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Registered riders need to be aware that the Shorttrack UK office has moved, so please send your entries for Ryehouse to the new address (which is on the regs). We are now at 'Sandbeck', Cliff Road, Saxby, Market Rasen, Lincs, LN8 2DQ. The telephone number will remain the same, although there may be a couple of days before it is swapped over to the new address. If you need us urgently please try the mobiles - Pete 07711 3073606 (but he'll be abroad for a few days from 1st Sept) or Jackie on 07792 044458. If you don't receive an acceptance for a meeting you think you have entered, it may be worth giving us a ring to make sure that we have received it. Apologies for any inconvenience, normal service will be resumed shortly!

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (August 28, 2010) - History was made on the fabled Indiana State Fairgrounds mile oval as Kawasaki / Monster Energy / Werner-Springsteen Racing's #42 Bryan Smith captured the first AMA Pro K&N Filters Grand National Championship presented by Motorcycle-Superstore.com Twins Main event in a hard fought, twenty five lap battle.Lancaster Harley-Davidson / Dallas Fort Worth Honda's Chris Carr grabbed the early lead from series points leader #3 Joe Kopp on his Latus Harley-Davidson / ENI USA R&M backed Ducati, then repeated the feat as the race was red flagged on lap three, when Stevie Bonsey fell in turn three.Carr picked up where he left off, but now Smith and Zanotti Racing's #5 Jake Johnson were right behind. On lap six Smith took control, but White's Harley-Davidson / SNIP's Matt Weidman was up high on the cushion and flying to the front. Unfortunately for Weidman, when the high line went away, he backed up as fast as he had come forward.As the race reached the mid-point it became a two rider race. Smith and Carr went back and forth several times, but as the laps wound down Smith took control. The race would end with Carr just over a tenth of a second out. "I've been dreaming about this all year," said Smith. "And it wasn't a nightmare either. I was sure, as soon as we got to these tracks with long straight-aways, the Kawasaki's power was let us finally win one.""I just couldn't draft him (Smith)," said Carr. "I could get close, but he just had too much power."
Harley-Davidson Motor Company's Kenny Coolbeth brought his #2 Harley-Davidson home third over two seconds off the lead.Johnson took control of fourth and rode home a lonely three seconds off the pace. King's Kustoms / KK Motorcycle Supply's Sammy Halbert finished an uneventful fifth as Joe Kopp made a late race pass of Rookie of the Year front runner, Moroney's 1-800fasthog.com's #99B PJ Jacobsen.Defending Series Champion # 1 Jared Mees work his way up to fourth before sliding back to an eighth place finish. It was another eight seconds back to Matt Weidman.The K&N Filter's dash for Cash saw Chris Carr dominate as points leader Joe Kopp suffered a blow to his points total when he couldn't get his Ducati to fire and he received no points. Sammy Halbert and Bryan Smith rounded out the podium as all three received "Special Edition, Nicky Hayden watches."

GNT DASH FOR CASH (4 laps; 6 riders): 1. Chris Carr (H-D); 2. Sammy Halbert (H-D); 3. Bryan Smith (Kaw); 4. Jake Johnson (H-D); 5. Stevie Bonsey (H-D); 6. Joe Kopp (Duc).
Time: 2:37.318

AMA PRO MOTORCYCLE-SUPERSTORE.COM PRO SINGLES MAIN (12 laps; 18 riders): 1. JD Beach (Hon); 2. Michael Toon (Hon); 3. Jeffery Carver (Yam); 4. Mike Avila (Hon); 5. James Rispoli (Hon); 6. Brad Baker (Hon); 7. Mike LaBelle (Hon); 8. Zakk Palmer (Hon); 9. Corey Crawford (Hon); 10. Kurtis Lee (Hon); 11. Cody Johncox (Yam); 12. Jake Cunningham (Suz); 13. William Cato (Hon); 14. Tony Davila (Suz); 15. Jake Shoemaker (Suz); 16. Brian Tapp (Hon); 17. Brandon Laursen (Hon); 18. Jeremy Hamilton (Hon).
Time: 8:02.297

AMA PRO K&N GRAND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP PRESENTED by MOTORCYCLE-SUPERSTORE.COM MAIN (25 laps; 18 riders): 1. Bryan Smith (Kaw); 2. Chris Carr (H-D); 3. Kenny Coolbeth (H-D); 4. Jake Johnson (H-D); 5. Sammy Halbert (H-D); 6. Joe Kopp (H-D); 7. PJ Jacobsen (H-D); 8. Jared Mees (H-D); 9. Matt Weidman (H-D); 10. Willie McCoy (H-D); 11. JR Schnabel (H-D); 12. Larry Pegram (Duc); 13. Luke Gough (H-D); 14. Brandan Bergen (H-D); 15. Rob Pearson (H-D); 16. Shawn Baer (Tri); 17. Steve Murray (H-D); 18. Jethro Halbert (H-D); 19. Stevie Bonsey (H-D).
Time: 22: 59.491 --RED FLAG--

AMA PRO K&N GRAND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP PRESENTED by MOTORCYCLE-SUPERSTORE.COM POINT STANDINGS (After 12 of 17rounds): 1. Joe Kopp (221 pts / 3 wins); 2. Sammy Halbert (209 / 1 win); 3. Jake Johnson (207 / 2 wins); 4. Jared Mees (198); 5. Henry Wiles (188 / 4 wins); 6. Kenny Coolbeth (179); 7. Chris Carr (135); 8. Bryan Smith (127 / 1 win); 9. Johnny Lewis (82); 10. (TIE) Matt Weidman / Rob Pearson (81); 12. Mick Kirkness (73); 13. Jethro Halbert (58); 14. Stevie Bonsey (47 / 1 win); 15. JR Schnabel (39); 16. Luke Gough (38); 17. Brandon Robinson (35); 18. Shaun Russell (33); 19. PJ Jacobsen (31); 20. Chad Cose (26).

AMA PRO K&N GRAND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP PRESENTED by MOTORCYCLE-SUPERSTORE.COM MAIN (25 laps; 18 riders): 1. Henry Wiles (Kaw); 2. Jared Mees (Hon); 3. Sammy Sweet (Yam); 4. Jake Johnson (Hon); 5. Johnny Lewis (Suz); 6. Shaun Russell (Hon); 7. Joe Kopp (Hon); 8. Kenny Coolbeth (Hon); 9. Mick Kirkness (Suz); 10. Chris Carr (Hon); 11. Bryan Smith (Kaw); 12. Matt Weidman (Hon); 13. Luke Gough (Yam); 14. Chad Cose (Hon); 15. Ion Stear (Hon); 16. JR Schnabel (Yam); 17. Aaron King (KTM); 18. Matt Burton.
Time: 10:53.840

Round 6 of the Pozzani Silkolene ShorttrackUK Championship saw Richard Mason take the honours of the most exciting TT racing ever seen in ShorttrackUK's history. The TT which is run once year as part of the Championship, involves right and left hand bends with a jump and the riders do all this without a front brake!

Championship series leader, Ade Collins who saw two opportunities to qualify pass him by and faced the first of three sudden death heats to keep his championship lead intact in the third qualifier, headed home Ben Baker to finally cement a semi-final position.
The semis were hugely competitive. Edward Kennett stormed to victory in the first Semi Final, from the impressive Darren Trapmore (who earlier had held off the most determined riding of Pocklington and three-times STUK title-winner and reigning European and Italian Flattrack champ, Marco Belli to win the lucrative ‘Dash for Cash’) with Pocklington and Belli keeping Collins out of the Final places. Next up was slow-burner Richard Mason who was clearly coming into form at exactly the same time leading home Haith and the other Italian, Jacopo Monti. An early race fall for Boast though meant there was the extraordinary situation of the 2009 champ and the 2010 champ-elect facing up to the Last Chance race.

