Yorkshireman Jamie Coward was the most successful rider in the Blackford Financial Services Pre-TT Classic at Billown in the Isle of Man over the weekend.The 24-year-old builder from Hebden Bridge won the 500cc Senior race by 0.072s from Alan Oversby after a terrific scrap.
He’d already finished runner-up to Oversby in the 850cc race aboard the same Craven Manx Norton previously campaigned by the latter man, and also finished third in the 350cc Junior behind Mike Hose and Oversby in what was another close finish between the latter pair.
Coward rounded off an excellent day with a clear win over Mistral Kawasaki team-mate Steve Mercer in the Post Classic Superbike event, recording the first 100mph plus lap of the course on a classic machine in the process.
Mike Hose of Wallasey also recorded a double victory with success in the 350cc Junior on a Honda-twin and a runaway win in the 350cc Singles race on a two-stroke Bultaco.
The most astonishing result was 87-year-old Ted Fenwick’s victory in the 250cc Singles class on his faithful Ducati. James Cowton repeated his 2014 success in the Junior Post-Classic event, while Scotsman Ewan Hamilton walked the 250cc race.
Paton mounted Mick Moreton won the solo support race on his 500cc BIC Paton by a narrow margin from Dave Cooper.
The podium placings in the two sidecar races were a complete carbon copy of one another with Eddy Wright and Kieran Clark winning both from Rob Bellas/Dean Kilkenny and Wal Saunders/Bob Dowty.
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