Results

Full report to follow Thank you to the Morgan family for the use of the venue and to our 2 observers Richard Crickmore Andy Scott Jackson Thanks to Kate Baker for stepping in to the Clark of the course role

IOWMCC Report – Ted Phillips Cup, by Viki Taylor.

The penultimate round of the IOWMCC Winter Championship series took place at Little Apes Down Farm on 24 th November. The club would like to extend its thanks to Mike and Jenny Morris for the use of the venue and to our sole observer Richard Crickmore.

Eight well thought out sections were provided by course setters Ben Ashcroft, Simon Strickland, Rob Baker and Tristan Osborne.

Storm Bert continued to produce strong blustery winds but thankfully the downpours of Saturday had receded. The weather was possibly the main reason for a relatively modest turnout with just 18 riders starting the trial.

Current champion Tom Richards was the sole competitor in the Expert class dropping 35 marks. After a single dab on the first lap, Tom struggled with section 1 unusually scoring 5's for the remaining laps.

Class Championship leader Harrison Crickmore took the honours in the Intermediates, losing 28 with Rob Baker finishing 2nd on 51 and Riley True coming in third on 99.

The leader of the Over 50 championship, Andy Scott-Jackson had to settle for second place in the trial with 45, conceding the top spot to his closest rival Jon Death who finished on a respectable 30.

With 10 championship points between them, the Clubman class saw a very close finish between the top two contenders – Alan Gosden just squeezed the win losing 13 with Ben Ashcroft coming in on 15. Sam Jurich rode well dropping 56 to finish in third place.

The Open C group saw the largest number of riders with 4! Stuart Gummer who is currently leading the championship, took the win on a very impressive 12 – the lowest score of the day. The battle for 2nd place was won by Nick Symes who lost 17 with the returning Geoff Taylor just two points behind on 19. Geoff, who hasn’t ridden since April will be rueing the two silly 5's he scored for missing flags which would have put him at the top of the class.

Steve Jacobs was the sole rider in the Adult Easy class finishing on 22, whilst in the Sportsman class Kev Smith dropped 49.

In the Youth classes, Riley Baker (fresh from his recent impressive class win in the Southern Centre Youth championship) rode the Youth Novice class alone dropping 76, whilst Leo Death and Blake Buggy fought it out in the Youth Easy group. Leo emerged the victor with an excellent score of 16 and Blake finished on 27.

The final round of the Winter Series takes place on Sunday 8 th December at Knighton Sand Pit, courtesy of Mr. Roger Morgan.

Summer Series Final Standings

Winter Series Standings

Amended results

Full report to follow

Thank you to Trevor Strickland for the use of the venue and our sole Observer Wayne Brodie

Amended results

Full report to Follow Thank you to The Morgan family to the use of the venue, and thank you to our sole observer Nick. Symes

Many thanks to Mr. Glenn Draper for the kind use of the sandpit. Thanks also to Tom Richards & Connor Shaw for the course setting along with today's Observers; Dave Elford, Jon Death, Steve Kent & Wayne Brodie.

If you have issues with the results please contact either Richard Crickmore or Wayne Brodie, one of us will deal with them asap - but that probably won't be done today.

Amended results in youth easy class