Boast and Collins successfully negotiated that and the stage was set for a Grand Final like none ever before!
Again it was Kennett with lightning reactions at the start but in the first Steeplechase approach the 23-year-old slightly went out of shape –just the chance Belli (winner of the inaugural King’s Lynn based TT back in 2007) needed to snatch the lead. Next lap in an energy-crunching ten circuit race, it was Derbyshire dynamo Mason working his magic somehow to dive under first Kennett and then the Italian – and with Belli tumbling out of contention in a close quarters jump incident with Kennett and Mason two laps later, Mason was able to pull away and emerge as a deserved winner. Kennett took second; and working his way brilliantly through the field and belying his early meeting problems, reigning TT champ Collins was delighted to finish in the third rostrum position.

Grand Final Results

1st #98 Richard Mason.....................450 Arrow Racing Honda
2nd #82r Edward Kennett................450 Hagon Honda
3rd #90 Aidan Collins.......................450 HM Plant Honda
4th #17 David Haith..........................450 Arrow Racing Honda
5th #1 Peter Boast.............................450 Team Suzuki
6th #71 Glyn Pocklington..................525 Helmets4u KTM
7th #6 Marco Belli...............................530 Zeata
8th #93 Tom Woolley.........................510 Team CCM
9th #5 Jacopo Monti...........................450 Honda
10th #25 Derek Brindly......................450 Arrow Racing Honda
11th #64 Geoff Baldock.....................450 Rob Speed Yamaha
12th #20 Darren Trapmore...............450 Kinrade Honda

Championship points,1st Collins 106pts,2nd Belli 78pts,3rd Monti 75pts,4th Woolley 70pts,5th Mason 63pts,
6th Boast 58.

No jumps in the awesome Thunderbikes class – these mighty machines have huge flattracking speed and weight and they’re not for jumping! No problems here for series leader, the versatile Tradate-based Italian Monti who steered his monster 600cc to a super-fast victory in the Grand Final despite the close attentions of John ‘Captain Highside’ Lee.

Redmax Thunderbike Final Result

1st 5 Jacopo Monti.............660 Harley-Davidson
2nd 76 John Lee.................710 Scooter Farm Honda
3rd 28 Steve Coles.............650 Honda Bros
4th 93 Tom Woolley...........710 Team CCM
5th 65 Chippy Wood...........650 Honda
6th 22r Mike Ryan...............600 Woods Rotax
7th 31r Dave Arnold.............600 Scooter Farm Rotax
8th 45r Geoff Cain................600 Co-Built Rotax
9th 47r Anthony Brown.......600 Co-Built Rotax

Red Bull Rookie Moto GP star Arthur Sissis dominated the Arrow Egineering Junior class on a standard MX machine and won all 4 races. Ben Chatterton in only his second Shorttrack meeting came second and also got Rider of the Day award. Championship leader Tim Neave who had a couple of crashes still managed to get a creditable third spot.

Arrow Enginering Junior Result

1st 61 Arthur Sissis..............250 Yamaha 75pts
2nd 62 Ben Chatterton.........150 Honda 53pts
3rd 14 Tim Neave.................150 Honda 52pts
4th 65 Loris Hunt.................. 85 KTM 50pts
5th 8 Deklan Brown............. 85 KTM 33pts
6th 96 Tom Schmitt............. 85 Kawasaki31pts
7th 24 Oliver Brindley......... 85 Yamaha30pts
8th 1 Sam Woolley.............. 65 Kawasaki 24pts
9th 34 Aaron Silvester........ 150 Xtrail23pts
10th 17 Josh Haith............... 150 Honda 18PTS

The Mini-bikes also traversed the fearsome steeplechase but it held few fears for Mark Richardson – the son of Lynn Clerk of the Course, Nick Richardson, holding off the determined challenge of Monti. Geoff Bull Senior had his best ride of the season in the Mini bikes and took a 2nd place overall.

Mini Bike Result
1st Mark Richardson.............150 Stomp
2nd Geoff Bull........................150 Thumpster
3rd Jacopo Monti................... 150 Kinrade Xtrail
4th Daniel Mansbridge.......... 150 Thumper
5th Mick trapmore................. 150 Fat boy Xtrail
6th Jaye Carpmail................. 150 Stomp
7th Geoff bull Jnr.................. 125 Thumperster
8th Steve Baldock................ 150 Xtrail
9th Billy Bull......................... 150 Xtrail
10th Mike Baldock............... 150 Xtrail
11th Paul Johnson............... 150 Stomp
12th Daniel Horspole........... 150stomp

DASH FOR CASH

Result, 1st Darren Trapmore, 2nd Richard Mason, 3rd Peter Boast, 4th Marco Belli, 5th David Haith, 6th Geoff Baldock, 7th Derek Brindley, 8th Glyn Pocklington.

B Final Winner, Pete Wilky 600 Rotax

Thank you to Steve Baldock and Chippy Wood for the Pics
Thank you to every one who helped to set the track up and all Marshalls and Staff who run the meeting

Next Meeting:ACU British Championships,at Rye House Speedway Stadium, September 19th, 1pm.

PRACTICE AT RYE HOUSE,
Friday 20th August 2-6pm. For more details contact Mike Ryan 07890 301587.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (August 8, 2010) - Last seen in California, seven days and 2800 miles later the AMA Pro K&N Filters Grand National Championship presented by Motorcycle-Superstore.com picked up once again at the Hagerstown Speedway in Hagerstown, Maryland.
Series points leader Joe Kopp was determined to have a better night this week after a brutal get off on the west coast. "It's not like I was broke in half or anything, but I'm still pretty sore," said Kopp. "This was a great race. It was a lot of fun dueling with Kenny (Coolbeth), we went back and forth for a long time."
It was a lot more fun for the Latus Harley-Davidson / ENI USA backed Kopp as he pulled to nearly a one-second lead over the Harley-Davidson Motor Company's Kenny Coolbeth. The two former Grand National Champions and former teammates kept the large crowd entertained after a couple of aborted starts.
The first attempt to get the 25-lap National under way only lasted to the first turn, where Zanotti Racing's Jake Johnson crashed right in front of the pack. Scott Powersports' Johnny Lewis and Dave Burks Motorsport's Mick Kirkness were collected in the mess. All three riders would make the restart, however Johnson was on his backup Harley-Davidson.
The next try lasted two laps before last week's winner and this week's fast qualifier Stevie Bonsey fell in turn three. Bonsey was uninjured, but unable to make the restart.
Thus far Coolbeth had gotten the hole shot every time and the third time was no different. Kopp was close behind and looking for any kind of space to make a move. Snedeker Racing's Rob Pearson was having a great ride in third until the 10th lap, when defending Twins Champion Jared Mees pushed his Rogers Lake Racing / Blue Springs Harley-Davidson onto the podium.
Coolbeth and Kopp "officially" exchanged the lead at the line three times, but there was passing going on all around the track. Kopp finally took over for good on lap 20.
Pearson's fourth place came into jeopardy late in the race as Kings Kustoms' Sammy Halbert and the Kawasaki Monster Energy / Werner-Springsteen Kawasaki of Bryan Smith closed to within a half second, but that would be the finish order.
Johnson regrouped to finish a strong seventh over KK Motorcycle Supply's Henry Wiles, Kirkness and Lancaster Harley-Davidson's Brandon Robinson.
AMA PRO K&N GRAND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP PRESENTED by MOTORCYCLE-SUPERSTORE.COM MAIN (25 laps; 18 riders): 1. Joe Kopp (H-D); 2. Kenny Coolbeth (H-D); 3. Jared Mees (H-D); 4. Rob Pearson (H-D); 5. Sammy Halbert (H-D); 6. Bryan Smith (Kaw); 7. Jake Johnson (H-D); 8. Henry Wiles (H-D); 9. Mick Kirkness (H-D); 10. Brandon Robinson (H-D); 11. Doug Lawrence (H-D); 12. Chris Carr (H-D); 13. Adam Carpinello (H-D); 14. Matt Weidman (H-D); 15. Chad Cose (Suz); 16. Lucas Scherb (H-D); 17. Johnny Lewis (Kaw); 18. Stevie Bonsey (H-D);.
Time: 19:12.704 (RED FLAG).

