Inter 100 universe despite the cosmic efforts of Tony Cook and Bradley
King who were locked in a galactic battle to cling on to second place.
Likewise, on planet junior Ryan Butler was seemingly also existing on
another plane as he cruised to three straight wins with Robbie Lapham and
Ross Churchill providing the blazing tail to his meteoric progress.
When it came down to the vital elements of water and air among the
ranks of the space cadets, Jack Alderton bounced back from at least one
tumble and a couple of unaccustomed second places and Ben Harrison
eclipsed new member Harry Shearman whose star burned brighter each time
out.
Ryan Webster was the shining star of the seniors group where Ashley
Smith’s runner up spot was almost occluded by a third race slip while
Chris Patrick became lost in space with a last race DNF to open the door
for Sean Locke to take third place on the podium.
Among the expert astronauts Peter Wright blasted off the launch pad
with two wins before settling for second in the closing encounter behind
Joe Clark whose own enterprise had already crashed and burned with a first
race fall out.
RESULTS –
Bishopstone,
25th July 2004
Expert Plus
1) 47 Peter Wright 2) 33 David Gane 3) 27
Dean Taylor 4) 57 Mike Bailey 5) 18 Jon Sibley 6) 151 Ricky Mason
Novice
1) 138 Mark Bridgewater 2) 3 Mark Honeybun 3) 66 Mark Goddard 4) 98 Richard Pile 5) 4
Mark Williams 6) 41 Colin Ayles
Senior
1) 24 Ryan Webster 2) 46 Ashley Smith
3) 31 Sean Locke 4) 84 Neal Paddington 5) 3 Lee Cummings 6) 118
Mitchell Parker
Inter 100
1) 78 Thomas Speer 2) 31 Tony Cook
3) 25 Bradley King 4) 76 Gary Malkin 5) 20 Josh Ogden 6) 66 Jono
Davis
Inter 85
1) 138 Jackson Evans 2) 141 Lewis Trickett 3) 7 Ben Weeden 4) 147 Joe Crocker 5) 91 Matt Ogden 6) 63 Carl
Miles
Junior
1) 12 Ryan Butler 2) 77 Robbie Lapham
3) 28 Ross Churchill 4) 50 Lee Wren 5) 58 James Harrison 6) 32 Thomas
Rogers
Auto (watercooled)
1) 40 Jack Alderton 2) 22 Jaylee Arnold
3) 52 Luke Sturgeon 4) 82 Joshua Barton 5) 4 Daniel Howting 6) 7 Samuel
Lee Duggan
Auto (aircooled)
1) 13 Ben Harrison 2) 72 Jack Dudman
3) 8 George Pool 4) 23 Harry Shearman 5) 5 Bradley Jones 6) 41
Billy Savage
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RESULTS –
Martinstown,
7th August 2004
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HUSTLING AT
HAZELBURY BRYAN
MATT Ogden’s orange flake gave the
others something to put in their pipe when he smoked the Inter 85 group
on a new track at Hazelbury Bryan.
But his first race win and overall
success came only at the expense of hustling Alex Hussey who but for a
last lap slip was set to win the second heat and remounted to win the
third leg in a group where regular front runners suffered self-inflicted
penalties for poor starts, tumbles and riding in the pits.
On a virgin track where the fast
bits were very fast and the twiddles very tight a clean get away was
essential – which Mike Bailey did in the first expert leg only for his
engine to seize while looking good for the win his honest endeavours
deserved. Instead race and aggregate honours went to Joe Clark with
Hants & Dorset prodigal Craig Rogers returning to grab runner-up slot.
Wily veteran Frank Morley and his
venerable Suzuki eclipsed younger riders and newer bikes to bag a hat
trick of wins in the novice group where other old hands Paul Feltham and
Mike Matthews made the experience count to spike the young guns on the
leader board.
Neal Paddington was on track for
the laurels in the seniors where Ashley Smith’s hopes for top spot were
faltered with a fifth place final heat finish final heat while Ryan
Webster slipped even further after two top three places.
