Race Reports
2014 R8 Alloa
23-9-14 TWINSHOCK SCRAMBLE CLUB SCOTLAND
RACE REPORT FROM ROUND 9 AT GLENOCHIL ON 21-9-14
ROUND 9 AT GLENOCHIL LAST SUNDAY WAS A BRILLIANT MEETING . THE WEATHER WAS AT ITS BEST AND A SUPER TURNOUT OF RIDERS MADE FOR A GREAT DAYS RACING.THE OVER 50s WERE OUT FIRST AND WHAT A SUPERB DISPLAY OF RACING ,HAMMER AND TONGS FROM START TO FINISH IN ALL 3 LEGS .THE OLDER GUYS SURE KNOW HOW TO ENJOY THEMSELVES ,DAVE PULLAR AND SCOTT NAPIER CONTINUED THEIR BATTLEUP FRONT IN THIS CLASS WITH JOHNNY RUTHERFORD, JOE MCLEAN , DAVY ROSS AND JOCK CAMERON FIGHTING FOR THE MINOR AWARDS,BIG DONNIE BRUCE WAS INVOLVED IN THE EARLY RACES BUT SUCCUMED TO AN INJURY AND HAD TO RETIRE. NEXT ON LINE WAS THE PRE 77 MOB WITH RICHIE MCFADDEN SECURING THE 3 WINS TO TAKE THIS YEARS PRE 77 CHAMPIONSHIP IN STYLE.THE TEAM LEADER OF BRITTONS GOT TALENT,GARY BRITTON WHO HAS SHOWED A MEGA IMPROVEMENT IN RECENT MONTHS RODE TO A VERY GOOD SECOND OVERALL FROM DON FULLERTON AND BRIAN ROBERTSON . THE FOURSTROKES PUT ON A SUPERB SHOW AND THE TRACK CONDITIONS SEEMED TO FAVOUR THE BIG THUMPERS AS THESE GUYS WERE FLYING,FINLAY WHITE TAKING A WELL EARNED 3 WINS FROM THE VASTLY IMPROVING RICK CALDWELL IN SECOND AND CALLUM WILSON IN 3RD .THIS CHAMPIONSHIP IS STILL WIDE OPEN AND WILL GO TO THE LAST ROUND AT GLENFARG ON SUNDAY THE 5TH OF OCTOBER AND IS SURE TO BE A GREAT FINALE TO A WELL FOUGHT CHAMPIONSHIP ALL YEAR BY THE TOP 3 IN THIS CLASS.
THE TWINSHOCK WERE NEXT UP AND THE 250 SUPREMO AT THIS EVENT WAS THE FAR TRAVELLED CHRIS WOODWARD WHO BAGGED 3 WINS FROM 3 STARTS IN THIS CLASS,HE WAS HOUNDED IN ALL 3 RACES BY THE TOP SCOTS ,GRAEME SMITH ,ALEX JOINER AND GRAEME MILLER,THEY ALL HAD A GO AT TAKLING THE LEAD BUT CHRIS SHOWED HIS CLASS AND HELD ON FOR THE OVERALL.THE OPEN TWINSHOCK CLASS HAD A LARGER THAN NORMAL LINEUP AT THE START OF RACE 1 WITH WALTER BICKMORE AND CALLUM BAIRD TAKING AN EARLY LEAD AND SWAPPING POSITION THROUGHOUT THIS RACE WITH BICKMORE JUST WINNING .RACE 2 SAW BICKMORE TAKE ANOTHER HOLESHOT ,THIS TIME CLOSELY FOLLOWED BY PAUL CHIAPPA AND BAIRD.CHIAPPA COULD DO NOTHING TO DISPOSE BICKMORE OF HIS LEAD AND SETTLED FOR RUNNER UP.RACE 3 AND IT WAS ALL STATIONS GO FOR CHIAPPA,NO STOPPING HIM THIS TIME AS HE PULLED OUT A SAFE LEAD WHICH HE HELD TO THE END CHASED BY BICKMORE AND CRAIG SMITH.
