
2005 Race Results & Reports
Round 1 Championship 06/03/2005 Henstridge
Report
Results
Round 2 Championship 20/03/2005 Bere Regis
Report
Results
Photos
Round 3 Championship 03/04/2005 Matchams
Report
Results
Round 4 Championship 17/04/2005 Bishopstone
Report
Results
Photos
Non-Championship 1st & 2nd May 2005 Hazelbury Bryan
Results
Photos
Round 5 Championship 29/05/2005 Henstridge
Report
Results
Photos
Round 6 Championship 12/06/2005 Yarley
Report
Results
Photos
Round 7 Championship 26/06/2005 Matchams
Report
Results
Photos
Round 8 Championship 10/07/2005 Allington Lane
Report
Results
Photos
Non-Championship 23rd & 24th July Henstridge
Report
Results
Photos
Round 9 Championship 07/08/2005 Maiden Newton
Report
Results
Photos
Round 10 Championship 21/08/2005 TonyMoto
Report
Results
Round 11 Championship 04/09/2005 Matchams
Report
Results
Photos
Round 12 Championship 18/09/2005 Bishopstone
Report
Results
Photos
Round 13 Championship 02/10/2005 Hazelbury Bryan
Report
Results
Photos
Round 14 Championship 16/10/2005 Milborne St Andrew
Report
Results
Photos
Fun(!) Meeting
30/10/2005 Matchams (track 2)
Report
Results
Photos
Presentation Evening
26/11/2005 Sandford Holiday Park
Report
Results
Photos
All results are provisional, do not take into account visitors,
penalties (eg non-track clearance) and therefore cannot be taken as the definitive
championship standings.
FROST FREE RECEPTION FOR 2005
IT MAY not have been quite as cold as the inappropriately named warm up
meeting a fortnight earlier, but there was still a nip – and some nippy
nippers – in the air when the Hants & Dorset Youth Moto-Cross Club’s
opened its 2005 championship campaign at Henstridge on March 6.
Softened by the welcome thaw and a drop of overnight rain the bare clay
track proved sticky at first as many came unstuck in the initial
encounters before the resulting deep ruts added their own overriding
influence to the direction of riders and results.
It was not only the racing surface that had been regraded for 2005 and
most groups took on a new look with the reception of graduates from the
classes of the previous year.
Lee Cummings and Neal Paddington renewed their Senior rivalry from last
year to mix it with the front runners of the Experts but ‘professor’ Phil
Lewis gave an object lesson at the front of their class.
Ryan Gower moved up a gear to fill the void left by the promotion of
his former peers to take Senior honours ahead of 2004 Inter 100 champion
Damien Weeden and similarly upgraded Aaron Carmichael making an early
impression on their new classmates.
Erstwhile 85 hot shot Alex Hussey and old hand Tony Cook were drawn as
the early aces in the reshuffled Inter 100 pack which while missing its
kings from last year’s rubber was the only full deck for the first deal of
the new season.
After making his debut in the chorus line last year Jordan Murphy was
the class act of the Inter 85 category taking the limelight from the
orange glow of Matt Ogden while George Purchase and Dean Cummings were
cast in unfamiliar supporting roles.
Oliver Jones made an early impact on the Junior group but had to give
best to comparative veterans Tom Rogers and Jamie Mole renewing their
close-matched rivalry at the front.
In a depleted auto field Joshua Barton (water) and Jack Dudman (air)
mined their respective relative seams of experience to produce the early
elements of success.
Nominal novices Mark Williams and Colin Ayles who escaped the elevation
to expert status which removed the rest of last year’s front runners from
the grid started as ante-post favourites but even they couldn’t keep up
with the miscast Darren Savage who won each encounter by a comparative
country mile.
RESULTS -
Henstridge, 6th March 2005
Expert Plus
1) 70 Phil Lewis 2) 3 Lee Cummings 3)
84 Neal Paddington 4) 33 David Gane 5) 20 Paul Hussey 6) 95
Jonathan Courage
Novice
1) 86 Darren Savage 2) 41 Colin Ayles
3) 4 Mark Williamson 4) 81 Chris Kimpton 5) 26 Michael Caines 6) 6 Carl
Robinson
Senior
1) 62 2) Damien Weeden
3) Aaron Carmichael 4) 68 Marcus Feltham 5) 32 Ben Gould 6) 2 Buster
Whetren
Inter 100
1) 25 Alex Hussey 2) 31 Tony Cook
3) 57 Chris Cave 4) 66 Jono Parker-Davies 5) 77 Tom White 6) 20 Josh
Ogden
Inter 85
1) 22 Jordan Murphy2) 91 Matt Ogden 3)
21 George Purchase 4) 8 Dean Cummings 5) 40 Ross Churchill 6) 6
Warren Abrahams
Junior
1) 32 Tom Rogers 2) 51 Jamie Mole 3)
15 Oliver Jones 4) 20 Louis Schmidt 5) 59 Jack Howe 6) 6 Stuart
White
Auto (watercooled)
1) 82 Joshua Barton 2) 5 Bradley Jones
3) 65 Bradley Jones
Auto (aircooled)
1) 72 Jack Dudman 2) 59 Joshua Bunter
3) 1 Declan Quinn 4) 9 Kayla Barrington5) 30 George
Willis
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BARE REACHES AT BERE REGIS
A DUSTY spring field made a come back appearance to cut a revised
version of a classic track and revive at least this old 45-year-old as the
massed bands of the Hants and Dorset YMC played its second number of the
2005 season on March 20.
The winter drought and spring sunshine combined to turn the bare
reaches of Bere Regis into a parched and powdery setting for the Palm
Sunday parade which was anything but processional.
Bleached boy Phil Lewis surfed the waves of expert wannabes with Ashley
Smith heading a trio of young rascals in his wake while former class
champion David Gane and a resurgent Mark Teggin completed the leader
board.
At the top of the novice hit parade golden oldies Colin Ayles and Chris
Kimpton sandwiched new kid on the block Tony Whitehead who chalked up his
first race win.
The surname may have changed but a Ryan – Webster this time – again
denied last year’s Inter open hot shot Damien Weeden a debut overall win
in the seniors with Gareth Blakemore and Carl Pennington shunting another
of last year top 100s, Aaron Carmichael off the rostrum.
Results in the Inter 100 races were also all shook up from a fortnight
earlier with Gary Malkin putting his spell over Alex Hussey and Chris Cave
in a final line up which lost some of its front runners early on.
Ding-dong duels in the dust among Dean Cummings, Jordan Murphy and Matt
Ogden made the podium of the Inter 85 class an all-boy zone despite the
presence of a spicy girl quartet headed by Cherie Wingar.
Tom Rogers stayed top of the junior charts where Jamie Mole dropped one
place from Henstridge following the arrival of new entry George Purchase
in a group which is tuning up to be as highly competitive as their older
peers.
There was no change either among the top of the poppets in the sparse
auto groups with Joshuas three - Barton, Bunter and Lewis - and the B-radleys
providing a certain symmetry to the scores of the water and air-cooled
quartets.