Visitor Oliver Paine took the first
Juniors race but then had to eat dust as native species Lee Wren and
Jamie Mole outpaced the interloper but could not shake him from the top
step of the podium.
Conversely, airyauto Harry Shearman
came from behind to pounce on a last race slip by double race winner Joe
Jefferies while a seemingly subdued Ben Harrison had to settle for the
bronze.
Jack Alderton in the water pumping
tiddlers also saw off the visiting threat of Aaron Coupland after the
pair traded first and second places throughout the day ahead of Samuel
Lee Duggan and JayLee Arnold.
Damien Weeden improved with every
outing in the 100s culminating in a last race win but Aaron Carmichael
was otherwise uncatchable and after opening with a promising second and
third placings Tony Cook had a last race disaster to slip clean off the
leaderboard and let in ultra consistent Bradley King who confounded the
mathematicians by making three fourths add up to a third overall.
RESULTS –
Hazelbury Bryan, 22nd August 2004
Expert Plus
1) 15 Joe Clarke 2) 171 Craig
Rogers 3) 33 David Gane 4) 1 Phil Whetren 5) 53 Dave
Wilkins 6) 121 Paul Hussey
Novice
1) 39 Frank Morley 2) 98 Richard
Pile 3) 3 Mark Honeybun 4) 95 Paul Feltham 5) 4 Mark
Williams 6) 52 Mike Matthews
Senior
1) 84 Neal Paddington 2) 46 Ashley
Smith 3) 10 Lewis Palmer 4) 3 Lee Cummings 5) 24 Ryan
Webster 6) 31 Sean Locke
Inter 100
1) 80 Aaron Carmichael 2) 5 Damien
Weeden 3) 25 Bradley King 4) 66 Jono Davis 5) 26 Josh Moores 6) 76
Gary Malkin
Inter 85
1) 91 Matt Ogden 2) 8 Dean
Cummings 3) 63 Carl Miles 4) 4 Ryan Carter 5) 3 Kyle Newman
6) 7 Ben Weeden
Junior
1) 149 Oliver Paine 2) 32
Thomas Rogers 3) 50 Lee Wren 4) 51 Jamie Mole 5) 77 Robbie
Lapham 6) 28 Ross Churchill
Auto (watercooled)
1) 40 Jack Alderton 2) 42 Aaron
Coupland 3) 7 Samuel Lee Duggan 4) 22 Jaylee Arnold 5) 4
Daniel Howting 6) 16 Clare Goodson
Auto (aircooled)
1) 23 Harry Shearman 2) 175 Joe
Jeffries 3) 13 Ben Harrison 4) 72 Jack Dudman 5) 10 Matthew
Sturmey 6) 81 Matt David
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ORANGEMEN ON THE MARCH AT HENSTRIDGE
WITH more orange livery on parade
than at a loyalist march, the Hants and Dorset YMC championship meeting
at Henstridge on September 5th turned into a ‘battle of the boys’
The orange invasion of the KTM brigade
advanced apace to capture success across the age range from Joe Clark
playing King William in the Experts to usurp first race winner David
Gane to the apprentice boys who filled the top five spots in the
junior ranks led by Jamie Mole.
Ashley Smith put the Seniors to the
sword and Matt Ogden proved his debut win two weeks earlier was no
Austrian orange flash in the pan when he claimed double victory and
the overall honours in the Inter 85 group.
But there was a more catholic
complexion to the other groups where those who kept faith to the red,
white and blue earned their own rewards for honest endeavour.
On a day when off-track temperatures
matched the scorching pace of the on-track action only the mercury was
reaching greater heights than the flying aces on two wheels.
Even the autos were going faster,
higher and further than the auto-gyros buzzing around the nearby
airfield with Jack Alderton the fleetest of the water bearers and the
aptly aquatic Luke Sturgeon the second biggest fish in the pool.
