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ACU Southern Centre Winter Series Round 4 Bradley King to the Manor born The day started out with beautiful sunshine and a bitterly cold wind for Round 4 of the ACU Southern Centre winter series. The First half race gave the riders almost perfect track conditions, with lovely soft tacky stubble and beautiful loamy woodland. However, after an hour and a half the sky darkened and the rain and hail came down flooding the once perfect ruts. This led to a lot of retirements over the second half of the race with track conditions worsening and becoming very difficult to say the least. A credit to all the riders that did finish, you certainly earned it!
Surprisingly the overall winner was also the Expert class winner and the only rider to manage 16 laps, Josh Kirby. With a superb ride and being mr consistent all day he took overall honors, a cracking result Josh. Second in the Expert class went to Tyson Maytom Jones, another consistent ride with a fastest lap time that would put him right in the mix with the Champs class. Third went to Martin Jessop again a solid ride and only a lap down on the overall winner. Also worthy of a mention, just outside of the top three in experts but still taking 7th overall and only a lap down on Kirby was young Alfie Heard, very respectable finish. At the top in the Vets Classes was the always entertaining Mr Mark Cornick, knocking on a top 10 overall and still showing the youngsters the way round not a bad result for an almost mature gentleman... Second and Third in the expert Vets went to Jack Twentyman and Dan Groom respectively.
The Clubman vets Victory went to Titus Blackwell who finished an impressive 20th overall and mixed it up with some of the expert vets. In second was Lee Boulden on a respectable 12 laps and a close Third place went to Julian Earle. In the Sportsman Category the victory went to Matthieu Perrier, racking up an impressive 12 laps in the tricky conditions, definitely one to watch in the future! In second place was Jamie Cass and a solid result in third for Josh Kiff. In the Sportsman Vets class, the honors went to Carl Robinson, in Second Richard Bland and in third place was Tim O'Dowd. All did incredibly well when the heavens opened and were the only 3 in the class to finish. As always, a huge thank you must go to our marshals who stood out in the horrendous conditions all day, as well as Pete Coles for scrutineering and Craig and Shane for the timing. Also, huge thanks for the set-up help to Brad, Stevo, Chester and Grandad. Additionally thank you to Abbie, Danielle, Alice and Noah for helping with sign on! Again, congratulations to all those who finished what proved to be race of attrition in conditions that were difficult to say the least and we look forward to seeing everybody at the next round of the Winter series hosted by Portsmouth Club at Woodbury lane on the 12th February. Entries for Round 5 are open on the ACU Website now! Photos available from the fantastic Photo Finish 43.
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