Hants & Dorset Youth MotoX Club

Non-Championship 22/07/2007 Winterborne Stickland Report Results Photos

AFTER a deluge drowned out the planned opening round of the its 2007 championship campaign it was the appropriately borderline location of Matchams that saw the Hants & Dorset YMC underway on Mothers Day.

But the weather gods still played their hand with sand storms and hail storms thrown into the traditional Matchams mix of gruel and grit.

The ungraded grains even got into the start gate to bring the old fashioned dropped flag out of retirement.

At the top of the evolutionary scale Lee Cummings carried on where he left off at Henstridge in the last championship round of the last year with a clear cut victory despite the brave attempts of Brett Wheeler to keep his buzzing 2-stroke Yamaha ahead of the bellowing KTM thumper. Among the new recruits from last year’s senior ranks Justin Banyard made the biggest impression with a rock steady ride to fourth overall.

Stripped of its stars from 06, the novice class was topped by upgrade escapee Pete Barnes who survived nearly being inadvertently wiped out by a retiring Kevin Burgess and the mayhem following a mid-air prang on the start line table top which saw several riders prematurely heading for the pits instead of the first turn.

Reigning Senior champion Alex Hussey carried on in the regular runner up spot he made his own last year while Ben Weeden showed he had got to grips with the extra quarter litre on tap to take the overall honours after visiting pace setters Lewis Trickett and Lewis Abbott were removed from the equation.

Returning prodigal Jake Shipton led the charge of the four-stroke lighter brigade in the Inter 100s but it was home club hero Mitchell Bligh who earned the victor’s laurels from Eddie Yule while the next two places were taken by Inter 85 graduates Ross Churchill and Grant Adlem continuing their close contest from the smaller capacity category last year.

Meanwhile Tom Rogers lived up to the Number 1 plate he carried at the head of the Inter 85s to head home the hard-charging Darren Wingar and erstwhile champion junior jockey Olly Jones.

Racy little lady Bethany Farmer struck a blow for her fairer sex by winning the junior class at the expense of Jarrad Perkins while Jamie Carpenter made the leaderboard on his debut after his automatic end of year promotion.

With a year of racing under his belt Oliver Curtis proved he was a relatively seasoned veteran in the single-size Auto group taking the honours ahead of fellow second termer Harry Pritchard.

RESULTS - Matchams 18th March 2007

Expert Plus
1) 3 Lee Cummings 2) 43 Brett Wheeler 3) 45 Josh House 4) 28 Justin Banyard 5) 24 Rich Pile 6) 68 Marcus Feltham

Novice
1) 12 Pete Barnes 2) 63 Jamie Winborne 3) 42 Luke Pritchard 4) 11 Ashley Green 5) 72 Kevin Gray 6) 94 Steven Gane

Senior
1) 7 Ben Weeden 2) 25 Alex Hussey 3) 38 Craig Durston 4) 26 Joshua Moores 5) 50 Matt Ogden 6) 22 Jordan Murphy

Inter 100
1) 45 Mitchell Bligh 2) 66 Eddie Yule 3) 40 Ross Churchill 4) 60 Grant Adlem 5) 98 Ryan Nicholls 6) 77 James Adams

Inter 85
1) 1 Tom Rogers 2) 50 Darren Wingar 3) 15 Olli Jones 4) 48 Oliver McMurray 5) 8 Louis Schmidt 6) 7 Charlie Wheeler

Junior
1) 96 Bethany Farmer 2) 76 Kieron Whitlock 3) 23 Jarrad Perkins 4) 13 Levi Coombes 5) 31 Jorja Johnson 6) 22 Jamie Carpenter

Auto
1) 7 Oliver Curtis 2) 67 Harry Pritchard 3) 69 Billy Deness 4) 14 Sam Lycett 5) 25 Thomas Shutler 6) 78 Harry Kimber

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APRIL’S PHIL’s PARADISE AT BISHOPSTONE

FORMER champion Phil Lewis proved he was no April Fool when he took the top flight honours in the Expert Plus class at the Hants and Dorset YMC championship meeting on April 1.

On the hard-packed bumpy jumpy Bishopstone track the top three from the previous fortnight’s sand blast at Matchams were all nudged back a place by the return of the triumphal Palm Sunday return of the maestro.

Elsewhere the embryonic season spawned the emergence of some new names in the frames notably the novices where Mike Toon headed home a gaggle of erstwhile experts.

Craig Durston was the head boy among the seniors where Stephen Bain stepped up a class and upped the pace to grab runner-up spot ahead of Ross Lopez, the latter one of several sibling pairs making it on to their respective leaderboards.

Mitchell Bligh carried off the Inter Open bounty at the expense of Aaron Lopez with Grant Adlem consolidating his rise from the ranks of the smaller capacity crowd last year.

High-flier Darren Wingar landed on the top spot of the Inter 85 podium with newcomer Oliver McMurray demoting regular runners Louis Schmidt and Olli Jones.

New kids on the Junior block Dylan Hodgkins and Samuel Baggott saw off the combined challenge of comparative trouper Keiron Whitlock and the club’s current raciest lady Bethany Farmer.

Most of the names remained the same, if not necessarily in the same order among the Autos, traditionally the smallest category in every sense, where out of the mini mix Joseph House cemented the overall victory.

