Short Track News

LETS KICK OFF THEM WINTER BLUES AND GET READY FOR ACTION.FIRST PRACTICE SCHEDULED FOR 2012 IS AT SCUNTHORPE SPEEDWAY STADUIM ON SUNDAY MARCH 4TH 9.30 TO 12.30PM £30 ADULTS,£25 JUNIORS.

THERE WILL BE FURTHER PRACTICE SESSIONS AT RYE HOUSE AS WELL DURING MARCH JUST WAITING TO CONFIRM DATES.

Former I.O.M. TT and Macau GP winner Steve Plater is hoping to compete in the full GNC Championship this year. Steve is still recovering from a nasty arm injury which put him out for most of last season's racing, after high siding at Thruxton on the Padgetts Honda. Steve said 'I've got another op on my arm coming up and hope still to be fit for the first round of Flattrack. I'm still not 100% sure what Road Racing I'll be doing next season, but I'm set on racing as much Flattrack as I can.' Steve raced in the first round of the GNC at Oxford last season and made the Grand Final and I'm sure he will be hoping to continue his form in 2012.

We are pleased to confirm on Saturday May 19th that we will be racing at former Speedway GP Stadium, Brandon Road Coventry, home of the Coventry Bees Speedway Team. This is thanks to a partnership with Sideburn Magazine and will be RD 3 of the Club and Grand National Championship. We will give more details on this meeting as the Sideburn boys get to work on a unique meeting.

Our Flattrack School is ready for 2012. We are looking for complete novices who have never tried the sport or riders just starting out. We provide the bikes and the tuition, a full days riding and even lunch as well.
£120 Adults,Juniors £90 (Shorttrack UK Members get 20% discount).
2012 Dates so far are - Sat Feb18th, Sun March 18th, Sat 14th April
Call the Shorttrack office 01673 878426 to book your place

The World Supermoto contendor and former British Supermoto champion is hoping to race in the 2012 British Flattrack Championship. Christian, who is Road Racing now in the British Supersport Championship for Triumph has confirmed that he intends to race with us as long as he gets the go ahead from his road race team. Christian said 'I watched it on TV during the winter and it really got me wanting to race Flattrack. I'm pretty sure it will help me out with my road racing as well. I'm hoping to be riding a Husaberg prepped for flattrack by Dave Clarke Racing, I've just got to clear it with Triumph then I'm well up for it.'

HOT NEWS
We are in talks with two new manfactures who wish to run teams in this year's championship. Both have run machines in the States before but never in UK. We hope to be able to announce who they are in couple of weeks.

Co-Built was set up to support the UK race scene by building frames, exhausts and other parts for Flattrack machines. Anthony(Brown) and Geoff (Cain) the owners of Co-Built proved their confidence in their own product and went out and raced their own machines. They were rewarded with the Thunderbike title in 2011 when Anthony was crowned Thunderbike Champion.
Anthony said 'We are very proud to be the title sponsor for the 2012 season. Last year we had 5 bikes competing in the series and 4 of those bikes finished in the top 10. For 2012 we hope to have at least 7 bikes racing. We will also continue to support Pete Boast and Tim Neave with parts for their DTX bikes. We are really looking forward to the 2012 season and will continue to do our best to support racing in the UK and Europe.'
We like to say a big thank you to Steve Hillary of Redmax who has supported the Thunderbike Class for the last two seasons and will continue his support for Thunderbikes in the Club Championship. Steve is having a year out from riding, while getting over the injury he picked up at Rye House last season and is happy to let the Co- Built boys have the lime for the up and coming 2012 season.

We took Flattrack racing to Dublin's fair City and made history - this was the first time Flattrack racing has ever been seen in Ireland.

New Club Championship was a great success with 6 round championship, helping to bring new riders into the sport, with three Junior Classes and a new Adult Novice Class.

Oxford RD 1 of the Grand National Championship was a huge success, thanks to lot of hard work from riders, helpers and the stadium, to bring racing back to the former Speedway Stadium at Oxford. It was a lovely evening with a great crowd and fantastic racing and a real humdinger of a Final, with Tyson Nelson and Ade Collins battling for the win.

We also brought over 'On Any Sunday' legend Dave Aldana to Oxford. Not only did he give us a great evening on the fantastic 'Sideburn' night, he raced at Oxford at 63 years old and as the film says" if you think his antics are wild off the track ,wait to you see him on the track". Thanks Dave you were amazing!

Fastest Yet !

In August the riders got to sample a real cushioned 1/2 mile fair ground track, for a one off International meeting at Tir Prince Trotting Track,Rhyl, North Wales.The speeds were unbelivable, even when it rained the riders kept it on the gas.

Team Flattrack UK In USA
Thanks to sponsorship from friends and riders involved in the scene, Flattrack UK managed to send a UK team to the States. It was lead by Boastie with three of the fastest young up and coming riders from England -Tom Woolley ,Ben Baker and Tim Neave.The team raced over two weekends with 7 meetings in 12 days, on varying types of track, from 1/2mile Fairground tracks in Kansas, a fantasticly prepared 300metre track in Galesberg and the famous Peoria TT.This was a trip of a life time for the boys and big thanks go to Travis Smith from Suzuki USA Flattrack team for supplying the bikes.

Ade Collins 2 x Champion
Ade Collins was always the man to beat in 2012 and only two people did that - Tyson Nelson at Silverstone and Tom Woolley at Kings Lynn TT, the rest of the time Adian was unstopable. Well done Adian you were the well deserved Champion of 2011.

WWW.CELTIBERO.CH CARBON FLATTRACK PARTS
After just six years of racing in the UK and thanks to the support from Celtibero, we got the full Grand National UK Championship on Sky TV in front of thousands of people. I bet our friends from accross the pond are very jealous!

Seeing Geoff Baldock unable to miss Dave Aldana when he crashed on turn 3 at Oxford, with Geoff getting an arm injury which put him out for the season and forced him to retire from the sport.

It was a real shame the track was so rough. We had some input into how the track should be prepped but the Silverstone staff kept delaying building the track and only started work on the Tuesday before the meeting, so we knew it was going to tough to get it right but I guess we were pleased the meeting was still a success,and lets hope next year the track will be a lot better.

You can never seem to get away from the rain in Wales and this year was no exception. It rained all day Friday and then Saturday we had to call off the Club meeting but the sun did shine on Sunday for some racing, phew!

STEVE IN THE WARS AGAIN
Thunderbike sponsor and rider Mr Redmax Steve Hillary was going really well on his new Norton thunderbike, until Ryehouse, where he got involved in a crash and managed to brake several bones which put him out for the season. This is the second season Steve as had a nasty injury, let's hope it's the last!

We found out in the summer that Towerlands, Braintree had closed down. This left us looking for a new venue, which we found at Arena UK near Grantham. We tested the venue with some bikes and agreed a deal with the owner in October, then two weeks later he came back to us with planning problems meaning he couldn't run us this winter. We tried two other venues but to no avail. This was a real shame as last year was a great succes,but we promise that we will be back running indoors next year again.

It's Show time again and we're out and about promoting our great sport. We're starting the new year at the Newark Show Ground on Jan 7th and 8th at Morton's Classic Winter Show. This is a new show for 2012, with over 400 plots indoors and outdoors, and the star guest at the show is road race star Steve Plater, who raced at Oxford Rd 1 this year. Steve got injured road racing not long after Oxford and was not able to ride for the rest of the season. You can see Steve on our stand as he is big Flat Track fan and hopes to be racing with us again in 2012, now he his nearly back to race fitness again.
We are also having a stand and a display area for thunderbikes at the Telford Classic Off Road Show on Feb 4th and 5th, plus the famous ACE CAFE are having a Flattrack and Streettrackers day on Feb the 26th with bikes and gear from Redmax,Co-Built,Sideburn and US, there will be lots of bikes on display, making it well worth the trip.

There is still a chance that we will be running a round in the UK yet,please keep checking this website out.

Championship Dates Mostly Confirmed - this is what we've got at the moment.

Rd 1Sunday 1st April, Leicester Speedway Stadium, Confirmed
Rd 2 Saturday 21st April, Norfolk Arena, Confirmed
Rd 3 Saturday 19th May, Coventry Brandon Stadium, TBC
Rd 4 Saturday 16th June,Moto GP Silverstone,TBC
Rd 5 Sunday 22nd July,Buxton Hi Edge Speedway, Confirmed
Rd 6 Sunday 19th August, Scunthorpe Speedway Stadium, Confirmed
Rd 7 Sunday 16th September, Rye House Speedway, Confirmed

Steve Hazel #37r, who is well known for wrestling a big old Harley around Shorttracks in previous seasons, has just opened his own tuning shop and is concentrating on engine work for Flat Track racers. He built the engine that Tyson Nelson rode to great success in the GNC Championship !
Check out Steve's website www.mauldenmotorcycle.co.uk

Get the full GNC Championship on DVD including Mini Bikes, Juniors and Thunderbikes, just Click on the link below for more info

ALSO AVAVILABLE FOR CHRISTMAS - FLAT TRACK TRAINING SCHOOL GIFT VOUCHERS
Vouchers to the value of £90 for Juniors or £120 for Adults are now on sale and can be redeemed for any school in 2012. Please see the get started page for information on the training school, then ring 01673 878426 to arrange for your voucher to be sent in time for Christmas.

Valentino Rossi's new Ranch
Three times UK Champion Marco Belli is training with Valentino Rossi during the winter. Marco said that Val just finished his new ranch and asked if he would come over to train with him. The ranch as got two ovals and a large TT track. Both Marco and Valentino are riding Zeata's on ovals and DTX TM 530 on the TT track. Have fun Marco!

2012 Flat Track UK Championship

The new rules are in place for 2012 season. We are still running 2 Championships - Club and GNC but each round will take place on the same day, with the Club Championship during the daytime and GNC round during the evening. We are still working on dates and venues but we hope to be completed soon. We have managed to keep entry fees the same as 2011 and we are offering a discount if you ride in both the Club meeting and GNC meeting. Please see classes etc. below
CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP
National Pro Class - National Number Riders Only
Restricted Class – ‘R’ Plate Riders Only.
Novice Class - for riders who have ridden less than 6 meetings or a rider who has never made a Thunderbike final. If he or she wishes to be upgraded before the 6 meetings are completed, they may apply for permission from STUK.
Thunderbike Class - as tec rules
Mini Bike Class - as tec rules
Junior Shorttrack Class - 7-11 yrs old, 65 two stroke/150 air cooled four stroke.
Inter Shorttrack Class - 11- 14 yrs old, 85 two stroke/230 four stroke.
Senior Shorttrack Class - 14 - 17 yrs old, 125 two stroke/250 four stroke.

GNC Championship Class - Open to National Pro riders and Restricted riders
Youth GNC Class - Open to Inter and Senior class riders.
GNC Thunderbikes - As Thunderbike Rules

Dates and Venues.
The dates and venues for 2012 have still to be confirmed, although a typical season runs from
the end of March or beginning of April, until the middle of October. Tracks used range from
400m speedway tracks at Oxford, Leicester, Rye House etc., to half-mile trotting tracks in
Wales.

Registration for the 2012 series costs £45 for adults (an additional £20 if you wish to ride in the GNC Championship too), £30 for Mini Bikes and Juniors £25.
Fees per event are £40 for adults and £20 for an additional class. Mini bikes are £40 per meeting, Juniors £35. If riding GNC only, the entry fee for adults is £50, or £25 if also riding club class that day. For youths & Thunderbikes in the GNC the cost is £35 or £25 if you've raced in Club Class the same day.

