Badby March 2011

2011 SMC Round One at BADBY hosted by Northampton Motorcyclists Club

Report: Fraser Law

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The 2011 SMC Championship got underway at the picturesque hill top circuit of Badby sponsored by Colin Appleyard Motorcycles. With little rain in the previous week and some excellent track preparation, the circuit was in pristine condition for the series to get underway. Early morning drizzle and fog provided exactly the right amount of watering to keep the dust at bay all day. By the time practise got underway the sun had burned through the clouds and it remained out for the majority of the day. The soft top layers of soil soon gave rise to multiple berms on every corner of this extremely fast and exciting track.

Robert Barney used the occasion to gain some track time before returning to Belgium. Riding in three different classes he put on a dominant display on his 2 stroke Honda, winning eight out of his nine races. Showing impressive stamina, he actually managed to win three consecutive races in a row at one point. His first overall victory came in the Expert Class, where Ryan Griffiths was the only person to beat him all day taking the win in the first leg. Dale Raynor got faster as the day went on finishing second to Rob in the final two legs to claim second overall. Mark Boswell was smooth and consistent with third places in all three legs.

In the Junior A finals the first three places were the same both times out. James Herring dominated both legs by some distance, but behind him the racing was fierce and very close at times. Ben Huckerby eventually took second spot both times with Trevor Edwards third. Both Martin Streeton and Mark Bland suffered problems in the Junior Heats, leaving them unusually in the B Group. Martin won both legs from Mark, with third place going to 'Jumping' James Chambers.

In the Over 40 class 2010 Champion Tony Leishman was once again the man to beat, denied the hat trick by a fall in race two which relegated him to second. Behind him Richard Wright and Fraser Law had some close battles, with Richard finishing in front at the finish to take second overall and snatch victory in the second race after Tony's mistake. Sean Bennet won a clean sweep of all three Over 50 class races, with usual winner Andrew Brightman relegated to second this time out. Nick Bragg finished consistently in the top four to take the final podium position. The Under 40 class was the setting for another Rob Barney domination, taking all three legs in style. Second place overall went Ryan Griffiths with Joe Wyse taking third. Rob's second hat trick of the day came in the 2 stroke class, this time it was Tony Leishman's turn to take the runner up position with Jason Bain getting better as the day went on to finish third overall.

After such an exciting and well attended opening round it looks as if this is going to be a great year for the SMC Championship. Round 2 of the 2011 SMC takes place at Toddington with L&DMCC on 20/3/11.

Results-

Expert: 1 Robert Barney, 2 Dale Raynor, 3 Mark Boswell, 4 Ryan Griffiths, 5 Jared Pickford, 6 Jordan Wright

Junior A: 1 James Herring, 2 Ben Huckerby, 3 Trevor Edwards, 4 Thomas Harwood, 5 Billy Fountain, 6 Fraser Law

Junior B: 1 Martin Streeton, 2 Mark Bland, 3 James Chambers, 4 Karl Crowther, 5 Ashley Kiely, 6 Will Surtees

Over 40: 1 Tony Leishman, 2 Richard Wright, 3 Fraser Law, 4 Steve Gilbey, 5 Greg O'Callaghan, 6 Kevin Turnbull

Over 50: 1 Sean Bennet, 2 Andrew Brightman, 3 Nick Bragg, 4 Reg Willis, 5 Richard Watts, 6 Archie Leishman

Under 40: 1 Robert Barney, 2 Ryan Griffiths, 3Joe Wyse, 4 Billy Fountain, 5 Jordan Wright, 6 Jack Barnwell

2 Stroke: 1 Robert Barney, Tony Leishman, 3 Jason Bain, 4 Bill Brightman, 5 Martin Streeton, 6 Mark Bland

Workers: 1 Fraser Law, 2 Giles Agar, 3 Dan Holmes, 4 Gerard Scott, 5 James Higgins, 6 Andrew Green

							club	Expert
Experts	name	race 1	race 2	race 3	total	pos.		name	race 1	race 2	race 3	total	pos.
11	Robert Barney	17	20	20	57	1	6	Dale Raynor	15	20	20	55	1
6	Dale Raynor	13	17	17	47	2	2	Mark Boswell	17	17	17	51	2
2	Mark Boswell	15	15	15	45	3	1	Ryan Griffiths	20	11	15	46	3
1	Ryan Griffiths	20	7	11	38	4	21	Jack Barnwell	11	13	13	37	4
192	Jared Pickford	11	8	13	32	5	74	James Barnwell	13	15		28	5
16	Jordan Wright	7	13	10	30	6
8	Joe Wyse	9	10	9	28	7
21	Jack Barnwell	8	9	8	25	8
74	James Barnwell	10	11		21	9
9	Stuart Scott	6	6	7	19	10

