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‘MEET the new boss, same as the old boss,’ wrote ‘The Who’s rock legend Pete Townsend in the song ‘Won’t get fooled again’ and the new 2008 Scottish Motocross Champion was the 2006 champion Neil Flockhart, who took over from 2007 champion, his brother Stuart.
After a season long battle with Englishman Graham Riley, Neil played it safe during last weekend’s double-header to reclaim the coveted crown for north of the border from Riley in runner-up spot and the unlucky Bryan MacKenzie in third place overall.

Due to the cancellation of the scripted last double-header round at Duns last month, the Glenrothes club came up with the British Youth championship track at Commerton Farm at Leuchars, near St Andrews to run two rounds over two days, backed by Safe Access.
Saturday saw sunshine, Sunday saw high winds and close battles to end the season on a high.

SATURDAY
Northumbrian James Hutchison stole the limelight on day one by taking the Championship class overall honours with a second race win splitting an opening fourth place and last race third spot with returning from injury Ross Rutherford and Flockhart in runner-up and third places respectively.
Graeme Colligan snatched the B class overall win.
The Youth 125cc class had the all conquering Billy Penman on form to take the overall win Saturday as he was the only rider in his class.
David Houston didn’t have a problem, and was all conquering in his Youth MX2 class with three wins from three starts.
Mattie Fleming is all-conquering in Scotland in the Big-wheel 85cc class and three wins saw him top of the class.
Another maximum points haul over the weekend was taken by Frazer Pohlen in the Small-wheel 85cc class.

The very competitive Junior 65cc class saw overall winner Conor Curran miss out on a maximum points score after two wins, having to
give second best in the last race to overall runner-up Ben Edwards.The Auto class had their own track and Aaron McDonald swept to three race wins for the overall honours.

Sunday

The final day saw dark clouds and high winds roll in, but the track was still in cracking condition, hard work, but great to watch riders battle on.
Bryan MacKenzie was on form again taking the three holeshots and the £50 prize for each and the overall win on the day, however, it was Neil Flockhart’s day and season as he claimed the championship crown after a safe and sensible ride to sixth place in race two.
Hutchison again showed his class with the last race win helping him to the overall runner-up spot on the day with Ross Rutherford completing a happy come-back in third spot.
Dale McAulay took the Sunday overall B Class honours.
Aiden Bruce stepped up to Youth 125cc class duty to give Billy Penman a run for his money and snatched the wins.
Over in the Youth MX2 class Houston continued with his winning ways with maximum points.
No one can touch Mattie Fleming in the Big-wheel 85cc class north of the border and another three wins went on the stylish man’s CV on Sunday.
Frazer Pohlen, Jay Lamb and Ian Stewart topped the Small-wheel 85cc class’ podium in that order with Oscar Cochrane taking the top step in the Junior 65cc class after three fine wins from Rusty Peebles and Scott McLean.
Aaron McDonald again did the business in the Auto class with three healthy wins ahead of Jordan Gill and Lewis Dow.

RESULTS

Saturday

Championship class: 1 James Hutchison, 2 Ross Rutherford, 3 Neil Flockhart, 4 Graham Riley, 5 Sean MacDonald, 6 Tommy Fenwick.
B class: 1 Graeme Colligan, 2 Brian Fraser, 3 Stewart Ferguson, 4 Ian McQueen, 5 Nick Adam, 6 Stephen Pollock.
Youth 125cc: 1 Billy Penman.
Youth MX2: 1 David Houston, 2 Thomas Robertson, 3 Liam McVeigh, 4 Nathan Mill, 5 Scott Hamilton, 6 Christopher Inglis.
Big-wheel 85cc: 1 Mathew Fleming, 2 Taylor Dodds, 3 Jordan Main, 4 Andrew McNichol, 5 William Lambie, 6 Colin Smith.
Small-wheel 85cc: 1 Frazer Pohlen, 2 Jay Lamb, 3 Robert Smith, 4 Reece Wilson, 5 Daniel Irvine, 6 Douglas Campbell.
Junior 65cc: 1 Conor Curran, 2 Ben Edwards, 3 Kyle Peebles, 4 Oscar Cochrane, 5 Lewis Campbell, 6 Scott McLean.
Autos: 1 Aaron McDonald, 2 Lewis Dow, 3 Cameron Robertson, 4 Jordan Gill, 5 Lewis Paterson, 6 Dylan Gilmour.

Sunday

Championship class: 1 MacKenzie, 2 Hutchison, 3 Rutherford, 4 Riley, 5 Gavin Robertson, 6 Fenwick.
2008 Scottish Motocross Championship: 1 Flockhart, 2 Riley, 3 MacKenzie.
B Class: 1 Dale McAulay, 2 Mark Richardson, 3 Jamie Menzies, 4 Ferguson, 5 Kevin Charles, 6 Pollock.
Youth 125cc: 1 Aiden Bruce, 2 Penman.
Youth MX2: 1 Houston, 2 David Plank, 3 Gavin Clunie, 4 McVeigh, 5 Robertson, 6 Chris Clarke.
Big-wheel 85cc: 1 Fleming, 2 McNichol, 3 Smith, 4 Lambie, 5 Dean Hill, 6 Harry Cooper.
Small-wheel 85cc: 1 Pohlen, 2 Lamb, 3 Ian Stewart, 4 Wilson, 5 Ash Stirling, 6 Jack Taylor.
Junior 65cc: 1 Cochrane, 2 Peebles, 3 McLean, 4 Campbell, 5 Graham Scott, 6 Morgan Legge.
Autos: 1 McDonald, 2 Gill, 3 Dow, 4 Robertson, 5 Gilmour, 6 Andrew Pohlen.

Round 6. Duns Sunday 7th September 2008

Cancelled due to bad weather, rescheduled to take place at Leuchars