AMA PRO K&N GRAND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP PRESENTED by MOTORCYCLE-SUPERSTORE.COM POINT STANDINGS (After 10 of 18 rounds): 1. Joe Kopp (193 pts / 3 wins); 2. (TIE) Jake Johnson (2 wins) / Sammy Halbert (1 win) (175); 4. Jared Mees (164); 5. Henry Wiles (160 / 3 wins); 6. Kenny Coolbeth (152); 7. Chris Carr (102); 8. Bryan Smith (93); 9. Rob Pearson (77); 10. Johnny Lewis (67); 11. Matt Weidman (64); 12. Mick Kirkness (63); 13. Jethro Halbert (57); 14. Stevie Bonsey (45 / 1 win); 15. Brandon Robinson (35); 16. JR Schnabel (28); 17. Luke Gough (26) 18. Chad Cose (21); 19. (TIE) PJ Jacobsen / Brandan Bergen (19).

Progress With Plans for 2011
We are still in talks with Silverstone at the moment about a Shorttrack meeting next year to be run alongside the MotoGP. We are putting forward a suggestion for the location of the track, so it can be used for training and other activites during the week. We initially looked at an area outside the main gp track but now we are thinking the infield would be a better place. We hope to be having more discussions shortly and then will have more news on that.

We are looking at spliting into two Championships for 2011. We would like to make Club/Amateur Championship, where we would be able to make more classes such as novice, restricted, pro,thunders, two junior classes and mini bikes. It would be over 6 to 8 rounds and we hope that this would encourage new riders to the sport.

The second Championship will be the British Grand National Flattrack Championship, which would be 4 to 5 rounds and focused on getting more fans to watch our sport. We will run one main class and maybe two support classes but no novices. We hope to get some sponsors on board and support for the event so we can offer a purse for the main event.

We are also planning two indoor events at Braintree. We will run the Christmas one again as it was a great success but we are also hoping to run one in February at the same venue. This will be a world team event, with riders from the UK, Holland, Italy, Germany, Australia and the USA. There will be support classes to both the indoor events.

CALISTOGA, Calif. (August 1, 2010) - AMA Pro Racing returned flat track to Northern California as the K&N Filters Grand National Championship presented by Motorcycle-Superstore.com Series came to the Napa County Fairgrounds and the Calistoga Speedway Half Mile.
Fittingly the huge, standing room only crowd was thrilled by a win by one of their own. Salinas, California's Stevie Bonsey pushed his #80 Dodge Brothers / Johnny Goad backed Harley-Davidson to his first ever Grand National win. Having returned from the MotoGP wars, Bonsey has had limited seat time on the big twins, but is proving to be a quick study. "This is just unbelievable, these guys are so fast and a lot of them were my heroes growing up," said Bonsey as the thrill started to sink in.
One of his early heroes, #4 Lancaster Harley-Davidson's Chris Carr had led the first four laps of the 25 lap National, but #7 Sammy Halbert took over there and had his Kings Kustoms Harley-Davidson in the lead for the next twelve laps, Bonsey was on the move as he slipped around Carr on lap thirteen and quickly closed on the leader.
As this was going on #5 Zanotti Racing's Jake Johnson and Defending AMA Pro National Twins Champion #1 Jared Mees (Rogers Lake Racing / Blue Springs Harley-Davidson) were also closing down, making it a five rider freight rain.
Once Bonsey was by on lap seventeen he eventually put a one second gap on Halbert as Sammy had his hands full with Jake Johnson. "That was the longest race of my life," said Bonsey. "After I saw the five to go board it just took forever."
But the race was his and all eyes focused on the battle for second. Johnson took one last charge and tried to go under Halbert in turn three only to have Halbert shoot back by on the exit of turn four and second belonged to the early leader.

AMA PRO K&N GRAND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP PRESENTED by MOTORCYCLE-SUPERSTORE.COM MAIN (25 laps; 18 riders): 1. Stevie Bonsey (H-D); 2. Sammy Halbert (H-D); 3. Jake Johnson (H-D); 4. Chris Carr (H-D); 5. Jared Mees (H-D); 6. Kenny Coolbeth (H-D); 7. Joe Kopp (H-D); 8. Rob Pearson (H-D); 9. Henry Wiles (H-D); 10. Brad Baker (H-D)**; 11. Matt Weidman (H-D); 12. Mick Kirkness (H-D); 13. Bryan Smith (Kaw); 14. Nichole Cheza (H-D); 15. Luke Gough (Suz); 16. Chad Cose (Suz); 17. Jethro Halbert (H-D); 18. Brandan Bergen (H-D).

AMA PRO K&N GRAND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP PRESENTED by MOTORCYCLE-SUPERSTORE.COM POINT STANDINGS (After 9 of 18 rounds): 1. Joe Kopp (166 pts / 2 wins); 2. Jake Johnson (160 / 2 wins); 3. Sammy Halbert (159 / 1 win); 4. Henry Wiles (149 / 3 wins); 5. Jared Mees (143); 6. Kenny Coolbeth (132); 7. Chris Carr (95); 8. Bryan Smith (80); 9. Johnny Lewis (65); 10. Rob Pearson (62); 11. Matt Weidman (59); 12. Jethro Halbert (57); 13. Mick Kirkness (53); 14. Stevie Bonsey (44 / 1 win); 15. JR Schnabel (28); 16. (TIE) Brandon Robinson / Luke Gough (26); 18. (TIE) PJ Jacobsen / Brandan Bergen / PJ Jacobsen (19); 20. Shaun Russell (18).

Ade Collins takes a comanding lead in Pozzani Silkolne Shorttrackuk championship with a fine win in Round 5 of the championship.
Ade was in fantastic form and sailed through the heat races and semi finals, giving him pole for the Grand Final. Next to Ade was 17 year old Ben Baker who won Semi 2, with the previous round's winner Italian Jacopo Monti and CCM works rider Tom Woolley rounded out the front row of 12 rider final.
Collins holeshotted the H M Plant Honda with Monti hard on his tail. The dusty, hard packed track made it difficult to pick the rest of the riders out as they completed the first lap. By lap 4 Collins still had the lead from Monti, who was closely followed by Woolley with 4th taken by Darren Trapmore on the Kinrade Honda , but lap 5 saw Richard Mason take a heavy fall down on turn 3 which brought out the red flags.
The restart was a line out and once again Collins did not make a mistake and lead the pack. There was a challenge for 3rd with Trapmore getting the better of Woolley followed by Marco Belli, Ben Baker and Glyn Pocklington banging handle bars.
With 3 laps left Collins was begining to pull away from Monti, Tom Woolley had re past Trapmore and the mid- pack was still a freight train of riders wheel to wheel battling in a dust cloud.
Ade Collins continued his perfect ride and took his 3rd Grand Final win of the season, second was Monti and a well deserved 3rd went to 16 year old Tom Woolley.

1st # 90 Aidan Collins...........450 HM Plant Honda
2nd # 5 Jacopo Monti.............450 Honda CRF
3rd # 93 Tom Woolley.............450 CCM
4th # 20 Darren Trapmore......450 Kinrade Honda
5th # 6 Marco Belli.................530 Zaeta
6th # 71 Glyn Pocklington......540 Helmets4U KTM
7th # 7 Ben Baker....................450 Honda
8th # 64 Geoff Baldock..........450 Rob Speed Yamaha
9th # 1 Peter Boast.................450 Team Suzuki
10th # 25 Derek Brindley.......450 Arrow Honda
11th # 98 Richard Mason.........450 Arrow Honda
12th # 46 Jonathon Bethell......525 KTM
championship points after round 5, 1st Aidan Collins,92pts,2nd Marco Belli 69pts,3rd jacopo Monti 68pts,4th Tom Woolley 62pts,5th Darren Trapmore 52pts,6th Peter Boast 47pts.

