Motor Sport: Dougie Lampkin takes on the elite at Mons this weekend in round three of the World Trials championship and he is hoping for another maximum score in Belgium.

Reigning champion Lampkin swept to victory in style at the opening round of the Talon engineering-backed ACU British Trials Championship at the Castlewellan Country Park in County Down, Northern Ireland, where his only serious challenger was Isle of Man ace Steve Colley.

Only Lampkin and Colley managed to cover the circuit in single marks. Colley's loss of four marks on the second lap was the best of the day.

Lampkin's best was five marks, and that was on his last lap when he knew Colley was making a last-minute ditch effort to win.

Martin Crosswaite, 18, from Bingley, broke the podium mould by snatching third spot from world ranked No 4 Graham Jarvis, who struggled with three poor laps.

After a roller-coaster start to the British trials year and a trip to Australia, Crosswaite put in the third best opening lap behind Lampkin and Colley, and that excellent start paid handsome dividends - namely the 17 championship points.

Also well in the action, Wayne Braybrook emerged in seventh spot, but the Hemingway brothers Dan and Ben - both GP Beta team members - finished well down the rankings. Ulster rider Andy Perry took the Expert Support premier from James Lampkin - Dougie's cousin - and reigning Expert holder, police officer Andy Huddleston.

Otley's Andy McLoughlin was sixth, scoring ten points. Ilkley decorator Graham Tales finished eighth and also in the points was Otley's Danny Cockshott who managed 13th.

Yorkshire's Sam Ludgate won the Youth Class from Charnock's Shaun Morris and Sheffield youngster Daniel Farrer. They all meet again at Dronfield next Sunday in the third round of the British Youth Championship.

Manchester rider Derek Brookes beat Yorkshire classic MCC results expert Barry Pickard at Slippery Ford, Oakworth at the club's first spring trial. Denholme's Norman Pickles took the top award on the easy course on his 40-year-old James machine. Donald Bridge - former sidecar driver and planner of the Alan Jefferies course for three-wheels - was second to Pickles by just one point.

Richard Baldwin (Keighley) took fourth place in the open class, while Cullingworth's Dave Lovell took his Matchless machine to third spot behind Bridge.

Ilkley Grand National winner Nathan Wrigglesworth (Cowling) won the Bradford DMC Trial at Park Rash, Kettlewell.

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