Club Championships & SMC Final Round at Long Buckby 30/10/11

Report: Fraser Law

Photos: www.motoxphotos.co.uk

For the 2011 SMC season finale NMCC had worked tirelessly to prepare the legendary Long Buckby circuit. With the track fully graded, a wide array of new jumps and features added and the perfect amount of rain mid-week, the circuit was in pristine condition. This combined with a massive entry list and a beautiful sunny day, meant the scene was set for an epic end to the season. Back in March NMCC had kicked off the 2011 South Midland Centre Championships in similarly pleasing conditions. Some seven and a half months and eight rounds later the final championship positions were still to be decided in many classes. With racing also counting towards the club championship positions, everyone was keen to score as many points as possible and finish the year on a high.

Visiting Expert Luke Burton made his intentions clear from the start by winning the opening Expert race from James Rutter and series leader Dale Raynor. In the second race the win again went to Luke Burton, this time from Mark Boswell who as is so often the case got faster as the day went on. David Frankland this time moved up into third position. After a poor start to the final leg Luke Burton moved rapidly through the field but could only manage third at the flag, still good enough to take the overall victory. The win this time, rather fittingly as it was the final Expert race of the SMC championship went to series leader Dale Raynor, from series runner up Mark Boswell.

The Junior A group was again a heavily subscribed class with full line ups in the qualifying heats. The win in the opening final went to Ben Putnam from the 2011 O40 Champion Tony Leishman and Jack Gregory.  Everything changed in the second encounter as Ben failed to finish leaving George Winn to take the victory. runner up this time was Jack Gregory, with Tony Leishman time in third. Jack took the overall win on the day from Tony in second and George in third. In contrast the Junior B class was all about consistency. Sam Hunt won the overall as well as both finals, in front of Richard Lowe and Graham Hunt.

Rob Mead took victory in the first Over 40 race, but a twisted knee saw him sit out the rest of the day. Mark Bland stepped it up to take the win in the other two and the overall, whilst for once Tony Leishman had to settle for second with Rob Warner not far behind in third. Nigel Miller really took to the new circuit design and dominated the Over 50 class winning two out of three. Second race winner Aidan Quinn also took second overall from a close battle for third between Sean Bennett and Reg Willis, the SMC Championship leader Sean taking the last podium position in the end.

The Under 40 class saw three different winners as some of the Experts went out in various races, but Luke Taylor took the overall by finishing well up in all three legs. Mark Bland took his second overall win of the day in the 2 Stroke class, winning legs two and three from Martin Streeton and Mark Elliot after first race winner Jordan Wright decided to concentrate his efforts on the Expert races.

And so as the sun finally dipped over the start line an hour earlier than normal after the clock change and the light faded, the 2011 SMC Championships also came to an end. The final Championship results will be published once they've been collated and verified. Bring on 2012!

results:

Expert: 1 Luke Burton, 2 Mark Boswell, 3 Dale Raynor, 4 David Frankland, 5 James Rutter, 6 James Barnwell

Junior A: 1 Jack Gregory, 2 Tony Leishman, 3 George Winn, 4 Jordan Wills, 5 Ricky Scotney, 6 Ben Putnam

Junior B: 1 Sam Hunt, 2 Richard Lowe, 3 Graham Hunt, 4 Cameron Curtis, 5 Ashley Rilings, 6 Pete Gall

Over 40: 1 Mark Bland, 2 Tony Leishman, 3 Rob Warner, 4 Fraser Law, 5 Mark Elliot, 6 Richard Wright

Over 50: 1 Nigel Miller, 2 Aidan Quinn, 3 Sean Bennett, 4 Reg Willis, 5 Andrew Brightman, 6 Richard Watts

Under 40: 1 Luke Taylor, 2 Phillip Doe, 3 James Rutter, 4 Steve Marlow, 5 Ashley Rilings, 6 Dale Raynor

2 Stroke: 1 Mark Bland, 2 Martin Streeton, 3 Mark Elliot, 4 Ross Gray, 5 Bill Brightman, 6 Louis Knibbs

Workers: 1 James Rutter, 2 Fraser Law, 3 Gerard Scott, 4 Andrew Green, 5 Dan Holmes, 6 Thomas Rose

Full results:

