Summer titles won; now for the Winter Series
Despite the final round being washed out Scunthorpe Speedway still managed to attract 114 different riders to the four rounds of their 2014 Summer Championship that survived the weather. For the first time in it seven years two rounds of the championship were lost to the weather but it didn’t prevent the 2011 champion, 48-year old former Polish Ekstraliga rider Miroslaw Daniszewski from claiming his second title ahead of Andrew Blackburn and three-time champion Gary O’Hare.
With a rider’s top three round scores counting Daniszewski’s two first place and one second place put him six points ahead of the field. In the other adult classes Sam Darroch pipped Robert Parker to the Support Class title whilst rookie rider Lloyd Brown claimed the Novice Class title ahead of Damon Hall and John Gaskell.
There were also three youth titles with Jack Parkinson-Blackburn following in the footsteps of pro riders Marc Owen, Robert Lambert and Josh Bates in the 250cc class. 2013 winner Kean Dicken was second but had the consolation of edging out Jamie Halder and Jordan Palin in the Youth 150cc class whilst Jacob Fellows edged out Keiran Holt in the Junior 110cc pit bike class.
Despite the two rain-offs organiser Richard Hollingsworth was delighted with how the summer meetings had gone. “It was a bit of a shame to lose the last meeting of the summer. We’d only lost three meetings in six previous summer championships but we ended up with two this summer. However, we saw some great racing and whilst the Open Class numbers have been hit by the success of the MDL the number of new riders has been very high. The future looks bright with a number of promising riders riding in our Support and Novice classes.
“The good news is we don’t stop during the closed season and we’ve got all manner of practices, training schools and meetings over the winter. All the details are on our website whilst the first amateur meeting is on 9th November. The winter meetings are very popular but we split them into two halves to make sure riders aren’t waiting around too long. Let’s just hope the weather is kind to us”.
The other Winter Series dates, after 9th November, are 7h December, 4th January, 1st February and 1st March. Places can be reserved by contacting Richard Hollingsworth via email (richard@scunthorpespeedway.com), Facebook (www.facebook.com/rh1967) or phone (07832-402167 – please text or leave a message if unavailable).
Open Class:
Final Championship Standings (top 3 rounds count): Mirek Daniszewski 47 (15-16-16), Andrew Blackburn 41 (14-13-13-14), Gary O’Hare 39 (10-14-15), Krystian Bialecki 31 (16-15), Martin Pearce 23 (12-11), Luke Chessell 16, Dale Finch 15, Liam Sanderson 14, Adam Extance 13, Mike Faulkner 12, Cameron Hoskins 12, Lee Dicken 11, Andy Mellish 11, David Holt 10, Sean Mason 9, Paul Bowen 8, David Lidgett 7, Martin Wrathall 6, Sam Woods 5, Liam Sanderson 4.
Class Roll of Honour:
2008: Stuart Parnaby
2009: Gary O’Hare
2010: Gary O’Hare
2011: Miroslaw Daniszewski
2012: Steve Jones
2013: Gary O’Hare
2014: Miroslaw Daniszewski
Support Class:
Final Championship standings (top 3 rounds count): 1st Sam Darroch 42 (11-11-16-15), 2nd Robert Parker 40 (10-14-16), 3rd Scooter Webster 29 (14-15), Jack Flynn 28 (13-15), Trevor Bebbington 22 (8-14), Layne Cupitt 16, Jack Hall 15, Paul Bowen 15, Mark Whitehead 14, Elvis Jones 13, Ben Hewitt 12, Ben Basford 12, Dan Miles 10, David Lidgett 9, Paul Chester 9, Alex Wilson 8, Lawrence Fielding 7.
Class Roll of Honour:
2008: Montana Jowett
2009: Rod Woodhouse
2010: Montana Jowett
2011: Rachel Hellowell
2012: Martin Pearce
2013: Martin Pearce
2014: Sam Darroch
Novice Class:
Final Championship Standings (top 3 rounds count): 1st Lloyd Brown 50 (15-17-18), 2nd Damon Hall 46 (17-14-15-13), 3rd John Gaskell 45 (15-16-14-14), Dave Patten 43 (18-13-6-12), Luke Whitehead 38 (20-18), Stuart Freeman 38 (14-12-12-10), George Rothery 35 (19-16), Chris Bambury 34 (10-13-11), Matthew Sewell 33 (16-17), Mike Cowley 29 (13-7-9-1), Sam Rawson 27 (17-10), Derek Hunt 26 (8-11-7), Bradley Seal 23 (19-4), Chris Ball 21 (9-4-8-3), Robert Parker 20, Dan Miles 20, Danyon Hume 20, Adrian Guest 19, Thomas Hewitt 19, Danny Wright 18, Adam Chessell 17 (10-7), Ross Wharton 16, George Rothery 16, James Andrews 16 (11-5), Harry Gent 15, John Gaskell 14, Stuart Andrews 12, Kev Whelan 11, Mick Keeling 9, Glen Belcher 9, Nigel Limb 9 (3-6), Tim Antill 8, Adam Chessell 7, Mark Wrathall 6, Chris Barbrook 5, Leon Nimmo 5, Haydon Ball 4, Ian Chambers 2
Class Roll of Honour:
2009: David Holt
2010: Trevor Bebbington
2011: Sam Darroch
2012: Kev Keay
2013: Liam Sellers
2014: Lloyd Brown
Youth 250 Class:
Final Championship Standings (after three rounds):
1st Jack Parkinson-Blackburn 32 (16-16), 2nd Kean Dicken 30 (15-15), 3rd William O’Keefe 29 (16-13), Tom Miles 29 (15-14).
Class Roll of Honour:
2008: Marc Owen
2009: Robert Lambert
2011: Josh Bates
2012: Dan Miles
2013: Kean Dicken
2014: Jack Parkinson-Blackburn
Youth 150cc Class:
Final Championship standings (after four rounds): 1st Kean Dicken 46 (14-16-16), 2ndJamie Halder 44 (16-12-16), 3rd Jordan Palin 43 (14-15-14), James Hitchen 29 (14-15), Luke McKenna 25 (13-12), Harry McGurk 15, Ben Basford 15, Sam McGurk 13, Sam Stead 12.
Class Roll of Honour:
2011: Ben Woodhull
2012: Ben Woodhull
2013: Jolyon West
2014: Kean Dicken
Junior Pit Bike Class:
Championship Standings (top two rounds count): 1st Jacob Fellows 32 (16-13-16), 2nd Kieran Holt 31 (15-16), 3rd Tom Miles 23 (9-14), George Hopper 16, Haiden Wrathall 15, Skye Adams 15, Dan Miles 15, Luke Harrison 14, Bailey Fellows 13, Thomas Tovey 12, Jordan Lee Miller 11, Lewis Towle 10, Stephanie Tovey 8.
Class Roll of Honour:
2013: Sam McGurk
2014: Jacob Fellows
