SANDRACING REPORT 22/08/2009

It was back to normal for the Rive twins in this the 9^th meeting of the season with

Billy-Reece taking 5 wins even through he had injured his leg after hitting one of the larger cones & falling off once. Ricky-Lee Rive & Jordan Palmeri were the other winners whilst Billy Russell & Josh Lambourne were as competitive for the lower placing.

Eddie Goracy having injured himself at the last meeting & having won the 250cc Adult bike class had decided not to ride this meeting so this left only 5 sliders on the beach. English rider Daniel Winterton dominated the meeting taking 6 wins from 6 races whilst there was a good battle all afternoon between Dave Cleal & Darren Clarke & though Dave seemed to have the upper hand Darren did mange to gain the win in the Committee Cup race. Colin Teed out with a new bike was suffering problems all afternoon.

Having modified his racing car by welding metal protection bars between the front & rear wheals Simon Carre was able to join the other 7 saloon cars that were present. Lisa Robilliard having won the production class up to 1400cc  allowed her partner Mark Le Page out for a number of races but he found the back end very twitchy, only when putting back onto their transporter did they notice a broken track arm.. Bill Cohu took all 3 championship race wins for production cars 1401-1800 from a hard charging Eric Trump desperate to make up points on the 2 drivers ahead of him in the championship, Mike Bichard took 3^rd spot whilst Paul Stanford currently 2^nd in the championship kept his very sick Toyota Corolla running for one more meeting to kept just ahead of Eric in the championship table. Shaun Leigh, John Le Page & Mark Ozanne all in separate classes were racing mainly just for fun. With the usual lap recorders/handicappers away on holiday it was left to commentator John Bichard & his partner Victoria to sort out the handicap & it was very close at the end with Eric Trump barely a car’s length ahead of the last car to leave the start line that of Simon Carre whist Bill Cohu came in third.

Paul Stanford