RESULTS - Bishopstone 1st April 2007

Expert Plus
1) 70 Phil Lewis 2) 3 Lee Cummings 3) 43 Brett Wheeler 4) 45 Josh House 5) 57 Deen Taylor 6) 8 Lewis Palmer

Novice
1) 73 Mike Toon 2) 69 Joe Shimin 3) 11 Ashley Green 4) 39 Kevin Burgess 5) 83 Barry Wright 6) 16 Bob Smith

Senior
1) 38 Craig Durston 2) 11 Stephen Bain 3) 84 Ross Lopez 4) 7 Ben Weeden 5) 57 Chris Cave 6) 54 Josh Ogden

Inter 100
1) 45 Mitchell Bligh 2) 83 Aaron Lopez 3) 60 Grant Adlem 4) 23 Ryan Carter 5) 57 Lewis Cave 6) 46 Liam McMurray

Inter 85
1) 50 Darren Wingar 2) 48 Oliver McMurray 3) 8 Louis Schmidt 4) 15 Olli Jones 5) 95 Jack Jenner 6) 0 Michael Denton

Junior
1) 54 Dylan Hodgkins 2) 50 Samuel Baggott3) 76 Kieron Whitlock 4) 96 Bethany Farmer 5) 72 Jack Dudman 6) 74 Oscar Schmidt
Auto
1) 4 Joseph House 2) 67 Harry Pritchard 3) 14 Sam Lycett 4) 7 Oliver Curtis 5) 25 Thomas Shutler 6) 28 Jay Ellis

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MAXIMUM PUSH AT PULHAM

FOUR maximum scores and three double race wins were recorded as a pattern for the 2007 Hants and Dorset YMC championship season began to emerge at the third meeting of the year on April 15.

The undulating Dorset downs of Pulham were given some added ups, bumps and jumps which despite the dry conditions held up well without becoming too dusty as the day wore on.

Harry Pritchard with a triple triumph in the Auto category – chased home twice by Oliver Curtis and once by Thomas Shutler – set the unbeaten standard for his bigger peers to attempt to emulate.

And Levi Coombes did just that, winning all three of his junior encounters while Will Turner and Brandon Scott scrapped for the remaining podium placings with familiar names Keiron Whitlock and Jack Dudman nipping at their heels.

Darren Wingar also maintained his stranglehold with a clean sweep in the Inter-85 group where Jamie Mole resurfaced between Louis Schmidt and Olli Jones in the chasing pack.

There was no mutinying in the Inter 100 ranks to prevent the bounty going to Mitchell Bligh who remained the undisputed master and commander while Ross Churchill was promoted to first mate after misfortunes befell runner-up rivals Eddie Yule and Lewis Cave.

In the oversubscribed senior group spread over four races Ben Weeden was the only double winner but his comparatively lowly seventh first time out left the door open for the consistent Chris Cave and Craig Durston with a win apiece to relegate him to the third rung of the leaderboard ladder.

Seasoned campaigner Kevin Burgess bagged a brace of races and finished second in the other to run out as the top gun in the novice category while the scattergun results of other heat winner Ashley Green let Mike Toon nick the number two spot overall.

Battling Brett Wheeler bounced back from a first race fall to finally post the race win his early form so dearly deserved but it was not enough to shake the firm foundations of double winner Josh House.

RESULTS - Pulham 15th April 2007

Expert Plus
1) 45 Josh House 2) 43 Brett Wheeler 3) 57 Deen Taylor 4) 46 Chris Rose 5) 88 Mark Teggin 6) 8 Lewis Palmer

Novice
1) 39 Kevin Burgess 2) 73 Mike Toon 3) 11 Ashley Green 4) 54 Ben Rose 5) 36 Scott Mabey 6) 94 Steven Gane

Senior
1) 57 Chris Cave 2) 38 Craig Durston 3) 7 Ben Weeden 4) 26 Joshua Moores 5) 22 Jordan Murphy 6) 54 Josh Ogden

Inter 100
1) 45 Mitchell Bligh 2) 40 Ross Churchill 3) 98 Ryan Nicholls 4) 57 Lewis Cave 5) 23 Ryan Carter 6) 66 Eddie Yule

Inter 85
1) 50 Darren Wingar 2) 8 Louis Schmidt 3) 51 Jamie Mole 4) 15 Olli Jones 5) 38 Kayleigh Durston 6) 6 Stuart White

Junior
1) 13 Levi Coombes 2) 28 Will Turner 3) 85 Brandon Scott 4) 76 Kieron Whitlock 5) 72 Jack Dudman 6) 31 Jorja Johnson

Auto
1) 67 Harry Pritchard 2) 7 Oliver Curtis 3) 14 Sam Lycett 4) 25 Thomas Shutler 5) 78 Harry Kimber 6) 6 Callum Gordon

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RESULTS - Henstridge 29th April 2007 - Sorry there is no report.