RESULTS -
Bere Regis, 20th March 2005
Expert Plus
1) 70 Phil Lewis 2) 48 Ashley Smith 3) 3 Lee Cummings
4)
84 Neal Paddington 5) 33 David Gane 6) 4 Mark Teggin
Novice
1) 41 Colin Ayles
2) 58 Tony Whitehead 3) 81 Chris Kimpton 4) 94 Steven Gane 5) 28
Paul Grubb 6) 89 Lee Pennington
Senior
1) 24 Ryan Webster 2) 50 Damien Weeden
3) Gareth Blakemoore 4) 8 Carl Pennington 5) 80 Aaron Carmichael 6) 81
Joe Richards
Inter 100
1) 76 Gary Malkin
2) 25 Alex Hussey 3) 57 Chris Cave
4) 3 Kyle Newman 5) 18 Ashley Bailey 6) 26 Joshua Moores
Inter 85
1) 8 Dean Cummings 2) 22 Jordan Murphy 3) 91 Matt Ogden
4) 2 Lewis Cave 5) 18 Jack Thomas 6) 66 Edward Yule
Junior
1) 32 Tom Rogers 2) 21 Liam Garland 3) 51
Jamie Mole 4) 15 Oliver Jones 5) 20 Louis Schmidt 6) 50
Darren Wingar
Auto (watercooled)
1) 82 Joshua Barton 2) 5 Bradley Jones
3) 17 Joshua Lewis 4) 65 Bradley Jones
Auto (aircooled)
1) 72 Jack Dudman 2) 59 Joshua Bunter
3) 1 Declan Quinn 4) 99 Jordan Cornes
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ROUGH JUSTICE AT MATCHAMS
DISLIKE it or loathe it, Matchams brings out the best and worst
in people, sorting the men from the boys and the weak from the champions.
While those who like it flat and fast struggled with the rough, tough
terrain those made of sterner stuff used their stamina and berm-bashing
style to good effect.
While visitors, notably among the inter 85s, showed home grown heroes
their pointless exercise was erased from the results to make life easier
for the championship scorers.
The ups and downs of the day also put some different names in the frame
with
Richard ‘Wilf’ Wareham on a veteran if not vintage bike proving his
Matchams mastery in the novice class where Pete Barnes was having the ride
of his life and crashes dented the hopes of race winners Mark Williamson
and Frank Morley.
Phil Lewis was again credited with the expert honours while reigning
group champion David Gane found himself engulfed in a gaggle of last
year’s senior front runners headed by Lee Cummings and Sean Locke.
Ryan Webster ruled the roost in the senior section with Aaron
Carmichael demoting Damien Weeden to the bottom step of the podium just
ahead of fellow former 100s hotshot Bradley King.
Alex Hussey emerged top dog in the Inter Open kennel with Jamie
Mitchell snapping at his heels and young pups Josh Ogden and Josh Moores
straining at the leash behind Gary Malkin.
Bere Regis top two Jordan Murphy and Dean Cummings, now seemingly
rejoined at the hip after their epic junior jockeying of a couple of
seasons ago, were usurped over the Matchams undulations by George Purchase
and Matt Ogden in the Inter 85s
Thomas Rogers maintained his stranglehold over Jamie Mole at the head
of the junior class while erstwhile auto pilots Louis Schmidt, Olly Jones
and Jack Jenner vied for the minor placings.
Just getting round the unforgiving, albeit foreshortened, Matchams
track was a test of tenacity for the air and water cooled cadets whose
parades were topped respectively by Jack Dudman and Josh Barton.
RESULTS -
Matchams, 3rd April 2005
Expert Plus
1) 70 Phil Lewis 2) 3 Lee Cummings 3)
31 Sean Locke 4) 33 David Gane 5) 48 Ashley Smith 6) 48
Neal Paddington
Novice
1) 60Richard Wareham 2) 2 Peter
Barnes 3) 4 Mark Williamson 4) 39 Frank Morley 5) 12
Peter Gray 6) 72 Kevin Gray
Senior
1) 24 Ryan Webster 2) 80 Aaron
Carmichael 3) 50 Damien Weeden 4) 25 Bradley King 5) 8
Carl Pennington 6)
22 Matthew Dewey
Inter 100
1 ) 25 Alex Hussey 2) 56 Jamie Mitchell
3) 76 Gary Malkin 4) 20 Josh Ogden5) 26 Joshua Moores 6) 57 Chris
Cave
Inter 85
1)
21 George Purchase 2) 91 Matt Ogden 3) 22 Jordan Murphy 4) 8 Dean Cummings
5) 48 Bradley Margetts 6) 66 Edward Yule
Junior
1) 32 Tom Rogers 2) 51 Jamie Mole 3) 20
Louis Schmidt 4) 15 Oliver Jones 5) 95 Jack Jenner 6) 55 Magnus
Manson-Chubb
Auto (watercooled)
1) 82 Joshua Barton 2) 40 Jack
Alderton 3) 5 Bradley Jones 4) 65 Bradley Rowland
Auto (aircooled)
1) 72 Jack Dudman 2) 1 Declan Quinn 3) 2
Ben Poole
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TEMPEST CREATES A STORM AT BISHOPSTONE
A CHILL wind blew no good at Bishopstone, ushering in the forecast
showers which turned the hard packed lime into slippery slime and forced
an early end to proceedings on April 17.
With the juniors, 85s and 100s falling like nine pins on the glazed
surface which remained bone-crunchingly hard, the marshals and medics –
not to mention the lap-scorers – were also left in a spin by the crazy
carnage around them.
But it was punctures that took the wind out of the sails – and tyres –
of visitor Jamie Tempest and deflated his high-flying hopes of a storming,
albeit pointless, senior success.
As it was interlopers still ruled the roost in the group with Damien
Weeden valiantly getting in amongst the away crowd at the front of the
field.
Crashes which sidelined regular front runners in the novice group paved
the way for Pete Barnes to storm to his maiden race win and prove his
Matchams form of a fortnight earlier was no fluke.
And there was a virgin victory too for Inter 100 runner Josh Moores at
the expense of ante-post favourite Gary Malkin.
In the highly-competitive Inter 85 clashes Jordan Murphy had the
measure of visitor Harry Noakes with the rest of the pack scrapping
ferociously in their wake.
Liam Garland blossomed in the junior group to knock Tom Roger off his
customary perch while erstwhile autos Oliver Jones and Jack Jenner moved
up a gear to fill the minor placings.
The biggest assembly of autos so far this year saw visitor Jordan Pyne
pulled the plug on Joshua Barton water-cooled dominance while a gaggle of
newcomers filled the air space between Jack Dudman and Declan Quinn in the
concurrent finned category.
Visitor Jamie Hallett tried hard and even led for a time in the two
expert encounters but couldn’t stop Phil Lewis taking the laurels again.
RESULTS -
Bishopstone, 17th April 2005
Expert Plus
1) 70 Phil Lewis 2) 172 Jamie Hallett 3)
48 Ashley Smith 4) 33 David Gane 5) 48
Neal Paddington 6) 31 Sean Locke
Novice
1) 4 Mark Williamson 2) 65 Justin Cox 3) 2 Peter
Barnes 4) 92 Ashley Clarke 5) 25 Glenn Edwards 6)
41 Colin Ayles
Senior
1) 177 Harry Seymour 2) 50 Damien Weeden 3)
161 Buddy Kirby 4) 80 Aaron
Carmichael 5) 3 Tom Thorne 6) 22 Matthew Dewey
Inter 100
1 ) 26 Joshua Moores 2) 76 Gary Malkin 3) 57 Chris Cave
4) 88 Steve Bain 5) 77 Tom White 6) 89 Ashley Bailey
Inter 85
1)
22 Jordan Murphy 2) 151 Harry Noakes 3) 91 Matt Ogden 4) 21
George Purchase 5) 29 Oliver Payne 6) 8 Dean Cummings
Junior
1) 21 Liam Garland 2) 32 Tom Rogers 3) 15 Oliver Jones 4) 95 Jack Jenner 5)
Liam Knight 6) 50 Darren Wingar
Auto (watercooled)
1) 155 Jordan Pyne 2) 82 Joshua Barton 3) 40 Jack Alderton
4) 141 Toby Cook 5) 5 Bradley Rowland 4) 65 Bradley Jones
Auto (aircooled)
1) 72 Jack Dudman 2) 22 Jamie Carpenter 3) 59 Josh Bunter
4) 38 Freddy Lambeth 5) 1 Declan Quinn 3) 46 Sean Dimmick
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RESULTS -
Hazelbury Bryan, 1st & 2nd May 2005
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LONG STRETCH
AT HENSTRIDGE
HANTS and Dorset YMC moved into the
adjoining county of Somerset for its second foray of 2005 on the edge of
the Henstridge airfield where there had been a distinct change of scenery
since the first meeting in March.
