Not only was the weather hot, but the racing at Sundays British Dirt Track Championships at Rye House was certainly scorching with some tremendous battles, spectacular crashes and plenty of talking points.

Veteran John Elliot made up for his Swindon disappointment by coming in fifth position, just ahead of young James Walker, and the unlucky Rob Heath who could have finished further up the order if he hadn’t spun out in his third race.

As always the racing was close, fast and eventful in the Welsh Pitbikes British Dirt Track Mini Bike Championships with 14 riders on the line, things did get pretty darn close, especially when Wayne Johnstone collided with the fence and crashing in front of the following pack, which caused carnage.  All riders were up and back in the re run though.

It was a TEAM Stomp one two though with Gary Phelps continuing his strong form by taking the overall victory over his team mate and series leader Luke Coker.

Whilst the Stomp riders took the first two places it was Trevor Heath who was the quickest rider of the day taking 4 wins, but have an engine failure in race one which cost him. 

Mathew Cole is getting quicker with every event and two third places in the last two races awarded him with a 4^th overall ahead of Johnstone and Billy Coles in fifth and sixth respectively.

Heath also went 10 races unbeaten in the Dirt Track Solo class series by winning all five of his races at Rye House following on from his faultless maximum in Round 3 in Swindon.

The action behind Heath, in the M & S Truck Rentals sponsored Dirt Track Solo class was frantic with many falls, battles and engine failures meaning the runners up spot was wide open, eventually going to Scott Creswell who after a fall in practice looked good on the speedway circuit.  Former Wimbledon Dons Speedway rider Jon Stevens took third overall, favouring the tight line and riding fast and smooth throughout the day, with Eric Pike taking third overall.  One rider who was very unlucky was young Adam Shepherd who recorded 3 wins but had an engine failure and a fall which hindered his scoring.  Tom Meakins also looked better than his 8 point tally suggested and deserved more points for his efforts.

Gary Phelps, had a successful day winning the Boretech sponsored MX class on top of his mini Bike victory, with four wins from 5 ahead of Martyn Hobbs.  This doesn’t tell the whole story as the battles between these two were out of the top drawer as neither gave an inch as they raced for the win.

Yet again a great day of racing was had by all.  Good fun had in the pits, a sunny day, and a great race track.  The series now heads onto round 5 at Stoke on Sunday 5^th August.  With the event being only two weeks away riders are urged to get their entries in soon.  By entering online on www.britishdirttrack.co.uk or you can enter by texting or calling Gaynor 07718 208640 or emailing entries@allterrainevents.eu

British Dirt Track Championships – Round 4 results

QUADZILLA QRA BRITISH QUAD OVAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

1^st Ben Richmond

2^nd Nick Wright

3^rd Lee Hazelwood

4^th Danny Smith

5^th John Elliot

6^th James Walker

7^th Rob Heath

8^th James Fletcher

9^th Nick Goode

10^th Geoff Glover

11^th Neil Duffy

12^th= Lee Baxter

12^th= Elliot Shallow

14^th Andy Hobbs

15^th Richard Shaw

16^th Mick Hall

17^th Sheila Downton

18^th Chris Lavery

19^th Alex Reed

20^th Kevin Dixon

Welsh Pitbikes British Dirt Track Mini Bike Championships

1^st Gary Phelps

2^nd Luke Coker

3^rd Trevor Heath

4^th Matthew Cole

5^th Wayne Johnstone

6^th Billy Coles

7^th Shane Jordon

8^th Andrew walker

9^th Scott Cresswell

10^th Ryan Jeffries

11^th Andrew Pepler

12^th Nick Przyboro

13^th Craig Swales

14^th Colin Perkins

M & S British Dirt Track Solo Championships

1^st Trevor Heath

2^nd Scott Cresswell

3^rd Jon Stevens

4^th Eric Pike

5^th Adam Shepherd

6^th Tom Meakins

7^th Paul Havill

8^th Geoff Wiltshire

Boretech British Dirt Track MX Championships

1^st Gary Phelps

2^nd Martyn Hobbs

3^rd Ali Davies

QRA Elite Youth Quads

1^st George Hill