2016 Bob Collier Trophy at Long Buckby
Report:
Fraser Law
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The 6th
Annual Bob Collier Trophy took place on the hottest weekend of 2016,
bringing together old friends and new to take part in one of the friendliest
meetings of the year. All proceeds were as usual donated to Bloodwise, the
event attracting a large group of spectators. Whilst the track had been
well groomed it suffered as a result of the exceptionally dry weather. As
the track dried from the early morning watering, it proved hard to keep the
dust at bay. Following a delay over lunch waiting for an ambulance to return
from an earlier accident, it was unfortunately decided to call a halt to the
day’s racing on safety grounds. The morning motos saw some excellent racing,
with visiting star of the future Tom Grimshaw mixing it up with some of the
local Experts in the combined Junior/Expert races.
Michael McClurg took the overall win in the Expert
Class after winning race two, but things looked very different early in race
one. After gating second, a fall on lap two left him outside the top twenty.
He managed to charge back to third at the finish, taking the overall by a
single point from Jack Gardner who was consistently second. Jack led race
one until the closing laps when Joe Wyse eased past for the win. Joe
finished third overall, again just a single point behind Jack.
Tom Grimshaw took overall victory in the Junior
class with wins in both races, Sam Harwood who was not far behind in race
one, took second both times. The Clubman class saw a very close finish with
less than 2 seconds covering the top three. Ricky Wright just edged out
Steve Gilbey and Lee White for the win. In the Premier class Simon Wyse was
once again unbeatable, though Tony Leishman stuck closely with him for most
of the race. Justin Carter returned from injury to take a fine third place.
Fraser Law won the Elite class after battling with
Bruce Garside, Steve Gilbey wasn’t far behind in third. Nigel Miller took
his 327th win in the Super class, though Richard Jochacy wasn’t far behind
in second. In the crowd favourite EVO class Daniel Miles took the win, from
Daryl Sturt and Rob Mead. Tom Grimshaw took his second win of the day
in the 2 Stroke class, with Tony Leishman in second from Ben Huckerby. The
special ‘Friends of Bob’ class was won by Fraser Law. Second and third went
to Stephen Cole and Dan Loveday respectively. Rupert Hills beat the entire
field to come in first in the twinshock class, with Richard Tett taking
second. Most entertaining win of the day went to Ian Thompson, who stormed
to victory in the workers race. Ian won by an entire lap after the remainder
of the field was left on the start line wondering where he’d gone.
Results:
Expert:
1 Michael McClurg, 2 Jack Gardner, 3 Joe Wyse, 4 Riley Lowe, 5 Kyle Creevy,
6 Adam Collins
Junior:
1 Tom Grimshaw, 2 Sam Harwood, 3 John Barnes, 4 Connor Dickens, 5 Callum