While the track had been much remodelled at least it was in the same
place; but the paddock and car park had been moved to the other side of
the airfield as the penalty for previous incursions into the flyers’
airspace.
This resulted in a long ‘taxiway’ from pits to launch pad for the pilots
and an extra long stretch of the legs for marshals, spectators, supporters
and officials to get within sight of the track.
Dust which caused the cancellation of the previous scheduled meeting again
made its presence felt and all but the smallest groups were enveloped in a
rich red mist for most of their races.
Expert hot shot Phil Lewis literally pulverised the opposition with Ashley
Smith’s orange KTM emerging from the powdered ochre to mount the closest
challenge.
Frank Morley was equally peerless in the Novice group while Mark
Williamson and Justin Cox shared the dust-eating positions in his wake.
Marcus Feltham moved up to the top of the Senior pile which was given a
different complexion by the absence of several of the early season front
runners.
In the Inter 100 group Joshua Moores continued with his Bishopstone form
and headed home ante post favourites Ashley Bailey and Chris Cave while
Lee Wren soared to the top of his tree in the Inter 85 class.
Tom Rogers continued his great expectations in the Junior group with Louis
Schmidt keeping ahead of the Joneses and leaving young Oliver wanting
more.
Meanwhile the auto focus put the usual suspects in the frame with watery
Joshua Barton staying ahead of the Bradley bunch and Jack Dudman breezing
to another overall in the wind-chilled factors.
RESULTS -
Henstridge, 29th May 2005
Expert Plus
1) 70 Phil Lewis 2) 48 Ashley Smith
3) 3 Lee Cummings 4) 84 Neal Paddington 5) 45 Josh House 6) 95 Jonathan
Courage
Novice
1) 39 Frank Morley 2) 4 Mark
Williamson 3) 65 Justin Cox 4) 72 Kevin Gray 5) 12 Peter Gray 6) 95
Paul Feltham
Senior
1) 68 Marcus Feltham 2) 22 Matthew
Dewey 3) 2 Buster Whetren 4) 8 Carl Pennington 5) 32 Ben Gould 6) 1 Dean
Pennington
Inter 100
1) 26 Joshua Moores 2) 89 Ashley
Bailey 3) 57 Chris Cave 4) 77 Tom White 5) 72 Ben Carter 6) 5
Ben Weeden
Inter 85
1) 50 Lee Wren 2) 91 Matt Ogden
3) 18 Jack Thomas 4) 8 Dean Cummings 5) 2 Lewis Cave 6) 40 Ross
Churchill
Junior
1) 32 Thomas Rogers 2) 20 Louis
Schmidt 3) 15 Oliver Jones 4) 50 Darren Wingar 5) 59 Jack Howe
6) 55 Magnus Manson-Chubb
Auto (watercooled)
1) 82 Joshua Barton 2) 5 Bradley
Jones 3) 65 Bradley Rowland 4) 12
Auto (aircooled)
1) 72 Jack Dudman 2) 59 Josh Bunter
3) 22 Jamie Carpenter 4) 4 Sam Lycett 5) 46 Sean Dimmick 6) 1 Declan
Quinn
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COOL COO IS HOT STUFF AT YARLEY
KATIE ‘cool Coo’ Carne made her name
making the little boys blue in her nursery rhyme days in the junior
classes of Hants and Dorset.
But she’s a big girl now and at Yarley in her native Somerset she made the
big boys blush by taking the overall win in the blue riband expert plus
category.
Her trademark smooth, deceptively fast and above all consistent style
meant her 5-4-3 placings added up to make the best figure after the
exclusion of visitors, a tie-break with David Gane and the last race
disappearance of unlucky 13 Jimmy Hendry.
The steep hills and swirling dust took their toll on the depleted entry in
all classes but those who made the long trek to the venue and made it to
the finish each time out reaped dividends for their championship chances.
Better known as a mud maestro Aaron Carmichael turned dust buster to sweep
up the Senior class, after Bradley King blew his chances with a dismal
first outing.
Emulating the exploits last year of his bigger brother Ben Weeden reeled
off three straight wins in the Inter 100 category while a battle royal
ensued among the chasing pack to fill the minor places.
By contrast Jordan Murphy’s best finish was a third race runner-up spot
but it was enough to secure him the overall honours in the Inter 85 group
despite the efforts of Jay Chalmers who bounced back from a first race
faux pas to win the both his other races.
Stuart White put his name at the top of the junior listing with two wins
and second place behind Louis Schmidt who fought back to third overall
after also coming a cropper first time out.
If the hills were tough for the rest spare a thought for the autos – and
their helpers - who manfully slogged up the steep slopes all day, only to
discover they could have had their own flatter track if the club had but
known!!
Joshua Barton maintained his domination of the water pumpers but Jack
Dudman had to play an unaccustomed second fiddle to Jordan Pyne in the air
cooled section of the auto orchestra.
Mark Williamson bestrode the novices like a colossus while his main
challengers fell by way leaving the quirky arithmetic of moto-cross to
make three thirds add up to second for Andrew Curtis.
RESULTS -
Yarley, 12th June 2005
Expert Plus
1) 9 Kate Carne 2) 33 David Gane
3) 43 Billy Wallis 4) 35 Danny Richards 5) 28 Matt Welch 6) 77 Alan
Parker
Novice
1) 4 Mark Williamson 2) 87 Andrew
Curtis 3) 94 Steven Gane 4) 81 Chris Kimpton 5) 96 Martin
Watson 6) 25 Glenn Edwards
Senior
1) 80 Aaron Carmichael 2) 25 Bradley
King 3) 32 Ben Gould 4) 1 Dean Pennington 5) 8 Carl Pennington
6) 10 Lewis Palmer
Inter 100
1) 5 Ben Weeden 2) 72 Ben Carter
3) 3 Kyle Newman 4) 27 Jake Pierson 5) 88 Stephen Bain 6) 99 Jake
Thompson
Inter 85
1) 22 Jordan Murphy 2) 29 Oliver
Paine 3) 6 Warren Abrahams 4) 52 Jay Chalmers 5) 8 Dean Cummings 6)
48 Bradley Margetts
Junior
1) 6 Stuart White 2) 59 Jack Howe
3) 20 Louis Schmidt 4) 87 Dylan Baynton 5) 24 Harvey Walsh 6) 10
Matthew Sturmey
Auto (watercooled)
1) 82 Joshua Barton 2) 5 Bradley
Jones 3) 65 Bradley Rowland 4) 46 Sean Dimmick
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MATCHING ‘EM AT
MATCHAMS
BARELY had the sound of the British Moto-Cross
Grand Prix stopped echoing around the Matchams venue before the lads and
lasses of Hants and Dorset YMC showed what they could do on the revamped
track where the world’s stars had performed just a few weeks earlier.
At the top of the pile in the Moto1 experts
class Brett Wheeler returned in style to do what no man had done before so
far this season and vanquish Phil Lewis with a hat trick of race wins.
After victorious visitors had been expunged
from the senior results it was a Pennington 1-2 with overall winner Carl
reaping the reward of consistent 5-5-4 placing over the up and down
fortunes of Dean while Damien Weeden’s challenge was blunted by a second
race 17th.
Jordan Pyne (water) and Jack Dudman (air)
made their respective auto classes their own on a track that does no
favours for little lads with little bikes and little wheels.
