Tomorrow night in Toulouse, Dougie Lampkin aims to add more points to his Indoor World Championship total in round four of the series, having won the Helsinki round last Saturday.

It will be a tough few days for the defending champion, Lampkin having then to make the long haul to Barcelona for Sunday's redated fifth qualifier of the six-event series.

At present the Silsden man is only nine marks ahead of the consistent Marc Colomer, and there are 20 points for each victory, with 17 going to the runner-up so Lampkin is by no means home and dry.

Lampkin continued his triumphal run at Helsinki, beating Colomer and Steve Colley in the final run-off.

The journey from the non-championship indoor event at Lyon was enough to unsettle the toughest of air travellers though.

A 20 degree below zero flight from France was so severe that the crucial aircraft control functions (wing flaps etc) froze solid on the final approach to Helsinki.

"We were flying round in huge circles while the pilot worked out a way of landing with frozen controls," said Dougie's father Martin after the mind-bending ordeal.

"I think we did three laps before he got the thing down. It dropped in three turns, losing height while things thawed out."

The flight problems hardly affected Lampkin jnr though. Beta had flown his factory bike straight to Helsinki, and Dougie just got down to business, winning the qualifiers from Colomer and the inform Colley, though it didn't start well and Lampkin failed the high jump in the final.

The railway sleeper section was beaten by Lampkin, while Colomer and Amos Bilbao failed that very tough obstacle. However, Colomer cleared the cable drum tests, where Dougie lost one penalty.

Toughest test were the concrete drain pipes. They were very, very high, and only Colomer and Lampkin managed the flight to the top of the concrete structure without fault.

The Lyon event was indoors last Friday night over a two-lap course, Lampkin riding the event faultlessly, leaving Colomer and Colley to take the other podium places ahead of local hero Bruno Camozzi.

The fiery Camozzi beat Marcel Justribo in a timed-to-the-second charge over one section, Camozzi clocking 18 seconds to Justribo's 25.

Bingley's teenage trials ace Martin Crosswaite added the Cobb and Jagger Trophy to his collection after winning the Yeadon and Guiseley MC Trial at Keighley Gate, where 133 riders contested a three-lap woodland course.

Otley's Gerald Rathmell won the Clubman adult class, while sidecar champion Robin Luscombe and passenger Wayne Kershaw topped the three-wheeler class.

Top youngster on the hard course was Leeds rider Henry Moorhouse, who was in the top 12 overall.

Auto 66 have set out a plan of action for their second Scarborough Bike-week on September 5-13.

Covering both weekends, the events range from classic and modern road racing at Oliver's Mount - two weekends are involved here - to the midweek events of super-moto, moto-cross, beach racing at Filey and Super Prix on Scarborough foreshore.

Also there will be a hillclimb at Oliver's Mount and, with other non-speed activities in addition, organisers are hoping to at least match the estimated attendance last year of 250,000.

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