UK riders Peter Boast,Glyn Pocklington and Darren Trapmore travelled over 2000 miles, through 9 different countries to compete in the International FMI Flat Track Meeting in Milan, which was held as part of the huge Milan Motorcycle Show. Boastie got two wins and a 4th place in his heat races, second in the Semi and ended up third in the Final. Daz Trapmore had some mega rides, beating Marco in one heat to take a win, he had a second and a 4th in the other heats, then managed 3rd in the Semi and finished a fine 6th place in the Final. Pocko had some bad luck, he blew up a bike up in practice, then had back row starts in all his races on a borrowed bike, so he only scraped into the last chance. He made a blinder of a start but it got stopped as a jump start, he was put off the back, so he didn't make the final, tough! Click on here to watch the Grand Final http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxIWqdGkrFI&feature=colike

Grand Final results:
1. #229 Marco Belli, Varese(I), Zaeta
2. #48 Vittorio-Emanuele Marzotto, Lonigo(I), KTM
3. #54 Peter Boast, Market Rasen(UK), Suzuki
4. #7 Daniele Moschini, Recanati(I), Fasciani
5. #19 Fabrizio Vesprini, Fermo(I), Fasciani
6. #38 Maurizio Lucarini, Latina(I), Honda
7. #20 Darren Trapmore, (UK), Honda
8. #5 Jacopo Monti Tradate(I), Honda
other riders:
#30 Alessandro Castiglioni, Lonate Ceppino(I), Kawasaki
#40 Marco Buzzi, (I), Yamaha
#47 Massimiliano Andreotti, Varese(I), Honda
#71 Glyn Pocklington, (UK), KTM
#74 Dario Magnoni, (I), Harley-Davidson
#77 Alessandro Scalabrin, Vicenza(I), KTM
#85 Manuel dal Molin, Udine(I), Husqvarna
#98 Lucas-Nicolas Foresti, Piovene(I), Honda

Another great video from TheFastandDirty.com of the 2011 AMA Grand National Championship Clip on the link below.

Ade Collins continued his winning ways by taking the points win in the pro class at a wet Scunthorpe on Sundaybut he didn't have it all his own way,Tom Woolley beat Ade in heat 2 and Suzuki boys Boast and Neave beat him in the double points final, however with his 2 heat in heats 1 and 3, Aidan still had a enough points to take the overal win.

1st Aidan Collins.........450 H M Plant Honda 62pts
2nd Peter Boast...........450 Team Suzuki 58pts
3rd Tim Neave..............450 Team Suzuki 54pts
4th Tom Woolley...........450 Pidcock Honda 44pts
5th Darren Trapmore....450 Kinrade Honda 41pts
6th Tom Neave..............250 Alwin Honda 41pts
7th Adam Allott..............450 TAJ KTM 27pts
8th Wayne Drake...........600 Co-Built rotax27pts
9th Alan Birtwistle.........450 Honda 22pts
10th Rob Johnson...........450 No Bull Yamaha 13pts
11th Paul Sheldon...........525 Framer KTM 12pts
12th Ben Wells................450 Honda 7pts

Championship Points, 1st Aidan Collins 56pts ,2nd Peter Boast 56pts,3rd Tom Woolley 56pts

Former Grasstrack Star Andy Riley was on top form and won all the restricted class races. The battle for second spot was a lot tighter with Steve Baldock and Anthony Sutton tied on points but on count back Stevie got second with a really good ride in the double points race, Paul Baleta only just missed out on a podium finish by one point.

1st Andy Riley.........450 DASH Honda 75pts
2nd Steve Baldock..450 Yamaha 45pts
3rd Anthony Sutton..450 DBR Suzuki 45pts
4th Paul Baleta..........600 KTM 44pts
5th Gary Inman..........600 Scooter Farm Rotax 35pts
6th Mick Trapmore.....450 Saxby Honda 32pts
7th Guy Sutherland....600 Co-Built Rotax 30pts
8th Geoff Cain.............600 Co -Built Rotax 30pts
9th David Holman.......450 Yamaha 26pts
10th Anthony Brown...600 Co Built Rotax 26pts
11th Lez Stevens ........600 Rotax 11pts
12th Ronald Shamier...600 Co Built Rotax 8pts

Championship points,1st Andy Riley 59pts,2nd David Holman 51pts,3rd Anthony Brown

The Novice Class was full of entertainment. Championship leader Stuart Lovell didn't have such a good day with 5th place but that still secured him the championship win. With three wins Mike Ingram took top spot on the podium on the day, second and one race win was Jason Ramsden and Steve Lane just got third spot from "Mr Cool" Jason Cursley.

1st Mike Ingram.......450 Honda 72pts
2nd Jason Ramsden..600 Scooter Farm Rotax 56pts
3rd Steve Lane..........450 CCM 48pts
4th Jason Cursley.....600 Rotax 48pts
5th Stuart Lovell........450 CCM 41pts
6th Ben Part...............600 Sideburn CCM 32pts
7th Biily Bull...............600 No Bull Yamaha 29pts
8th Drogo Mitchie.......600 Wilkie Rotax 24pts
9th James Croydon....600 Honda 20pts
10th Mike Annesley....600 KTM 13pts

Championbship Points,1st Stuart Lovell 71pts,2nd Ben Part 52pts,3rd Steve Lane 41pts

Junior Class saw a great battle between Ben Neave and Skye Adams, with Ben taking 3 wins and Skye taking one. Well done to Finn Nichols for finishing third at his very first meeting.

1st Ben Neave.......150 Saxby Sky Team 72pts
2nd Skye Adams...65 KTM 63pts
3rd Finn Nichols....50 KTM 49pts
4th Max Silvester...150 Sky Team 10pts

Championship Points,1st Ben Neave 94pts,2nd Skye Adams 82 pts,3rd Jake Drake 56pts

The Inter Class was controlled by Oliver Brindley with full house of wins,Tom Schmitt had his best ride of the season with a good second and it was good to see Sam Woolley on the podium again.

1st Oliver Brindley.............85 Arrow Yamaha 75 pts
2nd Tom Schmitt................150 Honda 58pts
3rd Sam Woolley................85 Suzuki 52pts
4th Aaron Silvester.............150 Honda 45pts

Championship Points 1st Oliver Brindley 96pts,2nd Tom Schmit 63pts,3rd Sam woolley 52 pts

Youth class saw a great skirmish between Flyn Scott and Ben Chatterton at the front end of the field, it was Ben who took the win in good style from Flynn and newcomer to Shorttrack Alfie Collett got a fine 3rd spot.

1st Ben Chatterton.........250 Chat Honda 72pts
2nd Flynn Scott...............250 Yamaha 63pts
3rd Alfie Collett................250 Honda 48pts
4th Adam Lovesly............250 Pipers Crisp Kawasaki 28pts

Championship points,1st Ben Chatterton 84pts,2nd Tom Neave 80 pts,Adam Lovesey 40pts

The Mini Bike action was it's usual hectic fun, Junior Champ Tom Neave took the points win from Darren Trapmore, but there were wins for Geoff Bull Snr and Rob Johonson.

1st Tom Neave........150 Saxby Thumpster 65points
2nd Darren Trapmore..150 Saxby Sky Team 54 pts
3rd Geoff Bull...............150 No Bull Thumpster 53pts
4th Rob Pearson...........150 Sky Team48pts
5th Rob Neave..............150 Saxby Sky Team 42pts
6th Geoff Bull JNR........150 No Bull Thumpster 36pts
7th Billy Bull..................150 No Bull Sky Team 24pts
8th Mike Silvester.........150 Sky Team 23pts
9th Mick Trapmore........150 Saxby Flop Team 18pts

Championship points,1st Geoff Bull SNR 66pts,2nd Darren Trapmore 44pts,3rd Geoff Bull JNR 44pts

The Thunder Bike Class had a high entry of riders and had to be decided on the 12 rider Final. Neil Martin lead from the start but got pressure from 16 year old Tim Neave riding John Roeder's 500 Two Stroke Framer, but he made a mistake and ran wide on lap four and droped to 3rd. Former Speedway Star Les Collins took up the challange to catch Martin, Collins tried everything but couldn't make the pass, so Neil took the win from Collins and Tim Neave held third spot from Anthony Brown.

1st Neil Martin..............600 Yamaha
2nd Les Collins............600 AutoJumble Honda
3rd Tim Neave..............500 Roeder Honda
4th Anthony Brown.....600 Co-Built Rotax
5th Paul Baleta.............600 KTM
6th Wayne Drake.........600 Co-Built Rotax
7th Gary Inman.............600 Scooter Farm Wood Rotax
8th Paul Sheldon..........600 KTM
9th Alan Birtwistle........600 Yamaha
10th Dave Arnold...........600 Scooter Farm Rotax
11th Lez Stevens............600 Rotax
12th Steve Coles.............650 Bros Honda

B Final winner Geoff Cain.....Co-Built Rotax

Championship Points,1st Steve Coles 60pts,2nd Anthony Brown 48pts,3rd Geoff Cain 44pts

A big thank you to all the Marshalls and Staff for helping out at another great meeting.

The Presention Evening for both championships is on 26th November, at Hykeham, Lincoln. Please call the shorttrack office for your tickets on 01673 878426

Stefan Gatzenmeier went in to the last round with a healthy 9 points lead over JW Jansen and 14 points over Mick Jansen. But the 250m track in Lelystad only offered 9 starting positions for the grand final and 17 fast and eager riders were ready to fight for honors! Former European shorttrack champion Sytze Hilleger, former dutch speedway champion Berry de Vos and flattrack pro and reigning Monobike champion Michelle Disalvo hd to battle it out with young guns like speedway star Pascal Schwart and dutch gras track aces Maikel Dijkstra, Johan van der Meij and Reinse de Jong. All were in good shape and the qualifying heats delivered some spectacular and fierce battles!
First one to miss the cut was Jan-Willem Jansen, an over enthusiastic move ended in a lowsider in his first heat and wrecked his chances right there. Everyone was looking forward to the grand final over 15 laps on the challenging and technically demanding short track. Sytze Hilliger made the hole shot and was closely followed by Disalvo and de Vos. Van der Meij and Dijkstra spend the entire final fighting for fourh position. Reinse de Jong made a bad start and fought back to sixt. Mick Jansen and Gatzenmeier changed positions several times in the first laps before Jansen pulled a gap to which he could not hold on. Gatzenmeier came back in the closing stages and regained the advantage over Jansen. Sytze Hilleger kept cool and took the victory. Disalvo tried hard to outsmart de Vos, but “the fox” did not fall for the trap and came in second! Michelle Disalvo third and Johan van der Meij won the battle for fourth!
Other highlights this season were round 4 in Marianske Lazne were 6 new riders turned up from the Czech republic! Rounds 3 & 6 saw the debut of the junior class in which Oliver Brindley and Tobias Gatzenmeier charmed the fans! Hopefully they will inspire many more juniors in 2012!

Flattrack returns to our screens in November when Motors TV broadcast full coverage of all six rounds of the Pozzani UK Grand National Championship on successive Monday evenings. Starting at 7pm on Monday 7th November with all of the action, interviews and reaction from the opening round at the Oxford Stadium, the racing is not to be missed. Watch again as reigning Champion Aidan Collins bids to retain his title, with a truly international line-up including Italy's Jacopo Monti and Australian hot-shot Tyson Nelson set to challenge him. Along with the dozens of riders travelling up and down the country, we covered every turn of the wheel, and in association with our sponsors Celtíbero and Silkolene are delighted to present six exciting shows.

Rd 1 Oxford 7th November 7pm
Rd 2 Silverstone 14th November 7pm
Rd 3 Amman Valley 21st November 7pm
Rd 4 Leicester 28th November 7pm
Rd 5 Kings Lynn 5th December 7pm
Rd 6 Rye House 12th December 7pm

Britains biggest selling dirt bike magazine,DIRTBIKE RIDER has a great feature on Flattrack UK thanks to Anthony (crasher ) Sutton (dept editor of the mag), who converted an RMZ 450x to Shorttracker and raced at 3 meetings, including Rhyl. He has done a great feature with some cool pics from all three meetings, helping to promote our sport,thanks Sutty.
It is in the newsagents now !!!!

Aidan Collins won his second UK title in succession and in great style by winning the last round of the Pozzani Grand National Flat Track uk Championship, run under floodlights at Rye House Speedway stadium on Saturday evening. Collins, who has been on fantastic form all season, controlled the final from start to finish, taking his 4th win of the season and winning the Championship by 24 points from runner up Tom Woolley. Tom had a battle with Suzuki's Tim Neave, with the pair swapping places for the first couple of laps, then Pidcock's Honda rider Tom held on to second until lap 8, when Tim drove underneath him and regained second place, which he held on to the end. Glyn Pocklington got a fine 4th spot after a race long dice with his Hemet4u.com Team mate Ben Baker. Pete Boast managed 6th spot after getting past Jacopo Monti on lap 5, who went on to crash out of 7th place on the last lap handing it to Darren Trapmore and rounding out the top 8 was Mini bike champ Mark Richardson.