1st # 5 Jacopo Monti...............600 Harley-Davidson
2nd # 93 Tom Woolley............710 CCM
3rd # 72 Wayne Drake.............636 Rotax
4th # 47 Anthony Brown.........600 Co-Built Rotax
5th # 9 Richard May................650 Flat Track Experience CCM
6th # 65 Daniel Mansbridge....650 Honda
7th # 3 Paul Sheldon...............600 KTM
8th # 31 Dave Arnold..............600 Skooter Farm Rotax
9th # 22 Mike Ryan..................560 Wood Rotax
10th # 66 Geoff Bull................660 Yamaha
11th # 80 Tim Stevens............600 CCM
12th # 28 Steve Coles................650 Honda

Thunderbike 'B' Final
1st #40 Paul Baleta 640 KTM, 2nd #13 Gray Inman 600 Wood Rotax, 3rd # 45 Geoff Cain 600 Co-Built.

1st # 14 Tim Neave....... 150 Honda...60 pts
2nd # 65 Loris Hunt.....65 KTM.....59 pts
3rd # 24 Oliver Brindley.....85 Yamaha...56 pts
4th # 17 Joshua Haith...150 Honda...45 pts
5th # 96 Tom Schmitt....85 Kawasaki......36 pts
6th # 1 Sam Woolley....65 Kawasaki....32 pts
7th # 8 Deklan Brown....85 KTM...29 pts
8th # 4 Adam Lovesey...230 CCM...22 pts
8th # 34 Aaron Silvester...150 Xtrail...22 pts
10th # 77 Flynn Scott...230 CCM Framer....14 pts
10th # 91 Lewis Smith...65 KTM...14 pts

1st # 18 Mark Richardson...150 Stomp...75 pts
2nd # 25 Jacopo Monti....150 XTrail.......60pts
3rd # 28 Steve Baldock.....150 XTrail....50 pts
4th # 19 Mick Trapmore...150 XTrail....40 pts
5th # 5 Billy Bull...150 Xtrail....36 pts
6th # 8 Paul Johnson....150 XTrail......29 pts
7th # 66 Geoff Bull....150 Stomp...27 pts
8th # 7 Jaye Carpmail.....150 Stomp.....23 pts

1st # 90 Aidan Collins, 2nd # 5 Jacopo Monti, 3rd # 6 Marco Belli, 4th # 93 Tom Woolley, 5th # 1 Pete Boast, 6th # 20 Darren Trapmore, 7th # 71 Glyn Pocklington.

Marco Belli wins the 3rd and last round of the new Italian flat track cup 2010. 2nd Massimiliano Andreotti and 3rd Jan-Willem Jansen! MARCO IS NOW CHAMPION OF ITALY!

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Kopp won on a Harley, not his Ducati. Smokin' Joe obviously knows what he's on about because only two non-XR750s made it to the main and they were Kawasakis. Jake Johnson was second, Coolbeth third, Sammy Halbert fourth, his brother Jethro was 11th. Chris Carr had the fastest lap and finished sixth. Brandon Robinson's rehabilitation passed another milestone as he made the main on his big bike.

Jacopo Monti was in outstanding form to win Round 4 of Pozzani Silkolene Shorttrackuk at Stoke Speedway Stadium on Saturday. The Italian Monti who made the long trip to Stoke from his home town of Tradate in Italy was in blistering form. He won his heat races and Semi final to put himself on pole for the Grand Final. The winner of the other Semi and Championship leader Ade collins was next to him. Also on the front row were last year's champ Peter Boast and 3 times UK Champ Marco Belli.
It was Monti who made the hole shot from Collins and Boast, with Belli 4th and 16 year Tom Woolley in 5th. The pack went past to complete lap one but by lap two the red flags came out as Richard "magic"Mason had one of his less magic moments and highsided coming out of turn 4 and took a couple of other riders out. A restart took place and once again Monti made no mistake by getting the hole shot but this time Collins was pushing Monti hard for the lead. By lap 2 Belli had got the better of Boastie and 5th and 6th spots were taken up by the young guns of Ben Baker and Tom Woolley.
By lap 6 Monti and Collins had left the pack with Collins putting pressure on Monti and back in third Boast was putting force on Belli, Woolley had got past Barker and Darren Trapmore moved up to 7th spot. As the laps wound down Jacopo Monti began to ease away from Collins and the battle for third had become a three way dice with Belli, Boast and now Tom Woolley was pressuring the pair.
Jacopo Monti made no mistakes and took the chequered flag for his first UK Championship win from H M Plant Honda rider Aidan Collins, with Marco Belli hanging on to 3rd for the last spot on the podium.

1st # 5 Jacopo Monti.............636 Harley Davidson
2nd # 90 Aidan Collins...........450 HM Plant Honda
3rd # 6 Marco Belli.................450 Team Suzuki
4th # 1 Peter Boast.................450 Team Suzuki
5th # 93 Tom Woolley.............450 CCM
6th # 20 Darren Trapmore......450 Kinrade Honda
7th # 71 Glyn Pocklington......540 Helmets4U KTM
8th # 17 David Haith.................450 Haith Group Honda
9th # 7 Ben Baker....................450 Honda
10th # 98 Richard Mason.........450 Arrow Honda
11th # 64 Geoff Baldock..........450 Rob Speed Yamaha
12th # 49 Rusty Hodgson........500 Dynomax CCM

Championship points,1st Ade Collins 72pts,2nd Marco Belli 58pts,3rd Jacopo Monti 52pts,4th Tom Woolley 48pts,5th Darren Trapmore 40pts,6th Peter Boast 40pts.

Jacopo Monti took top honours in the Redmax Thunderbikes Final. The Action was in the battle for second and third spots with Steve Coles holding second spot for most of the final but it was "Captain Highside" John Lee who worked hard to pass Colesy to take 2nd. Rich May had good ride on the big CCM twin to pick 4th spot.

1st # 5 Jacopo Monti...............600 Harley-Davidson
2nd # 76 John Lee...................700 Skooter Farm Honda
3rd #28 Steve Coles................650 Honda
4th # 9 Richard May................650 CCM
5th # 93 Tom Woolley............710 CCM
6th # 30x Alan Birtwistle........600 Yamaha
7th # 65 Chippy Wood............650 Honda
8th # 13 Gary Inman................600 Rotax
9th # 47 Anthony Brown.........600 Co-Built Rotax
10th # 45 Geoff Cain................600 Co-Built Rotax
11th # 4 Paul Harrison.............600 Rotax

Thunderbike 'B' Final
1st #80 Tim Stevens...604 CCM, 2nd #22 Mike Ryan...600 Rotax, 3rd # 12 Ian Cramp..598 Rotax.

The Arrow Engineering Junior races were dominated by Tim Neave's 4 starts and 4 wins ! The battle for second spot was a lot closer with Loris Hunt and Oliver Brindley and it was Oliver who just got second spot holding Loris off in the double points race.There was a full entry of Junior riders and it was great to see all the them riding well and producing some great racing, well done to them all.

