Manx Trials Club Championship 1st Round

 

Scarlett 27 February 2011

 

Results

 

Experts

1^st Josh Brain 1 mark lost; 2^nd Nigel Sharp 5; 3^rd Wayne Wardell 14; 4^th Craig Norrey 28.

 

Clubman

1^st Neil Christian 2 marks lost; 2^nd Damien Owen 6; 3^rd Oliver Megson 8; 4^th Robbie Skillicorn 11;

5^th Saskia Baxter 17 (most cleans); 6^th Jordan Birchall 17; 7^th Ed Duggan 21; 8^th Andrew Cubbon 25;

9^th Aleyn Taggart 35; 10^th Matty Lund 39; 11^th Ian Bailey 53 (most cleans); 12^th Steven Teare 53.

 

Sportsman

1^st Peter Christian 3 marks lost; 2^nd Barry Teare 19; 3^rd Mike Stevens 23; 4^th Rod Callister 26;

5^th Ashley Gardner 42; 6^th Peter Peniata 49; 7^th Daniel Colley 78.

 

Pre-65

1st David Harding 9 (most cleans); 2nd Jim Davidson 9

Twinshock

1^st Jonathan Kelly 6 marks lost; 2nd  Sean Skillicorn 10; 3rd Nigel Woods 18; 4^th Paul Doherty 35; 5^th Dave Megson 45.

 

Youth Expert

1^st Oliver Lace 33 marks lost.

 

Youth Intermediate

1^st Brandon Bailey 46 marks lost; 2^nd Aaron Molyneux 64; 3^rd Juan Lace 70.

 

Youth Novice

1^st Adam Kelly 21 marks lost; 2^nd Ashley Gardner Jnr 38; 3^rd Aaron Peniata 61;

4^th Sophie-May Hardie 84.

 

Scarlett turned out to be the perfect setting for the first round of the Manx Trials Club Championship 2011.

The bright sunny conditions attracted a good entry of riders and a large crowd of spectators. The sections laid out by Peter Blackburn, Geoff Griffiths and Colin Scarffe proved to be spot on in their composition which led to close fought battles in each class.

Ride of the day went to Josh Brain who completed the challenging Expert course for the loss of only one mark. Josh was pressed hard by Nigel Sharp who was only 4 marks adrift after a slow start.

In the hard fought Clubman class, Neil Christian had a fine ride, dropping only 2 marks over the 32 sections. Damian Owen took the runner up spot with Oliver Megson a close third.

In the Sportsman class Neil's father Peter completed the family double losing just 3 marks.

The Pre-65 class was the closest of the event where similarly mounted Triumph Cub riders David Harding and Jim Davidson could only be split on  most cleans.

Yamaha mounted Jonathan Kelly fought off a strong challenge by Road & Track's Sean Skillicorn to take the Twinshock class win and in the second family double of the day, son Adam took the Youth Novice win.

Thanks go to all of the observers who turned out to assist.