McClurg, 6 Brad Willis
Clubman:
1 Ricky Wright, 2 Steve Gilbey, 3 Lee White, 4 Layton Billson, 5 Dan
Loveday, 6 Tom King
Premier O40:
1 Simon Wyse, 2 Tony Leishman, 3 Justin Carter, 4 Adam Collins, 5 Lee
Keyton, 6 Daniel Miles
Elite O50:
1 Fraser Law, 2 Bruce Garside, 3 Steve Gilbey, 4 Keith Andrews, 5 Greg Cox,
6 Stephen Cole
Super O60:
1 Nigel Miller, 2 Richard Jochacy, 3 Reg Willis, 4 Trevor Roberts
EVO:
1 Daryl Sturt, 2 Rob Mead, 3Greg Cox, 4 Bruce Garside, 5
Ian Mead
2 Stroke:
1 Tom Grimshaw, 2 Tony Leishman, 3 Ben Huckerby, 4 Todd Bucknall, 5 Guy
Marchant, 6 Alexander Nethaway
Friends of Bob:
1 Fraser Law, 2 Stephen Cole, 3 Dan Loveday, 4 Thomas Rose, 5 Jamie Nelson,
6 Eagan Bruley
Twinshock:
1 Rupert Hills, 2 Richard Tett
Workers:
1 Ian Thompson
Expert | Club Expert | |||||||||||||||
no. | name | r1 | r2 | r3 | total | pos. | no. | name | r1 | r2 | r3 | total | pos. | |||
7 | Michael McClurg | 40 | 45 | 85 | 1 | c | 7 | Michael McClurg | 45 | 45 | 90 | 1 | ||||
101 | Jack Gardner | 42 | 42 | 84 | 2 | 231 | Kyle Creevy | 42 | 42 | 84 | 2 | |||||
309 | Joe Wyse | 45 | 38 | 83 | 3 | 84 | Adam Collins | 40 | 40 | 80 | 3 | |||||
92 | Riley Lowe | 38 | 40 | 78 | 4 | |||||||||||
231 | Kyle Creevy | 37 | 37 | 74 | 5 | c | ||||||||||
84 | Adam Collins | 35 | 36 | 71 | 6 | c | ||||||||||
410 | Tom Harwood | 36 | 0 | 36 | 7 | |||||||||||
Junior A | Club Junior | |||||||||||||||
no. | name | r1 | r2 | total | pos | no. | name | r1 | r2 | total | pos | |||||
861 | Tom Grimshaw | 45 | 45 | 90 | 1 | 163 | Brad Willis | 37 | 45 | 82 | 1 | |||||
41 | Sam Harwood | 42 | 42 | 84 | 2 | 510 | Callum McClurg | 40 | 42 | 82 | 2 | |||||
444 | John Barnes | 37 | 40 | 77 | 3 | 146 | George Cox | 42 | 37 | 79 | 3 | |||||
61 | Connor Dickens | 38 | 38 | 76 | 4 | 18 | Scott Allen | 36 | 40 | 76 | 4 | |||||
510 | Callum McClurg | 34 | 35 | 69 | 5 | j | 145 | Tom Burn | 38 | 38 | 76 | 5 | ||||
163 | Brad Willis | 31 | 36 | 67 | 6 | j | 16 | Aaron Read | 34 | 36 | 70 | 6 | ||||
146 | George Cox | 35 | 31 | 66 | 7 | j | 151 | Jacob Wills | 35 | 33 | 68 | 7 | ||||
145 | Tom Burn | 32 | 33 | 65 | 8 | j | 95 | Mindaugas Skema | 32 | 34 | 66 | 8 | ||||
31 | Leigh Baum | 33 | 32 | 65 | 9 | 317 | Simon Collins | 33 | 32 | 65 | 9 | |||||
321 | Lee Andrews | 27 | 37 | 64 | 10 | 23 | Cameron Curtis | 45 | 0 | 45 | 10 | |||||
18 | Scott Allen | 30 | 34 | 64 | 11 | j | 122 | Tom Allsopp | 0 | 35 | 35 | 11 | ||||
9 | Alexander Nethaway | 29 | 26 | 55 | 12 | 241 | Nicholas Baum | 31 | 0 | 31 | 12 | |||||
16 | Aaron Read | 24 | 30 | 54 | 13 | j | 471 | Jon-Jo Werts | 30 | 0 | 30 | 13 | ||||
459 | Edward Pegram | 25 | 27 | 52 | 14 | 307 | Gerard Scott | 29 | 0 | 29 | 14 | |||||
151 | Jacob Wills | 26 | 25 | 51 | 15 | j | 147 | Steve Gilbey | 28 | 28 | 15 | |||||
95 | Mindaugas Skema | 22 | 28 | 50 | 16 | j | 119 | Jason Mills | 27 | 27 | 16 | |||||
317 | Simon Collins | 23 | 23 | 46 | 17 | j | 93 | Matthew Mason | 26 | 26 | 17 | |||||