Matt Ogden took the flag twice in the Inter
85s but it was not enough to stop Dean Cummings from taking the overall as
Jordan Murphy dropped back as the day wore on.
Jonathan Davies was another double winner
in the Inter 100 en route to the aggregate victory as Alex Hussey moved up
a place each time out to take the last heat and with it second spot on the
podium.
In the Junior ranks too Tom Rogers took the
first two races and then settled for second behind the non-scoring visitor
153 while Louis Schmidt had his work cut out to get a handle on Magnus
Manson-Chubb and Soul Ki-Aries.
Among the novices Matchams specialiasts
Peter Gray, Pete Barnes and Richard Wareham put the pressure on regular
front runner Mark Williams while the re-graded Tom Reeves made up the
leaderboard.
RESULTS -
Matchams, 26th June 2005
Expert Plus
1) 74 Brett Wheeler 2) 70
Phil Lewis
3) 31 Sean Lock 4) 72 Scott Wallace
5) 48 Ashley Smith 6) 21 David Thomas
Novice
1) 12 Peter Gray 2) 4
Mark Williamson
3) 2 Pete Barnes 4) 60 Richard Wareham
5) 87 Andrew Curtis 6) 27 Tom Reeves
Senior
1) 8 Carl Pennington 2) 1
Dean Pennington
3) 38 Sam Cole 4) 50 Damian Weeden
5) 80 Aaron Carmichael 6) 61 Joshua Taylor
Inter 100
1) 66 Jonathan Davies 2)
25 Alex Hussey
3) 57 Chris Cave 4) 26 Joshua Moores
5) 77 Tom White 6) 89 Ashley Bailey
Inter 85
1) 8 Dean Cummings 2) 91
Matt Ogden
3) 22 Jordan Murphy 4) 29 Oliver Paine
5) 66 Edward Yule 6) 6 Warren Abrahams
Junior
1) 32 Tom Rogers 2) 20
Louis Schmidt
3) 17 Soul Ki-Aries 4) 55 Magnus Manson-Chubb
5) 59 Jack Howe 6) 50 Darren Wingar
Auto (watercooled)
1) 55 Jordan Pyne 2) 82
Joshua Barton
3) 65 Bradley Rowland 4) 5 Bradley Jones
5) 46 Sean Dimmick 6) 77 Brandon Scott
Auto (aircooled)
1) 72 Jack Dudman 2) 22 Jamie Carpenter
3) 59 Josh Bunter 4) 16 Scott Newham
5) 4 Sam Lycett
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FLYING
ALONG AT ALLINGTON LANE
WITH the dust firmly settled after the previous debacle at the venue
beneath the flightpath of Southampton airport, the magnificent men and
their flying machines of Hants and Dorset YMC were really taking off over
some of the spectacular jumps when their flying circus touched down at
Allington Lane on July 16.
And since what goes up must come down, there were some equally
spectacular, but thankfully not too painful, crash landings but only one
pen-pushing pilot was forced to ‘ditch’ in the only soggy spot left after
the juniors had seemingly taken half the track back to the paddock with
them after practising first on the well-watered piste.
With the soft top removed, the track reverted to its underlying rock hard,
loose and increasingly dusty, norm leading to some bone-crunching and
bike-bending crashes, not least for Frank Morley whose novice exploits
came to an abrupt and abrasive halt leaving Mark Williams relatively
unchallenged at the top of the heap.
Phil Lewis duly performed his customary masterclass of the Expert + group
despite the best efforts of Neal Paddington. To make it more interesting,
he stormed from last to first in the final encounter and in so doing
encouraged the field to up their game including Tony Tomasso having one of
his best ever rides.
Aaron Carmichael was the man on the move in the Seniors category, while
Damien Weeden returned to the form he showed last season in the lower
division to relegate Lewis Palmer to the bottom rung of the rostrum.
Joshua Moores rolled up his sleeves and got down to work in the Inter 100
class where Chris Cave shaded Ashley Bailey and Ben Weeden got himself
back among the leading half dozen.
Perennial bridesmaid Matt Ogden was again runner-up in the Inter 85s, this
time veiled in the dusty train of Jordan Murphy in a group where bravado
got the better of brain for several of the wannabe high fliers.
Oliver Jones bounced back to form in the Juniors to mount the closest
challenge to the seemingly unstoppable Tom Rogers steam roller, but there
was a reversal of fortune in the with Jamie Carpenter nailing air heir
apparent Jack Dudman and Jordan Pyne repeating his Matchams success over
Joshua Barton.
RESULTS -
Allington Lane 10th July 2005
Expert Plus
1) 70 Phil Lewis 2) 84 Neal Paddington 3) 33 David Gane 4) 88 Tony
Tomasso 4) 17 Danny Nash 6) 28 Matt Welch
Novice
1) 4 Mark Williamson 2) 87 Andrew Curtis 3) 65 Justin Cox 4) 2 Pete
Barnes 5) 27 Tom Reeves 6) 89 Lee Pennington
Senior
1) 80 Aaron Carmichael 2) 50 Damian Weeden 3) 10 Lewis Palmer 4) 76
Gary Malkin 5) 22 Matthew Dewey 6) 32 Ben Gould
Inter 100
1) 26 Joshua Moores 2) 57 Chris Cave 3) 89 Ashley Bailey 4) 5 Ben
Weeden 5) 77 Tom White 6) 20 Josh Ogden
Inter 85
1) 22 Jordan Murphy 2) 91 Matt Ogden 3) 2 Lewis Cave 4) 8 Dean
Cummings 5) 1 Matt Randall 6) 66 Edward Yule
Junior
1) 32 Tom Rogers 2) 15 Oliver Jones 3) 50 Darren Wingar 4) 20 Louis
Schmidt 5) 59 Jack Howe 6) 6 Stuart White
Auto (watercooled)
1) 55 Jordan Pyne 2) 82 Joshua Barton 3) 5 Bradley Jones 4) 65
Bradley Rowland 5) 46 Sean Dimmick
Auto (aircooled)
1) 22 Jamie Carpenter 2) 59 Josh Bunter 3) 72 Jack Dudman 4) 38
Freddie Lambeth 5) 1 Declan Quinn 6) 4 Sam Lycett
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SHORTENED
STRETCH AT HENSTRIDGE
DUST and deluge cast their respective
clouds over the Hants and Dorset YMC summer two-day meeting and
effectively grounded second day operations on the track beside the
Henstridge airfield.
While water was needed to lay the dust by
lunchtime on the Saturday – and coat the Inter100s in the resulting orange
slime when they went out first on the newly-lubricated surface – the rain
was an unwelcome overnight visitor, especially after the track at been
graded and watered earlier in the evening.
With rain still falling on Sunday morning
the glutinous conditions were decreed just too slippery to be safe,
particularly on the jumps, and racing was abandoned for the weekend
leaving the destination of the trophies determined by Saturday’s sorties
alone.
But judging by their track records in the
first day’s encounter most of the class leaders had already sewn up their
top places with unbeaten hat tricks recorded at either end of the age
scale.
Three straight wins for Joshua Barton –
each time followed home by Bradley Jones and Bradley Rowland – secured the
water cooled auto honours and the feat was matched by Jack Dudman in the
concurrent air-cooled class where Josh Bunter bagged three seconds and
Freddie Lambeth waltzed to third overall.
There was a similar one-two each time out
for Tom Rogers and Liam Garland at the front of the Junior ranks and Louis
Schmidt managed to make three fourths add up to a third.
But it needed even more nifty maths to work
out the Inter 85 results with races wins for Lee Wren, Oliver Paine and
George Purchase not enough to outscore the greater consistency of Jordan
Murphy and Dean Cummings in a group that continues to be
ultra-competitive.
