So you’re second in the Championship, without a trophy to your name so far this season. You come to Round five at Snetterton and they come like buses….. sound familiar? 

It will to the Knight Road Racing team who’s South African rider in Clinton De Tarnowsky cleaned up at our Norfolk round with four out of four wins this weekend.

Clint, who was 45 points behind Championship leader Tony Coombs before Snetterton, clawed into Tony’s lead and after Coombs failed to finish the last race on Sunday, it was De Tarnowsky who found himself top of the shop in the standings with a slender six point lead.

Coombs himself will be happy to have got himself back on the podium after a few rounds of bad luck, but he will be looking to make up for lost points at our next round where we re-visit Mallory Park, a circuit Tony seems to perform well on.

In other classes, Championship leads were stretched. Ed Rendell didn’t quite clean up from the weekend but his two from three puts a strangle hold on the rest of his GP3 contenders.
Lee Reveley continued his dominance in the Sound of Thunder class, leaving Lee Cutts-Bland a lot to do if he wants to mount a challenge.
Mark Davies won three of his GP2 races to stretch his healthy lead in the 250GP class and Steve Joy was another perfect scorer in the Streetfighter ‘A’ category after fending off challenges from Steve Hodgson and Bernie Price.
12 year old Frazer Rogers proved he was the real deal too at Snetterton, another three wins adding to his growing tally now gives him a more comfortable gap over Adam Shelton in second.

Despite a lot of the favourites taking valuable victories, the racing made for good viewing and not every class went to plan for some riders.

In GP1 and Thundersport 600, Gary May got ‘robbed twice’. Whilst also having a go in the GP250 class, May did win two of the 600 races, but thanks to some gutsy riding from Rob Hoyles, May’s lead in the 600 Championship itself was to be cut thanks to Hoyles. Rob was overjoyed to win his first Thundersport 600 race on Sunday and it was well deserved too. All season long he has been after top spot and with his 65 points from the weekend compared to Gary’s 50. The 600 Class is still far from over.

Rob Elsmere was the other ‘Robber’ in the GP1 class. Although the spoils in our Powerbike class went to an impressive Steve Mercer and experienced Denver Robb, Elsmere grabbed a second, third and fourth to show May that he is no pushover. Gary on the 600 was at an obvious disadvantage being on the smaller bike but after a fall in Race one on Sunday, Gary let his Championship lead slip to just 19 points as we head to Mallory.

Sam Read and Keith Savine shared two wins each in the Streetfighter ‘B’ category, with all riders in the top five of the Championship giving us yet another entertaining show and Will Hodgson was not content in just winning his Moto 450 races, Will mixed it up well with the GP2 class and brawled his way to third overall on Sunday.