888 | Krzysztof Ujdak | 19 | 24 | 43 | 18 | |||||||||||
916 | James Cobby | 40 | 0 | 40 | 19 | |||||||||||
770 | Alexander Churchill | 18 | 21 | 39 | 20 | |||||||||||
23 | Cameron Curtis | 36 | 0 | 36 | 21 | j | ||||||||||
122 | Tom Allsopp | 0 | 29 | 29 | 22 | j | ||||||||||
406 | Sean Kettlewell | 28 | 0 | 28 | 23 | |||||||||||
134 | Mark Finn | 0 | 22 | 22 | 24 | |||||||||||
241 | Nicholas Baum | 21 | 0 | 21 | 25 | j | ||||||||||
471 | Jon-Jo Werts | 20 | 0 | 20 | 26 | j | ||||||||||
307 | Gerard Scott | 17 | 0 | 17 | 27 | j | ||||||||||
Clubman | Club Clubman | |||||||||||||||
no. | name | r1 | r2 | total | pos. | no. | name | r1 | r1 | total | pos. | |||||
384 | Ricky Wright | 45 | 45 | 1 | 536 | Layton Billson | 45 | 45 | 1 | |||||||
j | 147 | Steve Gilbey | 42 | 42 | 2 | 40 | Daniel Loveday | 42 | 42 | 2 | ||||||
550 | Lee White | 40 | 40 | 3 | 174 | Tom King | 40 | 40 | 3 | |||||||
c | 536 | Layton Billson | 38 | 38 | 4 | 273 | Thomas Rose | 38 | 38 | 4 | ||||||
c | 40 | Daniel Loveday | 37 | 37 | 5 | 90 | Arturas Ciplinskas | 37 | 37 | 5 | ||||||
c | 174 | Tom King | 36 | 36 | 6 | 909 | Scott Robertson | 36 | 36 | 6 | ||||||
966 | Darren George | 35 | 35 | 7 | 65 | Jason Bain | 35 | 35 | 7 | |||||||
1 | Sam Goddard | 34 | 34 | 8 | 228 | Nathan Skinner | 34 | 34 | 8 | |||||||
c | 273 | Thomas Rose | 33 | 33 | 9 | 53 | Ian Tindle | 33 | 33 | 9 | ||||||
c | 90 | Arturas Ciplinskas | 32 | 32 | 10 | 144 | Simon Tucker | 32 | 32 | 10 | ||||||
c | 909 | Scott Robertson | 31 | 31 | 11 | 101 | Miles Woodhouse | 31 | 31 | 11 | ||||||
c | 65 | Jason Bain | 30 | 30 | 12 | 19 | Richard Jochacy | 30 | 30 | 12 | ||||||
j | 119 | Jason Mills | 29 | 29 | 13 | 11 | James Lewis | 29 | 29 | 13 | ||||||
j | 93 | Matthew Mason | 28 | 28 | 14 | 80 | Mark Stephens | 28 | 28 | 14 | ||||||
572 | Thomas Smith | 27 | 27 | 15 | 28 | Richard Ford | 27 | 27 | 15 | |||||||
c | 228 | Nathan Skinner | 26 | 26 | 16 | 117 | Rob Ashworth | 26 | 26 | 16 | ||||||
437 | Ryan Gee | 25 | 25 | 17 | ||||||||||||
c | 53 | Ian Tindle | 24 | 24 | 18 | |||||||||||
c | 144 | Simon Tucker | 23 | 23 | 19 | |||||||||||
c | 101 | Miles Woodhouse | 22 | 22 | 20 | |||||||||||
799 | Jack Gibson-Barton | 21 | 21 | 21 | ||||||||||||
c | 19 | Richard Jochacy | 20 | 20 | 22 | |||||||||||
160 | Helen Morgan | 19 | 19 | 23 | ||||||||||||
672 | Chris Smith | 18 | 18 | 24 | ||||||||||||
c | 11 | James Lewis | 17 | 17 | 25 | |||||||||||
871 | Scott Fitzgerald | 16 | 16 | 26 | ||||||||||||
25 | Oliver Cook | 15 | 15 | 27 | ||||||||||||
c | 80 | Mark Stephens | 14 | 14 | 28 | |||||||||||
c | 28 | Richard Ford | 13 | 13 | 29 | |||||||||||
c | 117 | Rob Ashworth | 12 | 12 | 30 | |||||||||||
183 | Ryan George | 11 | 11 | 31 | ||||||||||||
Premier O40 | Club Premier O40 | |||||||||||||||
no. | name | r1 | r2 | r3 | total | pos. | no. | name | r1 | r2 | r3 | total | pos. | |||
308 | Simon Wyse | 45 | 45 | 1 | 4 | Tony Leishman | 45 | 45 | 1 | |||||||
