Results
Results
| British Masters of Motocross Round 1 Matchams Park Feb 19th 2006 |
Pioneer sound.vision.soul
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The opening round of the 2006 British Masters of Motocross kicked off the season at the weekend at Matchams Park, Hampshire. From the offset on Sundays race programme the rain set in for practice and was in for the day turning the sandy surface into a quagmire with a foot of standing water in places leaving the track resembling more of a beach race than a motocross race and thus leaving interesting racing and results more like a lottery. The Pioneer Yamaha team did adapt well to the demanding racing conditions showing good speed and form in all classes which is a promising start.
125 Pro Class
Brad Anderson topped qualification aboard his 250F Yamaha but had the misfortune of tangling with two other riders off the start line leaving him 20 seconds down on the pack. After a determined ride, battling through the slower riders and with many riders forced to drop their goggles due to the atrocious conditions the tough Geordie made his way through to a well deserved 8th place.
As race two fired off the line Anderson went into the first turn mid pack and knowing visibility was a factor in the race went for it on lap one and came round in the lead ! That is where he stayed till the race end but slowed on the last lap just wanting to make his machine last till the end as so many were forced out with mechanical failure and won by two seconds ahead of Billy Mackenzie and Wayne Smith.
Pro Open Class
This season Glen Phillips has a team mate in Lithuanian, Arunas Gelazninkas ! Qualification went very well both showing good speed with Phillips posting second behind Mark Jones and Arunas in a respectable 5th position.
It was a good start for both as race one fired off the line with Arunas grabbing the holeshot and as they came round on lap one Phillips was in 4th. A lap later he moved up into runner up position where the two team mates circulated three quarters of the race in 1st and 2nd until disaster struck ! Just as Arunas was to complete another lap a stone jammed in his front disc and threw him over the bars with a few laps to go and once he eventually got himself going again finished in ninth. Phillips also had a crash and then pulled in for new goggles and again this time for a change of gloves after another spill but still managed to finish in a very good third position.
The second race was looking good for Phillips as he was leading for the best part until being overhauled by Mark Eastwood and with an inevitable runner up place beckoning on the very last lap the teeth on the rear sprocket ended the day and a disappointing dnf. The conditions also took its toll in this race for Arunas too also a dnf.
The next event for the team will be on March 5th at the Hawkstone International at the famous sandy Hawkstone Park circuit, Shropshire against some of the finest top riders in the world, Stefan Everts, Seb Tortelli, Joel Smets, Cedric Melotte, Stephen Sword, Billy Mackenzie to name a few, not an event to be missed.
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Mx1 overall position's, after round 1
| Pos | No. |  Name |
Total points |
R1 | R2 |
| 1 | 1 | Josh Coppins | 57 | 27 | 30 |
| 2 | 9 | Ken De Dijker | 57 | 30 | 27 |
| 3 | 10 | James Noble | 48 | 25 | 23 |
| 4 | 74 | Stephen Sword | 44 | 19 | 25 |
| 5 | 13 | Gordon Crockard | 42 | 23 | 19 |
| 6 | 7 | Mark Jones | 38 | 21 | 17 |
| 7 | 25 | Julien Bill | 26 | 13 | 13 |
| 8 | 3 | Jussi Vehvilainen | 26 | 15 | 11 |
| 9 | 15 | Jordan Rose | 21 | -- | 21 |
| 10 | 123 | Tanel Leok | 21 | 17 | 4 |
| 11 | 50 | Martin Barr | 20 | 11 | 9 |
| 12 | 19 | Alex Rach | 16 | 6 | 10 |
| 13 | 17 | Jody Smyth | 16 | 8 | 8 |
| 14 | 22 | Mark Hucklebridge | 15 | -- | 15 |
| 15 | 29 | Mark Eastwood | 15 | 9 | 6 |
| 16 | 5 | Neville Bradshaw | 14 | 7 | 7 |
| 17 | 164 | Danny Smyth | 13 | 10 | 3 |
| 18 | 23 | David Campbell | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| 19 | 11 | Glen Phillips | 5 | -- | 5 |
| 20 | 26 | Richard Lawson | 4 | 4 | -- |
| 21 | 999 | Hannu Poikela | 3 | 3 | -- |
| 22 | 37 | Jamie Lewis | 2 | -- | 2 |
| 23 | 89 | Robert Hamilton | 2 | 2 | -- |
| 24 | 31 | Ben Lambert-Williams | 1 | 1 | -- |
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maxxis round 2 - canada heights sun april 9'th
Pioneer. sound, vision, soul
YAMAHA
It was a mixed day for Pioneer Yamaha at round 2 of the Maxxis British Motocross Championships at Canada Heights, Swanley, Kent and was witnessed by a large crowd and the track was perfectly prepared. Brad Anderson finished his timed qualifying in 13th position ( and riding with a broken hand!) whilst Glen Phillips riding the number eleven machine finished in 11th.
MX2
The opening race of the day came down to the line and there was some confusion with the starting procedure resulting in mixed reactions from a lot of the riders from the off and the normally fast starting Brad Anderson was buried mid pack in 20th on the opening lap
and a lap later was up into 15th. With a lot of pain in his broken throttle hand the adrenaline was keeping his race alive and a few laps later got involved in a good tussled as David Willet, Jim Murro and Jamie Law all not wanting Andersons yellow Yamaha 250f past but after a dogged several laps Anderson eventually got past the trio and then set his sights in chasing Elliott Banks- Brown but Anderson got caught napping three laps from home and Dougan went past leaving Anderson to chase and pass EBB on the final lap to finish a respectable 8th.
Race two was a much better start for Anderson tucked in behind Billy Mackenzie and Carl Nunn but their pace was too hot so Anderson had to think of who was behind and the now much rougher circuit was not helping his damaged hand, though after slipping a few places to 6th at the halfway stage that is where he stayed till the race end ending 6th overall on the day and is 5th in the standings.
MX 1
A good start for Glen Phillips in race one inside the top ten but the race was an eventful one as he was swapping places with several different riders in the opening laps getting up as high as 6th at one stage and dropped a place before retaking that position again past David Campbell but another lap later lost out to Gordon Crockard and then shortly after Jordan Rose went past the Welshman wher he then settled on 8th for the next half of the race till the flag.
Race two was a short lived one as a top six start ended on the opening lap as he got taken out by another rider leaving Phillips dead last. After restarting his machine and got going two laps later caught a track marker post with his index finger ending his race and leaving the St Johns Ambulance to do their job !
Full results can be found by clicking on www.mylaps.com and Pioneer Yamahas next event is on Easter Monday for the MMX Champs nr Frome, Somerset.