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Brad Williams Wins CTR EVENTS Summer Series
Championship Round 1 Brad Williams soldered on through his aches and pains of a flu virus to take a well-deserved win at CTR Events SSC opener with over 2 weeks of dry weather the track caught everyone by surprise with very wet spots in the woods and a fast flowing marsh area that exploded into boggy chaos, Team CTR spent a week building and constructing a 4 mile Enduro cross country race track at this great new venue with stunning views of the west Wales coast line the track started on top of a field on the side of a bowl set off with fast fields and some bogs before dropping into some dry woods then popping back out into the fields and back into wet woods and then around the bog scramble before blasting up the hill into the lap scoring area. At the start line and just past 11am CTR released the group of Elite, Experts and Vet Experts onto the course with Mathew Wimpy Jones getting the overall holeshot and the Experts Holeshot from James Benny and Rhys Perkins followed by Shaun Buchan getting the Elite holeshot from Jay Thomas and Tim Forman, Sean O'Neill got the Vet Expert holeshot from Paul Biggs and Ryan Leary, Next to be unleashed was the Clubman class with Rhys Lloyd getting the holeshot from Damian Close and Luke Tarr next let loose was the Vet Clubman and Over 50's with Phil George getting the Over 50's holeshot from Mark Saunders and Keith Cross with Ady Stagg getting the Vet Clubman holeshot from Dylan Davies and Neil Lewis, Andrew Young got in the Mix getting the Novice holeshot from Anthony Francis and Scott Owens as now all the riders had been set free and out attacking the CTR cross country Enduro track attention now focused on lap scoring. At lap scoring first lap attention and it was young Jay Thomas to lap 1st with Shaun Buchan next around just 10 seconds behind with the next class leader around and 3rd bike Expert Mathew Wimpy Jones followed by the rest of the charging racers hounding them close behind and Brad Williams was 7th around the lap with a 58 second gap from Jay Thomas, Next class leader around was Ryan Leary Sean O'Neill and Paul Biggs not far behind, the next class leader around was Clubman racer Rhys Lloyd with Nickki Jones and Sam Peake leading the rest around, the next class leader around the lap was Mark Saunders closely followed by Phil George with Mike Crumb not too far behind Ady Stagg led the Vet Clubman around followed by Julian James and Andy Taylor, James Williams led the big hard charging group of Novices around followed by Jake Robinson and Mark Wheeler so as all the CTR racers crossed their 1st challenging lap and started their 2nd lap. Midway race at about 1 hour with pit stops coming into play Jay Thomas had a good lead over Brad Williams and Shaun Buchan when his bike stopped and he appeared into view pushing his bike so with the hard charging Brad Williams now in the lead and Shaun Buchan 2nd in the Elite and Tim Forman was in 3rd Mathew Wimpy Jones was leading the Experts around followed by a right pair of Expert racers bar bashing and laughing at each other all race Scott Hoskins and Danny Morris were pushing Jones all the way, Ryan Leary was still keeping Sean O'Neill 2nd in the Vet Experts and Toby Bevan was hovering around in 3rd, Phil George was back in the lead of the Over 50's with Mark Saunders 2nd and Mike Crumb 3rd, Ady Stagg was well in control of the Vet Clubman class with Dylan Davies now in 2nd with Paul Martin 3rd after Andy Taylor had a little rest, Newly promoted and the flying Luke Tarr was leading the Clubman class chased hard by Tim Saunders back racing after near 3 years off recovering from a nasty leg injury with Sam Peake close behind in 3rd, The Novice was led by Jake Robinson followed by James Williams and Steve Nicholas. At the chequered flag a Very well earned overall win went to the impressive young talented Brad Williams Elite won the class and SSC RD1, Mathew Wimpy Jones won the Expert class, Sean O'Neill won the Vet Experts, Phil George won the Over 50's, Ady Stagg won the Vet Clubman, Luke Tarr won the Clubman class and Jake Robinson won the Novice class, It was a great exciting days racing and a welcome to the start of the Summer Series in some very tough conditions looking forward to the next events now CTR SSC RD 2 16/17th April at Fan Farm Myddfai Llandovery Thanks to all involved Racers, Helpers, Marshals, Lap Scorers, 101 Catering, St Johns Pontypool, And most of all the land owner Thanks CTR. Results SSC RD1 20.03.16
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