c | 4 | Tony Leishman | 42 | 42 | 2 | 901 | Justin Carter | 42 | 42 | 2 | ||||||
c | 901 | Justin Carter | 40 | 40 | 3 | 84 | Adam Collins | 40 | 40 | 3 | ||||||
c | 84 | Adam Collins | 38 | 38 | 4 | 39 | Tony Fricker | 38 | 38 | 4 | ||||||
247 | Lee Keyton | 37 | 37 | 5 | 317 | Simon Collins | 37 | 37 | 5 | |||||||
153 | Daniel Miles | 36 | 36 | 6 | 909 | Scott Robertson | 36 | 36 | 6 | |||||||
c | 39 | Tony Fricker | 35 | 35 | 7 | 136 | Christian Livesey | 35 | 35 | 7 | ||||||
c | 317 | Simon Collins | 34 | 34 | 8 | 93 | Matthew Mason | 34 | 34 | 8 | ||||||
411 | Andrew Antal | 33 | 33 | 9 | 47 | Edward Kiernan | 33 | 33 | 9 | |||||||
c | 909 | Scott Robertson | 32 | 32 | 10 | 307 | Gerard Scott | 32 | 32 | 10 | ||||||
50 | Kevin Turnbull | 31 | 31 | 11 | ||||||||||||
c | 136 | Christian Livesey | 30 | 30 | 12 | |||||||||||
412 | Rob Jones | 29 | 29 | 13 | ||||||||||||
c | 93 | Matthew Mason | 28 | 28 | 14 | |||||||||||
c | 47 | Edward Kiernan | 27 | 27 | 15 | |||||||||||
46 | Glenn Brown | 26 | 26 | 16 | ||||||||||||
c | 307 | Gerard Scott | 25 | 25 | 17 | |||||||||||
Elite O50 | Club Elite O50 | |||||||||||||||
no. | name | r1 | r2 | r3 | total | pos. | no. | name | r1 | r2 | r3 | total | pos. | |||
72 | Fraser Law | 45 | 45 | 1 | c | 72 | Fraser Law | 45 | 45 | 1 | ||||||
3 | Bruce Garside | 42 | 42 | 2 | c | 3 | Bruce Garside | 42 | 42 | 2 | ||||||
147 | Steve Gilbey | 40 | 40 | 3 | c | 147 | Steve Gilbey | 40 | 40 | 3 | ||||||
26 | Keith Andrews | 38 | 38 | 4 | 113 | Greg Cox | 38 | 38 | 4 | |||||||
113 | Greg Cox | 37 | 37 | 5 | c | 13 | Stephen Cole | 37 | 37 | 5 | ||||||
13 | Stephen Cole | 36 | 36 | 6 | c | 21 | Nick Boot | 36 | 36 | 6 | ||||||
511 | Phil Gee | 35 | 35 | 7 | 81 | Barry Burbidge | 35 | 35 | 7 | |||||||
21 | Nick Boot | 34 | 34 | 8 | c | 65 | Jason Bain | 34 | 34 | 8 | ||||||
901 | Kevin Cole | 33 | 33 | 9 | 144 | Simon Tucker | 33 | 33 | 9 | |||||||
49 | Andrew Mason | 32 | 32 | 10 | 651 | Ian Thompson | 32 | 32 | 10 | |||||||
81 | Barry Burbidge | 31 | 31 | 11 | c | 89 | Andrew Brightman | 31 | 31 | 11 | ||||||
65 | Jason Bain | 30 | 30 | 12 | c | 80 | Mark Stephens | 30 | 30 | 12 | ||||||
144 | Simon Tucker | 29 | 29 | 13 | c | 117 | Rob Ashworth | 29 | 29 | 13 | ||||||
651 | Ian Thompson | 28 | 28 | 14 | c | 242 | Andrew Green | 28 | 28 | 14 | ||||||
78 | Kevin Franklin | 27 | 27 | 15 | 38 | James Higgins | 27 | 27 | 15 | |||||||
89 | Andrew Brightman | 26 | 26 | 16 | c | 28 | Richard Ford | 26 | 26 | 16 | ||||||
134 | Mark Finn | 25 | 25 | 17 | 54 | Martin Raynor | 25 | 25 | 17 | |||||||
80 | Mark Stephens | 24 | 24 | 18 | c | 156 | Peter Chapman | 24 | 24 | 18 | ||||||
761 | Stephen Morgan | 23 | 23 | 19 | ||||||||||||
52 | Ivano Chiesa | 22 | 22 | 20 | ||||||||||||
117 | Rob Ashworth | 21 | 21 | 21 | c | |||||||||||
242 | Andrew Green | 20 | 20 | 22 | c | |||||||||||
38 | James Higgins | 19 | 19 | 23 | c | |||||||||||
28 | Richard Ford | 18 | 18 | 24 | c | |||||||||||
