Motor Sport: World motorcycle trials champion Dougie Lampkin floored the opposition for the fourth consecutive time when he won the British round at Douglas in the Isle of Man.

Lampkin has now eight event wins and stands on maximum championship points as he moves to the halfway point in the ten-round series in Germany next month.

Dougie is well over halfway to matching the legendary Jordi Tarres, who logged seven world titles and 61 individual event victories.

Lampkin now has 39 titles under his belt, and in far less time than Tarres, who won ten rounds on the trot in 1989.

Those seven world titles are a long way for the Silsden man, but the victory tally is well within Dougie's reach.

The big talking point now is whether he can sweep the board this year - many pundits think he can.

The gritty 23-year-old on his factory-backed Italian Beta took top honours on both days from local man Steve Colley and Japanese ace Takahisa Fujinami, the latter now moving ahead of former world champion Marc Colomer in the championship, who slumped to a lacklustre seventh in the final results.

Colley and Graham Jarvis stopped a continental rush for the top places with third and fourth, and are now seventh and fifth in the title battle.

Jarvis, based at Summer-bridge with Team Rathmell, is still on a steep learning curve after his switch from the heavier Scorpa machine to the much lighter and totally different Bultaco made by Mark Tessier. The ex-Scorpa boss and French millionaire owner of Bultaco rides his bikes in style and is no stranger to the Scottish Six Days Trial, which starts on Monday at Fort William (8am).

Results - Saturday: 1 Dougie Lampkin (GB) Beta 20; 2 Steve Colley (GB) GasGas 51; 3 Takahisa Fujinami (Japan) Honda 58; 4 Marc Colomer (Spain) Montesa 59; 5 Marcel Justribo (Spain) Montesa 67; 6 Amos Bilbao (Spain) Montesa 70. British: 7 Graham Jarvis (GB) Bultaco 79; 15 Sam Connor (GB) Bultaco 98.

Sunday: Lampkin 20; 2 Fujinami 29; 3 Colley 32; 4 Jarvis 38; 5 Bilbao 40; 6 Albert Cabastany (Spain) GasGas 45. British: 18 Sam Connor 81. World Points: 1 Lampkin 160; 2 Fujinami 118; 3 Colomer 112; 4 Bilbao 81; 5 Jarvis 80; 6 Justribo 78; 7 Colley 76; 8 Bruno Camozzi (France) 71; 9 Marc Freixa (Spain) 65; 10 Cabestany 60.

Roberttown Pre-65 trials rider Mick Driffield gave his British Ariel a last run-out before next Friday's Pre-65 Scottish contest near Fort William, and emerged as one of the penalty-free award winners in the Yorkshire Classic Club Trial at Silsden.

His teenage son Malcolm also lost no marks, but, because of his age, went to the bottom of the non-competitive class. Derek Brookes, in his 40s, won the award.

Road works partially accounted for the late cancellation of West Leeds MC's Trial at Post Hill after heavy rain washed away part of the access road.

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