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BYMX Championship - Round Six - Brampton Results
4 August 2010
Penultimate Hopes and Dreams
The penultimate round of this years Express Insurance BYMX
championship series proved to be yet another brilliant
event at Lower Gelt Farm near Brampton in East
Cumbria. The weather may not have been at it's very best with
a showery weekend, but the racing certainly was.
Keenan Hird delivered a polished performance that
secured his first well deserved overall BYMX series win
carding a 3-1-2-2-1 result. Albie Wilkie won race four however and
still retains his championship lead after finishing in third place
overall. Albie is now on a 267 point total with Keenan moving up
one place into second spot, 13 points behind . Second place on the
podium at Lower Gelt went to the winner of the opening moto Taylor
Hammal. Alex Brown was really unlucky in race five but
generally turned in a truly stunning weekend display that
also included one heat win and he finished in fourth
overall.
Josh Gilbert extends his lead in SW 85cc
In the SW 85cc division a resounding and confident winning weekend
display from young Cornishman Josh Gilbert that included one heat
win now puts him in the Small Wheel box seat with a 15 point series
lead over Robert Yates and Oliver Osmaston who are now tied in
second position. Oliver finished as the runner up in Cumbria
carding a brace of moto wins - and a cracking day two performance
also from Jay Lamb elevating him into third on the day. Robert
Yates unluckily had to settle for fourth following a big off in
race five. Elsewhere in the section Greg Hyett claimed a brilliant
first heat win but fell heavily second time out, and that
ultimately ruined his weekend chances. Conrad Mewse won moto two
but retired from the meeting during race four - however sparkling
shows from both Alfie Bowtell and Lewis Houghton got them on to the
end of day box in positions five and six.
Honda dominates the Big Wheel
Moving on to the BW 85cc class Adam Sterry like Josh
Gilbert remained cool, calm and collected to eventually stretch his
Championship advantage to a clear 23 point margin over Ben Watson
who finished in fourth place overall. The individual heat wins went
to Sterry and Garland twice with James Harrison getting in on the
act to claim the race five victory. The Honda mounted trio
dominated completely as it all resulted with a Sterry, Harrison,
Garland 1-2-3.
And in the Youth Open class Tom Kelly won the round six event
and also took over from Nathan Watson as the second place sitter in
the championship chase all be it now 23 points behind the section
leader Connor Walkley. Connor suffered a race four DQ for
adjudged dangerous riding but still managed to finish in fifth
place overall. Second overall on the day in Cumbria went to Gary
Sharp and that despite getting stuck behind the start gate in
race two and also suffering a rear wheel puncture in race
five. Ryan McLean rode the event of his life to finish in third
place overall and also won the Express Insurance Top Gun award.
Nathan Watson finished in fourth overall and slipped to third in
the Championship standings.
In the Adult Two Stroke support races John Richardson won the
250cc class but the absolute star of the weekend proved to be
Suzuki mounted James Dunn as he took the lead in the 125cc
championship following a real masterclass.
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