THE OVER 40 CLASS SAW THE RARE APPEARANCE OF JOHN STOKES IN RACE 1 ,HE SETTLED INTO AN EARLY LEAD AND FOUGHT OFF PRESSURE FROM GORDON FORBES AND JIM COLLIGAN BUT HELD ON FOR THE WIN.STOKESY,S OLD KRAMER GAVE UP THE GHOST IN RACE 2 AND THAT WAS HIS DAY OVER ,THIS LEFT COLLIGAN AT THE HELM IN THIS RACE FOLLOWED BY THE FAST IMPROVING DAVY WATSON.RACE 3 SAW EVEN ANOTHER WINNER AS THIS TIME FORBES WAS THE MAN ON THE CHARGE AND RODE SUPERB TO TAKE THE OVERALL FROM WATSON AND GRANT MCCLURE IN 3RD.
TAM GRANT CONTINUES HIS RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF GLORY IN THE EVOLUTION CLASS AND 2 WINS AND A 6TH GAVE HIM THE OVERALL AND CHAMPIONSHIP FOR ANOTHER YEAR,HOLESHOT KING GORDON MORRISON RODE WEEL IN ALL 3 RACES TO CLAIM 2ND WITH ALLAN REID 3RD AND THE RECENTLY RETURNED FROM INJURY MARK KENNY MIXING IT WITH THE BIG BOYS TO SCORE STEADILY FOR 4TH OVERALL
THE PRE 90 125 CLASS IS STILL A VERY EXCITING RACE TO WATCH WITH THE WEE LIGHT GUYS ON THEIR WHIZZING MACHINES GIVING IT LARGE MUCH TO THE PLEASURE OF THE WATCHING CROWD WHO WERE TREATED TO A MASTERFUL DISPLAY OF RIDING SKILLS ON THE TIDDLERS.ANDREW WHITE CLAIMED RACE 1 FROM CHAMPIONSHIP LEADER PETER ONEILLWITH BRIAN COLLIGAN IN 3RD,THESE PLACINGS WERE REVERSED IN RACE 2 AND WITH WHITE BLOWING A HOSEY IN RACE 3 IT WAS LEFT TO WILLIAM PENRICE TO GET IN THE MIX,THIS WAS ANOTHER CLASS WITH 3 DIFFERENT WINNERS ON THE DAY ,ONEILL CAME OUT ON TOP OVERALL JUST BY A POINT FROM COLLIGAN AND AGAIN THIS CLASS GOES DOWN TO THE WIRE AT GLENFARG.
NEW BOY TO THE 2 STROKE CLASS ,JIM MACMILLAN TOOK 2 WINS AND A SECOND TO WIN THIS CLASS OVERALL FROM TOM DICKIE AND MARK OSINSKI ,THIS CLASS THROWS UP SOME EXCELLENT RACING AND IS A PLEASURE TO WATCH.JOE MCLEAN AND JIMMY HARLEY INTRODUCED THIS CLASS AS A ONE YEAR TRIAL TO SEE HOW IT GOES AND IT MAY BE A PERMANENT FIXTURE IN FUTURE IF WE CAN GET A SPONSOR FOR IT SOON.
THE MONO DAY MEMBERS WERE NEXT UP AND CHRIS BELL MADE HIS MARK BY WINNING RACES 1 AND 3 WITH A 2ND IN RACE 2 TO CLAIM THE OVERALL ,BUT D,J, BRUCE RODE OUT OF HIS SKIN IN RACE 2 TO DEPRIVE BELL OF THE CLEAN SWEEP,CHRIS DONALD RODE CONSISTANTLY TO CLAIM THE SECOND OVERALL ,WITH IAN WILSON,IAN MCLEAN AND LIAM WATSON ALL RIDING WELL FOR THE MINOR PLACINGS.
