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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
 

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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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