Wednesday September 11, 2013 at 9:45am
BUMPY LTD stage Round Five of the A.C.U. Luscombe Suzuki Leeds British Class C and D Youth Trials Championship at Howden Clough Indsutrial Estate, Birstall on Sunday at their headquarters estate where Julian Ford will mastermind the trials course.
Class C Standard Wheels will be another conflict between Newton Abbott youngster Billy Green and the determined Colsterworth, Lincoln, boy Daniel Slack. He won the the Richmond round at the beginning of September.Those boys will again be under attack though from Bradford contenders Joe Faunthorpe and Charlie Smith. Faunthorpe claimed the seventeen points at Park Gate and is on a rapid return to form. Jacob Snowdon could put Keighley as he is currently holding third place in the class.
In Class C Medium Wheels Edward Earle has seventy seven championship points but Alice Minta. Miss Minta will be in her usual Top Gear mode. Huddersfield’s Charlie Mosley trails Earle by a dozen points but all three front runners have a drop score to consider after Stevenston on September 28. Earle at present is looking at a seventeen point drop. What will rise to the surface in Ayrshire at the end of the month?
Jack Dance is on a roll in Class D Medium Wheels on a maximum. The Horsham Gas Gas rider is twenty points up on Banbury Beta rider Dale Freeman with Harvey Mosley from Huddersfield and Jacob Smith from Bradford moving closer. With Bumpy and Stevenston on the agenda nothing is written in stone at this stage. The top five all have a drop score to take into consideration.
Class D Small Wheels seems to be an open to all situation. Henry Stephenson has two victories, foiled only by Harry Hemingway at Zona 1 and Richmond but Buxton’s Harry Turner has outpointed Dominic Horne to climb to a strong third place in the standings. Hemingway though the has dispensed with the drop score debit by missing Westmorland. Could Stephenson’s experience that wins the day or his Hemmo going to strike again? At this stage Henry is looking at a fifteen drop and that could open the door for Hemingway. For all classes Bumpy could be a vital round. The other major question is how many are going to drive to Scotland for the final event?
As usual the catering unit will be feeding all and sundry from 08.00 am. The trial will start at 10.30 am. Howden Clough Estate is at WF17 0JB which is on Leeds Road two miles south of the M62 motorway,