THE MONOSHOCK CHAMPIONSHIP RACES WERE A TREAT TO WATCH WITH NEWLY CROWNED CHAMPION ROSS FITZSIMMONS TAKING THE WIN IN RACE 1 ONLY TO SUFFER MECHANICALS IN RACE 2 WHICH ENDED HIS DAY ,MARK WILSON JUST GETTING BACK TO SPEED AFTER AN INJURY LAYOFF TOOK RACES 2 AND 3 ,ALLAN SHEILDS AND SEAN DOHERTY WERE CLOSE TO THE FRONT IN ALL 3 ENCOUNTERS AND INDEED ARE ONLY SEPERATED BY 2 POINTS IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP FOR THE 2ND SPOT. THE GRAND FINALE AT ALL TWINSHOCK EVENTS IS THE GRAND NATIONAL AND TODAY WAS NO DIFFERENT FROM THE REST.BIG GORDON MORRISON HOLESHOT AND LED FROM START TO FINISH BUT HE WAS RELENTLESLY PURSUED BY THE VASTLY IMPROVED ALLAN REID AND DAY BOY IAN WILSON BUT THEY COULD NOT OUST BIG GORDY FROM HIS NO. 1 SPOT.THERE WAS A TITANIC BATTLE FOR THE LOWER PLACINGS AND CRAIG SMITH,DAVE PULLER AND JOHN KOLLER SWAPPED PLACES THROUGHOUT THE RACE ,THIS RACE WAS A GREAT END TO THE DAY AT GLENOCHIL,ALLOA . WE HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL ON SUNDAY THE 5TH OCTOBER AT BALVAIRD FARM GLENFARG FOR THE FINAL ROUND OF THIS SUPER 10 ROUND SERIES.
RESULTS--
OVER 50s
1ST D.PULLAR
2ND S.NAPIER
3RD J.RUTHERFORD
4 TH= J.MCLEAN
4 TH = D.ROSS
6TH J.CAMERON
PRE 77
1ST R.MCFADDEN
2ND G.BRITTON
3RD D.FULLERTON
4TH B.ROBERTSON
5TH G.MCDONALD
6TH C.KING
4 STROKE
1ST F.WHITE
2ND R.CALDWELL
3RD C.WILSON
4TH A.TWEEDIE
5TH D,MCKELL
6TH A.ADAIR
250 TWINSHOCK
1ST C.WOODWARD
2ND G.SMITH
3RD G.MILLER
4TH A.JOINER
5TH G.WHYTE
6TH M.DOBIE
500 TWINSHOCK
1ST W.BICKMORE
2ND P.CHIAPPA
3RD C.BAIRD
4TH C.SMITH
5TH B.ALLARDYCE
6TH C.ROBERTSON
OVER 40s
1ST G.FORBES
2ND D.WATSON
3RD G.MCCLURE
4TH W.PENTLAND
5TH M.VANDERWERME
6TH J.STOKES
2 STROKE
1ST J.MACMILLAN
2ND T.DICKIE
3RD M.OSINSKI
4TH J.KENNY
5TH J.HARLEY
6TH D.MCINTYRE
EVO 125
1ST P.ONEILL
2ND B.COLLIGAN
3RD W.PENRICE
4TH J.LAMONT
5TH A.WHITE
6TH P.CAMPBELL
EVOLUTION OPEN
1ST = T.GRANT
1ST = G.MORRISON
3RD A .REID
4TH M.KENNY
5TH M.HANNAH
6TH S.PULLAR
MONO A
1ST M.WILSON
2ND S.DOHERTY
3RD A.SHEILDS
4TH I.MACQUEEN
5TH C.DAVIDSON
6TH G.PETERSON
MONO B
1ST C.BELL
2ND C.DONALD
3RD D.J. BRUCE
4TH I.WILSON
5TH L.WATSON
6TH I.MCLEAN
GRAND NATIONAL
1ST G.MORRISON
2ND A.REID
3RD I.WILSON
4TH C.SMITH
5TH D.PULLAR
6TH J.KOLLER
HOPE THIS IS ALL OK MANNIX CHEERS joe
