DENBY Dale teenager Jack Price won the Yeadon-Guiseley MC’s Superstars Trial at Addingham Moorside on Monday afternoon after an exciting battle with British trials champion James Dabill.

Fourteen international riders took part in the two-lap trial over 10 sections constructed by Danny Cockshott and Ben Hemingway.

After the opener, all competitors rode one lap with the riders with the four worst scores eliminated. Price headed the preliminary laps from Dabill and hung on to win despite failing the last section. Dabill failed both the last and penultimate section, so Price pocketed £850 and the Mackenzie Trophy.

Dougie Lampkin presented the awards and trophies, while Wetherby Skip Services sponsored the trial.

IPSWICH rider Jack Sheppard halted the victory run of James Dabill when he won the RT Keedwell British Championship trial staged by the Guisborough club at Glaisdale last Sunday.

Dabill finished second ahead of Truro’s Toby Martyn, Jack Price and Welsh champion Iwan Roberts. Scarborough’s Michael Brown and Whitby’s Andy Chilton took sixth and seventh places.

Leyburn joiner Richard Sadler won the expert class from Tom Minta, Joel Edwards and James Stones, while Kirkbymoorside world youth champion Jack Peace won his class by a country mile.

HARROGATE motorcycle retailer Joel Sadler almost rode the entire Ripon MC Artie Ratcliffe Vase trial course at Winksley without penalty until he arrived at Keith Blythe’s final section in the dense woodland at Mill House Farm on the last of four short laps.

The Acklams Beta rider had sailed up the steep muddy section on the previous three laps without any loss of marks, but his final effort was slightly different and he had to get a boot down or stop. That one-mark penalty put him on a tie-breaker with Sam Duvivier, but the latter had lost a mark in the seventh section on lap one, so it was a case of who travelled the furthest with incurring any penalties. That put the Geoff Fletcher Trophy into Sadler’s grasp, but the main objective on the trophy list was the Artie Ratcliffe Vase and the coveted award commemorating the former Bradford trials rider went to Duvivier.

Neil Gaunt headed the over-40s class, with Scunthorpe’s Roman Kyrnyckyj holding off Rob Bratley and Rob Hardisty.

JASON Scott and Colin Ward couldn't be split after both went clean on the clubman route of Weardale MC's trial at Rogerley Quarry last weekend.

Twelve riders had opted for this course and, being a low-scoring event, mistakes would cost, as Louis Braithwaite and Dale Whittaker will testify after dropping just one mark each, which pushed them into third and fourth places respectively. Garry Bloodworth was another to go clean, this time on the easy course, but Paul Martin and Alan Winter dropped two and four, their main problems being sections eight and 10. Had it not been for section 10, Chris Church would have been right up with Bloodworth, but six here knocked him down to fourth.

ROUND eight of Stanley MC's Wednesday Evening Series went off at Butsfield Quarry last week, when 34 riders took part. Lee Dowson couldn't do better than remain clean on the clubman course, which gave him the win ahead of Scott Aitkin and Matthew Ball, who will both be annoyed after dropping one and two respectively.

Aitkin lasted until the last section before parting with his mark, while Ball had a foot down in section one and again in the ninth.

The easy course produced a clear winner when Richard Cousins finished on three, seven ahead of Peter McIntyre.

WITH the help of the Middle England Classic Club, the Durham County Trials Club were able to access some land at Blaghill, near Alston, for their event last Sunday, when 32 riders turned up.

After an easy opening section, a good range of marks were lost on all routes. Michael Phillipson took the expert class, but Gary Pears wasn't far behind. Section two won it for Phillipson, where he parted with only five while the competition struggled.

On the clubman course, David Humble lost 11 of his total of 13 in section three, but finished nine clear of three riders who needed the tie decider to split them. Roddy Baker, Scott Mayhew and Martin Phillipson finished in that order after they had all bettered Humble's score in section three.

Paul Martin was head and shoulders above the easy course opposition, as was Alexander Baxter on the conducted route.

Results

Yeadon-Guiseley MC Superstars Trial, Addingham Moorside. – 1 Jack Price (Gas Gas) 9; 2 James Dabill (Vertigo) 11; 3 Jack Sheppard (Beta) 17; 4 Iwan Roberts (Beta) 17.

Ripon MC Artie Ratcliffe Vase Trophy Trial, Winksley. – Novices: 1 Joel Sadler (Beta) 1; 2 Sam Duvivier (Beta) 1; 3 Rob Bratley (Sherco); 4 Harry Wills (Montesa) 12; 5 Dave Mawer (Beta) 12; 6 Chris Stelling (Montesa) 16.

Over-40s: 1 Neil Gaunt (Beta) 2; 2 Roman Kyrnyckyj (Sherco) 3; 3 Rob Hardisty (Sherco) 8; 4 Chris Laws (Beta) 11; 5 Mark Garrod (Beta) 11.

Youth Class A: 1 Robert Weatherill 8; 2 Joel Holdsworth 17; 3 Chris Dent 34 (all Beta).

Awards. – Best performance: Joel Sadler (Geoff Fletcher Trophy); First novice: Sam Duvivier (Artie Ratcliffe Novice Vase); First over 40: Neil Gaunt (Margaret Hart Trophy); Youth Class A: Robert Weatherill (Leon Cooper Trophy).

Weardale MCC Trial, Rogerley Quarry, Frosterley. – Clubman route: =1 Jason Scott and Colin Ward 0; 3 Louis Braithwaite 1; 4 Dale Whittaker 1.

Easy course: 1 Garry Bloodworth 0; 2 Paul Martin 2; 3 Alan Winter 4; 4 Chris Church 6.

Stanley MC Wednesday Evening Series trial, Butsfield Quarry. – Clubman course: 1 Lee Dowson (Montesa) 0; 2 Scott Aitkin (Fantic) 1; 3 Matthew Ball (Gas Gas) 2.

Easy course: 1 Richard Cousins (Sherco) 3; 2 Peter McIntyre (Honda) 10; 3 John Sowerby (BSA) 19.

Conducted course: 1 A Baxter 68; 2 R Hodgson 96; 3 R Hodgson 100.

Durham County TC Trial, Blaghill, Alston. – Expert course: 1 Michael Phillipson 18; 2 Gary Pears 22; 3 Richard Hawes 30.

Clubman course: 1 David Humble 13; 2 Roddy Baker 22; 3 Scott Mayhew 22.

Easy course: 1 Paul Martin 8; 2 C Wilson 25; 3 T Wilson 27.

Conducted course: 1 Alexander Baxter 48; 2 Rhys Hodgson 67; 3 Charlie Nicholson 80.

Fixtures

Tomorrow: Richmond & District MC Richardson Trial, Skeeby, 1pm; Middlesbrough & District MC Open Fryup Charity Trial, Woodhead Farm, Fryup, 2.30pm; Wetherby & District MC sixth Crooks Trophy Championship trial, Grimwith Reservoir, Greenhow, 4.30pm.

Sunday: Darlington & District MC Charity Trial, Brokes, Richmond DL11 6DB, 11am; Spen Valley MCC Yorkshire Centre ACU Team Trial, Parkwood Offroad Centre, Tong, 11am; Middlesbrough & District MC Open Fryup Charity Trial, Woodhead Farm, Fryup, 11am.