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RDH Auctions National Twinshock Championships

Round 5 Supported by Maico Only

Cumbria Twinshock Club

Warmingham Lane, Sandbach

Report Geoff Shuttleworth

Pictures Andrew Boardman

Round five of the RDH Auctions sponsored National Twinshock Championships was at Warmingham Lane, last weekend hosted by the Cumbria Twinshock Club, for the now annual double header. It was a real party weekend and there was a tremendous turnout of riders, and apart from a few nasty injuries the event ran like clockwork. As usual the track was graded to perfection and the weeks rain made it just right on the Saturday, but on Sunday the fine drizzle made the early going treacherous, but by the end of play the track dried out and made for some great racing.

Andy Holland took control of the MD Racing Over 50’s class with three wins on the Saturday, but a couple of mishaps on the Sunday gave the overall victory to Martin Snape on his ‘Maico Only’ 490. Snape took five seconds and a third, and although Holland took the final encounter to take his tally of wins to four, it left him in second place. Terry Connor took the race five win and other consistent rides gave him third overall from Stuart Miller.

In the MD Racing Over 60’s it was championship leader Maurice Wharton who came out on top with four wins over the weekend, and was only headed by Jack McEwan, who only raced on Sunday with two race wins. Bill Browns four seconds gave him the runner up berth from Alan Deer in third.

Gary Parker dominated the Wulfsport Experts with five wins out of six to take top spot, with Howard Standfield taking second with a win and four seconds. Reigning Champion Roy Wells rode consistently to take third overall, from Alan Eaves and Matt Murphy. Unfortunately Championship leader going into this round Wayne Butt suffered a broken leg in the second encounter and took no further part in the racing.

Lee Holland, now fully recovered from his wrist injury, dominated the Toughsheet Recycling 125’s with four wins from Sean McCrea who had two wins. McCrea valiantly pushed his machine home in race five to gather nine points in his quest for the title. Wayne Twidle finished top three all weekend to take third position, with Dave Ellis fourth.

Mick Armstrong was the man to beat in the Falcon Shocks 250 class, forcing his little Suzuki to the win in five races out of six, and gave his title chance a real boost. Tom Holland was on his case all weekend and eventually took one win, as was John Littler and Richard Wood. Pat Winter had his best result to date with fourth overall.

In the CI Sport Intermediate class it turned out to be a two way battle between Chris Woodward and Dan Evans, with Woodward easing away to four victories to Evans two. Lee Jackson, just back from injury had some terrific rides storming through the field to take third overall, from Steve Griffiths. Jem Parker had four top three rides on the Marsh HPF Honda but two DNF’s put paid to his chances of a top three overall.

Gary Parker absolutely blitzed the opposition in the Cheshire County Crossers Vets class with six out of six race wins, which left the others to fight over the scraps. Alan Eaves took second, after some great battles with Lee Davies and Steve Ward, and Mick Kendall was unlucky not to finish higher than sixth after a second and a fourth. Mick De Feu was only out on the Sunday but had two fourths and a third.

Lloyd Griffiths lead the charge in the full line up of LPE Clubman riders, taking four wins, with Mark Russell who won the final leg taking second overall. Charlie Kelly also had a solitary victory which helped him tale third overall from local rider Dom Bratt in fourth. Best wishes to Mark Burrows who also broke a leg in race five.

The final class of the weekend was the Motolink Yamaha Evolutions and once again there was one rider in a class of his own and this was reigning champion Roy Wells who had a perfect six out of six. Trailing in his wake were Howard Standfield in second, although he did push Roy all the way in race six. Paul Coward took third, which could have been better had he not had a flat rear in race three. A new rider in this class was Emerson Jones who took a fine fourth over the weekend, and special mention goes to Tom Marsh whose consistent top ten finishes gave him the CNR Burrows Haulage Rider of the Meeting award.

The next round of the championship is at Long Compton, Chipping Norton on August 8.

MD Racing Over 50’s

1 Martin Snape  2 Andy Holland  3 Terry Connor  4 Stuart Miller  5 Rob Waddington  6 Phil Ryan.

MD Racing Over 60’s

1 Maurice Wharton  2 Bill Brown  3 Alan Deer  4 Jack McEwan  5 Greg Turczak  6 Dick Clayton

Wulfsport Experts Top 20

1 Gary Parker  2 Howard Standfield  3 Roy Wells  4 Alan Eaves  5 Matt Murphy  6 Russ Watson  7 Robin Cowgill  8 Martin Speak