23-9-14 TWINSHOCK SCRAMBLE CLUB SCOTLAND
RACE REPORT FROM ROUND 9 AT GLENOCHIL ON 21-9-14
ROUND 9 AT GLENOCHIL LAST SUNDAY WAS A BRILLIANT MEETING . THE WEATHER WAS AT ITS BEST AND A SUPER TURNOUT OF RIDERS MADE FOR A GREAT DAYS RACING.THE OVER 50s WERE OUT FIRST AND WHAT A SUPERB DISPLAY OF RACING ,HAMMER AND TONGS FROM START TO FINISH IN ALL 3 LEGS .THE OLDER GUYS SURE KNOW HOW TO ENJOY THEMSELVES ,DAVE PULLAR AND SCOTT NAPIER CONTINUED THEIR BATTLEUP FRONT IN THIS CLASS WITH JOHNNY RUTHERFORD, JOE MCLEAN , DAVY ROSS AND JOCK CAMERON FIGHTING FOR THE MINOR AWARDS,BIG DONNIE BRUCE WAS INVOLVED IN THE EARLY RACES BUT SUCCUMED TO AN INJURY AND HAD TO RETIRE. NEXT ON LINE WAS THE PRE 77 MOB WITH RICHIE MCFADDEN SECURING THE 3 WINS TO TAKE THIS YEARS PRE 77 CHAMPIONSHIP IN STYLE.THE TEAM LEADER OF BRITTONS GOT TALENT,GARY BRITTON WHO HAS SHOWED A MEGA IMPROVEMENT IN RECENT MONTHS RODE TO A VERY GOOD SECOND OVERALL FROM DON FULLERTON AND BRIAN ROBERTSON . THE FOURSTROKES PUT ON A SUPERB SHOW AND THE TRACK CONDITIONS SEEMED TO FAVOUR THE BIG THUMPERS AS THESE GUYS WERE FLYING,FINLAY WHITE TAKING A WELL EARNED 3 WINS FROM THE VASTLY IMPROVING RICK CALDWELL IN SECOND AND CALLUM WILSON IN 3RD .THIS CHAMPIONSHIP IS STILL WIDE OPEN AND WILL GO TO THE LAST ROUND AT GLENFARG ON SUNDAY THE 5TH OF OCTOBER AND IS SURE TO BE A GREAT FINALE TO A WELL FOUGHT CHAMPIONSHIP ALL YEAR BY THE TOP 3 IN THIS CLASS.
THE TWINSHOCK WERE NEXT UP AND THE 250 SUPREMO AT THIS EVENT WAS THE FAR TRAVELLED CHRIS WOODWARD WHO BAGGED 3 WINS FROM 3 STARTS IN THIS CLASS,HE WAS HOUNDED IN ALL 3 RACES BY THE TOP SCOTS ,GRAEME SMITH ,ALEX JOINER AND GRAEME MILLER,THEY ALL HAD A GO AT TAKLING THE LEAD BUT CHRIS SHOWED HIS CLASS AND HELD ON FOR THE OVERALL.THE OPEN TWINSHOCK CLASS HAD A LARGER THAN NORMAL LINEUP AT THE START OF RACE 1 WITH WALTER BICKMORE AND CALLUM BAIRD TAKING AN EARLY LEAD AND SWAPPING POSITION THROUGHOUT THIS RACE WITH BICKMORE JUST WINNING .RACE 2 SAW BICKMORE TAKE ANOTHER HOLESHOT ,THIS TIME CLOSELY FOLLOWED BY PAUL CHIAPPA AND BAIRD.CHIAPPA COULD DO NOTHING TO DISPOSE BICKMORE OF HIS LEAD AND SETTLED FOR RUNNER UP.RACE 3 AND IT WAS ALL STATIONS GO FOR CHIAPPA,NO STOPPING HIM THIS TIME AS HE PULLED OUT A SAFE LEAD WHICH HE HELD TO THE END CHASED BY BICKMORE AND CRAIG SMITH.
