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Round 2 - Shots fired by contenders at Ellington
Banks! Round two of the RAW Enduro Rock Oil Championship rolled into the superb Ellington Banks near Ripon on Mothers day. After mid week heavy rain, Clerk of the Course Wayne Braybrook chose to run his favoured long loop course which provides some of the best enduro riding the north of England has to offer. Fast open fire roads, loamy forest fire breaks, and the tried and tested MOD sandy driver training areas proved a real hit with the massive turn out of riders on the day.
With Blue skies in charge for the day and the Media Drones hovering, the packed AM start area was fired into life a few minutes behind schedule. The New Apico Holeshot system was in place for the first time this season, a running table of holeshots from each round will be kept and updated, at the end of the ten round series Apico goodies will be rolled out for the fastest starter in each class, social media bragging rights are high on the list for this category!!
A change of format sees RAW Enduro running Round 1 of the RAW Challenge 2 man relay team series at Butts Quarry on April 9th before the Rock Oil Championship resumes for round 3 at Lee Dell Rochdale at the end of April. The RAW Challenge series sees three events getting progressively harder, Round 1 is a 4-hour, Round 2 is a 5-hour, and Round 3 is the monster 6 hour in July. All three events cater for 2 man teams and solo Ironmen.
Next Event Online entries, and Membership applications, are all on the easy to navigate RAW Enduro Website 2017 Memberships http://www.rawenduro.co.uk/memberships/ . Website www.rawenduro.co.uk |
Rock
Oil Hare & Hounds Championship
Richie
Moorhouse was the man on a mission in the Youth A Class as he turned the
tables on Round 1 winner Shay Page, Shay is committed to this season with
RAW and is looking like taking the fight to pre season favourite Moorhouse.
Third place finisher Jamie Williams is another rider who will surely take
race wins once he’s used to the faster pace of youth A. Cory Cookland
had a race long battle to secure the Youth B class win, just edging out
Sam Boyd by literally seconds at the flag, Bert Boam continues to ride
well in his first proper championship taking third place back home with
him.
Sportsman
class honours went to Joe Moore who reeled off the laps in fine style to
take the sportsman class win and now the lead of the sportsman
championship after two rounds. RG Racing rider Ben Walker earned a great
second spot after being pushed on by team manager Richard Gamble. Enduro
newcomer Mark Hodges had a great finish to take third overall. Phil
Dodsworth again topped the Sportsman Vets table with Jonathan Ellis taking
runner up. Big Shout to Martyn Thomas for waking up extra early taking the
Apico Holeshot points in this class. In the old lads Over 50 class Gary
Morley proved his sharpness as he Holeshot on his Beta and eventually
brought it home in third place, runner up was D3 Racing boss Neil Crayston
with North Easterner Andrew Dean taking top spot. Simon Tate was the
winner of the Novice class on his RAW Replica Husqvarna FE250, since
moving from an MX bike to a real enduro bike Simon has improved no end.
Stephen Boyle took runner up place after a tight battle with Grant Cooper
on his Crystal Paints supported Honda.
Lewis
Ellis was again the man on the pace in Clubman, Ellis now leads the
Clubman Class Championship with the first two races suiting his MX
background. Lee Stansfield was runner up in class, with RG Racing rider
James Gamble pulling his finger out at his local event to take a great
third place. John Bradford rolled over the finish line to take the Expert
Vets class win stating this was the best track ever at Ellington. Paul
McSorley enjoyed his day out on his WR Yamaha to place runner up. Mark
Raynor took third place. A returning popular face Danny Clarke overcame a
bout of midweek sickness to race in the Clubman Vets class, taking the win
DC is now thinking of retirement whilst he’s a race winner! James Cooke
Thomas was delighted finish runner up despite kicking himself after
missing the win by a mere 7 seconds at the flag!