1st #1 Aidan Collins..............450 HM PLANT Honda
2nd #14 Tim Neave...............450 Team Suzuki
3rd #93 Tom Woolley............450 Pidcock Honda
4th #71 Glyn Pocklington.....525 Helmets4u KTM
5th #7 Ben Baker...................450 Helmets4u Honda
6th #54 Peter Boast...............450 Team Suzuki
7th #20 Darren Trapmore......450 Kinrade Honda
8th #18 Mark Richardson.......450 Honda
9th #98 Richard Mason...........450 Arrow Honda
10th #30 Alan Birtwistle.........450 Honda
11th #28 Steve Coles.............450 Honda
12th #5 Jacopo Monti.............600 Celtibero Rotax

Final Championship standings
1st Ade Collins 107pts,2nd Tom Woolley 83 pts,3rd Peter Boast 63pts,4th Richard Mason 61pts,5th Glyn Pocklington 48pts,6th Tim Neave 46pts,7th Ben Baker 46pts,8th Jacopo Monti 36pts,9th Tyson Nelson 36pts,10th Alan Birtwistle 33pts,11th Darren Trapmore 30pts,12th David Haith 27pts.

The Redmax Thunderbike class was full of thrills and spills, none worse than Mr Redmax himself Steve Hillary who was invovled in a nasty three rider crash in the middle of turn 3, Steve was taken to hospital with a suspected broken shoulder and left leg, we are wishing him well for speedy recovery. 12 Thunderbike riders progressed to the final from the initial 24 riders who took aprt in the heat, dominated by Jacopo Monti, who did the same in the final, leading from start to finish but it still wasn't good enough to take the 2011 Championship, as Anthony Brown brought the Co-Built Rotax home in 4th place, giving him the title win by 7 points. Alan Birtwistle had a great ride to get second spot and the first Co-Built rider home was Guy Sutherland with fine Third spot.

Redmax Thunderbike Championship

1st Jacopo Monti..................600 Celtibero Rotax
2nd Alan Birtwistle...............600 Yamaha
3rd Guy Sutherland..............600 Co-Built Rotax
4th Anthony Brown..............600 Co-Built Rotax
5th Steve Coles....................650 Bros Honda
6th Geoff Cain.......................600 Co-Built Rotax
7th Paul Harrison..................600 Rotax
8th Dave Arnold....................600 Scooter Farm Rotax
9th Guto Llewelyn................600 Co-Built Husaberg
10th Wayne Drake................600 Rotax
11th Paul Baleta....................600 KTM
12th Pete Wilky.....................750 XR Harley-Davidson

Final Championship Points
1st Anthony Brown 75pts,2nd Jacopo Monti 68pts,3rd Alan Birtwistle 60pts,4th Steve Coles 54pts,5th Guy Sutherland 41pts,6th Wayne Drake 37pts,7th Paul Baleta 34pts,8th Guto Llewelyn 33pts,9th Pete Wilkinson 33pts, 10th Geoff Cain 30pts.

Tom Neave won the Arrow Engineering Junior Class in dominant style. Tom has won every round this year and wins the Title his brother won just 12 months ago, will be able to move up to the adult class for the remainder of the season, and with sponsorship from his Grandad he already has a 450 ready to go, so watch out Ade Collins! The Junior racing behind Tom was excellent with young Oliver Brindley riding a 85cc Yamaha to the limit and getting the better of the boys on 250's, Ben Chatterton picked up last spot on the podium, just giving him 2nd in the Championship.

Arrow Engineering Junior Championship

1st Tom Neave...................250 Alwin Honda 75
2nd Oliver Brindley............85 Arrow Yamaha 56pts
3rd Ben Chatterton.............250 Chat Honda 51pts
4th Flynn Scott......................250 Yamaha 45pts
5th Calum Willey.................250 Honda 39pts
6th Aaron Silvester.............150 AJSR Honda 37pts
7th Sam Woolley................. 85 Suzuki 32pts

Final Championship points
1st Tom Neave 100pts,2nd Ben Chatterton 76pts,3rd Oliver Brindley 72pts,4th Calum Willey 54pts,5th Sam Woolley 45pts,6th Tom Schmitt 44pts,7th Flynn Scott 36pts,8th Joshua Haith 26pts.

Goeff Bull and Darren Trapmore gave the crowd a real show, racing handle to handle on two types of Mini Bikes. Geoff was on the small wheeled 150 Stomp which was very quick down the straight but harder to ride in the corners and in turn Darren rode the bigger wheeled 150 machine which was slower than Bully's bike on the straight but handled a lot better in corners, which meant every race there must of been 15 passes between them but it was Geoff who got the overall win, Darren second and Geoff JNR third.

1st Geoff Bull..................150 Stomp 72pts
2nd Darren Trapmore....150 Kinrade X trail 63pts
3rd Geoff Bull Jnr.......... 150 Stomp 48pts
4th John Pohlman.......... 150 FY Sport 41pts
5th Billy Bull.................... 150 X trail 37pts
6th Rob Neave................. 150 Saxby X Trail 36pts
7th Mick Ingram............... 150 Stomp 33 pts
8th Mick Trapmore.......... 150 Kath X trail 30pts

Final Championship Points
1st Mark Richardson 80pts,2nd Geoff Bull 67pts,3rd Robert Neave 52pts,4th Geoff Bull Jnr 51pts,5th Billy Bull 30pts,6th John Pohlman 24pts,7th Mick Trapmore 21pts,8th Mike Ingram 20pts.

We would like to thank all our Sponsors for their support,
All the Marshalls and Staff for putting a cracking meeting together
See you all at our last Club round at Scunthorpe on October 9th
Pics By Steve Baldock

Round 4 of the Shorttrack UK Club Championship took place at Buxton High Edge Speedway this Sunday 4th September, with the best weather we've had there for ages. The day ran smoothly, with over thirty races for National Pro, Restricted, Novice, Thunderbike, Mini's, Junior, Inter and Youth classes, and all results being determined by total points scored over all heats, with a double point fourth race, except for the thunderbike class which had a proper final as there were more riders in that class.

Well done to all the riders and a big thanks to all staff and marshalls for a well run meeting (welcome back Andy!)

NATIONAL PRO

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01 AIDAN COLLINS 67pts
93 TOM WOOLLEY 61pts
54 PETER BOAST 45pts
14 TIM NEAVE 43pts
11 ADAM ALLOTT 40pts
20 DAREN TRAPMORE 38pts
18 MARK RICHARDSON 33pts
30 ALAN BIRTWISTLE 22pts
09 RICHARD MAY 21pts
28 STEVE COLES 16pts
72 WAYNE DRAKE 15pts
03 PAUL SHELDON 6pts

53 ANDY RILEY 60pts
62 DAVID HOLMAN 59pts
45 GEOFF CAIN 49pts
64 STEVE BALDOCK 41pts
47 ANTHONY BROWN 35pts
19 MICK TRAPMORE 32pts
44 LEZ STEVENS 29pts
97 GUY SUTHERLAND 27pts
88 PAUL SCOTT 22pts
22 MIKE RYAN 18pts
31 DAVE ARNOLD 15pts
59 STEVE HILLARY 9pts

24 STUART LOVELL 75pts
67 BEN PART 50pts
29 JAMES CROYDEN 43pts*
72X ANDREW BURCHALL 43pts
31 DROGO MITCHIE 42pts
8X ADRIAN BOWMAN 38pts
*gained 3rd overall with win in 'final'

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94 LES COLLINS
28 STEVE COLES
45 GEOFF CAIN
47 ANTHONY BROWN
72 WAYNE DRAKE
97 GUY SUTHERLAND
30 ALAN BIRTWISTLE
04 PAUL HARRISON
31 DAVE ARNOLD
59 STEVE HILLARY
29 JAMES CROYDEN
03 PAUL SHELDON
(Finishing order of final)

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66 GEOFF BULL 72pts
28 DARREN TRAPMORE 60pts
13 GEOFF BULL JNR 49pts
22 ROBERT NEAVE 45pts
83 HENNING LOOF 38pts
19 MICK TRAPMORE 36pts
15 BILLY BULL 35pts

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24 OLIVER BRINDLEY 72pts
17 DAN VAN DER HOEVEN 63pts
96 TOM SCHMITT 47pts
34 AARON SILVESTER 46pts
11 SAM WOOLLEY 42 pts

The Shorttrackuk Team left Heathrow, London on 10th August to compete in some of the oldest and most famous flattrack meetings in the USA. Boastie lead the team of some of the best young riders in the country - Tom Woolley, Ben Baker and Tim Neave, along with the crew of Tom's grandad Melv, Ben's dad Kenny boy and Tim's Uncle Tim Coles who took all the pics.

We landed at St Louis and drove to Jefferson City, Missoure where we hooked up with Travis Smith (former spanner man for Jake Johnson, Chris Carr and Kopp), who runs DBM Motorsport and was supplying our bikes. Travis was flat out working on sprint cars when we rolled up at 11pm, some bikes were in bits, with engines out, heads off etc., and knowing we were testing the next day it seemed a lot of work but Travis worked through the night to get the engines together. The next day we all set to to put all the bikes together, then loaded up. Travis then informed us his local test track was 2 hours away, so by the time we got to the 5/8 ths banked stockcar track it was 10 pm. The owner met us at the gate, switched on the floodlights and said 'There you go boys, have skid, take long as you want' and they didn't even charge us a dollar!!

Our first meeting was at Colby, Kansas which was an 8 hour drive and we rolled up just in time for sign on. As we got into the pits Chris Carr was there to greet us shouting'hey you limeys can park near me'. Over the next two weeks Chris was awesome, he spent so much time coming over helping us with advice on riding and bike set up, plus showing us how to chew tobacco, cooking fresh fish for us all, and besides that he had all the races except one at Kansas. We all entered the pro 450 Class. The track was banked like Daytona, even the straights had steep banking. We all made it to the final, me and Ben were a bit off the pace in the final, Tom was on the back of a freight train but Tim was the star rider and finished 7th in the final.

Next day it was a 2 hour trip to Norton Kansas, a 1/2 mile dark clay track that was an old stock car track, lined with armco all the way round with the odd straw bale. We were all going much quicker than we were used to but it still blue groved up. Again, we all made the final, Tom had a fantastic ride and got 5th, I was 10th, Ben 11th and Tim had header pipe crack and had to retire. There was some sad news that one of the vintage competitors crashed and died at track, which we didn't find out till after the meeting.

Next day we went to Weeknee race way and watched some Sprintcar racing, then on to Stockton Kansas,where they've been racing Flattrack at the Fair grounds since the 30's and the tradition was for all the riders to ride through the town on their bikes which was pretty cool. Chris Carr lead the parade behind a police car, while the rest of us popped wheelies behind.
We entered 2 pro class, open and 450. The Stockton track had a hard concrete wall at the start and finish but for the rest of the track there was nothing - just a bank to fly over if you got it wrong! It was a fast track with long straights and we all struggled a little bit with the pace over the two days. We made all the Finals filling the last 4 spots in final, but it still was great fun and we learnt a lot.

Next we had 2 days off from racing but we had an 8 hour drive back to Jefferson, a day working on the bikes, then a 6 hour drive to Peoria,IL Shorttrack, so not much rest was had. This time there was a lot stronger field and the Experts had their own Class and we rode in the pro 450. The track was banked like Colby but smaller and a bit rougher surface but you could ride anywhere high or low. We found it tough going only Tim made the Final where he finished 17th.

The next we were at Galesburg,IL, a little track standing on top of a mound, in the middle of a field, with gripiest dirt I've ever ridden, it was more like we ride back home. In practice Ben got it all wrong going into turn one and dissappeared over the edge, he must have flown 30ft through the air but managed to stay on! We were all a lot quicker here, we got to the Semi's and we were all in Semi 2. I got the holeshot, only to be passed by a girl (well a fast girl) Shyna Texter. By the end of the race Tim passed me for 3rd, I was 4th, Tom 5th, Ben 7th but only the winner got to the Final.