1st # 14 Tim Neave....... 150 Honda...75 pts
2nd # 24 Oliver Brindley.....85 Yamaha...58 pts
3rd # 65 Loris Hunt.....65 KTM.....52 pts
4th # 96 Tom Schmitt....85 Kawasaki......43 pts
5th # 1 Sam Woolley....65 Kawasaki....39 pts
6th # 77 mFlynn Scott...230 CCM Framer....35 pts
7th # 17 Joshua Haith...150 Honda...26 pts
8th # 8 Deklan Brown....85 KTM...25 pts
9th # 4 Adam Lovesey...230 CCM...22 pts
10th # 34 Aaron Silvester...150 Xtrail...14 pts
11th # 19 Chris Horn...85 KTM...10 pts
12th # 91 Lewis Smith...65 KTM...8 pts

It was a suprise to see Jacopo Monti out on a Mini Bike but he proved what a great rider he is by adapting to jumping off a big thunderbike, then going out in the next heat on a 150 mini bike and winning! Second spot went to Mark Richardson and good third to Jaye Carpmail.

1st # 25 Jacopo Monti....150 XTrail.......66pts
2nd # 18 Mark Richardson...150 Stomp...59 pts
3rd # 7 Jaye Carpmail.....150 Stomp.....55pts
4th # 28 Steve Baldock.....150 XTrail....45 pts
5th # 66 Geoff Bull....150 Stomp...38 pts
6th # 5 Billy Bull...150 Xtrail....29 pts
7th # 22 Robert Neave...150 Skyteam...27 pts
8th #19 Mick Trapmore...150 XTrail....26 pts

Dash For Cash, Result
1st Jacopo Monti,2nd Peter Boast,3rdTom Woolley,4thRichard Mason,5th Ben Baker,6th Glyn Pocklington,7th Geoff Baldock,8th Derek Brindley

Thank you to Chippy Wood & Steve Baldock for the pics and to all the staff for working so hard in the heat.

Wiles just devastated the Allen County Fairground's Half Mile in Lima, OH, leading the 25-lap National from start to finish. The dominating performance gave Wiles 50 consecutive laps led as he pushed his # 17 Harley-Davidson to a six-and-a-half second win over Sammy Halbert and his # 7 Harley-Davidson and third spot to Matt Weidman also on Harley.Bryn Smith brought home the Kawasaki in 4th also in Grand Final was Ducati of Joe Kopp who finnished 9th,Mick Kirkness Suzuki 16th and Triumph of Shawn Bear 17th.

Wiles Goes Wire to Wire at AMA Pro K&N Filters Grand National Championship Gas City Round

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#1 Henry Wiles & #3 Joe Kopp........#42 Brian Smith & #26 Brendon Bergen

AMA Grand National Singles Championship Gas City Grand Final Result
1st Henry Wiles 450Kawasaki, 2nd Jared Mees 450 Honda, 3rd Joe Kopp 450 Honda,4th Rob Pearson 450 Yamaha,5th 69 Jethro Halbert 450 Yamaha, 6th 7 Sammy Halbert 450 Yamaha.

Mason 2nd in Marianske Lazne.CZ.....Boastie 2nd in Slany.CZ......Anthony Brown & Geoff Caine 10th & 11th

Rounds 2,3 and 4 of the European Mefo Flattrack Cup took place over the last two weekends. Some British lads made the long trips to the Czech Republic and Germany and had some great results.
Round 2 was at Marianske Lazne and the UK's adopted Italian Marco Belli continued his winning form from Amman by taking first place in the 15 lap final on the 1000 metre track. A great ride for 2nd went to Richard Magic Mason, Boastie held 3rd for 12 laps but was overhauled by Jan- Willam Janson and ended up to 4th.
Round 3 was at Slany also in the Czech Republic. Marco and Boastie had a great battle up front with Marco coming out on top, Boastie 2nd and another great ride from Mason to come from the back of the line out for third, just getting the better of fellow Brit Glyn Pocklington who finished 4th.
Round 4 at Homberg, Germany, saw a win for Swiss rider Jan- Willam Janson, Marco 2nd, Mason 3rd. Two other Brits - Anthony Brown & Geoff Caine rode their Team Co-Built bikes to fine 10th and 11th places in the Final.

Championship Standings
Belli 64pts, Mason 64pts, J-W Janson 45pts, Boast 33pts, Gatzenmeier 27pts, M Janson 21pts

Round 3 Pozzani Silkolene Shorttrack at Amman Valley, Wales.
Marco Belli gave the Italian Zaeta machine it's first win on English soil, by winning Round 3 of the Pozzani Silkolene Shorttrack Championship. Three times Champion Marco said 'This is one of the best wins I've ever had, the final wash as tough as it gets. The 1/2 mile lime stone track was so demanding and the best riders in Europe were all in the Final. I'm so happy!'
In the Grand Final Aidan Collins got the hole Shot on his HM Plant Honda and lead the first lap, but then Marco took the lead on the second lap. Behind them it was 16 year old Tom Woolley 3rd, another Italian Jacopo Monti 4th, then American Levi Mayer 5th and the previous days' Mefo Cup winner Richard Mason rounding out the top 6.
Places were changing every lap and the rider most on the move was Jacopo Monti - on lap 6 he passed Collins and was in second closing on Belli. Woolley and Mason were battling for 4th and 5th, speedway star Kennett and Peter Boast had overhauled Levi Mayer.
As the laps wound down Belli was still under pressure from Monti and Collins, Mason had got clear of Woolley for 4th spot, Boastie was pulling in Kennett and just behined him was Darren Trapmore on the Kinrade Honda.
On the last lap Monti tried making a move on Belli and ran wide, leaving room for Collins to slip past but it was Marco who crossed the line on the back wheel for first place, from Collins and Monti holding on to last podium spot.

Grand Final Result
1st # 6 Marco Belli...........................530 Zaeta
2nd # 90 Aidan Collins....................450 HM Plant Honda
3rd # 5 Jacopo Monti......................450 Honda
4th # 98 Richard Mason.................450 Arrow Honda
5th # 93 Tom Woolley....................510 CCM
6th # 82r Eddy Kennett..................450 Honda
7th # 1 Peter Boast.........................450 Team Suzuki
8th # 20 Darren Trapmore.............450 Kinrade Honda
9th # 7 Ben Baker...........................450 Honda
10th # 33p Levi Mayer....................450 Silkolene Honda
11th # 25 Derek Brindley...............450 Arrow Honda
12th # 11 Ben Wells........................450 Suzuki

Jacopo Monti dominated the Thunderbike Final and even had enough of a margin to wheelie to the crowd on the last few laps. Jan Willam-Janson ran home in second spot but he had is work cut out to come from 4th,Wayne Drake and local hero Guto Lleweyln battled with Jan for 6 of the 8 lap final. The last 2 laps saw Scooter Farm rider John Lee push hard and just nick last spot on the Podium with a fine pass on Guto to get 3rd well done John.

1st # 5 Jacopo Monti.................600 Harley-Davidson
2nd # 15x Jan- Willam................600 Harley-Davidson
3rd# 76 John Lee.......................710 Scooter Farm Honda
4th # 79r Guto Llewelyn...........600 Co-Built Husaburg
5th # 72r Wayne Drake.............600 Rotax
6th # 16x Mick Janson..............600 Rotax
7th # 93 Tom Woolley...............710 CCM
8th # 28 Steve Coles.................650 Bros Honda
9th # 9 Rich May........................650 CCM
10th # 4r Paul Harrison.............600 Rotax
11th # 45r Geoff Cain................600 Co-Built Rotax
12th # 65 Chippy Wood............600 Honda

Thunderbike B Final,1st 80r Tim Stevens........600 CCM, 2nd 47r Antony Brown.......600 Co-Built,
3rd 3r Paul Sheldon.....600 KTM

1st # 14 Tim Neave...........150 Honda 75pts
2nd # 65 Loris Hunt...........85 KTM 57pts
3rd # 24 Oliver Brindley..85 Yamaha 50pts
4th # 96 Tom Schmitt.......85 Kawasaki 48pts
5th # 1 Sam Woolley........65 Kawasaki 40pts
6th # 17 Josh Haith............150 Honda 35pts

1st # 18 Mark Richardson........150 Stomp 75pts
2nd # 7 Jaye Carpmail.............150 Stomp 60pts
3rd # 28 Steve Baldock...........150 X Trail 48pts
4th # 19 Mick Trapmore..........150 Fat Boy 41pts
5th # 22 Rob Neave.................150 X Trail 38pts
6th # 26 Marshall Kinrade.......150 X Trail 36pts

A Big Big thankyou to all the Staff for all your hard work over the weekend and setting the venue up and also Big thankyou to riders and helpers who stayed behind and helped to pack up banners etc.

