Plum Pudding Historic Sporting Trial

Thanks to the peculiarities of the calendar we found ourselves catching two Plum Pudding Sporting Trials this year. Steve Courts & Peter Hore (Facksimile) were unstoppable in the post historic class clearing every hill on the mornings two runs. Finally on the 3rd run one hill saw them score 2 points but it was an impressive performance to take victory. Andy Gowan & Beth Carroll (Ibex) finished just 1 point behind in 2nd overall with Ian Veale & Robert Bowyer (Cannon) a fine 3rd overall with a score of 5 points and first historic crew.

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Coventry Road Club Boxing Day Cross

A total of 88 riders took on the fresh but bright conditions, at Kenilworth Common. The top 8 riders managed 10 laps in the hour race with Richard Jones taking victory from Graham Briggs by 78 seconds. Completing the podium  and first veteran rider home was local cyclist Darren Atkins. Karen Summers was the first female rider home, completing 8 laps in the process.

Rockingham Stages

The 2017 Rockingham Stages saw a maiden overall victory for William Hill & Richard Crozier, first time out in their Fiesta R5. It was a fantastic result underlined by fastest times on all 6 stages run, giving a victory margin of 40 seconds. The rally should have run in to Sunday but heavy snowfall and ice caused the cancellation of day 2. Darryl Morris & Steve Gully (Escort MkII) took 2nd place with the podium being completed by Stephen Beck & Paul Brown (Escort MkII) a further 34 seconds behind.

Gloster Sporting Trial

It was another close one down in Frocester as Roland Uglow took win number 3 in a row, this season. He had started round 3 trailing Ian Veale by a single point, with John Fack just a point further back, but thanks to five 0’s across the 8 hills he set a superb score of just 3 points to take victory from Veale by 8 points. Uglow really is in fine form and the BTRDA Gold Star Championship final in Penrith, next January, should be a really cracker. Paul Price matched Veale’s score of 12 on round 3 to secure 3rd overall by just two points from Richard Sharp who notched up a score of 9 points on the final round. Fack dropped back to sixth overall as he failed to make a low score on final round of hills.