Likewise Ashley Bailey and Josh Moores each
took a chequered flag in the Inter 100s, but first race winner Chris Cave
added a second and third while his rivals slipped off the leaderboard in
at least one of the remaining encounters.
Damien Weeden could only just afford afford
to take a third race third after posting two wins in the Seniors with Ryan
Gower second each time out and Brad King recovering from a poor first race
to edge Aaron Carmichael off the podium he topped a fortnight earlier.
Mark Williamson remained peerless in the
adult novice group while the close-matched pairing of Lee Pennington and
Andrew Curtis kept older campaigner Colin Ayles at bay.
Josh House and Ricky Fenton were closest to
the seemingly invincible Phil Lewis in the first two Expert heats but
their challenge was dented in what proved to be the final leg with Mike
Bailey and David Gane taking the advantage.
RESULTS -
Henstridge 23rd & 24th July 2005
Expert Plus
1) 70 Phil Lewis 2) 45 Josh House 3) 51 Ricky Fenton 4) 57 Mike
Bailey 4) 33 David Gane 6) 13 Jimmy Hendry
Novice
1) 4 Mark Williamson 2) 89 Lee Pennington 3) 87 Andrew Curtis
4) 41 Colin Ayles 5) 25 Glenn Edwards 6) 58 Tony Whitehead
Senior
1) 50 Damian Weeden 2) 62 Ryan Gower 3) 25 Brad King 4) 80 Aaron
Carmichael 5) 10 Lewis Palmer 6) 41
Gareth Blakemore
Inter 100
1) 57 Chris Cave 2) 89 Ashley Bailey 3) 27 Jake Pierson 4) 5 Ben Weeden 5)
26 Josh Moores 6) 88 Stephen Bain
Inter 85
1) 22 Jordan Murphy 2) 50 Lee Wren 3) 8 Dean Cummings 4) 29 Oliver
Paine 5) 6 Warren Abrahams 6) 21 George Purchase
Junior
1) 32 Tom Rogers 2) 2 Liam Garland 3) 20 Louis Schmidt 4) 95
Jack Jenner 5) 15 Oliver Jones 6) 50 Darren Wingar
Auto (watercooled)
1) 82 Joshua Barton 2) 5 Bradley Jones 3) 65
Bradley Rowland 4) 77 Brandon Scott 5) 8 Nathan Curtis 6) 46 Sean Dimmick
Auto (aircooled)
1) 72 Jack Dudman 2) 59 Josh Bunter 3) 38
Freddie Lambeth 4) 16 Scott Newham 5) 4 Sam Lycett 6) 7 Oliver
Curtis
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MAIDEN WINS
AT MAIDEN NEWTON
HOLIDAY takers and other absentees made
the smart go stronger when Hants and Dorset YMC pitched camp on the scenic
slopes billed as Maiden Newton but on the map at least some distance from
the Dorset village of that name.
This green and pleasant land soon descended into Satanic mills of swirling
dust clouds as the grassy hills broke out into bumps and ruts and deep,
loose berms to catch out the unwary, unsighted and unsettled who strayed
from the straight and seemingly narrow path.
Olly Jones, virtually unbeatable a couple of seasons ago in the autos,
returned to his winning ways with a maiden Junior victory in the opening
race and to prove it was no fluke repeated the feat and secured the
overall from Louis Schmidt and Dylan Baynton.
Watery auto Bradley Jones was another mouse at play while the resident top
cat was away, taking the class honours from Brandon Scott but his hopes of
taking the flag were dashed by a spill which allowed air-cooled Jack
Dudman to lead the little ones over the line each time out.
Matt Ogden too moved up a notch after a season of second places to top the
Inter 85s ahead of Edward Yule and Jack Thomas enjoying their best ever
results.
Chris Cave and Ashley Bailey reproduced their results of a fortnight
earlier to carve up the Inter 100 pack while Josh Moores up and down form
saw him back on the podium.
Ryan Gower was the man on the move in the Senior category with Aaron
Carmichael emerging first from the leader’s dusty wake to edge out Lewis
Palmer and Dean Pennington.
A ragged flagged start after the gate repeatedly refused to drop in the
final novice encounter almost, but not quite, let Andy Curtis break the
Williamson stranglehold on the group with Colin Ayles, Justin Cox and Tony
Whitehead locked in a three-way scrap for third.
After the first expert race was red–flagged by the exasperated clerk of
the course in the wake of wholesale course-cutting it was international
enduro rider Simon Wakely, returning to his Hants & Dorset roots to build
up his speed, who showed Phil Lewis the way round even though his visitor
status meant the exercise was pointless as far as the club championship is
concerned.
RESULTS -
Maiden Newton 7th August 2005
Expert Plus
1) 70 Phil Lewis 2) 31 Sean Locke 3) 71 4) 48 Ashley Smith 5)
38 Ashley Hawkins 6) 17 Danny Nash
Novice
1) 4 Mark Williamson 2) 87 Andrew Curtis 3) 41 Colin Ayles 4) 65
Justin Cox 5) 58 Tony Whitehead 6) 27 Tom Reeves
Senior
1) 62 Ryan Gower 2) 80 Aaron Carmichael 3) 10 Lewis Palmer 4) 1 Dean
Pennington 5) 41 Gareth Blakemore 6) 50 Damien Weeden
Inter 100
1) 57 Chris Cave 2) 89 Ashley Bailey 3) 26 Joshua Moores 4) 77 Tom
White 5) 20 Josh Ogden 6) 27 Jake Pierson
Inter 85
1) 91 Matt Ogden 2) 66 Edward Yule 3) 18 Jack Thomas 4) 40 Ross
Churchill 5) 6 Warren Abrahams 6) 59
Junior
1) 15 Oliver Jones 2) 20 Louis Schmidt 3) 87 Dylan Baynton 4) 55
Magnus Manson-Chubb 5) 50 Darren Wingar 6) 6 Stuart White
Auto (watercooled)
1) 5 Bradley Jones 2) 77 Brandon Scott 3) 65 Bradley Rowland 4) 46
Sean Dimmick 5) 23 6) 8 Nathan Curtis
Auto (aircooled)
1) 72 Jack Dudman 2) 59 Josh Bunter 3) 22 Jamie Carpenter 4) 16
Scott Newham 5) 1 Declan Quinn 6) 7 Oliver Curtis
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TM STANDS FOR
TONYMOTO
TM PILOT and former Hants and Dorset
hotshot Ben Milward turned up and turned it on to outpace runaway expert
champion-in-waiting Phil Lewis at TonyMoto near Winchester on August 21.
After taking the first moto in lurid style on the spectacular man-made
track , the prodigal Ben contrived to tumble on the slowest part of the
course while leading the second to gift the win to Phil whose last ditch
bid to snatch the four-lap sprint last leg decider ended in a finish line
fall.
But these luminaries were not the only ones getting caught out by the
deep, damp patches of the unnatural terrain of the Hampshire venue which
contrasted starkly with the organic Dorset landscape of a fortnight
earlier.
And unlike Maiden Newton there was a full house of top home talent - and
visiting velocity - in most classed to keep the young pretenders at bay.
Jack Dudman stayed top of the pile in a growing band of air-cooled autos
but Jordan Payne was getting even more air over the humps and jumps on his
way to water-cooled success.
Not even the welcome reappearance of Jamie Mole to the Hants & Dorset fray
could blemish the record of Thomas Rogers who returned to his usual
winning ways in the Juniors group.
There was a similar restoration of normal order at the head of the Inter
85 ranks with Jordan Murphy edging out arch rival Dean Cummings and Lee
Wren taking his customary perch among the top trio.
The flamboyant form of Josh House saw him leap to the top of the Inter 100
standings and shade out recent class master Chris Cave with Ashley Bailey
and Jono Davies disputing third.