Next morning we were up at 6am to get to the famous Peoria TT track. Tom was the only rider representing UK and only had 4 laps to try to get used to track before qualifing, then he had 2x 4 laps to get into the top 32 out 42 riders - a pretty tall order as all the other riders had raced here two months ago. Tom missed the cut at 39th fastest but we were still proud of him, he was just 0.8 second off making the show. 30,000 fans watched the meeting (wish we could get same at kings lynn). Henry Wiles won again, I think thats his seventh time now but he's still got few more wins to get yet to beat Chris's 9 wins. It was Chris 's last time at Peoria and they gave him a great send off.
We said our goodbyes to new and old friends we've met and headed back to St Louis to catch our plane back to Blitey, having had a great time.

Travis Smith (for sorting bikes and transport),Chris Carr and family for spending so much time with us ,Frank Harding and his Team at the Kansas races, All our sponsors including Jacopo Monti, Marshall Kinrade and every one who sponsored our push bike ride at Amman, we all appreciate your help with our trip of a lifetime.

Team transporter.....................................................getting ready for our first meeting..............................Ben in practice at Colby.........................

Getting to know the opposition on riders parade Colby......................................................Tom on Suzuki Framer in front, Tim on X JR Schanbal Suzuki...

Chris and Popa Carr Helping Ben to set his bike up.............Chris on the XR at Stockton...............................Heath and Safety is easy in the states............

Pro 450 open final at Norton...............................................Tom over the Peroia's TT jump.......

Ade Collins took the £500 first place prize fund away from the first ever full 1/2 mile Fair Ground Flat Track meeting ,by winning the International All Stars Grand Final at Tir Prince Trotting Track, North Wales on Saturday 6th. The first heat races were run on a beautfully prepared track, with riders hitting 100 + and hardly slowing down for the corners, the racing fast furious but by heat 6 the rain begain to fall. After a 1/2 hour delay racing got under way again and the heat races were completed.
Semi 1 saw a great battle of the 2 young guns Suzuki's Tim Neave and Pidcock Honda rider Tom Woolley and it was Tim who took the win just from Tom, with Mark Richardson 3rd and Glynn Pocklington and Superbike rider Johnny Ingram making his first Flat Track Final. In Semi 2 Ade Collins lead from start to finish, Ben Baker had a good second anf the battle was for third with Darren Trapmore ,Pete Boast and Ben Wells. Trapmore and Boast made it through but Wells came to grief on the last lap and former long track rider Andy Riley benfited with the final transfer spot.
The Last Chance race was a right royal battle between Tim Greig,Dave Holman,Steve Coles,Neil Martin and Paul Baleta but it was Coles that took the win and Neil Martin on the Thunderbike got the last transfer spot.
The Grand final lined up with 12 riders in one line on the wide Tir Prince track. Woolley and Collins hole shotted but Collins swept around the out side and took the lead from Woolley, Baker, Neave , Richardson, Boast and Trapmore.
Collins pulled away from Woolley who in turn was leaving the battle in 3rd, with Neave trying to go round the outside of Baker. Boast and Richardson were swaping places every lap. Going into the last lap Collins had gone way out in front,Tom woolley was holding position from Ben Baker and Tim Neave who was battling it out still. The Chequered flag was held out for Ade Collins to take the first Grand Final win at Tir Prince, Woolley took 2nd and Baker held on to third spot.

1st #1 Ade Collins.................450 H M Plant Honda
2nd #93 Tom Woolley...........450 Pidcock Honda
3rd #7 Ben Baker..................450 Helmets4u Honda
4th #14 Tim Neave................450 Team Suzuki
5th #54 Pete Boast...............450 Team Suzuki
6th # 20 Darren Trapmore..........450 Kinrade Honda
7th #71 Glyn Pocklington........525 Helmets4u Honda
8th #53r Andy Riley...................450 D.A.S.H Honda
9th #28 Steve Coles................450 Honda
10th #16x Johnny Ingram......450 TAJ KTM
11th #18r Mark Richardson...450 Honda
12th #26r Neil Martin..............600 Yamaha

You could think you are in mid west USA! Fair ground 1/2 mile.......Tim Neave leads his Team Mate Peter Boast

Ade Collins under the floodlights................................................Bean Baker is interviewed by Martin after heat race win..............

Andy Riley and Wayne Drake in action................................................Champagne flies on the podium - mind the Mayor Ade!

Pidcock Team Honda Rider Tom Woolley flew to a fantastic win in Round 5 of the Pozzani Grand National UK Flat Track Championship on Saturday at the Norfolk Artena. The 17 year from Burton On Trent even suprised himself by taking the win. Tom said 'Last year I didn't even make the Final, so to pull off the win was amazing, and thanks to the Pidcock CRF Honda which worked awesome.'
The TT race is part of the Flat Track Series and involves left and right handers and jumps but the vital thing is that the riders still only run only a rear brake! By time it got to the Grand Final Richard Mason was unbeaten and had pole,Tom Woolley had second pick after winning semi 2 and also chose the front row, along with "Cowboy " Glyn Pocklington and Ben "Smiler" Baker.
At the start of the Grand Final all the riders charged to the first corner, Suzuki rider Tim Neave took a highside and took Daz Trapmore down on the Kinrade Honda and the race had to be stopped. In restart it was Ben Baker who made the hole shot and as all 12 riders came over the start line on the first lap it was Baker still from Woolley, Pocklington, Alan Birtwistle, Mason, Ade Collins, Pete Boast, David Haith, Tim Greig, Richard May, Tim Neave and Darren Trapmore. By Lap 3 the riders were swapping places and the lead was with Tom Woolley from Baker and Boast got past Collins into 6th. On lap 5 there was a freight train of 8 riders battling for the lead,"Magic" Mason had moved past Birtwistle into 4th spot, with Boast and Collins moving past Birtwistle on lap 6. As the race progressed the freight train was still together, with Woolley stretching just a bike length ahead of Baker who had the rest of the field snapping at his heels. Mason now moved past Pocklington and Boast and Collins were putting the pressure on Pocko. During the last lap Tom Woolley made no mistakes and took his first Grand National final of the year, Baker held on to a fine 2nd place from Richard Mason and with Pocklington just loosing out to Boast and Collins on the final lap to finish 6th.

1st #93 Tom Woolley.................450 Pidcock Honda
2nd #7 Ben Baker.......................450 Helmets4u Honda
3rd #98 Richard Mason..............450 Arrow Honda
4th #54 Peter Boast....................450 Team Suzuki
5th #1 Aidan Collins....................450 H M Plant Honda
6th #71 Glyn Pocklington...........525 Helmets4u KTM
7th #30 Alan Birtwistle...............450 Honda
8th #17 David Haith....................450 Arrow Honda
9th #10 Tim Greig.......................450 Honda
10th #14 Tim Neave....................450 Team Suzuki
11th #9 Richard May...................450 Team Suzuki
12th #20 Darren Trapmore.........450 Kinrade Honda

Championship Points
1st Ade Collins 87pts,2nd Tom Woolley 69pts,3rd Richard Mason 54 pts,4th Peter Boast 53 pts,5th Glyn Pocklington 36pts,6th Tyson Nelson 36 pts.

Team Co-built owner Anthony Brown proved how good his own bikes are by taking a win in the Redmax Thunderbike Championship at the Norfolk Arena. Anthony lead from start to finish in final but he had pressure from Peter Boast in the later stages of the race on board a vintage 1972 trackmaster 750 Yam. Guy Sutherland had a great ride to finish 3rd, also on a Co- Built machine.

1st Anthony Brown.....................600 Co-Built Rotax
2nd Peter Boast...........................750 Trackmaster Yamaha
3rd Guy Sutherland.....................600 Co-Built Rotax
4th Pete Wilkinson.......................750 XR Harley Davidson
5th Wayne Drake..........................600 Rotax
6th Paul Baleta..............................600 ktm
7th Steve Coles.............................650 Bros Honda
8th Jacopo Monti...........................600 Celtibro Circle F Rotax
9th Alan Birtwistle.........................600 Yamaha
10th Paul Harrison.........................600 Rotax
11th Paul Sheldon.........................600 KTM
12th Tim Stevens..........................600 CCM

Tom Neave made no mistake at his ever first TT race and won with a max 4 wins. There was some great racing throughout the field, none more so than the battles in each race between Oliver Brindley, Calum Willey and Ben Chatterton, with Ben mangaging to get 2nd from Calum Willey who had a great result in 3rd place overall.

1st Tom Neave.........................250 Alwin Honda 75pts
2nd Ben Chatterton.................250 Chat Honda 55pts
3rd Calum Willey.....................250 Honda 50pts
4th Oliver Brindley.................. 85 Yamaha 46pts
5th Tom Schmit........................ 150 Honda 39pts
6th Sam Woolley...................... 85 Suzuki 32pts
7th Josh Haith.......................... 85 Honda 26pts

Mini Bike Champ Mark Richardson won the Mini bikes again but this time had some tough battles with Steve Rhodes and Victor Bull, making for some exciting racing. Mark won the first three heat races but had to settle for 3rd place in the double points race when Victor Bull took victory from Steve Rhodes. It was still enough to win on overall points though and he remains at the top of the championship.

Mini Bike Result

1st Mark Richardson...........150 stomp 65pts
2nd Victor Bull..................... 150 Stomp 58pts
3rd Steve Rohdes............... 150 Stomp 58pts
4th Dan Mansbridge........... 150 Stomp 41pts
5th Mike Ingram................. 150 Stomp 36pts
6th Geoff Bull JNR............. 150 Stomp 36pts
7th Geoff Bull SNR............. 150 stomp 34pts
8th Dwain Sismore............ 150 Stomp 28pts
9th Rob Neave................... 150 Saxby X trail 18pts
10th Tim Neave.................. 150 Saxby X trail 15pts
11th Mick Trapmore........... 150 Saxby x trail 12pts

Dash for Cash - 1st Richard Mason,2nd Darren Trapmore,3rd David Haith,4th Tim Neave,5th Alan Birtwistle,6th Derek Brindley,7th Tim Greig 8th Pete Boast

Thankyou to every one for helping to put on a great meeting,next GNCround 17th September Rye House.

Carl Fogarty and Jamie Whitham are currently making a DVD about riding different motorcycle sports and went to Coventry Stadium on Wednesday to shoot some Flat Track action. The boys got some tips from Ade Collins and Pete Boast before they took to the track, then they took part in some races with 10 other riders. The DVD will be out in November if you want to see how they did.

Jared Mees on his way to his third win of the season....I-96 action #12 Brad Baker,#1 Jake Johnson and #42 Bryan Smith

I-96,Half Mile,AMA Grand National Championship
1st Jared Mees H-D,2nd Bryan Smith H-D,3rd Jake Johnson H-D,4th Sammy Halbert H-D,5th Chris Carr H-D,6th Matt Weidam H-D

Aidan Collins took his third win out of four rounds of the Pozzani Grand National Championship at the new Leicester Speedway Stadium on Sunday 17th July. Collins, riding his H M Plant Honda was in dominant form, only dropping one race all day to Glyn Pocklington in a heat race. He cruised to victory in his Semi, giving the young guns of Tom Woolley on his Pidcocks Honda and Tim Neave riding for Team Suzuki a lesson in the fastest way around Leicester. Also making final were Ben Wells and Ben Baker both on Honda's. With rain beginning to fall for Semi 2, Suzuki rider Peter Boast mastered the conditions best and took the win from Italy's Jacopo Monti, Glyn Pocklington, David Haith and Richard Mason. Ten riders went through to the Grand Final, leaving just two more to find from the 12 rider last chance dash, which proved to be a real four- way dice with Darren Trapmore, Derek Brindly, Alan Birtwistle and Speedway Star Adam Allott, with places swapping throughout the race, with Derek Brindley and Adam Allott finally getting the transfer spots.

Rain was still falling as the Grand Final lined up but the track was still holding up well. Aidan Collins made a rocket proppelled start into the first corner from Woolley, Boast, Monti and Neave. On lap 2 Collins already had a bike length lead as Monti squeezed past Boast on turn 1, with Mason, Haith and Wells battling hard for 6, 7 and 8th places. By lap 6 Collins was way in the front with a half straight lead and Tom Wolley was coming under lots of pressure from Jacopo Monti who had two team Suzuki riders of Boast and Neave on his tail.