Despite a last race slip which produced
a tie with jack Dudman for top spot, Harry Shearman kept his
stranglehold on the air-cooled group with visitors Ryan Willis and
Jamie Buckingham breathing down their necks.
Tony Cook also bracketed a brace of
wins around a middle line crisis on the scoresheet but a lack of
consistency by his closest rivals meant he held on to the Inter 100
crown for the day.
Mark Williams posted his best score of
the year to nudge namesake Mark Honeybun off
the top step of the rostrum. Husky boy Ashley Clarke was also hitting
the high notes in third, but not as squeaky as first race winner Paul
Feltham who lived up to his name when a nasty knock knackered his
hopes in the last heat.
RESULTS –
Henstridge, 5th September 2004
Expert Plus
1) 15 Joe Clarke 2) 33 David
Gane 3) 1 Phil Whetren 4) 27 Dean Taylor 5) 28 Matt
Welch 6) 41 Matt Carter
Novice
1) 4 Mark Williams 2) 3 Mark
Honeybun 3) 92 Ashley Clarke 4) 54 Ben Rose 5) 84
Andy Paddington 6) 28 Paul Grubb
Senior
1) 46 Ashley Smith 2) 84 Neal
Paddington 3) 31 Sean Locke 4) 62 Ryan Gower 5) 32
Matthew Dewey 6) 82 Ben Gould
Inter 100
1) 31 Tony Cook 2) 5 Damien
Weeden 3) 76 Gary Malkin 4) 25 Bradley King 5) 26 Josh
Moores 6) 71 Luke Wilkinson
Inter 85
1) 91 Matt Ogden 2) 7 Ben
Weeden 3) 4 Ryan Carter 4) 3 Kyle Newman 5) 2 Jody
Samways 6) 62 Liam Perry
Junior
1) 51 Jamie Mole 2) 50 Lee
Wren 3) 77 Robbie Lapham 4) 28 Ross Churchill 5) 58
James Harrison 6) 168 Charlie Creech
Auto (watercooled)
1) 40 Jack Alderton 2) 52 Luke
Sturgeon 3) 82 Joshua Barton 4) 7 Samuel Lee Duggan 5) 4
Daniel Howting 6) 6 Kieron Whitlock
Auto (aircooled)
1) 23 Harry Shearman 2) 72
Jack Dudman 3) 136 Ryan Willis 4) Jamie Buckingham
5) 10 Matthew Sturmey 6) 5 Bradley Jones
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RESULTS –
Allington Lane, 19th September 2004
Expert Plus
1) 126 Paul Watts 2)
261 Nicky Watts 3) 15 Joe Clark 4) 27 Dean Taylor 5) 1
Phil Whetren 6) 18 Jon Sibley
Novice
1) 3 Mark Honeybun 2) 98
Richard Pile 3) 92 Ashley Clarke 4) 127 Danny Richards 5)
25 Glen Edwards 6) 52 Mike Mathews
Senior
1) 131 Kristan Whatley 2)
24 Ryan Webster 3) 3 Lee Cummings 4) 84 Neal Paddington 5) 46
Ashley Smith 6) 31 Sean Locke
Inter 100
1) 129 Ross Hill 2) 7
Neil Watton 3) 5 Damien Weeden 4) 25 Bradley King 5) 66 Jono
Davis 6) 80 Aaron Carmichael
Inter 85
1) 188 Jake Shipton 2)
138 Jackson Evans 3) 147 Joe Crocker 4) 4 Ryan Carter
5) 7 Ben Weeden 6) 3 Kyle Newman
Junior
1) 149 Oliver Paine
2) 50 Lee Wren 3) 32 Thomas Rogers 4) 28 Ross Churchill 5) 77
Robbie Lapham 6) 161 Ryan Monkton
Auto (watercooled)
1) 40 Jack Alderton 2)
82 Joshua Barton 3) 7 Samuel Lee Duggan 4 ) 4
Daniel Howting 5) 22 Jaylee Arnold 6) 6 Kieron Whitlock
Auto (aircooled)
1) 114 Bethany Farne
2) 10 Matthew Sturmey 3) 129 Jamie Strange 4) 72 Jack
Dudman 5) 148 Charlie Lambath 6)45 Nathan
Wakefield
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GRISLY BEARING AT MATCHAMS
IT WAS A case of grim and bear it
at a wet and windy Matchams on October 3rd as forecast foul weather made
conditions tougher than they already were as the day ground to an
inevitable sticky end for those who stuck it to the finish.