Among a battery of high-voltage visitors in the Senior category Damien
Weeden was ever ready to recharge his championship hopes as the top home
club finisher ahead of Aaron Carmichael and Ryan Gower while Gary Malkin
made his first mark after graduating to the bigger boys’ group.
The sibling revelry Peter and Kevin Gray achieved the rare feat of beating
Mark Williamson to the chequered flag in the first novice race and the
brothers on Yams were seemingly joined at the hip as they consolidated
their podium places in the other two heats.
RESULTS -
TonyMoto 21st August 2005
Expert Plus
1) 70 Phil Lewis 2) 51 Ricky Fenton 3) 95 Jonathan Courage 4) 48
Ashley Smith 5) 31 Sean Locke 6) 71 Alex Martin
Novice
1) 4 Mark Williamson 2) 12 Peter Gray 3) 72 Kevin Gray 4) 65 Justin
Cox 5) 94 Steven Gane 6) 2 Peter Barnes
Senior
1) 50 Damien Weeden 2) 80 Aaron Carmichael 3) 62 Ryan Gower 4) 76
Gary Malkin 5) 1 Dean Pennington 6) 32 Ben Gould
Inter 100
1) 26 Joshua Moores 2) 57 Chris Cave 3) 89 Ashley Bailey 4) 66 Jono
Davies 5) 77 Tom White 6) 3 Kyle Newman
Inter 85
1) 22 Jordan Murphy 2) 8 Dean Cummings 3) 50 Lee Wren 4) 6 Warren
Abrahams 5) 40 Ross Churchill 6) 51 Cherie Wingar
Junior
1) 32 Thomas Rogers 2) 51 Jamie Mole 3) 2 Liam Garland 4) 15 Oliver
Jones 5) 20 Louis Schmidt 6) 34 Liam Knight
Auto (watercooled)
1) 55 Jordan Payne 2) 5 Bradley Jones 3) 65 Bradley Rowland 4) 77
Brandon Scott 5) 46 Sean Dimmick 6) 8 Nathan Curtis
Auto (aircooled)
1) 72 Jack Dudman 2) 22 Jamie Carpenter 3) 59 Josh Bunter 4) 35
Daniel Knight 5) 38 Freddie Lambeth 6) 16 Scott Newham
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WHEEL MEAT
AGAIN AT MATCHAMS
BIKES and riders buckled at Matchams on
September 4th when promised rain failed to materialise in time to relieve
the heat and humidity which added to the regular rigours of the deep sand
and steep jumps.
Matchams meister Pete Barnes in the Novices and Inter 100 contender Ashley
Bailey were among those whose hopes of making the leaderboard collapsed
along with the spokes in their wheels as the bone-hard landing strips for
the sky-high flights took its toll.
Crashes also detuned and derailed several of the fancied runners, not
least novice supremo Mark Williamson who withdrew to watch from the
sidelines as Andy Curtis wrested top spot from a resurgent Stephen Gane
while the Gray brothers kept veteran ‘Wilf’ Wareham at bay.
Gary Malkin continued his meteoric rise up the Senior charts to finish top
of the pops while 13 was not unlucky for new member Bobby Ellins who
bounced Aaron Carmichael down to third.
High-flying Joshua Moore maintained his form as ace of the Inter 100 pack
which was shuffled by a second leg mid-air collision between front runners
Ashley Bailey and Chris Cave to allow Josh Ogden, Ben Weeden and Stephen
Bain to make up the nap hand.
Meanwhile, the dicing among the Inter 85 high rollers resulted in Matt
Ogden outpointing Lee Wren and left Jordan Murphy and Dean Cummings to
rake up the scraps.
Liam Knight moved up a peg or two in the juniors category to pose the
closest challenge to the superiority of Thomas Rogers while the
fluctuating fortunes of the following form mates allowed Darren Wingar to
muscle in among the top six.
A curtailed entry among the Autos on their customary shortened course to
avoid the worst of the Matchams sand traps threw up the usual suspects
among the names in the frame with Jack Dudman (air) and Josh Barton
(water) digging the pay dirt in their respective elements.
RESULTS -
Matchams 4th September 2005
Expert Plus
1) 70 Phil Lewis 2) 51 Ricky Fenton 3) 95 Jonathan Courage 4) 33
David Gane 5) 15 Chris Kimpton 6) 21 David Thomas
Novice
1) 87 Andrew Curtis 2) 94 Steven Gane 3) 72 Kevin Gray 4) 12 Peter
Gray 5) 60 Richard Wareham 6) 65 Justin Cox
Senior
1) 76 Gary Malkin 2) 13 Bobby Ellins 3) 80 Aaron Carmichael 4) 8
Carl Pennington 5) 72 Ben Carter 6) 50 Damien Weeden
Inter 100
1) 26 Joshua Moores 2) 20 Josh Ogden 3) 5 Ben Weeden 4) 88 Stephen
Bain 5) 3 Kyle Newman 6) 32 Dom Gould
Inter 85
1) 91 Matt Ogden 2) 50 Lee Wren 3) 22 Jordan Murphy 4) 8 Dean
Cummings 5) 18 Jack Thomas 6) 66 Edward Yule
Junior
1) 32 Thomas Rogers 2) 34 Liam Knight 3) 20 Louis Schmidt 4) 51
Jamie Mole 5) 50 Darren Wingar 6) 15 Oliver Jones
Auto (watercooled)
1) 82 Joshua Barton 2) 5 Bradley Jones 3) 65 Bradley Rowland 4) 46
Sean Dimmick
Auto (aircooled)
1) 72 Jack Dudman 2) 59 Josh Bunter 3) 22 Jamie Carpenter 4) 4 Sam
Lycett 5) 1 Declan Quinn 6) 16 Scott Newham
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YULE LOGS ON FIRE AT BISHOPSTONE
CHRISTMAS is coming – but not as quickly as
the festively named Edward Yule whose first race win in the Inter 85s at
Bishopstone was gift-wrapped with the overall honours as the seasons
erstwhile shining stars slipped from the top of the tree.
While steady Eddie stayed stable there was no room at the inn for those
who fell by the wayside allowing the prophetic Warren Abrahams to profit
most from the error of their ways.
Calamity also struck Joshua Moores in the Inter 100s as the walls of his
recently impregnable fortress came tumbling down to reveal Alex Hussey and
Ashley Bailey as the leading lights among the bushels of talent in their
group.
There change too in the order of things among the cherubs of the auto
angels where Bradley Jones usurped his arch-rival Joshua Barton in the
water-bearing category while Jack Dudman had the wind beneath his wings as
he breezed to his customary top spot in the fin class.
No doubting Thomas Rogers remained the top of the Junior trinity with
Oliver Jones elevated to sit at his right hand and Jack Jenner ascended to
his best place since joining the 65cc ranks.
Aaron Carmichael was annointed high priest of the senior service after
overcoming the ominous challenge of Damien Weeden and breaking the spell
of first race winner Gary Malkin with the peninsular Ryan Gower weathering
the storms around him.
Mark Williamson returned from his self-imposed exile in the Matchams
wilderness to lead the multitude of followers among the novices with Tony
Whitehead and Ashley Clarke becoming his closest disciples on a path
cleared by absence and abjection among the host.
Many were called but ultimately none were chosen to depose Phil Lewis from
his throne in the kingdom of experts although Ashley Smith and Ricky
Fenton deserved greater reward this side of heaven.