Expert Plus
1) 43 Brett Wheeler 2) 3 Lee Cummings 3) 45 Josh House 4) 33 David Gane 5) 56 Dave Wilkins 6) 57 Deen Taylor

Novice
1) 69 Joe Shimin 2) 12 Pete Barnes 3) 11 Ashley Green 4) 54 Ben Rose 5) 73 Mike Toon 6) 84 Paul Charman

Senior
1) 7 Ben Weeden 2) 38 Craig Durston 3) 26 Joshua Moores 4) 54 Josh Ogden 5) 27 Jake Pierson 6) 1 Stephen Bain

Inter 100
1) 66 Eddie Yule 2) 57 Lewis Cave 3) 60 Grant Adlem 4) 40 Ross Churchill 5) 23 Ryan Carter 6) 83 Aaron Lopez

Inter 85
1) 50 Darren Wingar 2) 51 Jamie Mole 3) 38 Kayleigh Durston 4) 95 Jack Jenner 5) 15 Olli Jones 6) 7 Charlie Wheeler

Junior
1) 96 Bethany Farmer 2) 76 Kieron Whitlock 3) 1 Bradley Jones 4) 31 Jorja Johnson 5) 72 Jack Dudman 6) 74 Oscar Schmidt

Auto
1) 67 Harry Pritchard 2) 11 Danile Charman 3) 7 Oliver Curtis 4) 25 Thomas Shutler 5) 14 Sam Lycett 6) 78 Harry Kimber

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RESULTS - Wareham 10th June 2007

Expert Plus
1) 68 Marcus Feltham 2) 28 Justin Banyard 3) 7 Andrew Curtis 4) 45 Josh House 5) 8 Lewis Palmer 6) 20 Scott Wallis

Novice
1) 11 Ashley Green 2) 73 Mike Toon 3)54 Ben Rose 4) 42 Luke Pritchard 5) 37 Alan Bungay 6) 50 Stephen Rolls

Senior
1) 11 2) 7 Ben Weeden 3) 41 Dom Gould 4) 77 Tom White 5) 57 Chris Cave 6) 84 Ross Lopez

Inter 100
1) 45 Mitchell Bligh2) 66 Eddie Yule 3) 83 Aaron Lopez 4) 40 Ross Churchill 5) 57 Lewis Cave 6) 77 James Adams

Inter 85
1) 15 Olli Jones 2) 50 Darren Wingar 3) 8 Louis Schmidt 4) 92 5) 51 Jamie Mole 6) 0 Michael Denton

Junior
1) 96 Bethany Farmer 2) 72 Jack Dudman 3) 76 Kieron Whitlock 4) 85 Brandon Scott 5) 41 James Ford 6) 1 Bradley Jones

Auto
1) 7 Oliver Curtis 2) 14 Sam Lycett 3) 25 Thomas Shutler 4) 28 Jay Ellis 5) 23 Jordan Allen 6) 24 Lucy Calvert

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RESULTS - Bishopstone 24th June 2007

Expert Plus
1) 80 Aaron Carmichael 2) 45 Josh House 3) 2 Danny Richards 4) 16 Ross Follett 5) 68 Marcus Feltham 6) 20 Scott Wallis

Novice
1) 73 Mike Toon 2) 11 Ashley Green 3) 42 Luke Pritchard 4) 39 Kevin Burgess 5) 37 Alan Bungay 6) 72 Tim Lane

Senior
1) 1 Stephen Bain 2) 7 Ben Weeden 3) 77 Tom White 4) 5 Dean Cummings 5) 38 Craig Durston 6) 41 Dom Gould

Inter 100
1) 45 Mitchell Bligh 2) 57 Lewis Cave 3) 31 Jake Gay 4) 87 Harry White 5) 6 Joshua Hipgrave 6) 51 Cherie Wingar

Inter 85
1) 15 Olli Jones 2) 6 Stuart White 3) 50 Darren Wingar 4) 38 Kayleigh Durston 5) 40 Jack Alderton 6) 29 Jamie Strange

Junior
1) 96 Bethany Farmer 2) 31 Jorja Johnson 3) 76 Kieron Whitlock 4) 74 Oscar Schmidt 5) 22 6) 1 Bradley Jones

Auto
1) 67 Harry Pritchard 2) 7 Oliver Curtis 3) 14 Sam Lycett 4) 78 Harry Kimber 5) 23 Jordan Allen

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Mitchall Mighty Masters Matchams

Report : Mark Williamson

After what seemed like two weeks of solid rain the sun finally came out for round 7 of the Hants & Dorset championship, the Matchams track was as rough an tough as ever with many a thrill and spill on the way.

Three different riders achieved victory in the expert & novice groups on the day with the last race deciding the overall winner.

Terry House, Lee Cummings and Brett Wheeler were all race winners in a full expert group with the two stroke mounted Wheeler taken the deserved overall, while House and Cummings ate some Matchams sand at one or two points during the day.

Novice group saw some close racing, to close for some! with Ashley Green taking the overall spoils after a last lap crash between the two leaders handed him the third race on a plate, he was followed home by Richard ‘Wilf’ Wareham on what looked like a late eightys cr125. Third place went to a consistent Mike Toon with race one winner Luke Prichard fourth.

Battle for supremacy in the senior group went to Ben Weeden, who came out top with Matt Ogden and Jono Davies making up the podium places.

Mitchell Bligh once again proved to be on top form, taking the win in the Inter 100’s, his closest challenge came from Eddie Yule and Lewis Cave.

Inter 85’s was the Tom Rogers show, with Darren Wingar & Louis Schmidt the supporting cast with second and third respectfully.

It was JJ time in the Junior’s with Jorja Johnson taken the overall win with Jack Dudman second and Kieron Whitlock a hard fought third.

