GISBURN REPORT
Round 5 National Putoline Hare Scramble Championships The Gisburn massive Once again the Dirtbike-Traxs team put on a spectacular hare scramble show with a carnival like atmosphere at the Gisburn venue in Lancashire for the 5th round of the national putoline hare scramble championship. were over a thousand plus spectators lined the course for Sundays action, the famous Barns banks were full of spectators, the weather was superb with non stop sunshine this in its self was justification for postponing the event for a week from its planned may 4th date. On Saturday it was the youth riders turn to race, using the longest ever youth course at Gisburn which included one of the loops that forms the famous Barns banks At 1 pm the senior B riders lead the youth riders away, Luke Flack. Scott Altass, Davey Todd, were in the front group during the early part of the race with Luke flack setting the fastest lap of the day with a 9 min and 12 second lap, during the later stages of the race Davey Todd was building a lead which would give him a comfortable win, with a winning margin of a lap over Luke Flack in second , with Robert Johnson putting in the performance of the day starting 4 minutes after every one had set off he came through to take the third place podium spot. Michael Tatham continued in his winning ways with victory in the junior class with Michael Gilby second, Harrison Bell made the arduous trip from Barnoldswick worth while by taking third place, Beccy Hobbs won the girl power ladies class in a close race from Jade Fisher second and Gina Bewlay third all completing 7 laps .with a well planned award presentation the youth day drew to a close. Sunday dawned in glorious sunshine with the temperature into the 80’s by mid morning it was going to be a tester for the 260 sportsman novice and senior A riders , the start signal was given at 10 am the first wave of sportsman riders were off around the Gisburn track, through the open rolling fields before descending into the woods for the first time the leaders came to crow hill were some of them started to have problems , a sharp left turn on to a short steep rocky hill was catching many of the sportsman riders out, as the sportsman leading pack came to Barns banks they were greeted with the masses of spectators waiting for the action to start with riders struggling to get to the tops of the steep banks the crowds were kept entertained all day , as the sportsman race , drew to a close, in the E1 class there was a close battle for the win between Terry Moore , Davy Moorewood and mark Rollin , with Davy setting the fastest lap but the win would go to Terry Moore by seconds from Mark Rollin second and Davy Moorewood third , the sportsman open class was an other close run thing after 2.5 hours of racing Peter Carr took the win by 10 seconds from Jeremy Ashby second ,with Chris Tennant third , all completing 12 laps George Knowles was the best of the senior a youth with 12 laps, William Hillas and Adam Taylor were only separated by 1 second after a hard fought race with William claiming the second place. After the hard working dirtbike-traxs team repaired the broken tapes the main race of the day could get under way 150 experts, clubman, 040’s lined up and at 1.30 sharp the race got underway , David Myers took the Ras sport hole shot award and lead the race for the first half lap before Adam Smith Sandiford Honda pushed to the front he was caught by the Biffster as they passed the pine woods , Biff on his Sandiford Honda held the lead for 3 laps before Scott Austin , Andrew Hackett , and Harry Hillas all passed him as he struggled with arm pump , by lap 8 Scott’s lead was 25 seconds over the second placed Biff who was now motoring having recovered from early arm pump but there was going to be no epic battle to the finish as on lap 9 Scott Austin punctured and retired leaving the Biffster to take the chequered flag on lap 14 Harry Hillas claimed a fine second place with Andrew Hackett third. Clubman E1 was dominated by DBT riders in 1st place Gary Daniels 2nd Joe Deakin and 3rd Josh Bendell all completed 13 laps with 7 minutes separating them, clubman open was won by Marcus Firth on a Ras sport TM , with Simon Douglas Sandiford Honda second and Chris Ball in third . John Bradford won the 040 class from Phil Darwin with Bill Howe on his mighty Berg in third .the awards presentation drew a close on a fantastic weekends racing a big thank you to all the riders for complying with the strict camping and no riding of motorcycle rules , after several visits during the day from Ribble valley council safety executive were impressed with all the health and safety aspects of the event that dirtbike-traxs and its hard working team had put in place .talking to dbt at the end , that’s been a great weekend of camping and racing, 460 riders have enjoyed them selves the dirtbike-traxs team have once again set new standards in professionalism with the track ,results ,presentations, safety . On a different note it was great to see husky rider Gavin Houson out of hospital and at the event after his recent accident, we all wish him a speedy recovery.
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