RESULTS -
Bishopstone 18th September 2005
Expert Plus
1) 70 Phil Lewis 2) 48 Ashley Smith 3) 51 Ricky Fenton 4) 31 Sean
Lock 5) 95 Jonathan Courage 6) 33 David Gane
Novice
1) 4 Mark Williamson 2) 58 Tony Whitehead 3) 92 Ashley Clarke 4) 94
Steven Gane 5) 65 Justin Cox 6) 81 Chris Kimpton
Senior
1) 80 Aaron Carmichael 2) 50 Damien Weeden 3) 62 Ryan Gower 4) 76
Gary Malkin 5) 8 Carl Pennington 6) 32 Ben Gould
Inter 100
1) 25 Alex Hussey 2) 89 Ashley Bailey 3) 57 Chris Cave 4) 20 Josh Ogden
5) 26 Joshua Moores 6) 88 Stephen Bain
Inter 85
1) 66 Edward Yule 2) 6 Warren Abrahams 3) 91 Matt Ogden 4) 8 Dean
Cummings 5) 2 Lewis Cave 6) 18 Jack Thomas
Junior
1) 32 Thomas Rogers 2) 15 Oliver Jones 3) 95 Jack Jenner 4) 87 Dylan
Baynton 5) 55 Magnus Manson-Chubb 6) 59 Jack Howe
Auto (watercooled)
1) 5 Bradley Jones 2) 82 Joshua Barton 3) 65 Bradley Rowland
4) 35 Daniel Knight 5) 77 Brandon Scott 6) 8 Nathan Curtis
Auto (aircooled)
1) 72 Jack Dudman 2) 59 Josh Bunter 3) 38 4) 16 Scott Newham
5) 1 Declan Quinn 6) 60 Aaron Gordon
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HAZELBURY
NUTS
AUTUMN brought a crop of hard-shelled moto-cross
nuts to deepest, darkest Dorset when Hants and Dorset YMC staged its
penultimate championship meeting of 2005 at the Hazelbury Bryan track last
used for the spring bank holiday two-day meeting in May.
Surprisingly featureless given its location at the foot of the highest
hill in the county the track added the somewhat novel features of grass
and moisture to the tight and twisty turns which made a slick start
essential to success.
Self-confessed Hazelbury nut Frank Morley did just that to take the first
race win in the novice group ahead of Andy Curtis and Mark Williamson with
the positions reversed in the second race to leave all three tied on
points going into the final encounter.
The short lap length coupled with the rapid circulation of the front
runners across all groups meant backmarkers also exerted an influence on
the eventual outcome, not least among the Inter 100s where Josh Moore's
tangle with a tailender left him playing catch up with race winners Ashley
Bailey and Chris Cave.
Matt Ogden rose to the top of the Inter 85 mix ahead of Dean Cummings with
regular likely lads Bradley Margetts and Grant Adlem siezing the chance to
move up the leaderboard at the expense of an out of sorts Jordan Murphy.
An off day for Ben Weeden and the conspicuous absence of his other main
rivals gave Aaron Carmichael an easy ride en route to Senior success and
allowed some different names to be noted among the leading sextet.
In the junior ranks Jamie Mole made one of his infrequent Hants and Dorset
appearances this season to undermine the hitherto unchallenged supremacy
of Tom Rogers who was nudged off the podium, following bike problems in
the first race, by the high-speed Olly Jones and the long-handled Magnus
Manson-Chubb.
Normal order was resumed in the auto groups with Jack Dudman ahead of the
rest of the air-cooled heads and Joshua Barton best of the water jacket
boys.
At the other end of the age and ability range it was the turn of David
Gane to finish runner-up to this season's champion designate.
The Experts also saw the return of prodigal Pete Broomfield but an even
older blaster from the past was local lad Barry Mayne who rolled back the
decades to compete in what was still called Expert Plus 2 when he last
raced with the then Hants and Dorset SSC.
RESULTS -
Hazelbury Bryan 2nd October 2005
Expert Plus
1) 70 Phil Lewis 2) 33 David Gane 3) 95 Jonathan Courage 4) 48
Ashley Smith 5) 71 Alex Martin 6) 31 Sean Lock
Novice
1) 4 Mark Williamson 2) 87 Andy Curtis 3) 39 Frank Morley 4) 58 Tony
Whitehead 5) 89 Lee Pennington 6) 60 Richard Wareham
Senior
1) 80 Aaron Carmichael 2) 32 Ben Gould 3) 68 Marcus Feltham 4) 22
Matthew Dewey 5) 72 Ben Carter 6) 8 Carl Pennington
Inter 100
1) 89 Ashley Bailey 2) 57 Chris Cave 3) 26 Joshua Moores 4) 77 Tom
White 5) 20 Josh Ogden 6) 88 Stephen Bain
Inter 85
1) 91 Matt Ogden 2) 8 Dean Cummings 3) 48 Bradley Margetts 4) 6
Warren Abrahams 5) 60 Grant Adlem 6) 22 Jordan Murphy
Junior
1) 51 Jamie Mole 2) 15 Oliver Jones 3) 55 Magnus Manson-Chubb 4) 32
Thomas Rogers 5) 95 Jack Jenner 6) 20 Louis Schmidt
Auto (watercooled)
1) 82 Joshua Barton 2) 5 Bradley Jones 3) 77 Brandon Scott 4) 65
Bradley Rowland 5) 8 Nathan Curtis 6) 46 Sean Dimmick
Auto (aircooled)
1) 72 Jack Dudman 2) 59 Josh Bunter 3) 16 Scott Newham 4) 60 Aaron
Gordon 5) 1 Declan Quinn 6) 4 Sam Lycett
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STUBBLE TROUBLE AT MILBORNE ST ANDREW
HANTS & Dorset Youth Moto-Cross Club’s 2005 championship season finished
almost where it had started eight months earlier on the slopes of Milborne
St Andrew.
A shift of time and place – and field husbandry – moved the track to a
near virgin stubble field where a twitching switchback track, dampened by
the autumn dew and littered with enough sharp flints to keep a caveman in
cutlery, provided the proverbial many slips twixt cup and lips.
Whether the resulting reshuffled results determined the destination of the
silverware at next month’s presentation remains to be seen, but there may
be some pre prize night nerves among some of the trophy hopefuls.
In the season’s most competitive group, the Inter 85s, it was Jordan
Murphy who bounced back to best long term rival Dean Cummings, while Ross
Churchill produced his best form of the year to post a race win and third
place overall at the expense of championship challenger Matt Ogden.
Ashley Bailey maintained his late season flurry of first places to head
Josh Moore at the top of the Inter 100 group with Tom White stepping up to
the final podium place ahead of fellow cup contenders Josh Ogden, Alex
Hussey and Chris Cave.
Also enjoying a late season surge, Aaron Carmichael did his hopes of
senior success no harm with another overall win on a day of disaster and
discard for regular rivals Damien Weeden and Gary Malkin while erstwhile
inter open champ Marcus Feltham made his presence felt by relegating Ben
Gould to the bronze medal position.
Air cooled auto pilot Jack Dudman continued his season-long domination of
his class, but in the concurrent water-cooled category Bradley Jones
managed the rare feat of besting Joshua Barton.
Junior Jack Jenner added his name to the limited list of those who have
headed Tom Rogers in the 65cc group this season. Oliver Jones consolidated
his 2005 campaign with a consistent third place ahead of Darren Wingar
making an autumnal appearance on the leaderboard.
Frank Morley stormed to a hat trick in the novice class and a
hard-charging Andy Curtis grabbed the runner up spot but the
uncharacteristic slips which saw Mark Williamson ‘slump’ to third overall
will not have loosened the looming laurels.
And likewise delight for former title holder David Gane, dismay for
Jonathan Courage and the disappearance of Phil Lewis from a depleted
expert plus field only served to shuffle the minor placings where the top
spot has long been wrapped up.