30/10/2011 Long Buckby
club  Expert
Experts name  race 1 race 2 race 3 total pos.   name  race 1 race 2 race 3 total pos.
40 Luke Burton 20 20 15 55 1 6 Dale Raynor 20 15 20 55 1
2 Mark Boswell 13 17 17 47 2 2 Mark Boswell 17 20 17 54 2
6 Dale Raynor 15 11 20 46 3 37 David Frankland 15 17 15 47 3
37 David Frankland 10 15 13 38 4 74 James Barnwell 13 13 13 39 4
101 James Rutter 17 6 11 34 5 38 Martin Streeton 11 11   22 5
74 James Barnwell 9 10 9 28 6
5 Joe Wyse 3 13 6 22 7
17 Harry Turner 8 2 10 20 8
7 Michael McClurg 5 7 8 20 9
62 Jordan Wright 4 9 7 20 10
135 Phillip Doe 11 5 16 11
541 Fraser Swanson 7 8 15 12
38 Martin Streeton 2 4 6 13
91 Craig Golding 6 6 14
112 Steve Marlow   3     15
club  Junior 
Junior A name  race 1 race 2   total pos   name  race 1 race 2   total pos
591 Jack Gregory 15 17   32 1 72 Fraser Law 20 20   40 1
4 Tony Leishman 17 15 32 2 125 Brad Willis 17 15 32 2
162 George Winn 10 20 30 3 87 Rob Saunders 13 17 30 3
161 Jordan Wills 13 10 23 4 183 Ross Gray 15 13 28 4
134 Ricky Scotney 11 11 22 5 146 Richard Lowe 11 11 22 5
111 Ben Putnam 20 20 6 23 Cameron Curtis 10 10 20 6
124 Trevor Edwards 9 9 18 7 77 Darren Faulkner 9 9   18 7
72 Fraser Law 8 7 15 8
231 Jordan Loomes g 13 13 9
217 Ryan Flack 7 4 11 10
22 Toby Yarrow 5 5 10 11
174 Billy Reid 6 3 9 12
28 Billy Fountain 8 8 13
102 Alex Fountain 2 6 8 14
157 Mike Smith 3 1 4 15
107 John Burns 4 a 4 16
286 Darren Flitney e 2 2 17
92 James Eadon 1 1 18
51 Sam Chapman a c 0  
287 Matthew Scott b e 0  
270 Carl Walton c d 0  
125 Brad Willis d h 0  
777 James Mclaren f 0  
183 Ross Gray h j 0  
360 Jared Quinn i b 0  
35 Steven Powell j g 0  
87 Rob Saunders j f 0  
889 Jonathan Gask l 0  
59 Aaron Taylor m l 0  
154 Louis Knibbs n 0  
628 Dave Morgan o k 0  
49 Richard Watts p 0  
444 Hayley Rilings q m 0  
          0  
club  clubman 
Junior B name  race 1 race 2 race 3 total pos.   name  race 1 race 2 race 3 total pos.
36 Sam Hunt 20 20   40 1 444 Hayley Rilings 15 20   35 1
146 Richard Lowe 17 17 34 2 25 Ashley Rilings 13 17 30 2
188 Graham Hunt 15 15 30 3 307 Gerard Scott 11 15 26 3
23 Cameron Curtis 13 11 24 4 273 Thomas Rose 9 13 22 4
25 Ashley Rilings 10 13 23 5 75 Dan Holmes 10 11 21 5
39 Pete Gall 11 9 20 6 154 Louis Knibbs 20 20 6
307 Gerard Scott 6 10 16 7 142 Andrew Green 8 9 17 7
86 Jamie Nelson 9 7 16 8 49 Richard Watts 17 17 8
33 Rob Smythe 7 5 12 9 152 Matthew Knight 5 10 15 9
711 Jason Fisher 8 1 9 10 27 James Higgins 7 8 15 10
77 Darren Faulkner a 8 8 11 20 Sam Trolley 6 7 13 11
181 Alan Brown g 6 6 12 179 Tim Rose 4 6 10 12
290 Luke Boyce 3 3 6 13 169 Jon Curtis 3 5   8 13
68 Brad Parkins 1 4 5 14
75 Dan Holmes 5 c 5 15
273 Thomas Rose 2 2 4 16
144 Ian Turnbull 4 a 4 17
11 James Lewis b b 0  
251 Jack Marriott c f 0  
170 Steve Jones d r 0  
142 Andrew Green e g 0  
27 James Higgins f j 0  
20 Sam Trolley h l 0  
152 Matthew Knight i e 0  
114 Richard Wallis j i 0  
79 Ian Tindle k o 0  
158 Tom Goswell l h 0  
179 Tim Rose m m 0  
169 Jon Curtis n n 0  
81 Billy Hale o k 0  
212 Mark Quinton p p 0  
46 Robbie Polson d 0  
84 Ashley Bud Batten   q   0  
club  O40
O40 name  race 1 race 2 race 3 total pos.   name  race 1 race 2 race 3 total pos.
428 Mark Bland 15 20 20 55 1 428 Mark Bland 20 20 20 60 1
4 Tony Leishman 17 17 17 51 2 72 Fraser Law 17 15 17 49 2
63 Rob Warner 10 15 15 40 3 294 Mark Elliot 15 17 15 47 3
72 Fraser Law 13 11 13 37 4 87 Rob Saunders 13 13 13 39 4
294 Mark Elliot 9 13 10 32 5 146 Richard Lowe 11 10 11 32 5
