Christmas Racing - Sun 30th Dec 1pm @ Scunthorpe

[Scunny Stag]

I apologise for posting this in the wrong section but given the lack of track action during the winter I thought this should be brought to the attention of a wider audience.

 

As the title suggests the 3rd Christmas Cracker Short Track meeting will take place at the Scunthorpe Raceway this Sunday (start 1pm). Speedway riders Ricky Ashworth, Adam Allott, Benji Compton, Simon Lambert and Rusty Hodgson along with road racing stars John McGuinness (TT Fame), Guy Martin (Ulster GP winner), Steve Plater (Macao GP winner), Ben Wilson and Matt Llewellyn plus Super Moto racers Leighton Haigh and Andy Mitchell will be taking on regular Short Track riders like Peter Boast, Tim Greig, Glyn Pocklington and Victor Bull for the title.

 

Last year the meeting attracted the biggest crowd to the Scunthorpe Raceway since the track's opening meeting in 2005 and with a dry and fine day forecast for Sunday another bumper turnout is expected.

 

Last year's meeting provided some excellent racing and this year's line-up suggests it will be no less competitive.

 

For the official thread in the grasstrack, longtrack and Short Track section see the following link:

 

http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/ind...showtopic=38825

[Iused2]

Results:

Short Track;

1st Peter Boast

2nd Rusty Hodgson

3rd Victor Bull

[Paul Cooper top regular speedway rider in 8th,and worth the cost of admission alone!!] [ Ricky Ashworth and Simon Lambert both good finalists]

Quads;

1st Alan Hooker.

Some incredible racing,regularly 3 wide in the solos,usually with Cooper or Hodgson on the outside.

Edited December 30, 2007 by Iused2

[Scunny Stag]

Boast claims Christmas Cracker

 

Market Rasen Short Track racer and former speedway rider Peter Boast fought off a strong challenge from the Cleveland Bay’s Rusty Hodgson to win the Christmas Cracker Short Track meeting at the Scunthorpe Raceway on Sunday afternoon. A large crowd was treated to some top quality racing as stars from a variety of motorcycling disciplines duelled around the 285-metre shale track and after 24 races it was Boast who finally claimed the title.

 

However, Boast did have to do it the hard way. He reversed his semi-final defeat to Hodgson and eventually passed the North Yorkshire rider half way through the 12-lap final. Completing the podium was Stamford’s Victor Bull whilst Woodhall Spa’s Steve Plater was the pick of the road racers finishing a creditable 6th. Former Scunthorpe Scorpion Paul Cooper was a late addition to the field and as usual provided plenty of entertainment on his way to 8th place. Three other speedway riders also made the final with former Berwick and Edinburgh rider Carl Shield finishing 9th, Sheffield’s Ricky Ashworth 10th and Boston rider Simon Lambert claiming 11th place.

 

Ten quad bike races also provided their fair share of entertainment and it was the Hooker brothers from Caistor who eventually claimed a 1-2 at the top of the podium.

 

Short Track Christmas Cracker Grand Final Results:

1 Peter Boast (450 Team Silkolene Suzuki)

2 Rusty Hodgson (450 Dynomax CCM)

3 Victor Bull (450 Yamaha)

4 Glyn Pocklington (450 Helmets4u Honda)

5 Craig Spence (450 Yamaha)

6 Steve Plater (450 Honda)

7 Tim Greig (450 ASR Honda)

8 Paul Cooper (450 FTE CCM)

9 Carl Shield (650 Husaberg)

10 Ricky Ashworth (450 FTE CCM)

11 Simon Lambert (450 FTE CCM)

12 Dijon Compton (500 Team CCM)

Quads Christmas Cracker Final

1 Alan Hooker (350 Banshee)

2 Mark Hooker (350 Banshee)

3 Mark Ramsdale (350 Banshee)

4 Nick Wright (300 Honda trx)

5 Amanda Renshaw (350 Banshee)

6 Charlie Welbourn (525 Polaris)

[marron]

Well done to Rusty, certainly willing to give anything a try when it comes to motorbikes.

[Parsloes 1928 nearly]

Results:

Short Track;

1st  Peter Boast

2nd Rusty Hodgson

3rd Victor Bull

  [Paul Cooper top regular speedway rider in 8th,and worth the cost of admission alone!!] [ Ricky Ashworth and Simon Lambert both good finalists]

Quads;

1st Alan Hooker.

Some incredible racing,regularly 3 wide in the solos,usually with Cooper or Hodgson on the outside.

 

Glad you enjoyed it 'iused'..!

It was indeed a splendid afternoon's racing with so much action and passing impossible to record it all!! And you're right about 'Cooperman': he was awesome!!!!

 

Hopefully in the forthcoming STUK series in '08 we'll see more and more Speedway folk coming along to enjoy the action! See following thread for dates and details:

http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/ind...showtopic=39113

 

A massive thank-you to Rob Godfrey and all the team at Normanby Road for laying on superb facilities on & off the track; to Rich for his excellent meeting report (see above and Scunny website); and especially to Steve Dixon: the most professional Speedway track photographer out there IMHO.

