Richmond Motor Club. National Scott Trial, Feldom Moor, Saturday.

THE Scott Trial on Saturday was sensational as ever it has been in its 107-year-history of cross country events.

The one-lap event, reputed to be bordering 70 miles, attracted top British riders, including former world champion, and winner, Dougie Lampkin, as well as five other previous Scott Trial title-holders.

Saturday's entry list featured competitors from all parts of the British Isles, while French ace Benoit Dagnicourt travelled over from Nemours, south of Paris, to sample the Yorkshire countryside.

Benoit’s total score including time faults was 124. Not bad at all, but Guy Kendrew sped round in just five hours, 17 minutes and 56 seconds thereby penalising the rest of the field.

Only winner Jack Price and Minehead’s Billy Green managed to keep time faults down to six. Even former winner James Dabill and Richard Sadler incurred damaging time penalties.

Skeeby’s Jonathan Richardson was favourite to post the fastest time but ran out of fuel, and the time lost swept away his chances, and with observation losses dropped him to 13th place.

Former winner Lampkin took a heavy fall that delayed him, but the 40-year Vertigo importer still rode to fifth best on observation score.

As for winner Jack Price, the result was stunning. The Huddersfield Vertigo rider won the British Championship then more or less dropped out of trialling for quite a long time, but he came back at the weekend in style.

Top 25 results

1 Jack Price, time 6, observation 17, total 23, 2 Billy Green, 6, 25, 31, 3 Richard Sadler, 14, 21, 35, 4 James Dabill, 12, 24, 36, 5 Guy Kendrew, 0, 41, 6 Tom Minta, 19, 23, 42, 7 Ross Danby, 16, 27, 43, 8, Dougie Lampkin, 20, 27, 47, 9 Jack Peace, 19, 30, 49, 10 Ian Austermuhle, 17, 38, 55, 11 James Fry, 13, 43, 56, 12, Sam Haslam, 22, 41, 63, 13 Jonathan Richardson, 1, 62, 63, 14 Andy Chilton, 26, 44, 70, 15 Michael Brown, 27, 46, 73, 16 Sam Connor, 54, 36, 90, 17 Rob Waite, 33, 60, 93, 18, Dan Thorpe, 32, 67, 99, 19 Dec Bullock, 38, 67, 105, 20 Emma Bristow, 33, 73, 106, 21 John Sunter, 22, 86, 108, 22 Tom Middleton, 37, 72, 109, 23 Ben Hemingway, 31, 81 112, 24 Chris Pearson, 52, 63, 115, 25 Benoit Dagnicourt, 63, 61, 124, 26 Tom Affleck, 34, 94, 128.