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BYMX Championship - Round Seven - Cusses Gorse Preview
8 September 2010
Points make prizes as we preview the BYMX series
finale!
With the final round of this years BYMX series about to hit
to the dirt at Cusses Gorse this weekend (Sept 11th /12th)
will it be Albie Wilkie, Josh Gilbert, Adam Sterry and
this years brand
new MXY2 champion Connor Walkley who
are ultimately named as this years quality
quartet ? With four comfort zones already in place they
are all clear and odds on favourites.
Adam Sterry in the BWs and Connor Walkley in the Youth Open
section both have a 23 point lead over the field - and
under the 2010 points scoring system where a fixed 50 point
reward is allocated to the overall
round winner that should be job done barring
an absolute calamity. In reality both guys can finish as low
as 13th overall and still win the titles.
The situation in the 65s and Smallies is a lot
closer however. Although both Albie Wilkie and Josh Gilbert
have margins to play around with the new points scoring system
dictates that they must both finish within the top
six down in Wiltshire to be absolutely sure of going
home with the championship crowns. Wilkie needs to finish
in fourth place overall or higher and fifth or
better will do the job for
Gilbert. Anywhere outside of that and it's
a real nerve jangler with the titles up for grabs.
In the tiddlers it's only possible for second placed Keenan
Hird or third man Taylor Hammal to snatch the crown from
Wilkie's grasp but it will most likely also need a
couple of magnificent performances from the likes of James
McFayden and Alexander Brown if they are all to force
Albie down the finishing order.
The battle in the Small Wheels is equally as interesting
but with more candidates in the plot and all capable
of filling a top six result in any kind of order.
Josh Gilbert therefore could do with a repeat of
something approaching the brilliant Dean Moor and
Brampton form if he is to confidently elbow the challenge
of his main rival's Oliver Osmaston and Robert Yates.
Confidence could well be the key in this section, hold your nerve,
keep your eyes firmly fixed on the prize and you could well
end up holding the ultimate number one red
plate. Crunching the SW numbers it's
mathematically possible for Jay Lamb, Conrad Mewse and Sid
Evans to end up with that number one plate but in reality
it looks like a Gilbert, Osmaston and Yates three
way shootout.
Current Championship standings:
65s
1. Wilkie 267ps
2. Hird 254
3. Hammal 252
4. McFayden 212
5. Edey 205
6. Brown 203
SWs
1. Gilbert 253
2. Osmaston 238
3. Yates 238
4. Lamb 215
5. Mewse 214
6. Evans 213
BWs
1. Sterry 270pts
2. Watson 247
3. Kelly 228
4. Harrison 224
5. Garland 218
6. Southwood 188
Youth Open
1. Walkley 274pts
2. Kelly 251
3. Watson 246
4. Sharp 238
5. Norris 214
6. McLean 206
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