Auto group’s top star was Harry Pritchard who rode his little wheel’s off to win ahead of Sam Lycett, Lucy Calvert and Jay Ellis with Thomas Shutler and Oliver Curtis making up the top six.

RESULTS - Matchams 8th July 2007

Expert Plus
1) 43 Brett Wheeler 2) 3 Lee Cummings 3) 80 Aaron Carmichael 4) 68 Marcus Feltham 5) 56 Dave Wilkins 6) 2 Danny Richards

Novice
1) 11 Ashley Green 2) 60 Richard Wareham 3) 73 Mike Toon 4) 42 Luke Pritchard 5) 39 Kevin Burgess 6) 12 Pete Barnes

Senior
1) 7 Ben Weeden 2) 50 Matt Ogden 3) 68 Jono Davies 4) 1 Stephen Bain 5) 38 Craig Durston 6) 86 Ashley Bailey

Inter 100
1) 45 Mitchell Bligh 2) 66 Eddie Yule 3) 57 Lewis Cave 4) 48 Chris Stuttle 5) 40 Ross Churchill 6) 80 Matthew Davis

Inter 85
1) 1 Tom Rogers 2) 50 Darren Wingar 3) 8 Louis Schmidt 4) 15 Olli Jones 5) 95 Jack Jenner 6) 7 Charlie Wheeler

Junior
1) 31 Jorja Johnson 2) 72 Jack Dudman 3) 76 Kieron Whitlock 4) 1 Bradley Jones 5) 9 Liam Compton 6) 40 Jack Perkins

Auto
1) 67 Harry Pritchard 2) 14 Sam Lycett 3) 24 Lucy Calvert 4) 28 Jay Ellis 5) 25 Thomas Shutler 6) 7 Oliver Curtis

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Stevie ‘The Wonder of Winterbourne’

Hants & Dorset MXC were forced into a last minute change of venue for its summer 2 day meeting after yet more terrible weather. Winterbourne Sickland near Blandford was the chosen destination, after a lot of hard work and effort in such a short space of time the track was ready and it was all engines go, even the sun made an appearance.

Brett Wheeler was the class above in the Expert group with four out of five race wins only being headed in the slippery first race encounter by David Gain. Second spot went to the consistent scoring Aaron Carmichael with newly Suzuki mounted Josh House third, forth was a now fully fit Danny Richards.

Ashley Green was the holeshot king in the Novice group which went along way in helping him to four race wins, it may have been five but for a slip up in the first race which gave Bob Smith his opportunity to take a rare win. Second place overall was new club member Jack French with Stuart Barfoot third, Richard Wareham, Luke Pritchard and Alan Bungay made up the top six.

The flying two stroke of Stephen Bain took control of the senior group, he also managed an impressive four race wins and a hard fought charge from dead last to third in the other, his closes challenge came from race winner Ben Weeden and Ashley Bailey with second and third respectfully.

Eddie was the kiddie of the inter 100 class dominating proceedings with five classy rides, a battle ensued between Ross Churchill , Grant Adlem and Mathew Davis all weekend and finished in that order overall, Lewis Cave and Chris Stuttle made up the top six.

John Cole took the honours in the action packed inter 85 group which saw four different race winners over the weekend, Jamie Mole rode well through out to secure second with Jack Jenner a deserved third, race winners Luke Sturgeon & Louis Schmidt were forth and fifth, Olli Jones rounded out the top six.

A hatrick of race wins for the impressive Jamie Carpenter pushed him to top of the pile in the Junior group, he was followed home by race one winner Jack Dudman and race two winner Brandon Scott, Kieron Whitlock, Bradley Jones and Jack Perkins filled the top six places.

Harry Pritchard didn’t put a wheel wrong all weekend in the Auto’s to earn him a maximum, the closest any one come to young Harry was Oliver Curtis with four runner up spots, then came Sam Lycet with a fine third place followed by Harry Kimber, Oliver Loe and Callum Gordon.

Well done to Aaron Thomas who was riding his first ever meeting, he finished all five races with no signs of any nerves unless you count his proud on looking dad.

RESULTS - Winterborne Stickland 21st & 22nd July 2007

Expert Plus
1) 43 Brett Wheeler 2) 80 Aaron Carmichael 3) 45 Josh House 4) 2 Danny Richards 5) 8 Lewis Palmer 6) 33 David Gane

Novice
1) 11 Ashley Green 2) 74 Jack French 3) 67 Stuart Barfoot 4) 48 Rich Wareham 5) 42 Luke Pritchard 6) 37 Alan Bungay

Senior
1) 1 Stephen Bain 2) 7 Ben Weeden 3) 86 Ashley Bailey 4) 57 Chris Cave 5) 77 Tom White 6) 5 Dean Cummings

Inter 100
1) 66 Eddie Yule 2) 40 Ross Churchill 3) 60 Grant Adlem 4) 80 Matthew Davis 5) 57 Lewis Cave 6) 48 Chris Stuttle

Inter 85
1) 92 John Cole 2) 51 Jamie Mole 3) 95 Jack Jenner 4) 52 Luke Sturgeon 5) 8 Louis Schmidt 6) 15 Olli Jones

Junior
1) 22 Jamie Carpenter 2) 72 Jack Dudman 3) 85 Brandon Scott 4) 76 Kieron Whitlock 5) 1 Bradley Jones 6) 40 Jack Perkins

Auto
1) 67 Harry Pritchard 2) 7 Oliver Curtis 3) 14 Sam Lycett 4) 78 Harry Kimber 5) 17 Oliver Loe 6) 6 Callum Gordon

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'GREEN HOUSE' EFFECT AT TIVERTON

Tiverton in Devon hosted the eighth round of Hants & Dorset motocross championship on the 5th of August.