On lap 8 Monti maked a move on Woolley but Woolley came right back and repassed him. By lap 12 Collins still had healthy lead, there was still strong battle going on for 2nd to 5th with Woolley, Monti, Boast, Neave then Richard Mason was pulling in the gap to join that battle. As the 15 race laps were completed it was Honda's Aidan Collins who took his 3rd Grand Final victory of the season, 18 year old Tom Woolley took a fine 2nd spot after much pressure form the likeable Italian Jacopo Monti who held on to 3rd spot.

1st #1 Aidan Collins..................450 H M Plant Honda
2nd #93 Tom Woolley...............450 Pidcock Honda
3rd #5 Jacopo Monti..................450 Celtibero Honda
4th #54 Peter Boast...................450 Team Suzuki
5th #14 Tim Neave.....................450 Team Suzuki
6th #98 Richard Mason..............450 Arrow Honda
7th #8 Ben Wells........................450 Honda
8th #71 Glyn Pocklington..........525 Helmets4u KTM
9th #7 Ben Baker........................450Helmets4u Honda
10th #17 David Haith..................450 Arrow Honda
11th #25 Derek Brindley............450 Arrow Honda
12th #11x Adam Allott................450 TAJ KTM

Championship points Top Six
Collins,76,Woolley 49,Boast 41,Mason 40,Nelson 36,Monti 30

#1 Ade Collins and #71 Glyn Pocklington battle it out in the heat race...#7 Ben Baker,# 11x Adam Allott,Dave Homen,5 Monti,25 Brindley

Semi 1 first corner..............Grand Final,Collins,Woolley,Monti,Boast and Haith

Jacopo Monti, was flying again in the Thunderbike Final but he had to be because former Leicester Speedway Star Les Collins was pushing him hard in all the heat races and the final. A great ride from Alan Birtwistle to come from 7th on first lap to take 3rd spot just from Steven Coles.

Redmax Thunderbike Result
1st Jacopo Monti..................Celtibero Circle F Rotax
2nd Les Collins........................................... 600 Honda
3rd Alan Birtwistle.....................................600 Yamaha
4th Steve Coles....................................650 Bros Honda
5th Anthony Brown..............................Co-Built Rotax
6th Wayne Drake............................................600 Rotax
7th Paul Harrison................................../.........600 Rotax
8th Paul Baleta..................................................600 KTM
9th Geoff Cain...................................600 Co-Built Rotax
10th Guto Llewelyen..................600 Co-Built Husaberg
11th Guy Sutherland........................600 Co-Built Rotax
12 Neil Martin...............................................600 Yamaha

Championship Points, Brown 43pts,Monti 40pts,Birtwistle 37pts,Coles 34pts,Llewlyen 26pts,Drake 22pts

All action thunder heat race..........................................................Paul Harrison on the Rotax and Pete Wilky sideway on the big Harey

Tom Neave proved to be unstoppable in the Arrow Engineering Junior Championship, by taking 4 wins. The battle was for second place, with some great races between Oliver Brindley and Ben Chatterton, with Chatterton just managing to get second by 6 points from Oliver Brindley. There was plenty of action further down field, with some great races from Tom Schmitt, Josh Haith, Flynn Scott and Calum Willey, so well done to all the Juniors.

Arrow Engineering Junior Result
1st Tom Neave.......................250 Alwyn Honda 75pts
2nd Ben Chatterton...............250 Chat Honda 58pts
3rd Oliver Brindly..................85 Arrow Yamaha 52pts
4th Tom Schmitt......................150 Honda 38pts
5th Josh Haith.........................85 Honda 37pts
6th Flynn Scott........................230 Framer CCM 36pts
7th Calum Willey.....................250 Honda 26pts
8th Sam Woolley.....................85 Suzuki 23pts
9th Lewis Smith...................... 150 Honda 8pts

#11 Sam Woolley,17 Josh Haith,96 Tom Schmit..........................57 Tom Neave,62 Ben Chatterton,24 Oliver Brindley,2Calum Willey

Mark Richardson was in control of the Mini Bike races and on on a Max of wins, Second place went to USA rider Travis Newbold who was on holiday and fancied a bit of Flat Track action while he was here and Monti grabbed third spot.

Mini Bike Result.
1st Mark Richardson..............150 Stomp.
2nd Travis Newbold............... 150 Brown Flyer
3rd Jacopo Monti.................... 150 Honda
4th Geoff Bull.......................... 150 Stomp
5th Robo Neave...................... 150 Saxby Sky Team
6th John Oliver....................... 150 Stomp
7th Tim Neave........................ 150 Saxby Sky Team
8th Mick Trapmore.................. 150 Saxby Sky Team

Big thanks to the Leicester Speedway Crew, all our Staff, Marshalls and Sponsors for making it a great event.

Pics By Tim Coles. Next Meeting Saturday Evening 30th July,Norfolk Arena,Kings Lynn

Round 3 of the Mefo Flattrack Cup Results
1st Jan Willem Jansen......HD,2nd Stefan Gatzenmeier....KTM,3rd Mick Janson....Harley Davidson.

Coolbeth Wins Hagerstown 1/2 mile AMA Championship.
Grand final Podium result,1st Kenny Coolbeth HD,2nd Johnny Lewis KAW,3rd Jared Mees HD.

Brand New DTX FLat Trackers For Sale

Pidcocks Honda of Long Eaton who sponsor Tom Woolley, are building new CRF 450 Injection DTX bikes for sale and the first one is in Show room now! For more details contact Pidcocks on 01159469555.

Aidan Collins dominated Round 3 of the Pozzani Grand National UK Flat Track Championship, at the half mile trotting track at Amman Valley this weekend. From the very first heat race Collins looked the man to beat after winning comfortably from Tim Neave and Richard Mason. When the semi's came around, Collins won again but this time he was put under a lot of pressure from the young Lincolnshire rider Ben Baker. The other semi was won by Pidcock's Honda rider Tom Woolley, who had a great dice with Richard "Magic" Mason and 16 year old Suzuki rider Tim Neave.
Grand Final line up consisted of - front row Collins, Woolley, Baker, Mason, second row, Neave, Ben Wells, Wayne Drake, Glyn Pocklington and the back row comprised Peter Boast, Alan Birtwistle and two riders from last Chance Darren Trapmore and Steve Coles.
Collins made no mistake and holeshoted out the first corner with rest pack hard after him. By the end of the first lap Collins already had a bike length lead from Mason, Woolley, Wells, and Neave with Drake rounding out the top 6. On lap 3 Collins was way in front and the battle was on for second 2nd spot between Mason and Woolley, with Tim Neave closing in on the pair. On lap 5 Wayne Drake went down in middle of the pack while in 5th spot, scattering riders all over, then on lap 6 Suzuki's Tim Neave came to grief when challenging for third spot.
By the 9th lap in the blistering heat Collins had 1/2 a straight lead and Mason had pulled away from Woolley. The battle for fourth was hotting up with Ben Wells, Boastie and Baker. As the race reached full distance H M Plant rider Aidan Collins cruised to victory, with Richard Mason in a safe second spot, Tom Woolley was being closed down by Ben Wellsbut held on for the last spot on the podium. That now gives Collins a 20 point lead in the Championship from Aussie Star Tyson Nelson, who now has just a 3 point lead over Tom Woolley in third spot.

1st # 1 Aidan Collins..................................450 H M Plant Honda
2nd # 98 Richard Mason...................................450 Arrow honda
3rd # 93 Tom Woolley....................................450 Pidcock Honda
4th # 8 Ben Wells.............................................................525 KTM
5th # 54 Peter Boast .........................................450 Team Suzuki
6th # 7 Ben Baker.......................................450 Helmets4u Honda
7th # 30 Alan Birtwistle.................................................450 Honda
8th # 28 Steve Coles.....................................................450 Honda
9th # 71 Glyn Pocklington............................525 Helmets4u KTM
10th # 20 Darren Trapmore.............................450 Kinrade Honda
11th # 72 Wayne Drake ............................................450 TAJ KTM
12th # 14 Tim Neave...........................................450 Team Suzuki

1st Aidan Collins 56pts,Tyson Nelson 36 pts, Tom Woolley 33 pts, Richard Mason 30 pts, Peter Boast 29pts

Local Lad Guto Llewelyn gives the welch fans something to cheer about with fantastic Win in the Redmax Thunderbike Final.
This was one of best races of the day,with 8 riders swopping places through out the 8 lap final but it was Guto that pulled all the stops to take victory,Anthony Brown snatched second place on the last corner from John Lee.

1st #79r Guto Llewelyn...................600 Co-Built Husaberg
2nd #47r Anthony Brown................600 Co-Built Rotax
3rd #76 John Lee .............................710 Scooter Farm Honda
4th #54 Peter Boast.......................... 750 Trackmaster Yamaha
5th #28 Steve Coles.......................... 650 Bros Honda
6th #26r Neil Martin........................... 600 Yamaha
7th #30 Alan Birtwistle...................... 600 Yamaha
8th #97r Guy Sutherland.................... 600 Co-Built Rotax
9th #3 Paul Sheldon........................... 600 KTM Framer
10th #31r Dave Arnold......................... 600 Scooter Farm Rotax
11th #99r Pete Wilkinson.................... 750 XR Harley Davidson
12th #45r Geoff Cain.......................... 600 Co-Built Rotax

Tom Neave took a clean sweep in the Junior Class winning all 4 races Including the Double Points but there was some great battles going on for 2nd 3rd and 4th spot between Ben Chatterton,Oliver Brindley and Jack Cornes also Callum Willey had is best ride of season with 5th overal just beating the battling Tom Schmit.

1st Tom Neave........................250 Alwin Honda ....75pts
2nd Ben Chatterton................250 Chat Honda.... 60pts
3rd Oliver Brindley..................85 Arrow Yamaha... 49pts
4th Jack Cornes......................150 Honda........ 46pts
5th Calum Willey.....................250 Honda....... 38pts
6th Tom Schmit.......................150 Honda...... 33pts
7th Sam Wolley....................... 85 Suzuki..... 27pts
8th D Van der hoeven............. 85 KTM..... 26pts
9th Niclaus Crosby................. 85 Yamaha.... 21pts
10th Flyn Scott........................ 230 Framer .... 8pts

Mark Richardson was once again the master of the Mini Bikes but all the action was behined him with some great races between father and son Geoff Bull's and Rob Neave with some of the best racing of the day.

Mini Bike Result

1st Mark Richardson...............150 Stomp.......75pts
2nd Geoff Bull JNR.................. 150 Stomp..... 56pts
3rd Rob Neave.......................... 150 X trail...... 50pts
4th Geoff Bull SNR................... 150 X trail...... 46pts
5th Billy Bull.............................. 150 X trail..... 35pts

The Novice and 7 to 11 Club races was run Sunday morning after Saturdays Meeting was rain off

1st Stuart Lovell,2nd Steve Lane,3rd Jason Ramsden,4th Ben Part,5th Drogo Mitchie,6th James Croyden,7th Billy Bull,8th Adam Waller.

Big thank you to Amman Trotting Club for letting use there Venue,also to all Marshalls and Staff helping out on the day

We can now confirm that the rest of Grand National UK Championship will be covered for Motors TV !!!!
After talks between the production company and Angel Salvadore of Celtibero, the two have reached an agreement to carrying on filming the Championship. Angel said " We are pleased to come confirm that we are able support the TV Coverage for the rest of the season. It's a big commitment for my company but a very important one to help the to sport grow. However we still need other sponsors to come on board just like Silkolene did at Silverstone, and the fact that we've got the full season covered means we will secure prime spots on the Motors TV Schedule, making it more attractive for other sponsors to come on board as well."
Motors TV are looking at airing the first round (Oxford) in October, a better time of the year for viewing figures, with the remainder of the Championship to follow over two months leading into December.

Tyson Nelson won Round 2 of the Pozzani Grand National UK Championship in spectacular style on Saturday, at a meeting which was held at Silverstone as part of the Moto GP weekend. The oval track that was built at the off-road complex for this event, saw 56 riders compete in a timed qualification session in the afternoon, to try make the top 36 rider field for the evening event .

