Motor Sport: Dougie Lampkin has taken his fourth consecutive British Solo Trials title and his fifth in six years.

He goes to Whitworth on Sunday, where the main interest is if Graham Jarvis (Rathmell Sport Bultaco) can hold Steve Colley off for runners-up spot.

Bingley's Martin Crosswaite, pictured, looks like wearing the No 4 bib next year on current form, but Whitworth and its notorious Back Cow Quarry venue can rock the boat.

For Malcolm Rathmell - a former European and British trials champion - the future gets better and better. The Bultaco trials bike, which he played a major part in developing last year from the drawing board upwards, is selling well, and he is the sole importer. With Jarvis on board, it is world ranked four and nationally rated second.

Lampkin and his British Auto Cycle Union trials team delivered an end-of-season knockout blow to the trials riding stars at rain-soaked Warken, in Luxembourg.

The British quartet of Lampkin, Colley, Crosswaite and Jarvis beat world trials team champions Spain by just one penalty point to reclaim the title that they lost last year.

Lampkin, Crosswaite and Jarvis are riding members of Yeadon and Guiseley Motor Club.

Lampkin, 23, triple world champion, led the way with a mere four-mark penalty ride.

That was just out of reach of the other nine contesting teams, with only Japanese leader Takahisa Fujinami near the Yorkshireman.

The Silsden man, riding his factory-prepared Beta, managed the first of two soggy laps in dense woodland for three marks, and raised his game to a mind boggling one penalty on the penultimate section.

Belfast's Robert Crawford, who lived at Silsden for some years, led the Class B Ulster quartet to second overall with his team of Gareth Andrews, Alan Marks and Andrew Perry.

Torrential early morning rain threatened to wreck the annual event which featured 14 Class B teams from America, Russia, Australia, the Scandinavian bloc and Latin America, making almost 100 competitors in all.

Results - Class A Teams: 1 Great Britain (Dougie Lampkin, Steve Colley, Graham Jarvis, Martin Crosswaite) 53 penalties; 2 Spain (Amos Bilbao, Marc Colomer, Albert Cabestany, Marcel Justribo) 54; 3 Japan (Takahisa Fujinami, Kenichi Kuroyama, Tomoyuki Ogawa, Taicha Tanaka) 65. Class B Teams: 1 Belgium 18; 2 Ireland 36; 3 Norway 90.

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