Superstuff! Now, can Frazer match Supersteph?
Frazer Rogers maintained his lead in the J and S Aprilia Superteen Championship, after some bruising encounters at Pembrey.
A week earlier, Steph Waddelow wrapped up the MRO Superteen Championship at Oulton Park, but she, like Frazer, has by no means had the easy ride this season that some of the result sheets might suggest.
It was edge of the seat stuff at Oulton, as Flossy twice battled race-long with Alex Olsen and Andy Reid, the lead being swapped many times each lap.
Flossy took the first win, and Andy the second, but, remarkably, all three young riders were covered by exactly 0.242 seconds at the flag in BOTH races!
The superb action merely served to highlight what has been an outstanding year for Steph, the MRO Champion…
Meanwhile, Frazer, leading the Aprilia Superteens and the Nitro Newcomers, picked up two wins and a second in South Wales, but those bare facts go nowhere to convey the knock down, drag ‘em out stuff going on at the front of each of the four races.
Adam Shelton, Bruce Winfield, Wayne Ryan, George Martindale, Andy Reid and Josh Harland all starred, along with Frazer, in the lead battles in each race.
Such was the intensity of the racing that you felt something had to give, and, in the end, the one to suffer most was Adam ‘the Stinger’ Shelton, who was twice felled in incidents not of his making.
George Martindale also had a couple of offs, and even the normally rock-steady Frazer Rogers was pitched into the weeds when his machine gave up the ghost at Hatchets hairpin.
Josh and Bruce had a win apiece on the Sunday, but nobody could do enough to stop Frazer from tightening his grip on the Championship.
Catch the action on Motors TV, on Monday September 8th, at 19.00 - it’ll smoke your socks!
They caught the eye…
Adam Robinson, the youngest of the Thundersport GP3 runners, had a stunning weekend at Pembrey. He’s made that leap in performance that is such a boost to a young rider’s career, and he’ll be worth keeping tabs on…
Ben Gautrey, Jordan Holliday, and Charlie King all impressed in the Aprilia Superteens, and Nick Anderson kept up his recently found form…
Cliffy Hamilton in the Thundersport 600s, and Rory Clarke and Scott Kelly in Thundersport GP1 came over the Irish sea, and all produced exciting performances on track, and contributed much to the general good humour of the paddock…
Sam Parry must be miffed that he was only able to join the Streetfighter B contest just a couple of months ago – he picked up another pair of wins, but the championship lead is still held by the ever-cheerful Sam Read…
David Craig was electric in Thundersport GP2, and there were a couple of superb efforts, in his first season on a 250, by 18 year-old Joel Williams, who’d picked up sponsorship from Maxilead Metals of Manchester for the event.
Tony Coombs and Clinton de Tarnowski are at it like knives at the head of the Junior Powerbike Championship, in a contest that will run to the wire…
And, finally…
Huge congratulations to Mark ‘the Dog’ Davies, who became the first ever Thundersport GB Champion, by winning both the Thundersport GB2 races at Pembrey…
And also to Tom Weedon…
The Thundersport GP3 rider has picked up class wins aplenty, but at the EMRA meeting this weekend at Mallory, the 14 year-old pedalled his Honda 125 to outright race victory for the first time…the first of many, I’m sure.
