The final round of the Luscombe Suzuki Leeds sponsored national Youth Class C and D trial championship took place at Dunlop, East Ayshire in fine bright weather. The coastal venue of Totherick Quarry hosted the younger classes on Saturday and on Sunday the final round of the ACU Ladies championship and the penultimate Class A and B Youth championship.
The youngsters excelled on Saturday. In Class D Medium Wheels Catterick’s Elliott Laws finished a close second one penalty away from victory. Banbury’s Dale Freeman took his first win this year but only missed the rostrum at Richmond last month.
In Class D Small Wheels Robberttown boy Henry Moorhouse won the class and took Harry Hemingway to a championship tie-break winning by virtue of heading the final event.Scorton’s Liam Clement took sixth place and headed Tunstall youngster Ollie Watling by two positions. Liam ends the championship in sixth place while Ollie, after just Ollie two events has taken eleventh place in the final standings. That duo resolved a Richmond club conflict. Addingham’s Edward Earle rode Scotland but had won Class C Medium Wheels at Bumpy two weeks prior to Scotland so Huddersfield’s Charlie Mosley took the twenty points. A furthest clean decider gave Shropshire girl Alice Minta the second place on the rostrum over Ben Dignan.
Billy Green won Youth C after a 980 mile drive by his mother Louise and father Colin from Newton Abbot, Devon. The eleven year old shone on the Scottish rock while hot rival Lincolnshire boy Daniel Slack could not hit the form that one him rain lashed Westmorland and tricky Richmond. Green posted an eight total compared with Daniel’s thirty penalties. Keighley’s Jacob Snowdon was fourth. Richmond’s Tom Constantine was placed sixth and ends the season in seventh place.
On Sunday Jack Price won the Class A Youth trial from Dan Peace and Iwan Roberts. Jack’s victory lifts the Denby Dale rider to three points behind class leader Peace. Price cleaned twenty nine of the thirty six sections just one more than Peace. Roberts opened his account with a poor first lap, by his standards, of thirteen, ten more than Price. Billy Bolt also had a bad day with a twenty nine on his final lap but James Stones could not capitalize as he had replicated Billy’s score, but on lap one. Peace has a buffer of three championship points while Price has the lowest points drop, eleven, on his card going into the final round next week.
In Class B Porlock’s Tom Hooper was supreme riding his MRS Sherco. His mind boggling near clean ride was marred by a slack dab on the last section on lap two. Shropshires Thomas Minta cleaned thirty three sections to head Cornish starlet Toby Martyn. Minta is ten points down on Hooper when they ride Bracken Rocks.
Richmond winner week Emma Bristow dominated the final ACU Ladies and Girls Championship where Healaugh’s Katy Sunter took second place on points in the adult class. Class elevatee Nikita Smith took the actual second place but on a no –score basis. Jess Bown claimed third place points, It was her best ever championship result.
Lou Alford rode up a class and defeated new Class A champion Victoria Payne and new Scottish female star Bronwyn Palmer who showed her skills at Richmond.
Class B champion Beth Waite dipped her toes in Class A on a no-score ride to finish third. Silsden’s Gabby Whitham won Class B as the only starter. Only seventeen females competed in the trial, twenty less that rode at Marske the previous weekend.
Caz Alford missed the trial because of an injured left knee but the Navenby girl hobbled round with her camera to snap the action. Only sixteen contended the ladies class mainly because the results of the championship were sorted at Richmond however those that did compete reported a cracking weekend.
Photos By Caz Alford