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Moggstar BYMX Moves South for Round Five.
After a very successful Round Four at Leuchars, the championship returns to the south of the country, to the hard pack track at Woodford, Run by the Northampton SMXC, the club is working hard to make this round one to remember, they have all the details up on the clubs website, with details and news about the track, how to get there etc. Visit their site at http://www.northamptonsmxc.co.uk.
Scott Elderfield will be out in the Open class to try and take over at the top, from championship leader Joe Gregory, after closing the gap at the top to just two points, after a great overall win at Leuchars. Tommy Fenwick is just behind the top two, with just eleven points difference between him and Elderfield, with Lewis King and Edward Allingham, also in the hunt, any of the three could close in on the top two, if they have a bad weekend.
Luke Hawkins will be hoping to extend his lead at the top of the Big Wheel 85cc class, after taking second overall behind Daniel Hutchinson at Leuchars, even though he had a bad day on day one. Second place Ryan Houghton had some good results at the last round to keep his place behind Hawkins, but one man on a mission was the smooth and fast Daniel Hutchinson at Leuchars, and he will be out to upset the top two at Woodford. Paul Coates and Jamie McCanney are the next in line, and will show well also.
In the Small Wheel 85cc class, it looks like this will go down to the end as leader of the class Jordan Godwin takes a slender lead into Woodford, from James Dunn in second and Michael Eccles close behind. In fact there is only 28 points difference between the leader and third place. Callan Cooper and Corrie Southward could also upset the top three, as they are back on form after great results at Leuchars.
Ben Green in the Junior 65cc class will be hoping to continue his winning ways, coming to Woodford after a clean sweep at the Elite Championship at Mildenhall, Green will want to extend his lead, from Jason Meara, Robert Yates and back on form Ryan Snaith. This will be one class to watch as the top four battle for the championship. Anything can happen, so watch this space.   Round 4 BYMX Leuchars 21st/22nd June 2008
Report from Moggstar ACU BYMX round 4 Leuchars
At each event for the 2008 season of the BYMX championship one rider will win the award of Rookie of the Meeting and the rider with the most Rookie of the Meeting awards at the end of the season will be classified as the Rookie of the Year.
From the first four rounds of the 2008 Moggstar BYMX Championship Connor has won Rookie of the Meeting at rounds 1,2 and 4 with Redline KTM UK's Josh Spinks coming out on top at round 3.
To qualify as a rookie, riders must be registered to the series, be Under 16 years of age as at the date of the first event and be competing in the Open class British Championship for the first time in 2008 Moggstar ACU BYMX Championship Round Three Brampton Cumbria.
Glorious sunshine all weekend and some fantastic battles ensued as the Moggstar ACU BYMX series moved North to the East Cumbria’s clubs, British championship track at Brampton, for round three of the championship. Lots of hard work in the week running up to the event by all in the East Cumbria club, meant the track was in perfect condition, and the scene set for some fantastic battles in all classes.
Race two and Hawkins took off in the lead again leaving Page and Flemming to battle it out again, with Hutchinson in their wheel tracks, Page once again let Flemming into second, and was in a battle for third with Pocock and Hutchinson, for the rest of the race. Hawkins had a clear win, with Flemming second, and Page eventually claimed third, ahead of Paul Coates who came from behind after Pocock went out, and Hutchinson had a couple of offs.
The Junior 65 class saw some exciting battles in race one, with Robert Yates taking race one with a start to finish win, Ben Green was on his tail all through the race but could not get past, and had to settle for second, with championship leader Ryan Snaith getting a bad start, Jason Meara held third place, with Danny Lefear in fourth, until Snaith came back to take both of them on lap four and claim the third position. Race two and the battle was on again with Yates and Green. Green led from the start with Snaith on his tail and Yates closely behind. Snaith had a big get off, on lap two, and was taken to hospital, leaving Yates to battle on to take the second place behind Green who won, Meara came home third after battles with Jack Wilson.
Day two and the sun came out again, to greet the riders for a hard days racing. Luke Hawkins continued his domination in the Big wheel 85’s by taking both the remaining races with ease, and taking the overall with all four, race wins. Matthew Flemming, eventually took the second place after some consistent riding, with Ryan Houghton taking the third overall place of the weekend. Jordan Godwin and James Dunn battled fro the overall in races three and four for the Small Wheel 85’s, taking a race win a piece. Dunn eventually taking the overall with Godwin in second, and Ben Watson taking third after some good racing on day two. In the Junior 65 class, Robert Yates claimed another two race wins to take the overall, with three wins and a second, Ben Green claimed second after three seconds and a win, taking him also to the top of the championship, Jay Lamb and Jason Meara claimed a third position each in the remaining races, but it was Meara who claimed the third overall on the weekend. Races two and three in the Open class saw wins go to Scott Elderfield in race two, while in race three, Mel Pocock took the win, with Elderfield second. Pocock took the overall, while Elderfield took the second place. Edward Allingham raced hard on day two and claimed the third place overall.
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STORMS TO BYMX VICTORY AT BRAMPTON
Round two of this years Moggstar sponsored BYMX championship roared into life under glorious blue skies at the Motoland complex nr Mildenhall in Suffolk. Hosted by the Cambridge CJSC on the hottest weekend of the year so far the event produced a crop of scorching red hot performances from Jack Wilson, Jordan Godwin, Ben Howell, Luke Hawkins and Joe Gregory. Performances that really caught the eye as they grabbed a sack full of championship points each and made the second round racing headline news. Most of the chatter pre event surrounded the fact that Scott Elderfield had signed on the dotted line for Swift Suzuki with a full blown contract to take over the Elliot Banks Browne machinery for the rest of the season both at home in Maxxis MX2, abroad in Europe for selected GP's and of course on the youth circuit. With the ink hardly dry on the contract it was time for Scott to go out and do the business,so how did he do? More of that later, read on.......