14 Richard Wright 11 8 11 30 6 142 Andrew Green 9 9 10 28 6
87 Rob Saunders 7 10 8 25 7 67 David Bain 10 11 21 7
41 Eamon Cullen 8 4 9 21 8 169 John Curtis 8     8 8
19 Rob Mead 20 20 9
67 David Bain 4 9 13 10
146 Richard Lowe 6 b 6 12 11
622 Mark Reid 5 6 11 12
26 Llew Dyer 3 2 4 9 13
110 Neil Ferris 1 7 8 14
105 Tony Fricker 1 7 8 15
64 Russell Wadsworth b c 5 5 16
69 David Poynton f 5 5 17
55 Michael Fitzpatrick a 3 3 18
181 Alan Brown c f 3 3 19
60 Gerald Rinsell h d 2 2 20
287 Matthew Scott 2 2 21
142 Andrew Green g g 1 1 22
117 Rob Ashworth d a a 0  
33 Rob Smythe e 0  
163 Richard Stockings i i 0  
144 Ian Turnbull j 0  
169 John Curtis k 0  
88 Nick Johnson e 0  
122 James Yarrow   h   0  
club  O50
O50 name  race 1 race 2 race 3 total pos.   name  race 1 race 2 race 3 total pos.
168 Nigel Miller 20 17 20 57 1 57 Reg Willis 20 17 20 57 1
454 Aidan Quinn 15 20 15 50 2 89 Andrew Brightman 17 20 17 54 2
440 Sean Bennett 17 15 11 43 3 49 Richard Watts 15 15 15 45 3
57 Reg Willis 13 11 17 41 4 44 Trevor Roberts 13 13 13 39 4
89 Andrew Brightman 11 13 13 37 5 256 Pete Chapman 11 11 11 33 5
49 Richard Watts 10 9 10 29 6 222 Martyn Raynor 10 10   20 6
103 Steve Hollins 9 10 9 28 7
100 Archie Leishman 8 7 8 23 8
44 Trevor Roberts 6 5 7 18 9
256 Pete Chapman 5 4 6 15 10
76 Steve Morgan 4 6 5 15 11
114 Alan Cook 7 8 15 12
45 Roger Knibbs 3 4 7 13
222 Martyn Raynor 3 2   5 14
club  U40
U40 name  race 1 race 2 race 3 total pos.   name  race 1 race 2 race 3 total pos.
81 Luke Taylor 8 15 15 38 1 25 Ashley Rilings 17 17 17 51 1
135 Phillip Doe 11 20 31 2 75 Dan Holmes 15 15 15 45 2
101 James Rutter 15 13 28 3 20 Sam Trolley 13 13 13 39 3
112 Steve Marlow 9 17 26 4 307 Gerard Scott 20 20 40 4
25 Ashley Rilings 2 9 11 22 5 222 Dale Raynor     20 20 5
222 Dale Raynor 20 20 6
40 Luke Burton 20 20 7
7 Michael McClurg 17 17 8
68 Brad Parkins c 7 10 17 9
5 Joe Wyse 17 17 10
270 Carl Walton 5 11 16 11
75 Dan Holmes b 6 9 15 12
307 Gerard Scott 4 10 14 13
20 Sam Trolley d 5 8 13 14
286 Darren Flitney a 13 13 15
111 Ben Putnam 13 13 16
162 George Winn 10 10 17
11 James Lewis 1 8 9 18
217 Ryan Flack 7 7 19
51 Sam Chapman 6 6 20
86 Jamie Nelson 3 3 21
79 Ian Tindle e     0  
club 2 Stroke
2 Stroke name  race 1 race 2 race 3 total pos.   name  race 1 race 2 race 3 total pos.
428 Mark Bland 17 20 20 57 1 428 Mark Bland 20 20 20 60 1
38 Martin Streeton 15 13 17 45 2 38 Martin Streeton 17 15 17 49 2
294 Mark Elliot 11 15 15 41 3 294 Mark Elliot 15 17 15 47 3
183 Ross Gray 8 7 11 26 4 183 Ross Gray 13 13 13 39 4
199 Bill Brightman 7 6 10 23 5 199 Bill Brightman 11 11 11 33 5
154 Louis Knibbs 6 5 9 20 6 154 Louis Knibbs 10 10 10 30 6
62 Jordan Wright 20 20 7 27 James Higgins 9 9 7 25 7
69 David Poynton 10 9 19 8 152 Matthew Knight 8 7 8 23 8
14 Richard Wright 17 17 9 273 Thomas Rose   8 9 17 9
622 Mark Reid 9 8 17 10
86 Jamie Nelson 13 13 11
71 Jacob Grossman 13 13 12
27 James Higgins 4 3 5 12 13
273 Thomas Rose 4 7 11 14
152 Matthew Knight 3 2 6 11 15
286 Darren Flitney 11 11 16
41 Eamon Cullen 10 10 17
122 Toby Yarrow 8 8 18
889 Jonathan Gask 5 5 19
251 Jack Marriott 2     2 20
Workers             Workers club          
101 James Rutter 20 20 1    
72 Fraser Law 17 17 2 72 Fraser Law 20 17 1
307 Gerard Scott 15 15 3 307 Gerard Scott 17 15 2
142 Andrew Green 13 13 4 142 Andrew Green 15 13 3
75 Dan Holmes 11 11 5 75 Dan Holmes 13 11 4
273 Thomas Rose 10     10 6 273 Thomas Rose 11     10 5



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