Nearly 180 riders made the trip to the fast and flowing track which after an early morning watering looked in perfect condition.

Ashley Green and Terry House dominated proceedings in the adult classes, both securing three untroubled race wins with the main battles left to those who followed.

With House unbeatable the best of the rest in the expert group went to Brett Wheeler who rode top three all day, Lee Cummings took third spot followed by Aaron Carmichael forth.

Novice group saw consistency pay of for Mark Goddard, three hard fought third place finishes saw him gain runner up spot behind the faultless Green. Third place went to Peter Barnes on board his new KTM.

Last seasons senior champion Alex Hussey made a rare visit to race at Tiverton, now riding a 250f Suzuki he showed the class which took him to the title last year with three race wins, even with a ten second start line penalty in the final moto. Two seconds and a third place finish saw Ashley Bailey take a deserved second overall with Ben Weeden third.

Lee Wren introduced himself to the Inter 100's class with a bang also taken a excellent maximum three race wins, his closes challenger was Ross Churchill with Lewis Cave, Grant Adlem, Eddie Yule and Ed Turner topping out the top six.

Three seconds added up to make a first for Inter 85 winner Darren Wingar, he headed the double race winner John Coles with Louis Schmidt third, Jamie Mole & Olli Jones scrapped over forth and fifth while Stuart White battled to sixth place.

It was Will's way in the Junior group with Will Turner powering to victory in the first two races, he was chased hard and finally beaten in the third race by Kieron Whitlock who secured second place overall, Jorja Johnson rode well all day for third place,Bradley Jones , Liam Compton and Jack Perkins could also all go home happy after making the top six.

Harry Pritchard was again in blistering form to dominate the auto class, with another three race wins in the bag it was left to Oliver Curtis and Sam Lycet to give chase with Oliver getting the closest finishing up second, Harry Kimber was forth with Jordan Allen and Lucy Calvert swapping places all day to complete the top six.

RESULTS - Tiverton 5th August 2007

Expert Plus
1) Terry House 2) Brett Wheeler 3) Lee Cummings 4) Aaron Carmichael 5) Josh House 6) Danny Richards

Novice
1) Ashley Green 2) Mark Goddard 3) Peter Barnes 4) Steven Gane 5) Ben Rose 6) Carl Robinson

Senior
1) Alex Hussey 2) Ashley Bailey 3) Ben Weeden 4) Stephen Bain 5) Chris Cave 6) Craig Durston

Inter 100
1) Lee Wren 2) 40 Ross Churchill 3) Lewis Cave 4) Grant Adlem 5) Eddie Yule 6) Ed Turner

Inter 85
1) Darren Wingar 2) John Coles 3) Louis Schmidt Jack Jenner 4) Jamie Mole 5) Olli Jones 6) Stuart White

Junior
1) Will Turner 2) Kieron Whitlock 3) Jorja Johnson 4) Bradley Jones 5) Liam Compton 6) Jack Perkins

Auto
1) 67 Harry Pritchard 2) 7 Oliver Curtis 3) 14 Sam Lycett 4) 78 Harry Kimber 5) Jordan Allen 6) Lucy Calvert

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RESULTS - Wareham 2nd September 2007

Expert Plus
1) 3 Lee Cummings 2) 18 3) 80 Aaron Carmichael 4) 21 David Thomas 5) 16 Ross Follett 6) 68 Marcus Feltham

Novice
1) 42 Luke Pritchard 2) 11 Ashley Green 3) 92 Ashley Clarke 4) 73 Mike Toon 5) 12 Pete Barnes 6) 39 Kevin Burgess

Senior
1) 86 Ashley Bailey 2) 1 Stephen Bain 3) 7 Ben Weeden 4) 41 Dom Gould 5) 57 Chris Cave 6) 38 Craig Durston

Inter 100
1) 45 Mitchell Bligh 2) 66 Eddie Yule 3) 60 Grant Adlem 4) 80 Mathew Davis 5) 40 Ross Churchill 6) 57 Lewis Cave

Inter 85
1) 51 Jamie Mole 2) 50 Darren Wingar 3) 8 Louis Schmidt 4) 48 Oliver McMurray 5) 42 Joshua Mullett 6) 6 Stuart White

Junior
1) 96 Bethany Farmer 2) 76 Kieron Whitlock 3) 31 Jorja Johnson 4) 72 Jack Dudman 5) 1 Bradley Jones 6) 14

Auto
1) 67 Harry Pritchard 2) 25 Thomas Shutler 3) 14 Sam Lycett 4) 7 Oliver Curtis 5) 24 Lucy Calvert 6) 78 Harry Kimber

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NO MATCH FOR SAM

Hants & Dorset met for the third and final time this season at the notoriously demanding matchams park circuit for round ten of the club’s thirteen round championship.