[Scunny Stag]

After a request for the results I have managed to obtain the official ones. These are the qualifying scores:

 

054 PETER BOAST 15 15 15 45

060 CRAIG SPENCE 15 12 15 42

015 VICTOR BULL 15 15 12 42

001X RICKY ASHWORTH 10 15 15 40

059 RUSTY HODGSON 15 15 9 39

022 STEVE PLATER 10 12 15 37

006X SIMON LAMBERT 10 9 12 31

015X BEN WILSON 10 10 10 30

070 JAMES HEATON 10 10 10 30

010 TIM GREIG 9 12 9 30

007X ADAM ALLOTT 9 8 12 29

005X DIJON COMPTON 7 9 12 28

99X CARL SHIELD 12 12 3 27

091 PAUL COOPER 12 4 10 26

026 NEIL MARTIN 8 10 8 26

084 JUSTIN HARGATE 9 8 8 25

071 GLN POCKLINGTON 12 9 4 25

061 KEVIN ARMSTRONG 6 9 9 24

003 GUY MARTIN 7 8 8 23

065 CHIPPY WOOD 9 7 7 23

046X JON BETHELL 8 10 4 22

004 PAUL HARRISON 4 8 9 21

073 MARK SELBY 7 6 8 21

011 ROB BRADLEY 6 7 7 20

017X SCOTT HARGREAVES 7 6 7 20

055 SHAUN BROWN 8 5 6 19

074 KARL WILLERTON 5 7 6 18

018X GEOFF BALDOCK 2 5 10 17

080 TIM STEVENS 5 5 7 17

031X FIDO WORTHINGTON 4 7 6 17

081 DAVID SELBY 8 6 3 17

046 ANDY NOURISH 6 5 5 16

016 PAUL WALKER 3 6 6 15

020 ANDREW BLACKBURN 6 3 5 14

019 KEVIN SLEIGHT 4 4 5 13

076X ANDREW DOUGHTY 5 3 5 13

027 COLIN BATCHFORD 5 4 4 13

004X MATT MOORE 3 3 3 9

 

044 MATT LLEWELLYN, 008X LEIGHTON HAIGH, 064 NIGEL ARNOLD, 068 JAMES CHAPMAN, 056 ADAM WOOD, 002X JOHN McGUINESS & 072 TOM MEAKINS DID NOT RIDE. LLEWELLYN WAS INJURED IN PRACTICE, HAIGH WAS ILL WHILST McGUINESS HAD TO MISS OUT FOR PERSONAL REASONS

 

The heat results were:

 

HEAT

3 59, 1x, 15x, 65, 81, 73, 46, 27, 19, 4x

4 15, 99x, 6x, 7x, 46x, 17x, 20, 76x

5 60, 91, 22, 10, 26, 5x, 61, 80, 31x

6 54, 71, 70, 84, 55, 3, 11, 74, 4, 16, 18x

 

9 15, 60, 15x, 61, 4, 65, 16, 18x, 19, 76x

10 1x, 99x, 46x, 71, 84, 74, 73, 80, 27, 20

11 54, 10, 70, 5x, 7x, 70, 11, 81, 46, 91, 4x

12 59, 22, 26, 6x, 3, 31x, 17x, 55

 

15 54, 15, 91, 59, 26, 80, 31x, 76x, 71, 81

16 1x, 5x, 15x, 61, 84, 11, 74, 46

17 22, 6x, 18x, 4, 73, 17x, 16, 20, 27, 4x

18 60, 7x, 70, 10, 3, 65, 55, 19, 46x, 99x

 

semi 1 59, 54, 15, 71, 6x, 70, 99x, 26, 3, 7x, 73, 46x

semi 2 60, 22, 91, 1x, 10, 15x, 61, 84, 5x, 65, 11, 4

 

L/Chance 99x, 5x, 26, 70, 61, 65, 3, 15, 84, 7x, 11, 73

FINAL 54, 59, 15, 71, 60, 22, 10, 91, 99x, 1x, 6x, 5x

 

Quad results:

 

04 ALAN HOOKER 7 7 5 19

09 MARK RAMSDALE 7 7 5 19

07 CHARLIE WELBOURN 5 5 7 17

08 MARK HOOKER 5 4 7 16

34 NICK WRIGHT 4 5 4 13

26 GARY POWELL 3 3 4 10

19 JASON SNAITH 3 4 2 9

69 MANDY RENSHAW 3 3 3 9

126 CHRIS WRIGHT R 0 0 0

03 PAUL MARLEY & 12 GEORGE PENFOLD DID NOT RACE

 

Heat

1 9, 8, 34, 19

2 4, 7, 69, 26

 

7 9, 7, 8, 26

8 4, 34, 19, 69

 

13 8, 4, 34

14 7, 9, 26, 69, 19

 

B FINAL 69, 19, 26, 126

A FINAL 4, 8, 9, 34, 69

Edited January 1, 2008 by Scunny Stag

[June]

cheers Richard..........thats got my programme filled in