2009 Championship ENDURO
Round 5 Scottish Borders MCC Glengap Enduro
07 June 2009
Report from Campbell Chatham
Video from Rab - great film of "THE HILL". Click here
The 5th round of
the Scottish Enduro Championship was run on Sunday the 7th
June at Glengap and
Laurieston Forests near Castle Douglas Dumfrieshire. Andrew McConnell was keen to give
everyone a good run and by introducing the Laurieston forest the ground stood up well for
the 97 competitors. Sportsmen were encouraged to take part this year and the midges stayed
away. The mixture of tough forest fire breaks and forest roads gave the riders time to
recover as this has been a challenging event in the past. The good weather leading up to
the event also helped.
Eight Experts lined up at the start although
within one lap Neil Chatham was forced to retire when a stone was thrown up accidentally
by Derek Little. Neil’s goggles were smashed and a bad cut on his head resulted in so
much blood he could not see. Alan Scotland gave him a lift back as far as he could and
Neil walked back for medical assistance.
The remaining Experts battled it out in the
special tests with an extra test at the end of the day. Mark
Godfrey raised his game winning by 16 seconds taking the overall in a
Scottish Championship Enduro for the first time. Fraser
Norrie finished second, his best result in the Scottish Championship.
Fraser has closed the gap between himself and early Championship leader Derek Little who finished third.
In the Over 40 Class Sean Wooley continued
his domination with the overall win, Gavin Johnstone matched Sean’s first test but
dropped back in the second test finishing second on the day. Davie Hill struggled with the
pace dodging between the tree stumps in the test and was pleased to make it home in third.
Ryan Bruce dominated the Clubman class as he
continues to improve taking the overall and the E1 Class. There was no separating Jamie
Reid from Iain Martin finishing second equal and first equal E2. Iain Martin was taking
severe stick on race day following his naked lap of Woodside Motocross track on You Tube.
Duncan MacCormick finished 8th equal winning the E3 Class. There is real
rivalry in the clubman class and the top three changes at every round. This battle looks
to continue to the end of the season.
In the Clubman B Pawel Reuter continues to
focus on winning the Championship this year and took the overall once again. Paul had his
bike stolen after Pathhead and this was his first outing on his new KTM, nothing will stop
him this year hopefully. John Allan finished second with Gordon McGregor down from the
north third.
In the Sportsman Steven Currie Jnr won with
his confidence growing round by round, Alastair Miller finished second with Liam Lamb
competing on his Suzuki for the first time third.
This was a great event with the good weather,
the extended track and the famous midges staying away. There were several Scottish riders
who had travelled six hours or more to this event and the Borders Club rewarded them with
an excellent day out. In this format there will be more riders prepared to make the
journey down to Castle Douglas. The organisers were keen to point out at the riders
briefing that there was assistance from other Scottish Clubs that had made this event
possible and it all worked really well. The next Scottish Championship Enduro is the
Melville two day at Yarrowford, Selkirk on the 25th and 26th July.
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