First to hit the track were the experts and Lee Cummings did his championship credentials no harm with a workmanlike display and two race wins to take overall victory while Brett Wheeler rode his trusty two stroke over the line to take the chequers in race three and ensure the runner up spot ahead of a seasons best third place for Damien Weeden.

Sand specialist Luke Pritchard continued where he left off at Wareham the previous meeting to take the novice honours again despite a huge crash in race one. Ben Rose kept his KTM going all day and took a deserved second overall ahead of Pete Barnes who endured the last race with a deflated front tyre after drama on the first lap.

Matt Ogden clearly enjoyed the sand by emerging as top dog in the fiercely contested senior group. Ashley Bailey had a fine second while Stephen Bain took third on terrain he makes no secret he loathes.

In the 100s Eddie Yule and Lee Wren rode some really consistent races but not quite consistent enough to dent the title aspirations of Mitchell Bligh who remains unbeaten overall in the three visits to the Ringwood venue this season.

Darren Wingar recorded a brilliant hat-trick of wins to take maximum points in the 85 class. A two way tie between Jamie Mole and Louis Schmidt was settled with Jamie’s higher position in race one being the tie-breaker.

Jorja Johnson built on her excellent third at the recent girl’s nationals to win the first junior race but her hopes of the group honours were demolished by Dylan Hodgkins who after a fine brace of second places took the win in the final race to top the group. Jamie Carpenter took third overall and was followed by Kieron Whitlock, Jack Dudman and Brad Jones to complete the top six.

Any auto rider who completed the gruelling demands of the matchams sand should be proud. Sam Lycett went even better to take all three race wins and maximum points. He was followed home each time by Thomas Shutler who never gave up chasing while consistency went a long way for Jordan Allen in third. Lucy Calvert gave Jay Ellis and Callum Gordon the slip to take fourth overall.

RESULTS - Matchams 16th September 2007

Expert Plus
1) 3 Lee Cummings 2) 43 Brett Wheeler 3) 50 Damien Weeden 4) 2 Danny Richards 5) 21 David Thomas 6) 16 Ross Follett

Novice
1) 42 Luke Pritchard 2) 54 Ben Rose 3) 12 Pete Barnes 4) 39 Kevin Burgess 5) 92 Ashley Clarke 6) 11 Ashley Green

Senior
1) 50 Matt Ogden 2) 86 Ashley Bailey 3) 11 Stephen Bain 4) 38 Craig Durston 5) 57 Chris Cave 6) 1 Dean Pennington

Inter 100
1) 45 Mitchell Bligh 2) 66 Eddie Yule 3) 50 Lee Wren 4) 60 Grant Adlem 5) 40 Ross Churchill 6) 80 Mathew Davis

Inter 85
1) 50 Darren Wingar 2) 51 Jamie Mole 3) 8 Louis Schmidt 4) 15 Olli Jones 5) 48 Oliver McMurray 6) 38 Kayleigh Durston

Junior
1) 54 Dylan Hodgkins 2) 31 Jorja Johnson 3) 22 Jamie Carpenter 4) 76 Kieron Whitlock 5) 72 Jack Dudman 6) 1 Bradley Jones

Auto
1) 14 Sam Lycett 2) 25 Thomas Shutler 3) 23 Jordan Allen 4) 24 Lucy Calvert 5) 28 Jay Ellis 6) 6 Callum Gordon

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Foxhills, Swindon was to play host for round eleven of the Hants & Dorset’s Club Championship and a superbly prepared track awaited the riders in near perfect weather conditions.

Tom Rogers, the club’s 2005 junior champion, took the first two race wins in the 85 class but a no-show in race three let John Cole take the overall with his consistency while Darren Wingar, who took the last race win, made the runner-up spot. The reigning Junior champion, Olli Jones, made the final podium position.

In the 100s Lee Wren powered his 150F up and down the hills with apparent ease and only the efforts of Mitchell Bligh with his last race win stood between Wren making a clean sweep of the group. Ross Churchill made third place his own all day resulting in third overall.

The expert group lived up to their name with some breathtaking action with visitors Sam Sunderland and Ross Hill forcing the regulars to raise their game. Group honours at the end of the day went to James Cole on his rmz who rode at his best fending off Brett Wheeler with Aaron Carmichael never far behind.

Harry Pritchard returned to take top spot in the autos with two race wins; Sam Lycett taking the final moto ensuring him second on the day ahead of Harry Kimber. Thomas Shutler took fourth ahead of Callum Gordon and Lucy Calvert.

Lewis Trickett and Lewis Abbott dominated the senior class and both stormed their way round the Foxhills track with only Abbott denying the KTM pilot coming from stone dead last to first in the second heat. Whilst pride was at stake for the visitors, points were up for grabs for the members and Ben Weeden made up for his rotten luck at the previous meeting to repel the advances of Steve Bain with Ashley Bailey third.

Liam Compton, in the juniors, won not only his first ever race but then went on to take his first overall to which he was obviously clearly delighted about! Jorja Johnson jumped her way to finish runner-up ahead of Kieron Whitlock who won the second junior heat. Jamie Carpenter, Sam baggott and Brad Jones completed the top six.

Three holeshots were still not enough for Pete Barnes to topple Luke Pritchard from an untroubled maximum in the novice group, he made his way through the pack in all three races and then cleared off to take the win with Barnes second and the club’s safety officer, Ashley Green, securing third place.

