Carnagrie Sprint Enduro Centre Rnd 3 Results
With a new course laid out on the grass farmland at Carnagrie by club Chairman Craig Norrey using his farming know-how to create perfectly graded track leading onto the more cross-country parts Carnagrie.
Unfortunately the event got off to a difficult start after Expert rider Ash Kelly crashed on tricky downhill well-rutted section fracturing his lower leg. Ash's incident took over 90mins to resolve and get the Hogg Medical Assoc. ambulance back into position.
Once back underway on a simplified course the event restarted over 6 special tests down from a planned 8. Thankfully the rerun was incident free.
Expert class was won by Danny McCanney taking his 2nd win of the championship. Gav Hunt was second 1min 26sec down with Jordan Corkill third 40 seconds behind. Fourth place was off form Craig Norrey who had spent a little too long at the Southern Show.
Clubman class victory was taken by Daniel Lane with healthy lead of 54secs over Tim Dedman with his best result of the year so far, third was Peter Beaumont despite a heavy crash on the 5th test.
Nigel Beaumont was the only entrant in Vets class a steady ride gave him his first finish of the year and a class victory.
Sportsman class was the largest of the field with 18 competitors. Harry Kampz took the top step of the podium aboard a borrowed KTM 57sec ahead of Philip Gunnell and Carl Wynne-Smythe took 3rd 9secs down on Gunnell. Windy did have some advantage as Danny Mcanney tuned his suspension whilst waiting for the event restart.
Non championship MX class was won by teenager Liam Smith who was 3rd placed overall. Second was another youngster Beau Brown 4.5secs off Smith and 12secs ahead of not a teenager Ryan Cringle, third on a un-washed KTM.
Huge thanks go to Ashley and Jen from Hogg for their hard work and professionalism taking care of Ash Kelly. Thanks also to Jordan Corkill who provided excellent immediate care to Ash and to all the competitors who assisted. Everyone wishes Ash Kelly a speedy recovery from all at SMCC.