Steve and Ricky Roper win Sudbury 2 Man Enduro

Sudbury Motor Cycle Club ran their sixth meeting of the year, which was a non-championship 2 Man Enduro at Chappel Essex.  There were 45 teams competing over the three Classes of Championship, Expert and Clubman and there was keen and close racing in all these Classes.

 

In the morning session the course was ridden clockwise through two woods, part of the motocross track and long grass which was very slippery due to heavy moisture, while the afternoon session the course was ridden in the opposite direction with drier conditions. 

 

Tom Braddock (Lowestoft) and Toby Morley (Woodbridge) were out to show everyone why they are this year’s winners of the 2 Man Championship Class with Braddock first out taking an early lead.  However the opposition were not going to allow them an easy day with 2013 Eastern Centre Solo Enduro Champion, Jamie Roper (Sudbury) partnered by his cousin Ian Parker (Sudbury) and the other two Roper brothers, Stevie and Ricky, (Sudbury)  riding together in hot pursuit. 

 

Throughout the morning and afternoon sessions these three teams battled it out with the lead changing consistently with the older pairing of Stevie and Ricky Roper taking first place with 38.00 points while Braddock/Morley and Jamie Roper/Parker tying on 36.83 points but Braddock/Morley secured second place with a better special test time.  Other positions were 4^th Craig Roper/Jack Berry (Sudbury), 5^th Gavin Hockey/Steve Finch (Sudbury), 6^th Chris Hart/Mark Waller (Sudbury), 7^th Lee Whitney (Diss)/Stephen Revett (Stowmarket) and 8^th Michael Wyatt/Chris Wright (Diss).  

 

The Expert Class was also closely contested with cousins Richard Walters/Andy Tyler (Sudbury) taking first place pipping Phil Roper/Paul Belton with William Hughes riding all the sessions solo 3^rd.  Graham Mays/Nigel Ross (Sudbury) secured 4^th place with Tim Ford (Lowestoft)/Jeff Sharp (Sudbury) 5^th and Kelvin Vant/Stephen Green (Sudbury) 6^th. 

 

The Clubman Class was a clear win for the Stowmarket pairing of Jake Gregory/Richard Squirrel with father and son, Gary and Dale Gladwin (Sudbury) a worthy 2^nd holding off Jeff Turner/Daniel Piper (Sudbury). Other positions were Phil Roberts (Halstead)/Don Blackman (Colchester) 4^th, Dean Curry (Sudbury)/Duncan Griffin (Diss) 5^th and Sam Dimmock (Whitley)/Greg Simon (Sudbury) 6^th.