In front of a packed house the early heats saw a lot of action, as the newly laid track took a while to settle down, In the first heat race Tyson Nelson was looking strong, as he won beating fastest qualifer Richard Mason. Further heat wins went to Marco Belli, Adian Collins, Peter Boast, Tom Woolley, Alessandro Scalabrin, Tim Neave and Glyn Pocklington, with the top 24 riders progressing to the heats.

The first Semi saw a clash between Collins and Nelson - the top two in the Championship - and it was Nelson who took the hole shot and lead Collins, Scalabrin, Boast and Ben Baker. Collins pushed Nelson during the early stages but as laps wound down Tyson pulled away and took the win from Collins, Scalabrin and Boast with Jacopo Monti taking last spot through to the final.
Semi two was a superb win for Italy's Fabrizio Vesprini who headed "Magic" Mason, Woolley, Belli and Vittorio Marzotto into the Grand Final. With only two transfer places left for 12 rider Grand Final from the last chance race, it was Marco Buzzi who took the early lead but he was under pressure from Alan Birtwistle, David Haith, Tim Neave and Daz Trapmore. With two laps to go it was Birtwistle who took the lead, but Buzzi held on to take that final spot and Birtwistle earning his National Number.

The Grand Final riders walked out with their machines in front of an enthusatic crowd, many of whom hadn't seen Flat Track before. On the front row was Vesprini, Nelson, Mason, Collins, second row Woolley, Scalabrin, Belli, Boast and the third row Monti, Marzotto, Birtwistle and Buzzi. After a few riders jumped the start they were recalled for a restart, when Vesprini got the hole shot. Woolley went down, skattering riders all over but the race continued with Vesprini in the lead from Neslon, Collins, Mason, Scalabrin and Marzotto. Nelson got past Vesprini then Collins followed him through and by lap 4 Collins was past Nelson and Mason was in third. During the next 7 laps Nelson was trying everything to get past Collins and the crowd watched with amazement as he was in and out of his seat, giving it all he'd got.
On lap Collins succumbed to his pressure and Aussie star managed to make the front again. Collins continued to fight with Mason only a couple of bike lengths behind but Tyson held on, crossing the line on his back wheel to take his first Grand National UK Championship win, with Collins second from Mason who got a fine third spot.

1st # 70 Tyson Nelson (AUS).......................450 Honda
2nd # 1 Adian Collins (GB)...........................450 H M Plant Honda
3rd # 98 Richard Mason (GB).......................450 Arrow Honda
4th # 19x Fabrizio Vesprini (IT)....................550 Guere
5th # 77x Alessandro Scalabrin (IT)............520 KTM
6th # 48x Vittorio Marzotto (IT).....................450 KTM
7th # 54 Peter Boast (GB).............................450 Team Suzuki
8th # 40x Marco Buzzi (IT)............................450 Yamaha
9th # 93 Tom Woolley (GB)..........................450 Pidcock Honda
10th # 30r Alan Birtwistle (GB)....................450 Honda
11th # 6 Marco Belli (IT)...............................530 Zeata
12th # 5 Jacopo Monti (IT)...........................600 Celtibero Rotax

It was a big day for junior Flattrackers, as they took part in the Silverstone GP Meeting. This was the first round of the GNC Championship for Juniors, who got dialled in quickly and put great show on for the fans. Tom Neave was on top form, winning three of the four heat races but there was still pressure from the other riders, including Oliver Brindly who was riding his wheels off his 85 Yamaha, Ben Chatterton riding his new bike was pressing hard and Jack Cornes was always in the mix.

1st #57 Tom Neave.............................250 Honda 64pts
2nd #24 Oliver Brindley......................85 Yamaha 56pts
3rd #62 Ben Chatterton.......................250 Honda 56pts
4th #81 Jack Cornes............................150 Honda 49pts
5th #96 Tom Schmit............................. 150 Honda 39pts
6th #2 Calum Willey............................. 250 Honda 34pts
7th #11 Sam Woolley........................... 85 Suzuki 28pts
8th #77 Flyn Scott................................ 230 Scotty Framer 25pts
9th #4 Adam Lovesey......................... 125 KTM 20pts
10th #17 Josh Haith............................. 150 Honda 18pts
11th #91 Lewis Smith.......................... 150 Honda 12pts

D.A.S.H. Couriers prize fund went to fastest qualifer Richard Mason and race winner Tyson Nelson

Helmets4u rider of the night awards went to, Alan Birtwistle and junior Ben Chatterton

Big thankyou once again to our sponsors for helping us, also every one who was invovled in working hard on the track and putting the meeting together and every one on the day who ran the meeting.

Next meeting at Amman Valley 1/2 mile - club meeting on 25th (no pre-entry needed) and 26th June is round 3 of the GNC.

Gerad Mees won first big mile race of the season in the AMA GNC Championship, there was less than 0.016 between the top three how close can you get!
Top 10 result was 1st Jared Mees XR Harley,2nd Sammy Halbert XR Harley,3rd Jake Johnson XR Harley,4th Kenny Coolbeth XR Harley,5th Brad Baker Ducati,6th Willie McCoy XR Harley,
7th Chris Carr XR Harley,8th Mick Kirkness SV Suzuki,9th Johnny Lewis ER Kawasaki,1oth Rob Pearson XR Harley.
Pro Single result, 1st Zakk Palmer Honda,2nd Michael Martin Honda,3rd Jake Shoemaker Suzuki.

We can confirm that the new 1/2 mile track whose owners we've been in talks with the last 4 months is Tir Prince Raceway,Conway, North Wales and that they have now got the ok from the local Council to run Flat Track at their venue.The track is a full 1/2 mile in length, with a lime stone surface and will be the fastest track in the country. Although we won't be able to run a GNC round there this year, we are hoping to run a one-off event on August 6th on Saturday evening. The venue has an amusement park, Go Kart track and retail Market as part of it's complex. It is very close to the holiday town of Ryl and in the summer the holiday parks around the track can hold 25'000 people. We are hoping to have a meeting with the owners next week to firm up the date and the format of the meeting.

Lonigo, Saturday 21st May
Italian Flat Track specialist Marco Belli won the FIM Flat Track test meeting in style which was held in Lonigo in a warm Saturday night.
He topped the main event after the qualifying heats dropping his only point to Fabrizio Vesprini in his first outing. He also dominated the semifinal 1 –he missed completely the gate- and went from third to first and the final after a tough battle for first position with British youngster Tom Wooley.
Belli said afterwards “I’m over the moon after this prestigious victory and it is like the icing on the cake after a lot of years of racing. I dedicate this win to myself and to my family who have supported me during my whole career. I was really proud to heard the Italian anthem after the prize-giving ceremony”
The meeting saw a lot of overtakings and passes in which was a real advertising for the speciality.
The race format saw the main event with 8 heats which featured 8 riders and were run over 6 laps. The first three riders for each semifinal went straight to the final and the last chance heat qualified the last two riders to the final. The final was run over 12 laps.
One of the best races of the night was heat number 3 in which eventual winner Belli came from third to first in a couple of laps.
The fifth heat was also another race to remember for the fans. Vesprini and Belli battled elbow to elbow for a couple of laps in a classic Italian derby.
Runner-up was hot prospect British Tom Wooley. He started the meeting with a third place, but then found extra speed and was one of the best entertainer of the night.
Third on the rostrum was Aidan Collins, the other British rider in the line-up. He collected three straight second places in the main event and also in his semifinal. He zipped from the gate in the final and seemed on his way to the victory, but was passed by Belli and Vesprini on the second bend of the second turn.
Also the last chance heat deserved be to mentioned. Hungarian rider Onodi Bejamin rocketed from the tapes and lead for a couple of laps. He then was passed by Lucarini and Scalabrin for the last places in the final.
Fabrizio Vesprini, one of the pre-meeting favourite, finished the meeting just outside the rostrum places. He was leading at he halfway stage and was well in contention for a medal place before being passed by fellow countrymen Belli and British pack Wooley and Collins. He reported “I’m very disappointed because I gated well all the night. Unfortunately I missed the gate in the final and it proved costly. Anyway Belli, Wooley and Collins deserved the rostrum places”

FINAL RESULT

1 Marco Belli (Ita) Zaeta, 20
2 Tom Woolley (GB) Honda, 17
3 Aidan Collins (GB) Honda, 14
4 Fabrizio Vesprini (Ita) Husaberg, 12
5 Vittorio Emanuele Marzotto (Ita) KTM, 10
6 Massimiliano Andreotti (Ita) Honda, 8
7 Alessandro Scalabrin (Ita) KTM, 7
8 Maurizio Lucarini (Ita) Honda, 5
9 Alessandro Castiglioni (Ita) KTM, 4
10 Onodi Benjamin (Hungary) KTM, 3
11 Bryce Starks (USA) Kawasaki, 2
12 Damien Bomais (France) Yamaha, 1
13 Dario Magnoni (Ita) Harley Davidson, 0
14 Massimo Zambon (Ita) Fasciani, 0
15 Marco Buzzi (Ita) Yamaha, 0

SIDEBURN GUYS HAVE JUST DONE A PROMO VIDEO OF OXFORD ROUND 1 OF THE GNC UK CHAMPIONSHIP

Michelle Disalvo mixes it with the dutchies in Blijham!
Stichting Baansport Blijham hosted the first round of the International Mefo Sport Flattrack Cup 2011 on their short track, where a good crowd was treated to plenty fierce battles between the cup regulars and the local experts.
Former European Short Track Champion Sytze Hilleger was fast from the get go while American Flat Track star Michelle Disalvo needed a couple of heats to get used to the dirt track again after she had been supermoto and road racing the last years. German number one Stefan Gatzenmeier was challenging hard, and leading a heat when he went down hard over one of the bumps. It was another Dutch grass track ace Johan Berndt who took advantage of the inline restart winning the heat.
The grand final saw Hilleger, Disalvo and Berndt on the front row, joined by cup regular Mick Jansen.
Hilleger and Disalvo were battling for the lead throughout the final, constantly being challenged by Berndt, but Hilleger held on and brought home his first flat track win in a lot of years, making him grin from ear to ear throughout the ceremony! Gatzenmeier had to start from the third row with a sore right wrist. He progressed through the field to battle it with the Jansen brothers, and moved momentarily into 4th position, but the 15 lap final proved to painful on his wrist and he had to settle for 5th, still scoring valuable championship points. New comer Stefan Claussen jumped into the deep end with his beautiful homemade hybrid, consisting of a modern yamaha motor in a modified 70s KTM enduro frame. He showed strong performances and we hope to see more of him in the next races.
Round 1, Blijham (NL), Expert results:
1. #2 Sytze Hilleger, Ferwert(NL), KTM
2. #97 Michelle Disalvo, Modesto (USA), Suzuki
3. #4 Johan Berndt, Stadskanaal(NL), Gebben Honda
4. #15 Jan-Willem Jansen, Adetswil(CH), Harley-Davidson
5. #70 Stefan Gatzenmeier, Ruhpolding(D), KTM
6. #16 Mick Jansen, Utrecht(NL), Harley-Davidson
7. #40 Leroy v.d. Weerd, Wolvega(NL), Dutch-Brothers KTM
8. #19 Arjan deJong, Steggerda(NL), Suzuki
9. #65 Stefan Claussen, Westerstede(D), Claussen-Yamaha
10. #27 Tom van Nes, Adliswil(CH), Dutch-Brothers Rotax
Next up, round 2 in Homberg (Ohm) 5 June 2011!

Adian Collins continued with his winning ways from 2010 by winning round 1 of the 2011 Pozzani Grand National UK. Championship at Oxford Stadium. Collins who is riding for the second season on board an HM Plant Honda in the championship, had to be on top form for round 1 and after his heat races not all had gone his own way, as he had been beaton by Tyson Nelson and Tom Woolley so by time his Semi final race came around, he had not to make any mistakes. The race was stopped after two laps with Ade in the lead, when special guest rider Dave Aldana went down in the mid pack and was collected by Geoff Baldock who sustained a shoulder injury. In restart Ade lead the race but was being chased down by the flying Aussie Tyson Nelson who had to work hard to get past David Haith. Ade didn't succumb to the pressure from Tyson and took the win.
In the other Semi Jacopo Monti was leading from the start but being chased hard by Peter Boast and Tom Woolley, Boast went down on lap 4 ,leaving Woolley chasing Monti but Monti was riding superbly and took the win from Woolley and 3rd spot went to 15 year old Tim Neave making his first Grand Final and giving him a National Number.
The Last Chance race saw many good riders battling for the last two transfer spots to the Grand Final, and it was Boastie who worked his way to the front to take the win from Adam Marshall taking second on the X Chris Carr KTM Machine, just losing out were Tim Greig,Ben Baker and Derek Brindley.