THE OVER 40 CLASS SAW THE RARE APPEARANCE OF JOHN STOKES IN RACE 1 ,HE SETTLED INTO AN EARLY LEAD AND FOUGHT OFF PRESSURE FROM GORDON FORBES AND JIM COLLIGAN BUT HELD ON FOR THE WIN.STOKESY,S OLD KRAMER GAVE UP THE GHOST IN RACE 2 AND THAT WAS HIS DAY OVER ,THIS LEFT COLLIGAN AT THE HELM IN THIS RACE FOLLOWED BY THE FAST IMPROVING DAVY WATSON.RACE 3 SAW EVEN ANOTHER WINNER AS THIS TIME FORBES WAS THE MAN ON THE CHARGE AND RODE SUPERB TO TAKE THE OVERALL FROM WATSON AND GRANT MCCLURE IN 3RD.
TAM GRANT CONTINUES HIS RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF GLORY IN THE EVOLUTION CLASS AND 2 WINS AND A 6TH GAVE HIM THE OVERALL AND CHAMPIONSHIP FOR ANOTHER YEAR,HOLESHOT KING GORDON MORRISON RODE WEEL IN ALL 3 RACES TO CLAIM 2ND WITH ALLAN REID 3RD AND THE RECENTLY RETURNED FROM INJURY MARK KENNY MIXING IT WITH THE BIG BOYS TO SCORE STEADILY FOR 4TH OVERALL
THE PRE 90 125 CLASS IS STILL A VERY EXCITING RACE TO WATCH WITH THE WEE LIGHT GUYS ON THEIR WHIZZING MACHINES GIVING IT LARGE MUCH TO THE PLEASURE OF THE WATCHING CROWD WHO WERE TREATED TO A MASTERFUL DISPLAY OF RIDING SKILLS ON THE TIDDLERS.ANDREW WHITE CLAIMED RACE 1 FROM CHAMPIONSHIP LEADER PETER ONEILLWITH BRIAN COLLIGAN IN 3RD,THESE PLACINGS WERE REVERSED IN RACE 2 AND WITH WHITE BLOWING A HOSEY IN RACE 3 IT WAS LEFT TO WILLIAM PENRICE TO GET IN THE MIX,THIS WAS ANOTHER CLASS WITH 3 DIFFERENT WINNERS ON THE DAY ,ONEILL CAME OUT ON TOP OVERALL JUST BY A POINT FROM COLLIGAN AND AGAIN THIS CLASS GOES DOWN TO THE WIRE AT GLENFARG.
NEW BOY TO THE 2 STROKE CLASS ,JIM MACMILLAN TOOK 2 WINS AND A SECOND TO WIN THIS CLASS OVERALL FROM TOM DICKIE AND MARK OSINSKI ,THIS CLASS THROWS UP SOME EXCELLENT RACING AND IS A PLEASURE TO WATCH.JOE MCLEAN AND JIMMY HARLEY INTRODUCED THIS CLASS AS A ONE YEAR TRIAL TO SEE HOW IT GOES AND IT MAY BE A PERMANENT FIXTURE IN FUTURE IF WE CAN GET A SPONSOR FOR IT SOON.
THE MONO DAY MEMBERS WERE NEXT UP AND CHRIS BELL MADE HIS MARK BY WINNING RACES 1 AND 3 WITH A 2ND IN RACE 2 TO CLAIM THE OVERALL ,BUT D,J, BRUCE RODE OUT OF HIS SKIN IN RACE 2 TO DEPRIVE BELL OF THE CLEAN SWEEP,CHRIS DONALD RODE CONSISTANTLY TO CLAIM THE SECOND OVERALL ,WITH IAN WILSON,IAN MCLEAN AND LIAM WATSON ALL RIDING WELL FOR THE MINOR PLACINGS.
