South Somerset latest race report

Beating rain was the waking call on the 18^th of September for the first round of South Somerset’s Autumn series at Phoenix Motoparc. The track looked superb and it was in need of some rain, not sure the amount of rain it got was quite what we had in mind though! This is probably the reason why the event was so poorly attended, I guess if I was at home and looked out the bedroom window I would have gone back to bed too! I’m sure the majority of riders were wondering if we would cancel the meeting, not something we do lightly but to be honest this would have been the easy option for us, given the conditions, but some riders had already travelled 95 minutes to be with us, so cancelling wasn’t an option especially as the sun was poking its head out from behind them there clouds. The decision was made we were running and for all the guys that did turn up what a great day’s racing was had by all.

Practice was delayed until 10 with the MX1 and 2 boys leaving the pit box to blast up deer park hill. The track surprised us all apart from Barry, he was quietly confident the track would ride well, and boy was he right, it was really good. Deer park hill was conquered by all, even the little 65cc machines powered their way to the top it would seem with considerable ease. The Auto’s were thanking their lucky stars they didn’t have to take to the summit, they took a slightly shorter but none the less challenging track, and that caused little or no problems for these determined warriors.

The day turned out to be much more than we could have hoped for, we even had time for a fourth block which went down a storm.

Top six as follows:

Auto                                                                                                      Juniors

1^st Harrison Luff                                                                                                1^st Zak Clarke

2^nd Edward Hoddinott                                                                    2^nd Tyler Rowe

3^rd Bradley Richman                                                                        3^rd Ryan Mundell

4^th Tyler Westcott                                                                            4^th Thomas Darlow

5^th Ben Pratt                                                                                       5^th Jed Sawyer

6^th Archie Dowson                                                                           6^th Samuel Dowson

Small Wheel                                                                                       Big Wheel

1^st Billy King                                                                                         1^st Owen Woodley

2^nd Bradley Flagg                                                                               2^nd Ross Parkinson

3^rd Archie Hicks                                                                                 3rd Matthew Clarke

4^th Moreland Smith                                                                         4^th Aaron Gamblin

5^th Casey Williams                                                                            5^th Jack Perkins

6^th Ross Kersey

Rookies                                                                                                                MX2

1^st Scott Wintersgill                                                                          1^st Chester Blair J

2^nd Toby Harvey                                                                                                2^nd Ricky Britton

3^rd Luke Sturgeon                                                                            3^rd Matthew Selway

4^th Ryan Hooper                                                                                4^th William James

5^th Luke Williams                                                                               5^th Daniel Gissing

6^th Tom Johnson

MX1

1^st Shayne Headon

2^nd Richard Cole

3^rd Dan Hartley

4^th Phillip Hoddinott

5^th Chester Blair S

6^th Josh Tunbridge