A high attrition rate in every category as men and machinery were
worn down by the gritty grind provided some unexpected, but nevertheless
well earned, results for those who stayed on and kept going.
Enjoying a late season surge, the ever-improving Ashley Clarke
claimed honours in the novices after double race winner Matt Nicholls
fell by the way third time out and falls and fatigue foiled the form of
regular front runners.
In the expert class racy lady Katie Wakely dented the male egos of
all but fellow visitor Ryan Seabright on her return to the Hants and
Dorset fold while sheer dogged consistency brought its just rewards for
the honest endeavours of David Gane, Phil Whetren and Jon Sibley.
Second each time out was enough for Dean Cummings to secure the
overall in the seniors where the two wins for visitor Max Trenard
bracketed a DNF and allowed Ashley Smith to claw back from a first race
slip to pip Neal Paddington by a single point for second step on the
podium.
Seemingly impervious to the condition and imperious in his style,
visitor Scott Elderfield was leaping longest over the startline table
top as he defied gravity and the challenge of the day’s largest grid en
route to taking the Inter Open laurels from Hants and Dorset prodigal
James Cole and hard-charging home club hero Neil Watton.
A large influx of Inter 80 interlopers brushed aside the regular
runners to take a clean sweep of the top four places with Ashley Bailey
the best of the rest on a dismal day for most the championship
challengers.
Ryan Butler achieved the day’s only maximum score with triple triumph
in the Junior stakes where the other jockeys wallowed in the mire as the
going went from bad to uneven worse.
Conditions failed to dam the trickle of water-cooled Autos who
battled manfully to stay the course with Jaylee Arnold squeezing out
Keiron Whitlock and Daniel Howting in a close run contest.
By contrast Ben Harrison breezed to victory in the concurrent
air-cooled category with his two firsts and a second putting him 20
points clear of runner up Jack Dudman in a group where only four
finished all three races.
RESULTS – Matchams, 3rd October 2004
Expert Plus
1) 149 Ryan Seabright 2) 114 Katie Wakely3) 33 David Gane 4) 1 Phil Whetren 5) 18 Jon Sibley 6) 15 Joe Clarke
Novice
1) 92 Ashley Clarke 2) 98 Richard Pile 3) 87 Andy Curtis 4) 3
Mark Honeybun 5) 13 Lee Freemantle 6) 4 Mark Williams
Senior
1) 3 Lee Cummings 2) 46 Ashley Smith 3) 84 Neal Paddington 4) 32
Matthew Dewey 5) 64 Josh House 6) 48 Joshua Taylor
Inter 100
1) 125 Scott Elderfield 2) 192 James Cole 3) 7
Neil Watton 4) 25 Bradley King 5) 5 Damien Weeden 6) 76 Gary
Malkin
Inter 85
1) 138 Jackson Evans 2) 141 Lewis Trickett 3)
188 Jake Shipton 4) 147 Joe Crocker 5) 88 Ashley Bailey
6) 4 Ryan Carter
Junior
1) 12 Ryan Butler 2) 50 Lee Wren 3) 77 Robbie Lapham 4) 28 Ross
Churchill 5) 32 Thomas Rogers 6) 161 Ryan Monkton
Auto (watercooled)
1) 22 Jaylee Arnold 2) 6 Kieron Whitlock 3) 4 Daniel Howting
4) 82 Joshua Barton 5) 16 Clare Goodson 6) 7 Samuel Lee Duggan
Auto (aircooled)
1) 13 Ben Harrison 2) 72 Jack Dudman 3) 148
Charlie Lambath 4) 45 Nathan Wakefield 5) 175 Visitor 6) 129 Visitor
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2004 SINKS
SLOWLY INTO THE WEST
HANTS & Dorset Youth Moto-Cross Club’s 2004 championship season
finished as it had begun on the soft and soggy slopes of Milborne St
Andrew.