The 2011 First Grand Final lined up, Front Row - Collins, Monti, Nelson, Woolley, second row - Neave, Pocklington, Plater Haith, third row - Armstrong, D. Trapmore, Boast, Marshall.
The race was stopped after the first lap when riders got tangled on the first bend, leaving Boastie down in the bottom of the fence. In the restart it was Collins who made the hole shot from Monti, Nelson,Woolley, Haith, Plater. On the second lap round Tyson Nelson got a round Monti. By lap 6 Nelson was pulling in Collins, Monti was 3rd, Woolley 4th and then there was a battle between Haith, Pocklington, Boastie, Trapmore and Neave.
By lap 9 Collins was holding his lead from Tyson by a couple of bike lengths but Monti was reeling them both back in. Collins didn't make any mistakes and went on the take the win, the Aussie star Nelson held on to second from the charging Monti who took 3rd spot.

1st #1 Adian Collins........................450 HM Plant Honda
2nd #21x Tyson Nelson.................450 Station165 Honda
3rd #5 Jacopo Monti.......................450 Celitibro Honda
4th #93 Tom Woollley....................450 Pidcock Honda
5th #71 Glyn Pocklington..............525 Helmets4u KTM
6th #17 David Haith........................450 Haith Group Honda
7th #54 Peter Boast........................450 Team Suzuki
8th #20 Darren Trapmore...............450 Kinrade Honda
9th #14r Tim Neave..........................450 Team Suzuki
10th #61 Kevin Armstrong.............450 Suzuki
11th #22x Steve Plater......................450 HM Plant Honda
12th #11 Adam Marshall.................450 TAJ KTM

The Flying Italian was unstoppable in the Thunderbikes, winning all his heat races and taking the win in the Final. Local rider Anthony Brown had one of his best meetings with a great second placeand there was a hetic battle for third spot between Wayne Drake and Alan Birtwistle, swapping places many times but it was Alan who got third spot.

Redmax GNC Thunderbike Championship Final results

1st #5 Jacopo Monti......................660 Circle F Rotax
2nd #47r Anthony Brown..............600 Co-Built Rotax
3rd #30r Alan Birtwistle..................600 TT Yamaha
4th #72 Wayne Drake......................600 Rotax
5th #28 Steve Coles........................650 Bros Honda
6th #40r Paul Baleta........................640 KTM
7th #99r Pete Wilkinson..................750 XR Harley Davidson
8th #45r Geoff Cain..........................600 Co-Built Rotax
9th #3 Paul Sheldon.........................600 KTM
10th #31r Dave Arnold.......................600 Skooter Farm
11th #4r Paul Harrison.......................600 Rotax
12th #80r Tim Stevens.......................600 CCM

There was great racing in the Mini Bikes, Mark Richardson had clean sweep again with 4 wins, Steve Baldock a good second spot and great battle for third with Geoff Bull and John Pohlman but it was geoff that just manged to get third spot by one point.

1st Mark Richardson...............150 stomp.... 75pts
2nd Steve Baldock.................. 150 X trail.... 60pts
3rd Geoff Bull snr.................... 150 Stomp.... 48pts
4th John Pohlem..................... 150 X trail......47pts
5th Geoff Bull jnr...................... 150 stomp....37pts
6th Robert Neave..................... 150 x Trail.....33pts
7th Ron Shamier........................ 150 xtrail.......28pts
8th Billy Bull............................. 150 X trail......27pts
9th Ben Davis.......................... 150 Stomp.....17pts

Dash For Cash Result,
18 riders entered, the top 8 from one timed dash lap went on to a 6 lap race.
1st Tyson Nelson,2nd Ade Collins,3rd Tom Woolley,4th Ben Baker,5th David Haith,6th Peter Boast,7th Adam Marshall,8th Tim Neave.

A Big thankyou to every who helped to make this meeting possible, preparing the track beforehand, staffing it on the day and clearing up afterwards, top job!

Sammy Halbert on 450 Yam...........................#4 Chris Carr in action ...........................Salinas TT track..................

RD 3 AMA GNC, Salinas TT,1st Jake Johnson,2nd Henry Wiles,3rd Brad Baker,4th Jared Mees,5th Sammy Halbert,6th Chris Carr.

RD 4 AMA GNC, Salinas Shortttrack,1st Henry Wiles,2nd Jimmy Wood,3rd Sammy Halbert,4th Jethro Helbert,5th Jake Johnson,6th Chris Carr.

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A bumper entry over 70 riders enjoyed a great day's riding at Round 2 of the Silkolene Shorttrack UK Club championship at Rye House Speedway Stadium on Sunday 17th.
Aussie Speedway rider Tyson Nelson took the Pro Class by storm with two wins and a second, taking the overall win from Ade Collins and Pete Boast in third.
At the oppisite end of the scale, the first ever Novice Class win went to Stuart Lovell on a CCM, with two wins and a second. The Restricted Class saw some great racing,wins went to David Holman,Alan Birtwistle,Geoff Cain,George Pickering and Ant Brown but points win went to Dave Holman. Steve Coles took his second win in the Club Championship in the Thunderbikes and so did Mark Richardson in the Mini Bikes. Junior Classes were well supported again, with Ben Neave taking his first win in the Juniors, Oliver Brindley taking a clean sweep in the Inters and there was also a second win of the season for Tom Neave in the Youth Class.

1ST 22X TYSON NELSON...............42PTS
2ND 1 AIDAN COLLINS...................39PTS
3RD 54 PETER BOAST....................37PTS
4TH 93 TOM WOOLLEY...................34PTS
5TH 71 GLYN POCKLINGTON.........33PTS
6TH 14R TIM NEAVE.........................31PTS
7TH 7 BEN BAKER............................28PTS
8TH 17 DAVID HAITH........................26PTS
9TH 25 DEREK BRINDLEY...............25PTS
10TH 61 KEVIN ARMSTRONG.........24PTS
11TH 10 TIM GREIG..........................23PTS
12TH 64 GEOFF BALDOCK..............21PTS
13TH 11 ADAM MARSHALL.............20PTS
14TH 20 DARREN TRAPMORE........19PTS
15TH 28 STEVE COLES....................15PTS
16TH 72 WAYNE DRAKE................. 14PTS
17TH 3 PAUL SHELDON.................. 11PTS

1ST 62 DAVID HOLMAN......................40PTS
2ND 30 ALAN BIRTISTLE....................34PTS
3RD 45 GEOFF CAIN............................33PTS
4TH 38 GEORGE PICKERING..............32PTS
5TH 47 ANTHONY BROWN..................30PTS
6TH 40 PAUL BALETA..........................28PTS
7TH 97 GUY SUTHERLAND..................27PTS
8TH 64 STEVE BALDOCK.....................26PTS
9TH 53 ANDY RILEY..............................25PTS
10TH 99 PETE WILKY............................24PTS
11TH 31 DAVE ARNOLD.......................23PTS
12TH 13 GARY INMAN...........................22PTS
13TH 22 MIKE RYAN..............................20PTS
14TH 48 RONALD SHAMIER..................20PTS
15TH 66 GEOFF BULL............................19PTS
16TH 04 PAUL HARRISON.................... 15PTS
17TH 55 SIMON SMITH...........................15PTS
18TH 42 ADAM CLOVER........................14PTS
19TH 43 MATT MOORE..........................12PTS
20TH 19 MICK TRAPMORE................... 10PTS
21ST 44 LEZ STEVENS.......................... 8PTS
22ND 59 STEVE HILLARY..................... 2PTS

NOVICE CLASS RESULTS
1ST 24 STUART LOVELL.....................42PTS
2ND 75 JASON CURSLEY....................35PTS
3RD 67 BEN PART.................................30PTS
4TH 96 ADAM WALLER.........................26PTS
5TH 41 STEVEN LANE...........................19PTS
6TH 29 JAMIE CROYDEN......................17PTS
7TH 58 COLIN BIRDEN......................... 7 PTS

YOUTH CLASS RESULTS

1ST 57 TOM NEAVE..................45PTS
2ND 62 BEN CHATTERTON.....36PTS
3RD 04 ADAM LOVESEY..........30PTS

INTER CLASS RESULTS
1ST 24 OLIVER BRINDLEY........................45PTS
2ND 77 FLYNN SCOTT................................36PTS
3RD 07 DANIEL VAN DER HOEVEN.......... 26 PTS
4TH 17 JOSHUA HAITH............................... 26PTS
5TH 96 TOM SCHMITT ................................ 25PTS
6TH 02 CALUM WILLEY............................... 19PTS
7TH 34 AARON SILVESTER........................ 18PTS
8TH 11 SAM WOOLLEY................................ 16PTS
9TH 91 LEWIS SMITH.................................... 13PTS

1ST 10 BEN NEAVE...............45PTS
2ND 34 MAX SILVESTER......32PTS
3RD 76 SKYE ADAMS........... 31PTS
4TH 44 JAKE DRAKE............ 21PTS

1ST 01 MARK RICHARDSON...................34PTS
2ND 66 GEOFF BULL................................33PTS
3RD 28 STEVE BALDOCK........................32PTS
4TH 20 DARREN TRAPMORE..................29PTS
5TH 31 STEVEN RHODES........................27PTS
6TH 06 DANIEL MANSBRIDGE................22PTS
7TH 13 GEOFF BULL JNR........................ 19PTS
8TH 22 ROB NEAVE.................................. 16PTS
9TH 11 HENNING LOOF............................13PTS
10TH 19 MICK TRAPMORE.......................11PTS
11TH 15 BILLY BULL.................................. 7PTS

REDMAX THUNDERBIKE RESULT
1ST 28 STEVE COLES....................................39PTS
2ND 45 GEOFF CAIN.......................................35PTS
3RD 97 GUY SOUTHERLAND.........................34PTS
4TH 47 ANTHONY BROWN.............................34PTS
5TH 30 ALAN BIRTWISTLE.............................32PTS
6TH 54 PETER BOAST.....................................32PTS
7TH 99 PETE WILKINSON................................29PTS
8TH 03 PAUL SHELDON...................................28PTS
9TH 31 DAVE ARNOLD.....................................26PTS
10TH 72 WAYNE DRAKE..................................22PTS
11TH 40 PAUL BALETA....................................21PTS
12TH 80 TIM STEVENS.....................................19PTS
13TH 48 RONALD SHAMIER............................18PTS
14TH 04 PAUL HARRISON............................... 18PTS
15TH 13 GARY INMAN......................................18PTS
16TH 75 JASON CURSLEY.............................. 12PTS
17TH 44 LEZ STEVENS.................................... 12PTS
18TH 22 MIKE RYAN........................................ 12PTS
19TH 88 PAUL SCOTT...................................... 11PTS
20TH 59 STEVE HILLARY................................ 11PTS
21ST 96 ADAM WALLER.................................. 5PTS
22ND 58 COLIN BIRDEN................................... 2PTS

THANK YOU TO ALL TRACK STAFF AND MARSHALS FOR ALL THEIR HELP.
PIC'S BY STEVE BALDOCK & KIMMY
NEXT MEETING GNC UK OXFORD MAY 6TH 7PM RACING,
NEXT CLUB EVENT 25TH JUNE AMMAN VALLEY,WALES.

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Co-Built down pipes for DTX Bikes.
Down swept pipes are the latest flat track parts to come out of the Co-Built workshop.They're lighter, faster and cooler looking than a standard DTX pipe. They are making them for Honda CRF's,Suzuki RMZ's,Yamaha YZF's,KTM 450's they also will make one- off systems for any framer or specific bike. Please Check their website out
WWW.CO-BUILT.NET or speak to Anthony #47r or Geoff #45r at our next meeting.