Toughsheet Recycling 125’s

1 Lee Holland  2 Sean McCrea  3 Wayne Twidle  4 Dave Ellis  5 Chris Rowlands  6 Dave Rowsell

Falcon Shocks 250’s

1 Mick Armstrong  2 Tom Holland  3 John Littler  4 Pat Winter  5 Steve Shambrook  6 Tim Mills

CI Sport / DEP Pipes Intermediates

1 Chris Woodward  2 Dan Evans  3 Lee Jackson  4 Steve Griffiths  5 Jem Parker  6 Ian Rowley

Cheshire County Crossers Veterans

1 Gary Parker  2 Alan Eaves  3 Lee Davies  4 Steve Ward  5 Paul Gaylard  6 Mick Kendall

LPE Clubman

1 Lloyd Griffiths  2 Mark Russell  3 Charlie Kelly  4 Dom Bratt  5 Paul Kelly  6 Luke Rees

Motolink Yamaha Evolution

1 Roy Wells  2 Howard Standfield  3 Paul Coward  4 Emmerson Jones  5 Richard Chinn  6 Andy Hinchcliffe

CNR Burrows Transport Rider of The Meeting

Tom Marsh

RDH Auctions National Twinshock Championships

Round 4 Supported by Jones & Father Ltd

Cumbria Twinshock Club

Bassenthwaite, Cumbria

Report Geoff Shuttleworth

Pictures Andrew Boardman

Hollands Day

The RDH Auctions sponsored National Twinshock Championships reached the half way stage when the Cumbria Twinshock Club hosted round four at Bassenthwaite, north of Keswick. The circuit looked a treat when riders arrived on the Saturday, but with only an overnight shower the track needed watering to dampen the dust before start of practice.

As usual first to the line was the MD Racing Over 50’s and 60’s, and after six months off the bike local rider Pete Lightfoot got the holeshot and led the first lap, until a fall let both Andy Holland and Martin Snape through to finish one-two, with Chris Barker in third. In race two the lead swapped several times as first Snape led before being passed by Brian Littler on lap two, then Snape regained the lead only to relinquish it to Holland who took the flag for his second win. Snape led the third race all the way until on the last lap Holland squeezed through to complete his hatrick, from Snape, Littler and Lightfoot.

In the Over 60’s Jack McEwan rode three flawless wins to take the overall, and it was good to see ex Yorkshire Centre Champion Geoff Stokes back from France taking second overall from series leader Maurice Wharton in third.

In the Wulfsport Experts there were some great battles, and none more so than in race one as Alex Rach battled with Pete Mathia, who showed their class to stay ahead of Wayne Butt, Howard Standfield and Gary Parker. In race two Rach had a poor start, unlike Butt who stormed away with Simon Gower in tow. Butt and Gower finished a fine one-two with Rach coming through to third at the flag from Standfield and Mathia. With it all to play for in race three Butt again got the holeshot from Rach, Gower and Roy Wells, but Rach found his way past on lap two to take the spoils from Butt by just three points. Standfield on the new S1 Maico took third overall.

In the Toughsheet Recycling 125’s John Davis seemed to get the bit between his teeth as he took the first from series leader Sean McCrea with Richard Chinn in third. It was McCrea who hit back in race two, with victory from Richard Chinn and Lloyd Griffiths, after Davis fell and finished a lowly seventh. Race three saw Davis take his second win from Chinn and McCrea. But it was McCreas day by three points from Davis and Chinn who had to be split by the best race three result.

The Falcon Shocks 250 class were up next and Mick Armstrong led the way taking race one from a hard charging Tom Holland and John Littler. Holland took race two from Tim Mills who had his best result of the season as did Pat Winter in third. Race three saw Holland at the front once more and he duly rounded off the day by taking the overall with his second victory from Armstrong and Steve Shambrook.

The CI Sport Intermediate class had a massive thirty rider line up, and first out of the gate in race one was Jem Parker on Garys C&J Honda, who led until lap three when Nigel Sowerby found a way past to take the win from Richard Allen and Parker. Allen led race two until the final lap when Sowerby came from nowhere to ghost past and take his second win, with Llanellis Dan Evans in third. Graeme Clegg led race three until Sowerby came through to claim a clean sweep from Allen and Clegg at the flag. Chris Woodward finished top six all day to take the final podium position.

Fot the first time this season Gary Parker didn’t have it all his own way in the Cheshire County Crossers Veterans class as Steve Ward did what he has been threatening to do all year by taking the overall. Parker took the first race from Ward, Lee Davies and Mick Armstrong. But Wards two stroke power paid dividends taking race two from Parker and Phil Daley. In the final encounter Parker struck trouble on the start straight and had to come from dead last to fifth at the flag. Up at the front Ward sailed to victory from Alan Eaves and Robert Dobson.

There was another good line up in the LPE Clubman class as Lloyd Griffiths took the first race from Martin Barker after early leader Ben Margetson hit trouble. Gav Lowes took third on  one of Bill Browns bikes in race one,  but made no mistakes in the next two by flying to victory and the overall from Griffiths by a single point. Stuart Hodder took third overall and with it the CNR Burrows Transport Rider of the Day trophy to take on his long journey home to the South West.

