Various Chelmers in action over the weekend

 

News from a bumper Easter weekend of racing, with Chelmer members in action at events on every day of the holiday weekend.

ECCA Good Friday 25

The event that incorporated the unofficial Chelmer 2up Championships, having provided 5 of the 6 teams on the startsheet, although due to injury Matt Haworth was unable to start so Erron Field rode as a private solo.

In the solos Erron recorded the best Chelmer time with 1.04.05 on a tough day when only Murat Ozdenya was able to get under the hour. Colin Ringrose did well with a 1.05.05 which was enough to come 3rd on handicap and Garry Barton rode home in 1.06.13. Full Results

In the 2ups, Antony Stapleton and Dave Nicholls stormed round to a 57.36 while Richard Evans and John Golder were only exactly 2 minutes slower in Richard's first ever 25 mile event and first ever 2up!

2 up Championship

Name	Club	Time
Antony Stapleton	Chelmer C.C.	57.36
David Nicholls
Richard Evans	Chelmer C.C.	59.36
John Golder
Thomas Platts	Cambridge C.C.	1:00.38
Owen Lake
Graham Painter	Chelmer C.C.	1:05.03
Corinna Francis
Sue Gray	Chelmer C.C.	1:06.02
Ann Shuttleworth
David Mellor	Chelmer C.C.	1:07.02
Richard Mellor

 

Also on Good Friday, Aaron Freemon rode to a win in the under 8's race at Castle Combe motor racing circuit, so a big well done to him!

Whitewebbs Circuit Race - Hog Hill

Saturday saw several Chelmer youngsters in action at the demanding Hog Hill circuit.  Jonathon Strauss rode strongly in the under 16 event in his debut race, unfortunately he had to retire due to a bout of asthma, but is vowing to come back stronger next time.  2nd Claim member, Matt Clements and Sherilyn Powell also rode well to claim 19th and 24th places respectively.  At the same event Tom Durno took a very good 5th place in the E123 race.

Haverhill Hilly

Antony Stapleton did a 46.53 to take 3rd overall and 1st vet, Richard Evans did a 49.30 and John Golder did a 51.50 (beat Newark & Pyne !!!), got 2rd vet on standard and the Chelmer won the team prize.

PNuT (Mark Arnold) won the event with a short 46.

Alex Eason did a 52.02,  Graham Painter 54.23, Corinna Francis 55.00 & Ann Shuttleworth did a 58.53 with a late start, Richard & Dave Mellor did a 53.40 in the 2up.

Bishop Stortford Hilly

A less than pleasant Easter Monday, with strong cold winds saw the following rides from the collected Chelmers.

Pete 'The badger' Barton 1:21:08
Clive 'VO2'Max Richardson 1:23:21
Erron 'I forgot my shoes' Field DNS (Did not start)

And the winner once again the ubiquitous Mark 'Pnut' Arnold 1:10:46!