Ilkley DMC lead

MANBY Showground, near Louth, in Lincolnshire, will be the venue for the fifth round of the Larkspeed Inter-club championship this weekend which at present seems to be heading into the hands of Ilkley Motor Club by virtue of their 360 point lead in the 10-round contest.

The event will run over eight stages with about 40 competitive miles.

Lampkin unbeaten

Yorkshireman Dougie Lampkin retained his unbeaten FIM World Motor-cycle Trials Championship record in sweltering Grossebach, Germany, on Saturday and Sunday, and has now scored 200 championship points at the halfway stage in the 10-round series.

This represents a record-breaking ten consecutive victories in the new style two-day format for the Silsden 23-year-old factory-backed Beta member.

Eighteen year-old Spaniard Albert Cabestany, who provided the shocks in the 29 degree blistering heat of Germany with two runner-up spots to the mighty Lampkin. Cabestany, member of the strong Team Tarres Gas Gas squad produced his best ever result at world level.

World points: 1, Dougie Lampkin 200; 2, Takahisa Fujinami 148; 3, Marc Colomer 132; 4, Steve Colley 99; 5, Marcel Justribo 95; 6, Cabestany 94; 7, Amos Bilbao 94; 8, Graham Jarvis (GB) 92.

Esholt Sprints

Leeds motor-cycle sprinter Chris 'Cannon' Hannam set the fastest time of the day on his 1,135cc four-cylinder Suzuki at Esholt Park Sprints.

He clocked 144mph through marked quarter-mile distance at the east end of the tree-lined water board estate access road but the outright record was not broken.

Bingley's Peter Booth won the 250cc racing class on his Yamaha at 97mph while Bramley's Paul Taylor repeated his classic class win on his British Triumph machine stopping the clocks at 102mph.

Bradford three-wheeler specialist Des Smith took his Hillman Imp powered machine to a three-wheeler class with brave passenger Peter Oldfield.

Geoff Barraclough went two up in the Vintage class racing on a 250cc Ducati and a very valuable 350cc Manx Norton, the latter an old TT bike worth a fortune in original condition, ironically it was the Italian Ducati that went fastest, 85mph compared with the old Norton's sedate 71mph.

Allerton motor engineer Martin Grimwood rode his 400cc Honda instead of his turbo-charged four-cylinder Honda 600cc macine which shredded it's gearbox at Elvington two weeks ago.

Ilkley autotest

Ilkley Motor Club's King Bros Trophy autotest, one of the longest standing events on the club's calendar, was run at Pool Mills where clerk of course Henry Kitching tested 20 entries over 16 timed to the second manoeuvres.

Top driver was Guiseley's David Mosey in is Mini special but it could have been closer if Burnley driver Tim Sargeant had not had a drive shaft break on his Dutton sports car on the very last test of the day.

Ilkley fielded three winners, Graham Hepworth, from Otley, took his class in a Vauxhall while Leeds member Bob Moorhouse, driving a Westfield sports car, was the best novice entry.

Luscombe wins

Yeadon-Guiseley member Robin Luscombe and new passenger Les Ashby won the British sidecar championship qualifying trial at Parracombe, Devon, on Sunday, from Beta mounted husband and wife team Robin and Gill Morwood.

Horsforth DMC trial, Home Farm, Tong, Sunday. Novices: 1, H Gully (Gas Gas). Over 35s: 1, M Kettlewell (Gas Gas). Youth class A: A Smith (Montesa). Youth class B: 1, E Machintosh (Montesa). Youth class C: M Paskin (Gas Gas). Novices - easy course: 1, S Downes (Gas Gas). Over 35s: 1, R Mackintosh (Montesa). Pre-65: J Feather (Matchless), 47.

Yeadon and Guiseley trial -

Inter rider Richard Edmondson emerged from a tight four-way battle on Saturday at Brimham Rocks as outright winner of the first of the Yeadon and Guiseley Motor Club's Saturday night trials, but only by the narrow margin of one mark from Danny Cockshott.

Jonathon Smithies kept the GP Beta flag aloft with a win in the well-stacked 'Clubman' class.

The Over-40s was won by Dane Smith who thudded the delightful RTL Honda round the course with Gerald Rathmell well down the order.

Well worth a mention is young Jack Challoner on his TY 80, seven dabs and one double dab put him on nine. This mite is conservative with a capital C when it comes to marks, and those dabs are as sparing as one Dougie Lampkin casts about in sections.

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