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4. Duns Sunday 15th
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WHEN Maxxis British Motocross Championship venue selector, Brian Higgins, takes a flying visit to the Langton Lees Farm motocross track at Duns, in the Scottish Borders, soon, to decide whether or not the circuit is suitable for a round of the best domestic championship in Europe, the main man will surely only have to decide WHEN to give it a round and not IF the venue is suitable.
The site has been given the GP touch by Johnny Hamilton and been cared for by Duns club supremos Chris and David McVie and is surely bang to rights a British championship venue.
Stunning table-tops, triples, heart-beat skipping ski-jumps, wall of death berms, waves (?), a multitude of lines to use around the circuit and the all-important permanent toilet block, plus an all-new access road and the awe inspiring views, on a clear day, of the Scottish Border hills, make this an exciting prospect for championship riders of all classes. |
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Graham Riley 222 and Neil Flockhart 24 |
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Last weekend saw, officially, the fourth round of the Safe Access Scottish Adult Motocross Championship go ahead with Twisted 7 star Bryan MacKenzie take overall championship honours with a clean sweep of wins from reigning Scottish champ Neil Flockhart and current series leader Graham Riley in runner-up and third place respectively.
Due to an earlier round being cancelled this was actually the third round in the series and went ahead with the added bonus (?) of an Adult B class and four of the Youth division classes.
MacKenzie, cousin of the recipient of a broken shoulder blade at the French GP last weekend, Billy, was in a different class in the three championship motos after scooping the pole position by nearly two and a half seconds over Tony Craig and Neil Flockhart in the qualifying sessions in the morning and took two of the three races’ holeshots earning himself £50 a time and a crate of event sponsor’s Monster Energy Drink, plus £100 per race win! |
Bryan MacKenzie closely followed by Bobby Gold |
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Enough to buy his cousin Billy a consolatory plaster for his sore shoulder?
Behind MacKenzie in race one a right good battle ensued with second placed Craig holding off the literally battling Graham Riley and Flockhart, who clattered ‘bars on more than one occasion in the closing laps, which kept the sun-drenched crowd on their toes.
Race two saw MacKenzie and Flockhart vie for the lead using the fast straights and multi-line corners to pass and re-pass each other before the former made a pass stick and head off for the win ahead of Flockhart and third placed Tony Craig.
Before the final encounter had begun MacKenzie was given a ear-bashing by mechanic Bryan ‘BC’ Connolly to remind him to concentrate for the full 20 minutes plus a lap and not lose focus when so far in front.
However, the final £50 and crate of Monster drink holeshot prize went to Flockhart before the ‘fully focussed and concentrating’ MacKenzie snatched the lead and blasted off for the win ahead of Flockhart and the unlucky current series leader, Cumbrian Graham Riley.
Riley had earlier incurred the Milne jinx by speaking to the trainee reporter (Am just the new boy at this job – Milney) before the second race and crashed into the back of the stricken David Ross, starting from dead last, he had to work hard to come through to an eventual ninth place thereafter, but the Englishman has still clung onto his championship lead going into the next round at Ardersier on August 10.
In the killer B’s class Stuart Whitelaw just eased to the overall honours by four points over runner-up and super-veteran rider Paul Chiappa who was unlucky to have a shocker of a first race finishing in sixth place, but redeemed himself with two subsequent race wins.
Third spot was taken by Brian Errington.
The Adults were joined by the schoolies who thoroughly enjoyed the wide expanses of the big track.
Stewart Treloar took the Youth 125cc win with three comprehensive race wins from Nick Walters and Sandy ‘Belgian’ Pate in runner-up and third places respectively.
Fraser Flockhart also claimed three wins to take the honours in the Big-wheel 85cc class, this time besting runner-up Andy McNicoll and Arran Munro in third spot.
The Small-wheel 85cc class had Reece Wilson better a first race second spot with two wins to snatch the overall win from runner-up and first race winner Jack Taylor after some exciting battles.
Sean Williamson finished his day off with a last race second spot to help him to third place overall.
Finally, with a gate crushing two riders, the Junior 65cc class saw another Mackenzie take the win, this time Connor, took advantage of a DNF by overall runner-up Adam Crother in the first race to stand atop the podium at the end of a very successful day.
Graham Milne
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