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Last Updated: Nov 28th, 2010 - 10:22:29 |
Round 6 of Pozzani Silkolene Shorttrackuk Championship saw Richard Mason take the honurs of one most exciting TT racing ever seen in shorttrack history.
The TT which is run once year as part of the Championship and involves right and left bends with jump and the riders do all this with out front Brake!
Championship series leader, Ade Collins who saw two opportunities to qualify pass him by and faced the first of three sudden death teats to keep his championship lead intact in the third qualifier heading 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 Eddward 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
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