							club	Junior
Junior A	name	race 1	race 2	total	pos			name	race 1	race 2	total	pos
611	James Herring	20	20	40	1		611	James Herring	20	20	40	1
818	Ben Huckerby	17	17	34	2		818	Ben Huckerby	17	17	34	2
124	Trevor Edwards	15	15	30	3		72	Fraser Law	15	13	28	3
41	Thomas Harwood	9	11	20	4		15	Jacob Lowe	10	15	25	3
28	Billy Fountain	6	13	19	5		125	Brad Willis	11	9	20	4
72	Fraser Law	11	8	19	6		3	James Beeby	8	11	19	5
317	Tim Soane	8	9	17	7		48	Cameron Curtis	7	10	17	6
134	Ricky Scotney	10	6	16	8		38	Martin Streeton	6	8	14	7
14	Richard Wright	13	3	16	9		84	Adam Collins	13		13	8
191	Gary Scotney	5	7	12	10		428	Mark Bland	5	7	12	9
286	Darren Flitney	7	4	11	11		55	James Chambers	4	6	10	10
15	Jacob Lowe		10	10	12		199	Bill Brightman	9		9	11
3	James Beeby		5	5	13
47	Harry Burden	3	1	4	14
84	Adam Collins	4		4	15
50	Kevin Turnbull		2	2	16
110	John Barnes	2		2	17
44	James Houlihan	1		1	18
125	Brad Willis
199	Bill Brightman
48	Cameron Curtis
51	Mike Smith

							club	clubman
Junior B	name	race 1	race 2	race 3	total	pos.		name	race 1	race 2	race 3	total	pos.
38	Martin Streeton	20	20		40		424	Ashley Kiely	20	20		40	1
428	Mark Bland	17	17		34		141	Tom Austin	17	17		34	2
55	James Chambers	13	15		28		307	Gerard Scott	11	15		26	3
26	Karl Crowther	15	11		26		64	Hayley Rilings	13	13		26	4
424	Ashley Kiely	11	10		21		46	Andrew Lowe	15	8		23	5
118	Will Surtees	9	9		18		375	Ashley Rilings	9	11		20	6
141	Tom Austin	7	7		14		242	Andrew Green	10	10		20	7
42	Rupert Fairclough		13		13		52	Matthew Knight	8	9		17	8
86	Michael Hackett	6	6		12		20	Sam Trolley	7	7		14	9
211	Tom Mott	2	8		10
159	Gary Shaw	10			10
24	Kyle Reeves	4	4		8
35	Steve Powell	8			8
307	Gerard Scott		5		5
98	Kyle Reeves	5			5
64	Hayley Rilings	1	3		4
46	Andrew Lowe	3			3
375	Ashley Rilings		2		2
242	Andrew Green		1		1
39	Kevin Taylor
19	Joe Nightingale
52	Matthew Knight
20	Sam Trolley

							club	O40
O40	name	race 1	race 2	race 3	total	pos.		name	race 1	race 2	race 3	total	pos.
4	Tony Leishman	20	17	20	57	1	72	Fraser Law	17	20	20	57	1
14	Richard Wright	17	20	17	54	2	5	Greg O'Callaghan	15	17	17	49	2
72	Fraser Law	11	15	15	41	3	84	Adam Collins	20	15	10	45	3
147	Steve Gilbey	13	13	13	39	4	46	Richard Lowe	10	11	15	36	4
5	Greg O'Callaghan	9	11	11	31	5	65	Jason Bain	9	13	13	35	5
50	Kevin Turnbull	10	10	9	29	6	201	Giles Agar	7	8	11	26	6
84	Adam Collins	15	8	3	26	7	27	James Higgins	6	7	9	22	7
46	Richard Lowe	7	6	7	20	8	13	Stephen Cole	11	10		21	8
42	Rupert Fairclough		9	10	19	9	67	David Bain	8	9		17	9
65	Jason Bain	6	7	6	19	10	114	Jon Curtis	3		8	11	10
105	Tony Fricker	1	5	8	14	11	64	Hayley Rilings	5			6	11
13	Stephen Cole	8	4		12	12	242	Andrew Green	4			5	12
66	Chris Hackett	5	1	4	10	13
201	Giles Agar	2		5	7	14
77	Wayne Parks	3	2	2	7	15
67	David Bain	4	3		7	16
117	Robert Ashworth			1	1	17
27	James Higgins
64	Hayley Rilings
242	Andrew Green
114	Jon Curtis