Just as in March, the rain – which was to become a dominant feature
in the intervening eight months – came down in buckets the day before,
but mercifully held off on race day.
To the Milborne mix of adverse camber corners and slippery slopes was
added the extra slickness of lush long grass which at least in practice
and the first block caused many riders as well as the season to come
full circle rather than full stop.
In the last chance to garner a few more championship points just in
case any were needed, reigning expert plus cup holder David Gane
mirrored his March Milborne result with an overall win punctuated only
by letting Dean Taylor through for a last gasp, last lap, last race win.
The absence of the recent visitor hordes left the field open for the
home stars to shine in the Inter 85s where Dean Cummings’s early grip on
the track and the first race meant he could remount after a slip without
losing the lead but Ross Keyworth stamped his authority on the rest of
the day with Alex Hussey chasing the pair home.
But a first race slip proved more costly for Inter 100 runner Bradley
King who posed the greatest challenge to Damien Weeden’s supremacy and
even headed him home in the second heat while Aaron Carmichael improved
his score with each outing to claim third.
James Harrison won two out of three Junior encounters but it was not
enough to prise the laurels from ultra-consistent Jamie Mole who never
finished lower than second in a group which has been close-fought
throughout the year.
Auto class winners Ben Harrison (air) and Jaylee Arnold (water) could
have done no more for their respective championship chances than reeling
off the day’s only maximum scores on a course that may have been
shortened but was no less slippery.
Ashley Smith and Neal Paddington were locked in a day-long duel for
Senior honours only resolved by the outcome of the final race while in
their wake a similar scrap ensued between Ryan Gower and Lee Cummings
for third.
Richard Pile’s two wins in the novices bracketed a lowly second leg
result which allowed Danny Richards to take both the race win and
overall spoils while the vagaries of moto-cross scoring meant three
third places for Colin Ayles only added up to an aggregate fourth place.
RESULTS –
Milborne St Andrew,
17th October 2004
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1) 33 David Gane 2) 27 Dean Taylor 3) 112 Paul Hussey 4) 7 Simon Smart 5) 1 Phil Whetren 6) 41 Matt Carter
Novice
1) 127 Danny Richards 2) 3 Mark Honeybun
3) 98 Richard Pile 4) 41 Colin Ayles
5) 87 Andy Curtis 6) 95 Paul Feltham
Senior
1) 84 Neal Paddington 2) 46 Ashley Smith 3) 62 Ryan Gower 4) 3 Lee Cummings 5) 64 Josh House 6) 68 Marcus Feltham
Inter 100
1) 5 Damien Weeden 2) 25 Bradley King 3) 80 Aaron Carmichael 4) 72 Ben Carter 5) 26 Josh Moores 6) 27 Robert Hartley
Inter 85
1) 20 Ross Keyworth 2) 8 Dean Cummings 3) 16 Alex Hussey 4) 7 Ben Weeden 5) 4 Ryan Carter 6) 23 Harry Beattie
Junior
1) 51 Jamie Mole 2) 58 James Harrison 3) 149 Oliver Paine 4) 32 Thomas Rogers 5) 77 Robbie Lapham 6) 15 Lewis Cave
Auto (watercooled)
1) 22 Jaylee Arnold 2) 82 Joshua Barton 3) 4 Daniel Howting 4) 7 Samuel Lee Duggan 5) 6 Kieron Whitlock 6) 16 Clare Goodson
Auto (aircooled)
1) 13 Ben Harrison 2) 72 Jack Dudman 3) 10 Matthew Sturmey 4) 5 Bradley Jones
5) 41 Billy Savage 6) 45 Nathan Wakefield
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