Two months ago, Tom Woolley, 2 times Junior Champ and second in 2010 UK Championship, was without a ride for 2011. Now, thanks to Pidcock Honda who have suppled Tom with a brand new CRF 450, it looks like 2011 could be a great season for 17 year old Woolley. Chris Pidcock (ex Long Eaton Speedway rider) is very exited about getting involved with shorttrack, he is already planning a 2nd bike to display at the huge Honda showroom in Long Eaton, with a view to possibly being able to offer ready to run shorttrack crfs for sale. Tom is now looking forward to the start of the Grand National Season on what should be a very competitive machine, having been converted to shorttrack spec by Joe Hughes International. Tom would also like to thank all the people who offered to help him when he was looking for a ride in 2011.

Congratulations to Shorttracks number 1 Ade colins and his wife Kate on the birth of their first child, a baby boy called Tai William Collins who was born last week, no doubt the start of a third generation of racing Collins'.

Riders - entry forms for Round 1 of the GNC series are available to download from the regulations page, although all registered riders should have received them by post. Any probs, give us a ring... 01673 878426.

Norton are racing Flatttrack !
Steve at Redmax his going British and has been busy building his next Thunderbike. Lets hope he gets it finished in time for Rye House.

Thanks to Mike Ryan who runs the Station165 website, he has now got a forum up and running just for Flattrack fans and riders in the uk http://www.station165.co.uk/forum/. Hopefully another part of growing the sport in the UK.

Ant Brown riding Team Co-Built Rotax.......Scotty Celebrates his first race win.....John Roeders lovely 500 framer

64 Geoff Baldock, Pro National Heat race......Tom Neave sideways.......................Restricted Class Action.......................

Sunny Scunthorpe hosted Round 1 of the first ever Shorttrack UK Club Championship on Sunday 27th. There was a great turn out of riders, 68 in total enjoyed the new classes which produced some very close racing, including a win for David Haith in the Pro National Class and a hard faught win for his son Josh in the Inter Youth class, ahead of his mate Oliver Brindley. Other Class winners were Mark Richardson - Mini Bikes, Skye Adams - Juniors, Tom Neave - Youth, Steve Coles - Thunderbikes and Anthony Brown - Restricted.

Pro National Result
1st #17 David Haith 67pts, 2nd #93 Tom Woolley 55pts, 3rd # 7 Ben Baker 53 pts, 4th #54 Pete Boast 49pts, 5th #11 Adam Marshall 48pts, 6th #20 Darren Trapmore 45pts, 7th Tim Greig 44pts, 8th #14r Tim Neave 36pts, 9th #71Glyn Pocklington 32pts, 10th #25 Derek Brindley 31pts, 11th #64 Geoff Baldock 29pts, 12th #9 Rich May 26pts, 13th #61 Kevin Armstrong 21pts, 14th #3 Paul Sheldon 21pts, 15th #66 Geoff Bull 16pts, 16th #72 Wayne Drake 16pts, 17th #65 Chippy Wood 15pts, 18th 41x Tony Wright 8pts.

1st #47r Anthony Brown 63pts, 2nd #30r Alan Birtistle 58pts, 3rd #38r George Pickering 57pts, 4th #53r Andy Riley 48pts, 5th #64r Steve Baldock 44pts, 5th #45r Geoff Cain 43pts, 6th #42 Adam Clover 38pts, 7th #62r Dave Homan 36pts, 8th #19r Micky Trapmore 35pts, 9th #13 Gary Inman 34pts, 10th #48r Ronald Shamier 28pts,11th #99 Peter Wilky 26pts, 12th #55 Simon Smith 21pts, 13th #12 Ian Cramp 19pts, 14th #22 Mike Ryan 18pts, 15th #31Dave Arnold 17pts, 16th #43 Matt Moore 15pts, 17th #94 John Roeder 12pts, 18th #57 Steve Hillary 11pts.

Junior (7yrs to 11yrs )Result
1st #76 Skye Adams 60pts, 2nd #44 Jake Drake 55pts, 3rd #10 Ben Neave 54pts, 4th #8 Tegan Brown 42pts.

Inters (11yrs- 15yrs) Result
1st #17Josh Haith 67pts, 2nd #24 Oliver Brindley 66pts, 3rd #77 Flynn Scott 49pts, 4th #34 Aaron Silvester 42pts, 5th #7 Daniel Van Der Hoeven 38pts, 6th #96 Tom Schmitt 36 pts, 7th #2 Calum Willey 31pts, 8th #11 Sam Wolley 25pts, 9th #8 Deklen Brown 22pts.

Youth (15yrs- 17yrs) Result
1st #57 Tom Neave 75pts, 2nd #62 Ben Chatterton 60pts, 3rd #4 Adam Lovesey 49pts, 4th #41 Jess Wright 46pts.

Mini Bike Result
1st #1 Mark Richardson 75pts, 2nd #66 Geoff Bull 58pts, 3rd #6 Daniel Mansbridge 50pts, 4th #22 Rob Neave 43pts, 5th #13 Geoff Bull Jnr 41pts, 6th #15 Billy Bull 38pts.

Thunderbike Results
1st #28 Steve Coles 65pts, 2nd #72 Wayne Drake 65pts, 3rd #13 Gary Inman 58pts, 4th #47 Anthony Brown 51pts 5th#45 Geoff Cain 50pts, 6th #3 Paul Sheldon 41pts, 7th #9 Rich May 38pts, 8th #65 Chippy Wood 36pts, 9th #12 Ian Cramp 31pts, 10th #4 Paul Harrison 29pts, 11th #88 Paul Scott 27pts, 12th #80 Tim Stevens 26pts, 13th #31 Dave Arnold 21pts, 14th #66 Daniel Mansbridge 17pts, 15th #22 Mike Ryan 17pts, 16th #30 Alan Birtwistle 15pts, 17th #48 Ronald Shamier 14pts, 18th #99 Pete Wilky 14pts, 19th #59 Steve Hillary 12pts, 20th #44 Lez Stevens 10pts.

A Big THANK YOU to all the Staff, Sponsors and the riders for a great meeting. Next Round April 17th at Rye House Speedway Stadium,Hoddesdon,Staffs,EN11 0EH.

Monti to race 2011 Championship
Thunderbike Champion Jacopo Monti has confirmed he will be racing every round of 2011 Pozzani Grand National UK Championship. The likeable flamboyant Italian will be make the long trip from Tradate,Italy for all the rounds!

ShorttrackUK brought Flattrack racing to Ireland for the first time at the weekend and it went down a storm. Flattrack had never been seen in Ireland before and 11 riders from Shorttrack UK made the trip to the Royal Dublin Showground, as part of the biggest Motocycle Show in Ireland.

The riders battled it out over three days of racing on a deep sand track and it was Tom Woolley, who took more Grand Final wins than anyone else. He won 6 out of the 8 Finals for Team Suzuki, while guest riding forthem, the only other riders takingwins being his team mates, Tim Neave and Pete Boast.
All the riders put on a great display, riding a very tough track and the Irish people seem to really enjoy watching Flattrack live!

Big thanks Stuart Cosgrave for sponsorship of the Trophies (he owns the largest indoor Karting Centre in Europe - Kylemore Karting and is looking to build a flat track oval in Ireland). Also thanks to Gareth ,Tim ,Nigel,Rob and Buster from Bardney for helping to run the event.

Irish Motorcycle Show Flattrack Results
1st Tom Woolley................Team Suzuki 450
2nd Tim Neave................... Team Suzuki 450
3rd Pete Boast................... Team Suzuki 450
4th Adam Marshall............ AJ KTM 450
5th Steve Plater................. HM Plant Honda 450
6th Darren Trapmore........ Kinrade Honda 450
7th Tim Greig.................... Honda 450
8th Rich May..................... Team CCM 510
9th Ben Baker................... Helmets4u Honda 450
10th Geoff Baldock.......... Robspeed Yamaha 450
11th Glyn Pocklington..... Helmets4u 450

Dave Aldana, one of the legends from the greatest motorcycle film 'On any Sunday', has confirmed he will race in UK again. Dave is well known from road racing in the UK with his skelton leathers and the big 'A' on his helmet as his trade mark. He will ride at the first round of the Grand National UK Championship, taking place at Oxford Stadium, Cowley on May 6th Friday evening 7pm.

Dave started out Flattracking in late 60's and early 70's and became a works BSA rider alongside Dick Mann and Jim Rice when the film 'On Any Sunday' was filmed. Dave won many Flattrack races all over the States but never quite managed to grab the Number one plate. By the mid 70's he had become an excellent road racer and was part of the Translatic Team that traveled each year to race against the best UK riders. He was a works rider with Suzuki, Kawasaki and Honda and was team mate to many world Champions including Barry Sheene, Eddie Lawson, Gary Nixon, Freddie Spencer and John Kocinski. Dave also rode in world endurance events including the great Bol'dor 24 hour race and won the Suzuki 8 hour race with Mike Baldwin for Honda.

This isn't first time he has raced Flat Track in the UK, in 1979 he came over with Kenny Roberts and raced at a horse trotting track at Holdon, near Exeter, Devon on a 750 Shell Thuet Yamaha. Kenny won the Final and Aldana was with him all the way, until his cut out came out and he was passed by Chippy Moore, who was also on one of the big Yams. Aldana finished the race in third spot by holding the cut out with his left hand, while still drifting around corners for the remaining two laps.
Dave, who is now 62 years young, will land on English soil on May 4th. He will be giving a fascinating talk about his career at a Sideburn evening in Oxford (venue to be confirmed) that evening (visit sideburn for more info) and then the following night he'll be riding a C&J 450 Suzuki, hanging out with the fastest Flat Track racers in the UK at Oxford Speedway Stadium on Friday night.

Grand National Championship Sponsors. Once again a big thank you to Steve and the Team for supporting us again - Pozzani is our Title Sponsor for the championship for third year in row.

Silkolene oil have been with us from the the very start of shorttrackuk and we are pleased to announce that they are with us again in 2011. They are supporting the Shorttrackuk Championship with product and are also supporting the TV coverage at Silverstone. Big thanks to Richard Barrett head of PR at Silkolene for this support.

Mr Steve ' Redmax' Hillary is sponsoring the Thunderbike Championship for the third year in a row. Steve not only rides in the Championship but supplies most of the riders in it with all their Flat Track parts. Click on his logo and check his website out for some cool parts.

Hagon is a new sponsor for 2011 but no stranger to many forms of Motorcycle Racing. Alf Hagon was an excellent Grasstracker and sprint Champion started company but is now run by his son Martin, who also has a fantastic CV in Speedway, Long track and even Sidecar Motorcross! It's great to have them on board.

Arrow Engineering is the Title sponsor of the Junior Shorttrack Championship. Derek Brindly who owns the company is pleased to support the young ones and help grow the youth side of the sport. Derek is National number 25 in the GNC and his son Oliver finished 3rd in last year's Junior Championship.

Tony Brock of Triple A is the man who makes sure we've all got Flattrack Tyres in the UK, and makes sure that Maxxis Support the Championships with Sponsorship and we are very pleased that they are with us again in 2011.

Marshall Kinrade is big flat track fan from the Isle of Man. His support last year paid for a free junior day and I'm pleased that Marshall is kindly supporting us again in 2011. This year that support will go towards helping to get some up and coming young riders to the USA, for the trip of a lifetime to race with the best AMA riders.

Are again running the 'Rider of the Day' awards at the Shorttrackuk Championship. Many riders over last two seasons have won a Helmet thanks to Glyns support.

After the FT Experience School had to close down at the end of last year, we are pleased to confirm that we are now able to offer training days, running from Scunthorpe Raceway in Lincolnshire. It will be a full day's course from 10am to 4.30 pm, running on a 175 metre oval on 230 CCM DTX bikes provided by us.
The School will be designed for Complete Novices to the sport, Junior riders and racers just starting out.The day will cover starting out on the track, riding position, backing the bike into a bend, controling a slide and riding, more riding, more riding. Instruction will given by 2009 British & European flattrack Champion Pete Boast.
The Cost of a full Days Training for Adults is £120, Juniors £90, including lunch. Anyone who joins Shorttrack UK after the course will get £20 back or if you are already registered with Shorttrack for 2011 you will get £20 discount.

Dates in place at the moment are all Saturdays - April 2nd, April 30th and May 14th. To reserve your place please call the shorttrack office on 01673 878426.