							club	O50
O50	name	race 1	race 2	race 3	total	pos.		name	race 1	race 2	race 3	total	pos.
444	Sean Bennett	20	20	20	60	1	89	Andrew Brightman	11	20	20	51	1
89	Andrew Brightman	8	17	17	42	2	10	Nick Bragg	17	15	17	49	2
10	Nick Bragg	13	13	15	41	3	57	Reg Willis	15	17	15	47	2
57	Reg Willis	11	15	13	39	4	49	Richard Watts	20	13	13	46	3
49	Richard Watts	17	10	11	38	5	222	Martyn Raynor	13	11	11	35	5
100	Archie Leishman	10	11	10	31	6
76	Steve Morgan	7	9	9	25	7
222	Martyn Raynor	9	8	8	25	8
411	Bob Mott	15	7		22	9


							club	U40
U40	name	race 1	race 2	race 3	total	pos.		name	race 1	race 2	race 3	total	pos.
11	Robert Barney	20	20	20	60	1	1	Ryan Griffiths	20	20	20	60	1
1	Ryan Griffiths	17	15	15	47	2	55	James Chambers	11	15	15	41	2
8	Joe Wyse	11	11	17	39	3	21	Jack Barnwell	15	17		32	3
28	Billy Fountain	9	10	13	32	4	24	Chris Livesey		11	17	28	4
16	Jordan Wright	13	17		30	5	424	Ashley Kiely	9	13		22	5
21	Jack Barnwell	10	13		23	6	74	James Barnwell	17			17	6
55	James Chambers	6	7	8	21	7	20	Sam Trolley			13	13	7
286	Darren Flitney	8	9		17	8	199	Bill Brightman	13			13	8
74	James Barnwell	15			15	9	48	Cameron Curtis	10			10	9
24	Chris Livesey		4	10	14	10	307	Gerard Scott	8			8	10
47	Harry Burden			11	11	11	75	Dan Holmes	7			7	11
424	Ashley Kiely	4	6		10	12
232	Stuart Mayes		8		8	13
20	Sam Trolley			7	7	14
199	Bill Brightman	7			7	15
98	Kyle Reeves		5		5	16
48	Cameron Curtis	5			5	17
86	Michael Hackett	3			3	18
211	Tom Mott		2		2	19
307	Gerard Scott	2			2	20
118	Will Surtees	1			1	21
75	Dan Holmes				0	22

							club	2 Stroke
2 Stroke	name	race 1	race 2	race 3	total	pos.		name	race 1	race 2	race 3	total	pos.
6	Robert Barney	20	20	20	60	1	65	Jason Bain	13	15	17	45	1
4	Tony Leishman	17	17	17	51	2	199	Bill Brightman	10	17	15	42	2
65	Jason Bain	9	11	13	33	3	38	Martin Streeton	20	20		40	3
199	Bill Brightman	7	13	11	31	4	428	Mark Bland	17		20	37	4
38	Martin Streeton	15	15		30	5	27	James Higgins	9	11	13	33	5
428	Mark Bland	13		15	28	6	375	Ashley Rilings	7	10	10	27	6
27	James Higgins	5	8	10	23	7	52	Matthew Knight	8	9	9	26	7
51	Mike Smith	10		10	20	8	67	David Bain	11	13		24	8
375	Ashley Rilings	2	7	9	18	9	13	Stephen Cole	15			15	9
52	Matthew Knight	3	6	8	17	10
67	David Bain	8	9		17	11
66	Chris Hackett	6	10		16	12
13	Stephen Cole	11			11	13
100	Archie Leishman	4			4	14


Workers
72	Fraser Law	20			20	1
75	Dan Holmes	17			17	2
307	Gerard Scott	15			15	3
27	James Higgins	13			13	4
242	Andrew Green	11			11	5
52	Matthew Knight	10			10	6