Richard Mason managed to make best of the tricky wet conditions of the Amman Valley Track. After 10 hours rain the riders did there best to over come the wet conditions and produced some interesting and good heat races.

The Grand Final was no wash out, Ben Wells was on pole next to Richard Mason,Ben Baker and Eddy Kennett on the front row. Drop Flag it was Baker that hole shoted the first corner, by lap One Ben still lead from Mason,Aiden Collins,Kennett and Wells. Magic Mason was pushing Baker hard and on lap 4 Mason managed to get past Ben.

Lap 6 Wells Highsided out turn 2 while in 4th spot, Daz Trapmore moved into 5th spot with David Haith hard on his tail. Mason pulled a gap on Ben Baker and Ben was now under pressure from Collins,with the race cut down to 9 laps because of the conditions the Flag drop for Rich Mason with great 2nd spot for young Ben Baker and fine 3rd for for Collins, great for English riders with top 7 places taken.

Round 1 2010 Mefo International Flattrack Track Cup at Amman Valley,Wales

1st #98x Richard Mason.....................450 Arrow Honda
2nd #7x Ben Baker.............................450 Helmets4u Honda
3rd #90x Aidan Collins.......................450 HM Plant Honda
4th #82r Eddy Kennett.......................450 Honda
5th #20x Darren Trapmore................450 Kinrade Honda
6th #77 Steve Hall..............................525 KTM
7th #17 David Haith............................450 Arrow Honda
8th #6 Marco Belli..............................530 Zaeta
9th #93x Tom Woolley.........................510 CCM
10th #25x Derek Brindley....................450 Arrow Honda
11th #1 Peter Boast............................450 Team Suzuki
12th #11x Ben Wells..........................450 Suzuki

1st Jan Willam Janson..................XR1000 Sundance Harley Davidson
2nd Mick Janson............................Mule Harley Davidson
3rd Steve Hillary...........................XR750 Redmax Harley-Davidson
4th Stef Gatzenmeier...................Harley Davidson
5th Tom Van Ness........................Dutch Brothers Harley Davidson

1st #14 Tim Neave........150 Honda 75pts
2nd #65 Loris Hunt.......85 KTM 57pts
3rd #24 Oliiver Brindley..85 Yamaha 50pts
4th #96 Tom Schmitt.......85 Kawasaki 48pts
5th #1 Sam Woolley........65 Kawasaki 40pts
6th #17 Josh Haith............150 Honda 35pts

1st 18 Mark Richardson............150 Stomp
2nd 7 Jaye Carpmail.................150 Stomp
3rd 15 Victor bull........................150 stomp
4th 66 Geoff Bull........................150 Stomp
5th 19 Mick Trapmore...............150 Fat Boy
6th 22 Rob Neave.......................150 X Trail
7th 28 Steve Baldock................150 X Trail
8th 26 Marshall Kinrade............150 x Trail
9th 5 Billy Bull...........................150 X Trail

Aidan Collins took maxium points after another Grand Final win in round 2 of the Pozzani Silkolene Shorttrack Championship at the Peterborough Showground. Ade lead after a brave move around the outside of Tom Woolley on the first lap, taking control of the race and holding 6 bikes length lead from Woolley and Daz Trapmore on the Kinrade Honda. On lap 2 Jacopo Monti on the big Harley Rotax moved into third spot, moving Trapmore down to 4th and there was a freight train of riders swapping places down to 8th place. On lap 3 Monti got past Woolley and started to look like he might catch Collins but Woolley had not given in and by lap 8 was trying to pass Monti again but in turn there were another 6 riders wheel to wheel behind him, rubbing tyres on each other's swinging arms trying to make passes on the tight blue grooved track.
By lap 11 Collins was safely on his way to his second Grand Final win. Jacopo Monti was having to battle hard to hold on to his second spot from Tom Woolley, Trapmore, Pete Boast, Marco Belli, Richard Mason and Geoff Baldock. Collins took the flag and the flamboyant Italian Jacopo Monti held 2nd from works CCM rider Tom Woolley who took the third spot on the rostrum.

Grand Final Result
1st 90 Aidan Collins.................450 HM Plant Honda
2nd 5 Jacopo Monti..................636 Harley-Davidson
3rd 93 Tom Woolley.................530 CCM
4th 20 Darren Trapmore...........450 Kinrade Honda
5th 1 Peter Boast.......................450 Team Suzuki
6th 6 Marco Belli........................530 Zaeta
7th 98 Richard Mason................450 AMP Racing Honda
8th 64 Geoff Baldock.................450 Robspeed Yamaha
9th 71 Glyn Pocklington............450 Helmets4u KTM
10th 17 David Haith....................450 Arrow Honda
11th 25 Derek Brindley..............450 Arrow Honda
12th 10 Tim Greig.......................450 ASR Honda

The Redmax Thunderbike Final was a one horse race with Jacopo Monti being that horse. He really was in control of the race from the first corner, even finding time to pull wheelies for the crowd. John Lee on the 710 Honda held a fine 2nd spot and the battle for third was between Steve Coles on the 600 Bros Honda and Wayne Drake on a 600 Rotax. Wayne tried every move in the book to pass Coles for the first 5 laps but lap 6 saw Colesy make a small mistake and Wayne pounced to get the third place.

1st 5 Jacopo Monti...............636 Harley-Davidson
2nd 76 John Lee...................710 Scooter Farm Honda
3rd 72r Wayne Drake...........600 Rotax
4th 28 Steve Coles...............600 Honda
5th 9 Rich May......................650 CCM
6th 4r Paul Harrison..............600 Rotax
7th 13r Gary Inman...............600 Scooter Farm woods Rotax
8th 93 Tom Woolley.............. 710 CCM
9th 12r Ian Cramp................. Cramp Rotax
10th 3r Paul Sheldon............ 600 KTM
11th 47r Anthony Brown...... 600 CO-Built Rotax
12th 80r Tim Stevens.......... 600 CCM

14 year old Tim Neave took his second Championship Win in the Junior Class with 4 rides and 4 wins. Oliver Brindley rode well to get second spot and always looked like he could challenge Tim and getting a final podium place was Loris Hunt with 2nd and 3 thirds. Silkolene Junior rider of the day was Aaron Silvester for a good 5th place on an under- powered machine.

1st 14 Tim Neave..............150 CRF Honda
2nd 24 Oliver Brindley......85 Yamaha
3rd 65 Loris Hunt...............85 KTM
4th 1 Sam Woolley............65 Kawasaki
5th 34 Aaron Silvester......150 X Trail
6th 96 Tom Schmit............85 Kawasaki
7th 4 Adam Lovesy...........230 CCM
8th 77 Flyn Scott............... 125 Framer Honda

MARK RICHARDSON was again on great form to have 4 wins out of 4 but Victor Bull kept Mark honest in the double points race and chased him hard for 6 laps. Third spot went to Shorttrack's Photographer Steve Baldock who rode well to keep the experienced Geoff Bull and Former ICE Champ Mick Trapmore behind him.