The clerk of the course and his deputies all deserve an extra pat on the back for their tireless treks up and down the steep slopes attending to incidents and so ensuring the event ran as safe and smooth as it did.

RESULTS - Foxhills 30th September 2007

Expert Plus
1) 93 James Coles 2) 43 Brett Wheeler 3) 80 Aaron Carmichael 4) 45 Josh House 5) 3 Lee Cummings 6) 50 Damien Weeden

Novice
1) 42 Luke Pritchard 2) 12 Pete Barnes 3) 11 Ashley Green 4) 39 Kevin Burgess 5) 27 Andrew Watts 6) 66 Mark Goddard

Senior
1) 7 Ben Weeden 2) 11 Stephen Bain 3) 86 Ashley Bailey 4) 38 Craig Durston 5) 50 Matt Ogden 6) 57 Chris Cave

Inter 100
1) 50 Lee Wren 2) 45 Mitchell Bligh 3) 40 Ross Churchill 4) 60 Grant Adlem 5) 57 Lewis Cave 6) 66 Eddie Yule

Inter 85
1) 92 John Cole 2) 50 Darren Wingar 3) 15 Olli Jones 4) 0 Michael Denton 5) 48 Oliver McMurray 6) 95 Jack Jenner

Junior
1) 9 Liam Compton 2) 31 Jorja Johnson 3) 76 Kieron Whitlock 4) 22 Jamie Carpenter 5) 50 Samuel Baggott 6) 1 Bradley Jones

Auto
1) 67 Harry Pritchard 2) 14 Sam Lycett 3) 78 Harry Kimber 4) 25 Thomas Shutler 5) 6 Callum Gordon 6) 24 Lucy Calvert

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Hants & Dorset staged round twelve of the club’s championship at the Silent Woman track at Wareham which, after two days of digging and grading by the club’s committee plus a Saturday afternoon downpour ensured the track was in superb condition.

The novices had the benefit of being the first out this week and Ashley Clarke stormed through the pack to take the first race win but was left to curse a a seventh in the second race after getting stuck in the start gate. This meant a third overall behind Ashley Green. Luke Pritchard, who has shown tremendous improvement since switching to an 07 Yamaha, took his fourth overall win in as many meetings after winning the last two races.

Next out were the 85s and Jamie Mole took races two and three to ensure himself of first overall ahead of one of the group’s regular front runners, Darren Wingar. Stuart Whites’ race results got better as the day and track wore on and third overall was his reward.

Even after the unfortunate incident of having both his race bikes cruelly relieved from him earlier this year, Mitchell Bligh has been no stranger to the top spot in the inter 100s and this weekend was no exception with a maximum scorecard. Eddie Yule was never out of the top three to take second overall with Ross Churchill completing the top three.

Brett Wheeler achieved overall honours in the expert class after some excellent racing with 2005 expert champ Phil Lewis and eventual runner up on the day Lee Cummings who bagged victory in the last two races. They tied on points but Wheeler took it by virtue of his run away first race win. Dean taylor and Marcus Feltham had some cracking duels and after two races were dead level but Taylor settled it by a cheeky last lap manoeuvre round fourth placed Feltham in the final outing.

In the autos Sam Lycett followed Harry Pritchard home in the first race but returned the favour to take the second race although Harry took the overall. Oliver Curtis skipped across the sandy terrain to take third, after tying with Jordan Allen who was fourth overall, due to his better first race result.

Tom White rode his best races this season in the senior group with even a holeshot in race three and, whilst he benefited from Alex Hussey’s dnf in race two, it was a fine achievement to score his first race win and first overall to go with it in this very closely fought group. And just to prove this point the next four riders were separated by just two points with rookie senior rider Stephen Bain using his pair of thirds to secure third place behind the more experienced senior Crag Durston.

With three different race winners on the day, consistency was the key to take the number one spot in the juniors and Jack Dudman was never out of the top three after a fine win in the first outing. In fact the result of that first race ie Kieron Whitlock second and Jorja Johnson third was to be the eventual result for the day.

RESULTS - Wareham 14th October 2007

Expert Plus
1) 43 Brett Wheeler 2) 3 Lee Cummings 3) 57 Deen Taylor 4) 68 Marcus Feltham 5) 21 David Thomas 6) 20 Scott Wallis

Novice
1) 42 Luke Pritchard 2) 11 Ashley Green 3) 92 Ashley Clarke 4) 12 Pete Barnes 5) 39 Kevin Burgess 6) 54 Ben Rose

Senior
1) 77 Tom White 2) 38 Craig Durston 3) 11 Stephen Bain 4) 7 Ben Weeden 5) 86 Ashley Bailey 6) 57 Chris Cave

Inter 100
1) 45 Mitchell Bligh 2) 66 Eddie Yule 3) 40 Ross Churchill 4) 57 Lewis Cave 5) 80 Mathew Davis 6) 48 Chris Stuttle

Inter 85
1) 51 Jamie Mole 2) 50 Darren Wingar 3) 6 Stuart White 4) 8 Louis Schmidt 5) 38 Kayleigh Durston 6) 59 Jack Howe

Junior
1) 72 Jack Dudman 2) 76 Kieron Whitlock 3) 31 Jorja Johnson 4) 59 Josh Bunter 5) 1 Bradley Jones 6) 9 Liam Compton

