BRICKNELL CONTINUES TO DOMINATE
Paul Price took the early lead at the Jacobean Sporting Trial, part of the Sporting Trials festival that featured nearly 120 competitors in cars dating back to the just after World War Two.
In the modern section, the Jacobean Trial, 34 competitors tackled the long grass sections in one bowl of the vast venue. Price led initially from formman Thomas Bricknell.
On the second round, the scores dropped significantly with Bricknell having the best round on just three marks to snatch the lead by a single point from Price, with Andy Wilks climbing up to third, another two points back.
Bricknell completed his dominance of the sport this year with his sixth win, by two points from Price.
George Watson snatched third overall, having been 15th after the first round. Boyd Webster finished in fourth with a clean tidy day, beating fellow northern driver Richard Sharp by a couple of points.
Andy Wilks’ afternoon started badly with a costly six that dropped him down to sixth overall, tying with Peter Fensom.
George Barnes had a fantastic day, his best to date, finishing a brilliant eighth overall in his live-axle Sherpa, winning the blue live class from John Firth who completed the top 10 overall.
Darren Underwood split the live-axle cars in his Crossle. Alastair Moffatt won the red live-axle class in his borrowed Kincraft. John Cole took the blue independent class, and Nick Beere the rookie class in his immaculately built Facksimile.
Results
Jacobean sporting trial
Organiser: Midlands Trials Car Club, BTRDA. When: May 21 Where: Long Compton, Banbury Starters: 34.
1 Thomas Bricknell (Crossle) 17 points; 2 Paul Price (CAP) 19 points; 3 George Watson (Hamilton); 4 Boyd Webster (Crossle); 5 Richard Sharp (Cartwright); 6 Andy Wilks (Crossle); 7 Peter Fensom (Hamilton); 8 George Barnes (Sherpa) 9 Darren Underwood (Crossle) 10 John Firth (SRB).