54 | Martin Raynor | 17 | 17 | 25 | c | |||||||||||
156 | Peter Chapman | 16 | 16 | 26 | c | |||||||||||
107 | Patrick Winter | 15 | 15 | 27 | ||||||||||||
Super O60 | Club O60 | |||||||||||||||
no. | name | r1 | r2 | r3 | total | pos. | no. | name | r1 | r2 | r3 | total | pos. | |||
68 | Nigel Miller | 45 | 45 | 1 | 19 | Richard Jochacy | 45 | 45 | 1 | |||||||
19 | Richard Jochacy | 42 | 42 | 2 | 57 | Reg Willis | 42 | 42 | 2 | |||||||
57 | Reg Willis | 40 | 40 | 3 | 44 | Trevor Roberts | 40 | 40 | 3 | |||||||
44 | Trevor Roberts | 38 | 38 | 4 | ||||||||||||
EVO | ||||||||||||||||
no. | name | r1 | r2 | r3 | total | pos. | ||||||||||
52 | Darryl Sturt | 45 | 45 | 1 | ||||||||||||
141 | Rob Mead | 42 | 42 | 2 | ||||||||||||
113 | Greg Cox | 40 | 40 | 3 | ||||||||||||
3 | Bruce Garside | 38 | 38 | 4 | ||||||||||||
931 | Ian Mead | 37 | 37 | 5 | ||||||||||||
241 | Nicholas Baum | 36 | 36 | 6 | ||||||||||||
211 | Trevor Bedford | 35 | 35 | 7 | ||||||||||||
33 | Robert Bull | 34 | 34 | 8 | ||||||||||||
2 Stroke | Club 2 Stroke | |||||||||||||||
no. | name | r1 | r2 | r3 | total | pos. | no. | name | r1 | r2 | r3 | total | pos. | |||
861 | Tom Grimshaw | 45 | 45 | 1 | 4 | Tony Leishman | 45 | 45 | 1 | |||||||
4 | Tony Leishman | 42 | 42 | 2 | c | 281 | Todd Bucknall | 42 | 42 | 2 | ||||||
818 | Ben Huckerby | 40 | 40 | 3 | 773 | Guy Marchant | 40 | 40 | 3 | |||||||
281 | Todd Bucknall | 38 | 38 | 4 | c | 53 | Ian Tindle | 38 | 38 | 4 | ||||||
773 | Guy Marchant | 37 | 37 | 5 | c | 136 | Christian Livesey | 37 | 37 | 5 | ||||||
9 | Alexander Nethaway | 36 | 36 | 6 | ||||||||||||
153 | Daniel Miles | 35 | 35 | 7 | ||||||||||||
52 | Darryl Sturt | 34 | 34 | 8 | ||||||||||||
770 | Alexander Churchill | 33 | 33 | 9 | ||||||||||||
53 | Ian Tindle | 32 | 32 | 10 | c | |||||||||||
68 | Nigel Miller | 31 | 31 | 11 | ||||||||||||
136 | Christian Livesey | 30 | 30 | 12 | c | |||||||||||
431 | Keir Tett | 29 | 29 | 13 | ||||||||||||
227 | Robin Scott | 28 | 28 | 14 | ||||||||||||
Friends of Bob | Twinshock | |||||||||||||||
no. | name | r1 | r2 | r3 | total | pos. | no. | name | r1 | r2 | r3 | total | pos. | |||
72 | Fraser Law | 45 | 45 | 1 | 777 | Rupert Hills | 45 | 45 | 1 | |||||||
13 | Stephen Cole | 42 | 42 | 2 | 431 | Richard Tett | 42 | 42 | 2 | |||||||
40 | Daniel Loveday | 40 | 40 | 3 | ||||||||||||
273 | Thomas Rose | 38 | 38 | 4 | ||||||||||||
155 | Jamie Nelson | 37 | 37 | 5 | ||||||||||||
46 | Eagan Bruley | 36 | 36 | 6 | ||||||||||||
136 | Christian Livesey | 35 | 35 | 7 | ||||||||||||
57 | Reg Willis | 34 | 34 | 8 | ||||||||||||
211 | Trevor Bedford | 33 | 33 | 9 | ||||||||||||
156 | Peter Chapman | 32 | 32 | 10 | ||||||||||||
777 | Rupert Hills | 31 | 31 | 11 | ||||||||||||
431 | Richard Tett | 30 | 30 | 12 | ||||||||||||
354 | Lisa Jones | 29 | 29 | 13 | ||||||||||||
Workers | Club Workers | |||||||||||||||
no. | name | r1 | total | pos. | no. | name | r1 | total | pos. | |||||||
651 | Ian Thompson | |||||||||||||||