Rd 7 Peak Classic Club Championship Dudwood Fm Results

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With the Club Championship reaching a pivotal point with six rounds decided and six rounds still to be held a good turnout of riders turned up to contest round 7 of this year’s competition held at the ever popular Derbyshire Dales venue of Dudwood Farm near Elton in the heart of the Peak District. 4 laps of 11 sections had been laid out to test the skills of Expert to Clubman rider and all of the five routes and three classes had riders with a story to tell. There was tragedy and elation a plenty with some close fought battles to decide the class winners and with those valuable Championship points at stake the pressure was on.

It was nice to see Richard Turner and Rob Mellor, both Tiger Cub mounted, at one of our events again. This time Richard took the honours in the Expert British Bike category with a score of 85 to Robs 91. A close fought battle between two good friends. The Expert Twinshock class was won by an on form Robert Carson, Yamaha 175, who was on fire losing a miserly 10 marks to keep Steven Bisby, Ossa, in second on 25 which when you take into consideration the fact that the Expert route turned out to be quite a bit more testing than intended. Mark Weston won the Expert Pre95 Air Cooled Mono route on his Gas Gas losing a credible 27 marks which ties up the Expert categories.

Moving onto the Classic Expert British Bike class Peter Carson out again on his trusty BSA Bantam rigid had his work cut out and had to fight a bit harder than of late to take the class win for a loss of 13 marks 10 of which were lost on the infamous section 10 which included a 3ft rock step which on a rigid Bantam is daunting to say the least. Well done Peter to keep Keith Hobson at bay who lost 18 chasing that top slot. Tony Sprinks on his Bultaco had a disastrous day also on section 10 breaking his rear mudguard and brake lever giving him a serious handicap but he still held on to take the class win on 53 marks from Peter Kearsley, Honda, who was snapping at his heals all day losing 57 marks. Section 10 was definitely the decider with Tony losing 20 marks on that section alone to Peters 16.

Intermediate British Bike was to domain of Colin Fray riding his very std looking Dot complete with leading link forks which must have been a handful over the steps, tree roots and stream sections that this venue abounds in. Colin lost just 34 marks along the way which was quite outstanding.

The Clubman routes were just as closely contested and it was David Pickering on his Francis Barnett who kept his losses to just 24 to edge Jim Wickstead on his BSA B40 who finished second close behind on 28. So close it was hard to decide just where the class was won and lost with David losing 13 on section 1 to Jims 0 then Jim losing 10 on section 9 where David stayed feet up for 0. Either way a good battle lads. Just as close were Jims son Sean and Paul Smedley both Honda TLR 200 mounted in the Clubman Twinshock class. Sean has been invincible this season with class wins on every outing and this round was no different but Paul kept him honest all the way. Sean lost just 3 to Pauls 8 and the battle could have gone either way so well fought both of you.

Focus now moves on to round 8 which will be held at Cookes Wood, Youlgrave near Matlock Derbyshire on Sunday 30^th September start time as usual is 11.00.

Finally thanks must go out to the landowner Barry Burton who so kindly let us use the land around his home at Dudwood Farm. Also it was great to see a few more observers as we have been struggling of late and this time we had 6 sections manned so thank you everybody who picked up the board and helped make the day the most enjoyable one it turned out to be.

Expert British Bike

1^st Richard Turner Tiger cub 85 marks

2^nd Robert Mellor Tiger cub 91 marks

Expert Twinshock

1^st Robert Carson Yamaha 175 10 marks

2^nd Steve Bisby Ossa 25 marks

3^rd Simon Critchley Majesty 38 marks

Expert Air Cooled Mono

1^st Mark Weston Gas Gas 27 marks

Classic Expert British Bike

1^st Peter Carson Bantam Rigid 13 marks

2^nd Keith Hobson Tiger cub 18 marks

Classic Expert Twinshock

1^st Anthony Sprinks Bultaco 53 marks

2^nd Peter Kearsley Honda 57 marks

Intermediate British Bike

1^st Colin Fray Dot 34 marks

Intermediate Twinshock

1^st Steven Eyre SWM 32 marks

2^nd Mark Kearsley Yamaha 60 marks

Classic Intermediate British Bike

1^st Paul Beswick James 1 mark

2^nd Neil Walker Francis Barnett 8 marks

3^rd Rob Goodwin Francis Barnett 31 marks

Classic Intermediate Twinshock

1^st Cliff Bradley Majesty 5 marks

2^nd John Morley Honda 9 marks

3^rd Peter Elvidge Honda 15 marks

Clubman British Bike

1^st David Pickering Francis Barnett 24 marks

2^nd Jim Wickstead BSA B40 28 marks

3^rd Peter Cottrell Bantam 58 marks

Clubman Twinshock

1^st Sean Wickstead Honda 3 marks

2^nd Paul Smedley Honda 8 marks

3^rd Stephen Baker Yamaha 41 marks