Jack Wilson on the Hansen Racing KTM put in the performance of his young career so far in the Junior 65cc section claiming the first three race wins quite comprehensively as he reeled off the fastest lap in each race to out pace a super competitive field. Cumbria's Ben Green had his championship head well and truly on to claim the final race win to add to a brace of second place finishes. When it was all totalled up Ben finished in second place on the weekend and moved up to second in the championship standings just behind Ryan Snaith. Ryan scored heavily in all four races but saved the best until last with a runners up finish and the fastest lap in race four to stay on top of the championship pile by just six points from Ben Elsewhere in the section Casey Connolly, Jason Meara, Ryan Johnson and Alfie Bowtell all had good points scoring weekends to keep the pressure right on at the top of the table. Small Wheel 85cc Jordan Godwin has been threatening all season to blow a massive hole right through the small wheel 85cc ranks. It all came together for him in Suffolk over the weekend as he produced a cracking top draw performance with a 1-2-1-2 scorecard putting him on the top step of the podium with a massive smile and taking the biggest piece of silverware home to Gwent with him. Not to be out done on race wins or speed over the four races fellow Welshman Ben Howell increased his lead in the championship with another two race wins and a runners up place finish. KTM mounted Isle of Man flier Callan Cooper and Michael Eccles on the Team Green Kawasaki kept up their impressive starts to the season finishing in third and fourth place respectively on the weekend and are still right in there at the top of the championship pile.There were other noteworthy impressive single race performances from Liam Knight and fastest qualifier Liam Garland as they bagged an individual race third place finish each.
If Jordan Godwins performance was impressive in the Small Wheels Luke Hawkins was absolute dynamite on the PAR Honda as he tore the Big Wheel 85cc field apart. Leading through every lap on the weekend recording the four fastest lap times in the process Luke plundered a maximum 180 points haul to jump five places up and take over at the head of the green plate championship standings. Ryan Houghton on the Redline KTM moves into second place in the chase for Big Wheel silverware courtesy of another four impressively smooth efficient point scoring outings the best of them being race three crossing the line in second place all be it 22 seconds behind the untouchable winner Hawkins. Third place overall on the weekend went to Robbie Muscat as he got his BYMX season off to a flying start with four superb rides against largely older opposition.Storming Brad Pocock delivered the goods in fourth place overall but it was a weekend of mixed fortunes for Dan Hutchinson on the Thor KTM suffering an electrical failure in race two after collecting a second place finish first time out. Also Jamie McCanney had a disappointing day two after ripping it up with second and third place finishes on day one. Both boys drop down the table a little after the heady heights of the opening round. A couple of injuries sustained by Scott Aldridge in the Big Wheels and Scott James in the Open section both resulted in hospital treatment, best wishes from all at BYMX for speedy recoveries. Open Class
The rain may have fallen, but it didn’t affect the spectacle of the first round with some very special racing over the weekend, It was great to get the 2008 season underway, I’m sure no one can be too critical of the organising club for truncating the final days racing on grounds of safety. It won’t have escaped the notice of the riders but A few key people were missing... Mainly the usual Parc Ferme Staff... well you will be pleased to know that at Mildenhall Normal service will be resumed, although I’d like to thank everyone who had to sit there in the rain waiting for the signal and also I’d like to thank the very nice man who lent me some gloves....... On a technical front.... We were a little bit hampered by the weather as the noise control cannot be done whilst it’s raining, The general feedback I can give from the bikes we did sound test on the Thursday and Friday, was that the 2007 four stroke model bikes have got some work to do to get to the new 94Db limit and just because the two strokes get a higher limit don’t neglect to maintain your silencers as we had a small amount of the dinky bikes that blew a bit hard and there was a bit of frantic packing happening... It’s on weekends like that when a great deal of thanks are due to everyone who mucked in to get through as much of the programme as was possible, so thanks goes out to all the people who were running around working double hard in very muddy conditions helping with riders and things to keep some very muddy wheels turning.... Follow the 2008 results links page to find all of the weekends results and don't forget that mobile signal permitting they are uploaded to www.mylaps.com during the day. For those with WAP phones there is also a phone specific site at i.mylaps.com where results are also available during the day. Ok... Nuff said... New title sponsor for BYMX in 2008
The ACU is pleased to announce that Moggstar, the MX Clothing brand, will become the title sponsor for the 2008 BYMX Championship. The British youth series has risen in stature over recent years and is a fantastic showcase of young talent currently in the UK motocross paddock.
Roy Barton, ACU Motocross Manager, said, “We are delighted to be working with Moggstar for 2008. We have found a partner for the championship that wants to see it grow and work with us to make it the best youth motocross series in the UK. “
Additional sponsorship for the BYMX Championship will also come from Danger UK, www.mx-stuff.co.uk and PAR Homes.
If you require any further information please contact Brian George, Press Officer 01788566428 or via e-mail brian@acu.org.uk.
Or Suzi Mewes for Moggstar at Ignition PR on 01788 546644 or ignitionpr@btconnect.com
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