Auto
1) 14 Sam Lycett 2) 67 Harry Pritchard 3) 7 Oliver Curtis 4) 23 Jordan Allen 5) 25 Thomas Shutler 6) 28 Jay Ellis

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RESULTS - Henstridge 28th October 2007

Expert Plus
1) 43 Brett Wheeler 2) 93 James Coles 3) 2 Danny Richards 4) 57 Deen Taylor 5) 68 Marcus Feltham 6) 45 Josh House

Novice
1) 74 Jack French 2) 73 Mike Toon 3) 42 Luke Pritchard 4) 12 Pete Barnes 5) 11 Ashley Green 6) 16 Bob Smith

Senior
1) 11 Stephen Bain 2) 31Lloyd Nightingale 3) 77 Tom White 4) 25 Alex Hussey 5) 5 Dean Cummings 6) 57 Chris Cave

Inter 100
1) 45 Mitchell Bligh 2) 40 Ross Churchill 3) 4 Ryan Moody 4) 57 Lewis Cave 5) 31 Jake Gay 6) 66 Eddie Yule

Inter 85
1) 15 Olli Jones 2) 8 Louis Schmidt 3) 6 Stuart White 4) 48 Oliver McMurray 5) 38 Kayleigh Durston 6) 50 Darren Wingar

Junior
1) 59 Josh Bunter 2) 31 Jorja Johnson3) 76 Kieron Whitlock 4) 1 Bradley Jones 5) 72 Jack Dudman 6) 9 Liam Compton

Auto
1) 67 Harry Pritchard 2) 14 Sam Lycett 3) 23 Jordan Allen 4) 78 Harry Kimber 5) 6 Callum Gordon 6) 25 Thomas Shutler

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2007 ANNUAL REVIEW

WHILST the 2007 season was blighted by a wet summer and dire rain, the action on the track was to be anything but; even the final two block round at Henstridge in the ubiquitous rain being many a spectators’ highlight of the season, watching riders slip and slide around whilst battling for those precious last few championship points.

Lee Cummings wrapped up the expert group in fine style with plenty of race wins and overalls to his name. Given a few more holeshots it could have been easier for him to break away from the dogged efforts of two stroke mounted Brett Wheeler who was never far behind Lee’s booming KTM all season. Josh House, gated well as usual and to finish behind these two must make relinquishing his expert crown a little less painful.

Whilst Ashley Green was probably the ante post favourite to take the years novice honours no-one had told Mike Toon who sprang out of the traps early on and gave the others plenty to think about to take a ten point lead by round four. Ash knuckled down to grind out the results and take the championship whilst Mike, suffering from tennis elbow, dodged the late season charge from ever improving Luke Pritchard to hold on to second place.

The top five of this years senior crop all tasted overall championship honours at one time or other during the season but it was Ben Weeden’s name that frequented the top rung more than any other and this helped him to win the group (and forget last season’s injury) leaving Steve Bain and Craig Durston to battle for the final podium placings ahead of senior veterans Chris Cave and Tom White.

Mitchell Bligh fully deserved to be crowned Big Wheel 85 Champion with some stylish wins and consistency of the highest order, scoring 493 from a possible 495 points! Eddie Yule and Ross Churchill filled various places among the top six throughout the season and invariably if one went missing then so did the other, it was that close such that eventually they were split by just four points in Eddie’s favour.

In the Small Wheel 85 Championship Olli Jones and Louis Schmidt renewed their rivalry from the juniors and the outcome was the same with wet weather specialist Olli taking the verdict to be runner-up behind the group’s run-away leader Darren Wingar who had the group sewn up quite early on thanks to his many victories and maximum scorecards en route.

Kieran Whitlock improved on last years fourth place junior trophy to make it this year’s group winner owing to great consistency, never being out of the overall top four all year. Another to climb up the junior rankings this year was Jack Dudman who was kept from the runner-up spot by the club’s best placed girl Jorja Johnson.

Harry Pritchard took no prisoners in his quest to take the auto title this year and at most meetings the number sixty-seven bike could be seen howling along up front. Although he didn’t have it entirely his own way, as both Sam Lycett and Oliver Curtis popped up to spoil his party with overall wins apiece.

2007 CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL POSITIONS

Expert Plus
1) Lee Cummings 2) Brett Wheeler 3) Josh House 4) Marcus Feltham 5) David Thomas 6) Scott Wallis

Novice
1) Ashley Green 2) Mike Toon 3) Luke Pritchard 4) Pete Barnes 5) Kevin Burgess 6) 16 Ben Rose

Senior
1) Ben Weeden 2) Stephen Bain 3) Craig Durston 4) Chris Cave 5) Tom White 6) Dom Gould

Inter 100
1) Mitchell Bligh 2) Eddie Yule 3) Ross Churchill 4) Lewis Cave 5) Cherie Wingar 6) Josh Hipgrave

Inter 85
1) Darren Wingar 2) Olli Jones 3) Louis Schmidt 4) Stuart White 5) Kayleigh Durston 6) Jack Howe

Junior
1) Kieran Whitlock 2) Jorja Johnson 3) Jack Dudman 4) Bradley Jones 5) Oscar Schmidt 6) Liam Compton

Auto
1) Harry Pritchard 2) Sam Lycett 3) Oliver Curtis 4) Thomas Shutler 5) Jordan Allen 6) Lucy Calvert

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