Shorttrack Mini Bikes

1st 18 Mark Richardson..........150 Stomp
2nd 15 Vic Bull.........................150 Stomp
3rd 28 Steve Baldock..............150 Xtrail
4th 66 Geoff Bull...................... 150 Stomp
5th 19 Mick Trapmore............. 150 Fat boy Racing xtrail
6th 7 Jaye Carpmail............... 150 Stomp

Helmets4u B Final Race
1st Matt Moore.......525 KTM
2nd Anthony Brown.....600 Co-Built Rotax
3rd Paul Baleta.............600 KTM

Next Meeting Amman Valley,Sth Wales May 29th/30th
A big thank you to all the staff and helpers for a great meeting and also big thank to the BMF for making us part of the Show and giving us the chance to put Shorttrack in front of new spectators.

The first Flat Track Experience of the year took place at Ryehouse on Sunday. It was well attended and a great day was had by all. Customers Robin and Simon Maidment commented ' The hospitallity and instructors were great. We would recommend to anyone wanting a top time on a bike and you actually learn something, unlike other track days!'

For info on forthcoming dates check the 'Getting Started' page or click on the CCM Flattrack Logo to visit the site.

Joe Kopp gave Ducati their first major win in Flattrack at Round 3 of the AMA GNC Championship.
The meeting was held in the desert at Yavapai, Arizona, the first time flattrack had been run on the mile track in the desert and it proved to be a great success as 8000 fans came to watch!
The top six were 1st Joe Kopp, 2nd Sammy Habert, 3rd Kenny Coolbeth, 4th Jared Mees, 5th Chris Carr, 6th Jake Johnson.

FMI ITALIAN TROPHY FLAT TRACK

The first round of the FMI Italian Flat Track Championship was held in Lonigo on Sunday 18th April. The event was a jiont meeting with speedway, with shorttrack heats after every four heats of speedway.
There were seven riders for each heat and each rider rode in three of them. The firsts six riders were directly seeded to the final. Two riders also qualified for the final from the Last Chance.
Three times British Champion Marco Belli won the meeting after suffering an engine failure in his first ride. He then dominated the final from Holland’s Jensen Jan- Willem and Andreotti Massimiliano.
The line-up also saw former speedway World Finalist Armando Castagna on a Kawasaki bike. He fell in his first ride when in second place, but then found some good form and reached the final by winning the last chance.

FINAL RESULT

1 Belli Marco (Cialtroni) Zaeta
2 Jensen Jan- Willem (FMS) Harley Davidson
3 Andreotti Massimiliano (Cialtroni) Honda
4 Lucarini Maurizio (Ufo Frascati) Honda
5 Armando Castagna (Trial Valchiampo) Kawasaki
6 Scalabrin Alessandro (Brogliano) Suzuki
7 Agosti Marco (Cialtroni) Aprilia
8 Bottini Elvio Antonello (Mozzanica) Wood
9 Vitangeli Alberto (Ivano Baldini Recanati) Yamaha
10 Stevanini Federico (La Favorita) Yamaha
11 Van Nes Thomas (FMS) Harley Davidson
12 Bruni Massimo (Pistoia) Honda
13 Narduzzi Alberto (La Marca Trevigiana) Narduzzi
14 Mazzoni Gianni Omar (Mozzanica) Suzuki

It's not every day we get an email from a former Grand National Champ and an 'On Any Sunday' film Star ! Gene Romero who now runs the West Coast Flat Track Series sent this very nice email to the ShorttrackUK office.

The Norfolk Arena hosted Round 1 of the 2010 POZZANI SILKOLENE SHORTTRACK UK CHAMPIONSHIP, which saw Aidan Collins take a start to finish victory on his new 2010 H M Plant Honda CRF 450. Aidan had won his semi and was on pole for the Grand Final, with the winner of the other semi - Glyn Pocklington - next to him on the H4U KTM, CCM's Tom Woolley and Tim Greig on the ASR Honda 450 completed the front row of the grid.
The tapes went up with 12 grand final riders all fighting to get on that blue groove at the first bend. Aidan made no mistakes and hit the front, followed by Pocklington, Woolley, Richard Mason, Marco Belli, Greig, Darren Trapmore, Kevin Doolan, Geoff Baldock, Pete Boast, Derek Brindley and Rusty Hodgson.
The freight train of riders traded places, lap 4 saw Zeata's Marco Belli move up two places into third and Boastie and Brindley were moving up through the field.
Collins was getting away from Pocklington by lap eight but behind him Marco was pulling back the gap to second, 16 year old Woolley was holding onto 4th but had a big frieght train of 8 riders behind him trying to make their move.
Going into the last couple of laps Aidan had 5 bike lengths lead over Glyn "Cowboy" Pocklington and in turn Glyn had the same amount over Marco but the battle behind was intense with Tom still holding off Mason,Trapmore,Greig, Boastie,Brindley and Baldock.
The chequered flag dropped for Aidan giving the first victory in Shorttrack to a works supported Honda in front of his new team Boss Neil Tuxworth, a fine second went to Glyn and the 3 times Champ Italian Marco Belli grabbed the last spot on the rostrum.

ROUND 1 2010 POZZANI SILKOLENE SHORTTRACK UK CHAMPIONSHIP
GRAND FINAL RESULT

1ST #90 AIDAN COLLINS................450 H M PLANT HONDA
2ND #71 GLYN POCKLINGTON......525 HELMETS4U KTM
3RD #6 MARCO BELLI.....................530 ZEATA
4TH #93 TOM WOOLLEY.................450 TEAM CCM
5TH #98 RICHARD MASON..............450 AMP RACING HONDA
6TH #20 DARRREN TRAPMORE.....450 KINRADE HONDA
7TH #10 TIM GREIG..........................450 ASR HONDA
8TH #1 PETER BOAST.....................450 TEAM SUZUKI
9TH #25 DEREK BRINDLEY............450 ARROW HONDA
10TH #64 GEOFF BALDOCK...........450 ROBSPEED YAMAHA
11TH #33X KEVIN DOOLAN.............450 SILKOLENE HONDA
12TH #49 RUSTY HOGSON..............520 F T EXPERIENCE CCM

Young Tom Woolley took victory in his first Thunderbike Final which was one of the closet finals ever seen in the Thunderbike class. After the first lap John "Captain Highside"Lee looked to have pulled a good lead but on the next lap he came in too hot and ran wide, letting Rich May, Steve Coles and Tom woolley come past. All 4 traded places for the next 3 laps. By lap 6 May had dropped off the leading bunch, Woolley had taken the lead but Colesy was trying everything to get back by and on lap 7 Lee got back into second. Going into the last lap Woolley had to go flat out just to keep Lee behind and take the victory, with Colesy getting a fine 3rd place.

REDMAX THUNDERBIKE GRAND FINAL RESULT

1ST #93 TOM WOOLLEY.................710 TEAM CCM
2ND #76 JOHN LEE..........................710 SCOOTER FARM HONDA
3RD #28 STEVE COLES...................650 BANCO DE DADIO HONDA
4TH #4R PAUL HARRISON..............600 ROTAX
5TH #13R GARY INMAN...................600 SCOOTER FARM WOODS ROTAX
6TH #47R ANTHONY BROWN..........600 CO BUILT ROTAX
7TH #12R IAN CRAMP.......................600 CRAMP ROTAX
8TH #9 RICH MAY..............................650 TEAM CCM
9TH #31R DAVE ARNOLD.................600 SCOOTER FARM ROTAX
10TH #59R STEVE HILLARY.............750 XR REDMAX HARLEY-DAVIDSON
11TH #40R PAUL BALETA................640 KTM
12TH #99 PETE WILKINSON.............600 SCOOTER FARM ROTAX

As the Junior class begins to grow, the standard of racing is improving, none more so than Tim Neave who took victory with three wins including the double points race on Sunday. However, the most entertaining race of the day was heat two, where Oliver Brindley held Tim off for 4 laps. Tim tried everything and even got past at one point but Oliver regained the place and took victory in that one. It was also great day for Loris Hunt who finished up with a fine third place overall.
Tom Schmit was awarded Silkolene Rider of the Day, as after having a big crash in his first race he continued to ride and got two 3rds and 7th.

