Sand Racing Report 10/04/2021

The miserable morning weather did not deter the racers & officials from descending onto Vazon beach for the first time in over 18 months to contest a points scoring championship event. It was pleasing to see that Nigel Ozanne was back down racing the same sort of vehicle that was destroyed in a high flying accident he suffered 12 years previously, unfortunately for this meeting he had no competition in the racing car class. 6 saloons in three classes provided the main action with very close racing between them with Matthew Board taking the points for production cars up to 1800cc, Eric Trump doing the same in the over 1800cc production class whilst Sam De Carteret was the modified car winner.

The bulk of the bike entry was made up of MX bikes with a total of 17 racers which for the twisty infield course were split into two groups. Billy Russell led the way in the A group but was hard pushed by Owen Waddingham, Billy Rive & Mark King. In the B group the competition was even greater with Brad Smith & Cayden Far battling for the race wins whilst Luke Bush put in a steady run of 3^rd places. For the oval course all the riders came together & it was Billy Rive on the largest engine bike in the class that took the line honours with Owen coming second & Mark coming third having swopped from his more nimble 250cc bike on the twisty course to a bigger engine 450cc bike for the power on the oval.

The traditional slider class saw Bob Teed out on his late father’s machine for the first 2 races before holing the exhaust, saw him move onto Erin Ogier’s, the other rider in this class, less powerful 250cc spare bike which unfortunately did not last the distance. The juniors & intermediates were again split into 2 groups depending on bike type so saw Thomas Vining leading the way on the sliders with Lewis Le Blanq not that far behind him. The rest of the group suffered bike problems with Charlie Walker only getting two 3^rd places whilst brother Sam & Jack Pollard had bike issues. In the MX group Ben Le Prevost led for all except one race when the exhaust decided to part company from his bike thus leaving newcomer Eve Guille to pick up her first win whilst Ben trialled in behind on a very noisy machine. Tyler-James Savident took all four race wins in the cadet class whilst Digby Cleal was unfortunate in having 3 non finishes.

On three wheels there was to be competition between father & son but unfortunately the Yamaha sidecar of Reece Blondel& Thomas Fleet refused to fire up so Clint Blondel & Kev Bennett kindly let Reece & Thomas have 2 runs out on Clint’s Suzuki version.

Paul Stanford