THE MONOSHOCK CHAMPIONSHIP RACES WERE A TREAT TO WATCH WITH NEWLY CROWNED CHAMPION ROSS FITZSIMMONS TAKING THE WIN IN RACE 1 ONLY TO SUFFER MECHANICALS IN RACE 2 WHICH ENDED HIS DAY ,MARK WILSON JUST GETTING BACK TO SPEED AFTER AN INJURY LAYOFF TOOK RACES 2 AND 3 ,ALLAN SHEILDS AND SEAN DOHERTY WERE CLOSE TO THE FRONT IN ALL 3 ENCOUNTERS AND INDEED ARE ONLY SEPERATED BY 2 POINTS IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP FOR THE 2ND SPOT. THE GRAND FINALE AT ALL TWINSHOCK EVENTS IS THE GRAND NATIONAL AND TODAY WAS NO DIFFERENT FROM THE REST.BIG GORDON MORRISON HOLESHOT AND LED FROM START TO FINISH BUT HE WAS RELENTLESLY PURSUED BY THE VASTLY IMPROVED ALLAN REID AND DAY BOY IAN WILSON BUT THEY COULD NOT OUST BIG GORDY FROM HIS NO. 1 SPOT.THERE WAS A TITANIC BATTLE FOR THE LOWER PLACINGS AND CRAIG SMITH,DAVE PULLER AND JOHN KOLLER SWAPPED PLACES THROUGHOUT THE RACE ,THIS RACE WAS A GREAT END TO THE DAY AT GLENOCHIL,ALLOA . WE HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL ON SUNDAY THE 5TH OCTOBER AT BALVAIRD FARM GLENFARG FOR THE FINAL ROUND OF THIS SUPER 10 ROUND SERIES.
PHOTO. JOE MCLEAN AND JOCK CAMERON BATTLING IT OUT IN THE OVER 50s
RESULTS--
OVER 50s 1ST D.PULLAR PRE 77 1ST R.MCFADDEN 4 STROKE 1ST F.WHITE 2ND S.NAPIER 2ND G.BRITTON 2ND R.CALDWELL 3RD J.RUTHERFORD 3RD D.FULLERTON 3RD C.WILSON 4 TH= J.MCLEAN 4TH B.ROBERTSON 4TH A.TWEEDIE 4 TH = D.ROSS 5TH G.MCDONALD 5TH D,MCKELL 6TH J.CAMERON 6TH C.KING 6TH A.ADAIR
250 TWINSHOCK 500 TWINSHOCK OVER 40s 1ST C.WOODWARD 1ST W.BICKMORE 1ST G.FORBES 2ND G.SMITH 2ND P.CHIAPPA 2ND D.WATSON 3RD G.MILLER 3RD C.BAIRD 3RD G.MCCLURE 4TH A.JOINER 4TH C.SMITH 4TH W.PENTLAND 5TH G.WHYTE 5TH B.ALLARDYCE 5TH M.VANDERWERME 6TH M.DOBIE 6TH C.ROBERTSON 6TH J.STOKES
2 STROKE EVO 125 EVOLUTION OPEN 1ST J.MACMILLAN 1ST P.ONEILL 1ST = T.GRANT 2ND T.DICKIE 2ND B.COLLIGAN 1ST = G.MORRISON 3RD M.OSINSKI 3RD W.PENRICE 3RD A .REID 4TH J.KENNY 4TH J.LAMONT 4TH M.KENNY 5TH J.HARLEY 5TH A.WHITE 5TH M.HANNAH 6TH D.MCINTYRE 6TH P.CAMPBELL 6TH S.PULLAR
MONO A MONO B GRAND NATIONAL 1ST M.WILSON 1ST C.BELL 1ST G.MORRISON 2ND S.DOHERTY 2ND C.DONALD 2ND A.REID 3RD A.SHEILDS 3RD D.J. BRUCE 3RD I.WILSON 4TH I.MACQUEEN 4TH I.WILSON 4TH C.SMITH 5TH C.DAVIDSON 5TH L.WATSON 5TH D.PULLAR 6TH G.PETERSON 6TH I.MCLEAN 6TH J.KOLLER
HOPE THIS IS ALL OK MANNIX CHEERS joe