RESULTS - Milborne St Andrew 16th October 2005
Expert Plus
1) 33 David Gane 2) 48 Ashley Smith 3) 20 Paul Hussey 4) 35 Danny
Richards 5) 21 David Thomas 6) 88 Tony Tomasso
Novice
1) 39 Frank Morley 2) 87 Andy Curtis 3) 4 Mark Williamson 4) 65
Justin Cox 5) 94 Stephen Gane 6) 58 Tony Whitehead
Senior
1) 80 Aaron Carmichael 2) 68 Marcus Feltham 3) 32 Ben Gould 4) 72
Ben Carter 5) 11 Luke Reynolds 6) 22 Matthew Dewey
Inter 100
1) 89 Ashley Bailey 2) 26 Joshua Moores 3) 77 Tom White 4) 20 Josh
Ogden 5) 25 Alex Hussey 6) 57 Chris Cave
Inter 85
1) 22 Jordan Murphy 2) 8 Dean Cummings 3) 40 Ross Churchill 4) 91
Matt Ogden 5) 6 Warren Abrahams 6) 48 Bradley Margetts
Junior
1) 95 Jack Jenner 2) 32 Thomas Rogers 3) 15 Oliver Jones 4) 50
Darren Wingar 5) 55 Magnus Manson-Chubb 6) 20 Louis Schmidt
Auto (watercooled)
1) 5 Bradley Jones 2) 82 Joshua Barton 3) 65 Bradley Rowland 4) 8
Nathan Curtis 5) 71 James Ford
6) 77 Brandon Scott
Auto (aircooled)
1) 72 Jack Dudman 2) 22 Jamie Carpenter 3) 59 Josh Bunter 4) 16
Scott Newham 5) 60 Aaron Gordon 6) 1 Declan Quinn
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GRIT AND GRIZZLY
BEAR IT AT MATCHAMS
A YEAR that started with a warm up in sub-zero
temperatures ended in an equally inaptly named fun meeting which was
anything but when torrential rain turned the Matchams piste into gruelling
grey gruel.
Barely half those who had entered got as far as signing on and the numbers
of those who ventured out into the sticky morass of an extended and
enhanced practice track and made it to the finish line dwindled
dramatically as the day wore on.
Lee Cummings was among those who turned out on shiny new four strokes –
and borrowed Lucy Welch’s Honda to compare with his Suzuki – and used the
extra cubes and tractability to good effect to win all three Expert heats
with Tony Tomasso and David Gane respectively second and third each time
out the only other riders to complete each race.
Muddy Matchams specialist Richard Wareham won the first two novice
encounters aboard a 12-year-old Honda stroker but had to give best to Dean
Gaffikin and his 250 4T enduro Yam in the last heat.
After finishing runner up in the first novice race the group’s champion
elect Mark Williamson pre-empted the selectors to upgrade himself to
experts for the second heat alongside late season rival Andy Curtis.
The decimation of the field by the track and weather conditions allied to
premature graduation to their 2006 groups provided some different names in
the frames among the younger competitors.
Ben Carter ruled the roost for the first two Senior races but last race
victor Justin Banyard was ruing his first heat fiasco which dropped him
behind the closely matched ‘veteran’ Sam Cole and Inter 100 interloper Tom
White.
After following race winners Carl Miles and Ben Weeden in the first two
outings James Cracknell proved he had the number of the relatively
numerous Inter 100s group where adding a digit to his race plate couldn’t
disguise the fact that erstwhile 85 exponent Dean Cummings had made the
podium on his debut aboard the bigger bike he will campaign next season.
Ross Churchill maintained his late season form to take two wins and
overall honours in the Inter 85 group with Mark Cunningham take the flag
in race three en route to runner up spot.
With two wins and a second to his name Dylan Baynton showed he was no
rabbit on the Junior magic roundabout whose riders were spun off in
increasing numbers with only the first three overall finishers holding on
each time out.
Small in stature but big in heart and full of true grit, the autos also
stuck manfully to the task of putting their bigger counterparts to shame
with Jordan English the winner each time out and Scott Newham posting
three finishes on a day that brought the 2005 season to a soggy, sandy,
conclusion.
RESULTS -
Matchams 30th October 2005
Expert Plus
1) 3 Lee Cummings 2) 88 Tony Tomasso 3) 33 David Gane 4) 35 Danny
Richards 5) 87 Andy Curtis 6) 5 Martin Walbrin
Novice
1) 60 Richard Wareham 2) 22 Dean Gaffikin 3) 27 Tom Reeves 4) 94
Stephen Gane 5) 20 Ashley Green 6) 73 Sean Bartlett
Senior
1) 72 Ben Carter 2) 38 Sam Cole 3) 77 Tom White 4) 21 Justin Banyard
5) 7 Robert Hartley 6) 27 Marcus Green
Inter 100
1) James Cracknel 2) 5 Ben Weeden 3) 18 Dean Cummings 4) 46 Warren
Abrahams 5) 9 Chris Richards 6) 64 Sam King
Inter 85
1) 40 Ross Churchill 2) 99 Marc Cunningham 3) 25 Ryan Moody 4) 4
Alex Gillingham 5) 2 Lewis Cave 6) 12 Joe Poole
Junior
1) 87 Dylan Baynton 2) 74 Oscar Schmidt 3) 96 Thomas Gillett 4) 59
Jack Howe 5) 1 Joshua Mullett 6) 165 Kieran English
Auto
1) 199 Jordan English 2) 16 Scott Newham 3) 46 Sean Dimmick 4)
6 Jacob Southey 5) 4 Sam Lycett
Race
Results
Overall Results
2005 ANNUAL REVIEW
IT’S a funny old game, was a stock phrase
used by player turned pundit Jimmy Greaves to describe football. But he
could have been talking about moto-cross, and especially the Hants &
Dorset YMC 2005 season.
No one watching the season unfold will be
surprised to learn that Phil Lewis emerged as the largely undisputed
champion in what is arguably the blue riband class.
But while his margin of victory was vast,
it wasn’t the biggest and his total points tally while high was not the
highest.
Not for the first time, the overall club
champion with the most points scored during the year comes from the
other end of the age scale with
Jack Dudman amassing 540 points (two more
than Phil!) to top the air-cooled Auto group.
And the biggest gap between first and
second? That was Mark Williamson’s 85-point breathing space at the top
of the Novice group.
Conversely the closest-matched group was
the Inter Open where just eight points separated Joshua Moores from
Chris Cave with Ashley Bailey breathing down their necks.
It was tight too at the top of the Inter
85s with ever-steady Matt Ogden collecting a dozen more points than
Jordan Murphy who in turn was 12 points up on Dean Cummings. Cherie
Wingar’s top 10 placing in the group was also the best results for the
club’s gaggle of girl racers.
Tom Rogers was a worthy winner of the
Junior group which he dominated for most of the year but Oliver Jones
was never too far behind and Louis Schmidt’s podium place was the reward
for a consistent year.
Those not moving up for the juniors next
year may have to look to their laurels with the arrival of young Jack
Dudman and Joshua Barton who almost emulated the newly-crown club
champion by equally ruling the roost in the concurrent water-cooled auto
class.
Last year Aaron Carmichael played second
fiddle to Damien Weedon in the 100s, but at the end of their first
senior season the roles were reversed at the top of the pile.
As in any sport the bald results and
statistics, while sometimes surprising in themselves, rarely tell the
whole story of the blood, sweat toil and tears (or in moto-cross terms
mud, sweat, oil and gears) behind each result be it a win, just reaching
the finish or a DNF with attention required by medic or mechanic – or
both!
For those blessed with abundant natural
talent, generous backers whether parental or commercial, and the fitness
and fearlessness of youth not winning may be considered not good enough
but for the majority of Hants and Dorset riders regardless of age,
gender, ability, experience or physique every race started, every fall
remounted, every place gained and every finish flag passed is a victory.
And if you have had a bit of fun and a
close dice on track followed by a friendly chat in the paddock
afterwards, then that can be as much a reward as trophies and laurels.
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