The final class of the day was the Motolink Yamaha Evolution class, and all the top riders bar Richard Chinn seemed to have one bad result. In race one Roy Wells led from start to finish from Chinn and Michael Smith. In the second Wells again dominated from Paul Coward on his Kwacker with Chinn third. Then in the final skirmish Coward came home victorious from Smith and Chinn. The end result meant only four points separated the top four with Chinn, Wells, Coward and Smith taking the silverware.

The next round of the championship is a two day affair at Warmingham Lane, Sandbach on

July 17/18.

MD Racing Over 50’s

1 Andy Holland  2 Martin Snape  3 Brian Littler  4 Pete Lightfoot  5 Phil Wadsworth  6 Chris Barker

MD Racing Over 60’s

1 Jack McEwan  2 Geoff Stokes  3 Maurice Wharton  4 Bill Findlay  5 Bill Brown

Wulfsport Experts Top 20

1 Alex Rach  2 Wayne Butt  3 Howard Standfield  4 Roy Wells  5 Simon Gower  6 Pete Mathia  7 Alan Eaves  8 Russ Watson

Toughsheet Recycling 125’s

1 Sean McCrea  2 John Davis  3 Richard Chinn  4 Gary Turner  5 Dave Ellis  6 Chris Rowlands

Falcon Shocks 250’s

1 Tom Holland  2 Mick Armstrong  3Tim Mills  4 John Littler  5 Steve Shambrook  6 Pat Winter

CI Sport / DEP Pipes Intermediates

1 Nigel Sowerby  2 Richard Allen  3 Chris Woodward  4 Dan Evans  5 Steve Ryan  6 Rob Margetson

Cheshire County Crossers Veterans

1 Steve Ward  2 Gary Parker  3 Alan Eaves  4 Lee Davies  5 Robert Dobson  6 Phil Daley

LPE Clubman

1 Gav Lowes  2 Lloyd Griffiths  3 Stuart Hodder  4 Martin Barker  5 Ben Margetson  6 Mike Caulfield

Motolink Yamaha Evolution

1 Richard Chinn  2 Roy Wells  3 Paul Coward  4 Michael Smith  5 Derek Read  6 Andy Hinchcliffe

CNR Burrows Transport Rider of The Meeting

Stuart Hodder

RDH Auctions National Twinshock Championships

Round 3 Supported by West Country Windings

South West Twinshock Club

Wrangway, Somerset

Report Geoff Shuttleworth

Pictures Andrew Boardman

The third round of the RDH Auctions sponsored National Twinshock Championships was hosted by the South West Twinshock Club on Sunday at Wrangway in Somerset. The Club defied the odds when overnight rain turned the brilliant track into a sticky mess for first practice, but were supported by well over 200 riders. The steep hill sided track proved passable for all but a few, and after the first block of racing the two valley sections were cut, giving a shorter but more manageable lap. After the interval the sun came out and the club managed to complete the programme, much to the credit of the club and their band of helpers.

As usual the MD Racing Over 50’s were first to negotiate the testing circuit, and it was local rider Steve Adams who lead  races one and two, before disappearing in the mud which left Andy Holland to take both hard fought wins from Brian Littler and Martin Snape. In race three reigning champion Snape led from start to finish but it was Hollands second place which gave him the overall from Snape and Littler.

Maurice Wharton took full advantage of championship leader Jack McEwans absence in the MD Racing Over 60’s, with three clear cut victories from another local Alan Deer and Ray Hartill.

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RDH Auctions National Twinshock Championships

Round 1 Supported by Demon Tweeks

Polesworth TSC

Stipers Hill, Polesworth

Report Geoff Shuttleworth

Pictures Andrew Boardman

The opening round of this years RDH Auctions sponsored National Twinshock Championships was hosted by the Polesworth Twinshock Club at their Stipers Hill track. It was testament to the clubs hard work in the weeks before the event that it actually went ahead, as several other events up and down the country were cancelled due to waterlogged land. The sandy terrain had been extensively graded, but was inevitably soft in places which gave the 240 riders plenty to think about in the sticky practice. The meeting started in overcast conditions, but as the day wore on the sun came out and the track eventually dried out.

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RDH Auctions National Twinshock Championships

Round 2 Supported by DLE Construction

North of England MX Club

Gale Common, Whitley

Report Geoff Shuttleworth

Pictures Andrew Boardman

The North of England MX Club hosted the second round of the RDH Auctions National Twinshock Championships on Sunday at a sunny Gale Common. The track was run in the opposite direction this year, and although there were some problems with the dust, it was kept at bay by the clubs watering system. The track held up well which produced some excellent racing throughout the programme.

As usual the MD Racing Over 50’s were Read the rest of this entry »