ARROW ENGINEERING SHORTTRACK JUNIORS

1ST TIM NEAVE...................CRF150 SAXBY HONDA
2ND OLIVER BRINDLEY.....85 ARROW YAMAHA
3RD LORIS HUNT................85 KTM
4TH DEKLAN BROWN.........85 KTM
5TH SAM WOOLLEY............65 KAWASAKI
6TH EDMUND BEST.............65 RBS
7TH TOM SCHMIT.................85 KAWASAKI
8TH AARON SILVESTER......150 X TRAIL
9TH FLYNN SCOTT............... 125 FRAMER HONDA
10TH ADAM LOVESY............230 KINRADE CCM

RICHARDSON ROMP
Mark Richardson looked set for clean sweep going into the double points race, after winning the first three mini bike races of the day. He began the double points race in the lead but then his machine begain to slow with 2 laps to go, come back man Colin Birden passed and took the lead and then Jaye Carpmail also passed him. Mark just held onto third spot from Steve Baldock to give him overall victory as the points from all four heats were totalled.

Shorttrack Mini Bike Result
1st Mark Richardson...............150 Stomp
2nd Colin Birden......................150 Stomp
3rd Jaye Carpmail...................150 Stomp
4th Steve Baldock................... 150 x trail
5th Victor Bull.......................... 150 super stomp
6th Steven Rhodes................. 150 stomp
7th Geoff Bull........................... 125 thumpster
8th Mick Trapmore................... 150 Fat boy x trail
9th Marshall Kinrade................ 150 x trail
10th Geoff Bull JNR................. 150 thumpstar

DASH FOR CASH - QUALIFYING

MARCO BELLI .................17.35
GLYN POCKLINGTON.... 17.54
PETE BOAST.................... 17.79
TOM WOOLLEY................ 17.88
TIM GREIG......................... 18.05
DARREN TRAPMORE.... 18.16
BEN BAKER..................... 18.18
GEOFF BALDOCK.......... 18.27
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DEREK BRINDLEY.......... 18.28
RICHARD MASON............ 18.38
KEV ARMSTRONG.......... 18.40
RICH MAY.......................... 18.68
GEOFF BULL................... 20.89

THE TOP EIGHT FROM THE TIMED FLYING LAPS, WENT INTO THE 6 LAP, DASH FOR CASH RACE.
1ST POCKLINGTON, 2ND BOAST, 3RD WOOLLEY, 4TH BALDOCK, 5TH BELLI, 6TH TRAPMORE, 7TH GREIG,
8TH BAKER.

3/4/10 Nineteen juniors enjoyed a great day at Shorttrack's training day on the mini track at Scunthorpe Speedway. A big thank you goes to firstly to Marshall Kinrade who sponsored the event and also to the instructors, Peter Boast, Glyn Pocklington, Tom Woolley and Darren Trapmore for passing on tips to the youngsters.

There is great news for Ade Collins and Shorttrack UK, in that Honda are behind the sport for the 2010 season! Aidan, who was second in the 2009 Championship, will this season be riding a 2010 HM Plant Honda CRF450. The boss of Honda racing UK Neil Tuxworth said " We are looking forward to a great season supporting Aidan. When we helped Chris Carr out at the final round of the STUK Championship last year, we were impressed with the progress of the sport and are confident that Aidan will be a great ambassador for Honda and Shorttrack UK ".
Neil is very busy with the BSB team but he hopes to get to some of the meetings, including the first round and the hlaf mile track at Amman Valley.

There was a great turn out of riders for Press and Practice day at King's Lynn on Sunday. A total of 36 riders blew the winter cobwebs away, including many new riders to shorttrack. For more pics go to www.stevenbaldockphotography.webs.com

International speedway rider Edward Kennett has got the Shorttrack bug and although he has got a very hetic speedway season in front of him, he is hoping to fit as many Shorttrack Championship rounds in as he can, providing they don't clash with his speedway fixtures. Eddy hopes to be riding a 2008 Honda 450 which he will be getting converted into shorttrack spec in the next few weeks. There is no doubt that he will be a very strong contender after proving his skill to adapt to Shorttrack at Braintree!

.........Boastie 1/2 mile racing at savannah .......dog walking duties for Carr at Savannah.......Tim Greig in action at Daytona....................

Jared Mees leads Boastie In practice Daytona.........first night winner Sammy Halbert.............Cool looking Mees bikes

................Jake Johnson's XR750.......................................Velousia County 1/2 mile track.............................Daytona's new Flat Track sign.............

Two of our riders made the long trip to Daytona to compete in the flat track racing, here are the pics and results from their trip.
SAVANNAH'S banked, 1/2 mile clay, fast oval, was the first event on the list. Boastie rode in the 450 Pro Class and managed to get through to the semi's, where he moved up through the field from 11th on the first lap to 4th by the finish, but unfortunately it was only winner who transfered to the main. Chris Carr was on top form in the Twins class and won by a good distance from Kenny Coolbeth who won the Pro Singles Final.
The Amateurs Winter National Event was held at the new Daytona track, with England's Tim Greig riding all 3 days. Tim had some excellent rides, with couple of wins in his class and finishing 3rd in the +30 Class and 4th in the +40 classes overall for the series.
The Velousia County 1/2 mile All Stars Event was run on Monday 1st and it was Jared Mees who was on top of the box with wins in the Twins Final and the Singles.
The Grand National Championship nights were both held at the New Daytona track on 3rd /4th March. Pete had gone to try to qualify for the night event but it went all wrong for our Number 1 when he had big highside in practice and damaged his shoulder and ribs. He tried to ride the next night but the pain was too much and he pulled out after first practice. 77 Pro riders turned up, with only 32 places up for grabs and just two 4 lap sessions to make the cut, there were a lot of disappointed riders. (don't worry - we won't run that format in the uk !)
On the first night Sammy Halbert won his first Singles Championship race and looked like he wouldn't be beaten the next night but it went wrong for Sammy when he crashed at the first corner. That left Jake Johnson, Joe Kopp, Kenny Coolbeth, Henry Wiles, John Lewis and Jared Mees to battle it out. As the laps wound down it was Jake Johnson who had the lead going into the last lap of the 25 lap final and he crossed the line on the back wheel from Kenny Coolbeth and Jared Mees. Just to prove how fast the pace was, Chris Carr finished 2nd from last and nearly got lapped!
Pics by Andy Bell

We are very happy to announce that sponsors old and new are digging deep to support Shorttrack UK again in 2010. Please try your best to support them if you can, thankyou.

POZZANI Water Treatment Products are supporting Shorttrack, as part of a two year deal which began last year. Their sponsorship has been vital for the continuation of the sport and is greatly appreciated.

SILKOLENE have been associated with Shorttrack from the start and continue to provide whatever support they they can. For this year there will be a product bonus scheme, where any rider displaying a Silkolene sticker making a final, will receive Silkolene products and there will also be a Silkolene Junior Rider of the Day award.

REDMAX SPEEDSHOP are generously continuing their support of the Thunderbike Class. They have a fantastic range of products, visit their shop by clicking on the link on the side bar.

ARROW ENGINEERING are championing the Junior Class this year, helping to support a developing class of youngsters get into the sport, which is vital for Shorttrack to continue growing, so a big thanks to them.

TRIPLE A RACING are again helping out by sponsoring the series and making a contribution for every set of MAXXIS DTR-1's sold through their site (link on left) or through Pete. A big thanks to Tony and Alison.

HELMETS4U will again be providing helmet awards for riders, the support is greatly appreciated. View their fantastic range of lids at helmets4u.co.uk