Once again, the record for decent weather for this championship retained it's quite remarkable record, extreme cold over-night caught a few out who were unable to race due to frozen cooling systems, but sunshine and blue skys was the order for the day.
The Junior class has been superb all winter, offering a taster for 2008, with grids being close to over-subscribed for the summer championships. With victories going to three different riders, it's pretty clear it's going to be a hard fought season, Ben Joseph came out on top, despite wins from 2nd place rider, Jake Archer, and 4th placed rider Wayne Ryan, who suffered a DNF in race three, handing 3rd overall to Zak Corderoy, who's consistency paid off, along with two top three finishes out of three races.
The 4.2hp class has been dominated by Andrew Rumsam, and there was to be no change of order today, Sam Cherry [2nd overall], and Mark Biswell [3rd overall] were left scrapping for the remaining podium positions and trophies. The Air-Cooled class however, saw Rumsam given a rough time by Jack Keen, who's DNF in race two demoted him to 2nd overall, despite two wins, thus leaving Rumsam on top spot again. Adrian Arnold had two superb third places, but again, a DNF in race three saw him slump down to 5th overall, leaving Harvey Cook to claim the final podium place.
Production A was again a one horse race, with Brad Ray claiming 3 wins from 3 starts for 1st overall, lower down, it was a battle between Zak Corderoy [2nd overall, which Mum was very pleased with!], Wayne Ryan [3rd overall] which made up for his being out of the running in the juniors, despite some excellent riding, and Ben Joseph, who ended up fourth after a not so hot finish in race three. The Production Light class saw reigning champ, Max Madero bag 1st overall, with 2 wins and a second place to 2nd overall,. Tom Weedon, who is looking forward to his first season on a Honda RS125, after doing very well in the 2007 GP70 class at EMRA & ACU motostars, Matt Stringer was 3rd overall, despite a challenge which faded as the day went on from Jordan Simpkin. The Production Heavy class saw close action, and two winners, 1st overall on the day, Ben Prati claiming 2 victories to 2nd overall, Stephen Good's 1 victory, James Davies was both consistent and fast to claim 3rd overall.
The Supers class Suddenly seems to be livening up, and although Mike Corderoy was again to claim top spot, Chris Cheshire wasn't going to let him have an easy time of it, and neither was Nick Arthurton, however, Cheshire's DNF in race one, despite a win and a second, bumped him down to 3rd overall, leaving Arthurton to claim 2nd. The Super National class saw Tom Weedon come out on top, with 2 wins and a second, the only other winner being 3rd place overall rider, Jordan Simpkin, Matt Stringer claimed second overall, but worthy mention must also go to Jack Keen who ended up 4th overall by a fairly narrow margin.
Interest in the GP50 Auto class seems to have really taken off of late, however, reigning SEMRC champion, Jake Archer still made a clean sweep of things to claim 1st overall, with Josh Owens once again 2nd overall and new boy, Matt Walker 3rd, worth mention goes to James Turner who managed one 3rd place on his first outing. The Conti GP50 class saw Brad Ray once again in a class of his own, with 1st overall from three straight wins. James Robinson, who has just converted to 17" wheel was simply fantastic, battling with Devon Turner a lot of the timw, and managed two second and one third place to Turner to claim 2nd overall, with a fast improving Bradley Hughes 3rd overall. GP70 saw the Adam Robinson/Tom Carne battle re-commence, with so little between them in lap times, Carne bagged race one, but then Robinson just seemed to up the anti to claim wins two and three, putting him 1st overall, with Carne 2nd again, Tom Ward, another improving quickly claimed 3rd overall.
Pit Bike Junior saw series leader, Josh Brown suffer mechanical woe's for a lot of the weekend, with his bike expiring in Saturday practice. A loose silencer saw him black Flagged for safety reasons in race one, and then it was all Josh could do as a damage limitation for the rest of the day, earning him 3rd overall. Top spot in the meantime went to Kyle Ryde, no doubt making up for his crash and retirement back at round one! Kyle Harris was again up there and pushing, claiming 2nd overall.
Pit Bike seniors saw a huge grid in a winter series of 32 riders, Cat A saw reigning British Champion, Kenny Owen [1st overall] slugging it out with Lewis Burns [2nd overall] and Luke Potter [3rd overall], with the three of them not giving an inch. Owen was struggling all weekend with a set of harder Bridgestone tyres, not ideal for such a low track temp, however, the battles give some indication of the level of competition to come in 2008. Cat B saw a battle of titanic proportions between Dan Linfoot, Wes Steinschauer and Calan Wood, some hard riding saw Linfoot drop the lead in race one, and was demoted to third overall behind Steinschauer and Wood, however, that was the last mistake Dan made, and despite being pushed hard, Linfoot came 1st overall with wins in the remaining races, with Steinschauer 2nd overall and Wood 3rd.