UK Victory

KING OF THE GREAT INDOORS
TOM NEAVE TAKES INTERNATIONAL SHORTTRACK TITLE

Tom Neave added to his British Shorttrack title with a fantastic win in the Grand Final on Saturday, giving him the International Indoor title as well.

24 riders from all over the World came to Arena UK, Grantham to try to win the International Indoor title. After 9 heat races, 2 semi finals and the last chance race, it come down to 8 riders with the chance of taking the title.
Tom Neave lined up on the front row next to STUK's number 1 Ade Collins and his twin brother Tim riding the team Suzuki bike, on row two was Ben Baker, Kevin Doolan, Peter Boast and the third row Glyn Pocklington and Tony Primmer.
Ade made the hole shot with Tom Neave and Ben Baker hard on his tail. On lap two Collins and Neave pulled away from Baker who in turn had Boast, Doolan and Tim Neave pushing him hard and on lap 3 Tom made a fantastic move around the outside of Collins to take the lead.
On lap 5 Tom began to pull a lead on Collins and Tim Neave had swept around the outside of Baker and Boast. By lap 8 Tom was still leaving Collins, who still had a couple of bike lengths in front of the other Neave and Baker lost another place this time to Kev Doolan
Going into the last lap Tom had just about done the job with 4 bikes lead over Collins, who was now under pressure from Tim Neave and the battle was still raging between Doolan, Baker, Boast and now Pocklington.
Tom took the Chequered flag for another fantastic win at Arena UK, to take the International Indoor Shorttrack title, Collins got a rare second in the end and Tim Neave took the last spot on the rostrum.

Grand Final Result
1st #68 Tom Neave..........450 TCR Honda
2nd #1 Ade Collins...........450 HRC Honda
3rd #14 Tim Neave..........450 Team Suzuki
4th #42 Kevin Doolan......450 PB KTM
5th #7 Ben Baker..............450 Honda
6th #54 Peter Boast..........450 Team Suzuki
7th #71 Glyn Pocklington.525 KTM
8th#52 Tony Primmer.......250 Yamaha

MINI BIKES

The Minibike action was thick and fast all evening, with thrills and spills, they had it all during the heat races, but it was down to 9 riders in the Final. Come back man Andy Giddings was top scorer in the heat races, but it was Mark Richardson who came out on top, just taking the win from Adam Shipp who was very close to him over the line and Andy managed to get last spot on the podium.

Mini Bike Final Result

1st # 18 Mark Richardson.........150 Stomp
2nd #16 Adam Ship...................150 Stomp
3rd #45 Andy Giddings.............150 Stomp
4th #33 Kevin Doolan.................88 CRF
5th #22 Robert Neave................150 Sky Team
6th #66 Geoff Bull.......................150 Stomp
7th #47 Richard Cooper.............140 YX
8th #91 Russell Little..................140 Stomp
9th #13 Geoffrey Bull..................150 Stomp

ENGLAND RULE THE WORLD

The first ever Shorttrack Indoor team challenge resulted in a clear win to the England Team with 70 points and 38 points to the Rest of the World. England's Glyn Pocklington was the star performer with a paid max, including a couple great rides from the back to take wins. Ade Collins rode well for his 10 points and the Suzuki pairing of Tim Neave and Peter Boast with 9 points backed up Pocklington and Collins. Kevin Doolan, Damien koppe and Tony Primmer put up the strongest challenge to England, with all of them taking heat wins, but even Rest of World Team manager Richard Hollingsworth could not pull them out of trouble with some tactical riders thrown in.

Team Scorers
England 70 points.
1 Adain Collins..............10
2 Tom Woolley................3
3 Peter Boast...................9
4 Tim Neave.....................9 + 6 double points ride -15
5 Tom Neave...................6
6 Glyn pocklington........12 +4 double points ride -16
7 Ben Baker.....................8
8 Edward Kennett..........3

Rest of the World 38 points
1 Kevin Doolan...............10
2 Mads Korneliusson.....2
3 Damien Koppe..............8+2 double points ride- 10
4 Rory Schlin....................0
5 Fabrizo Vesprini...........4
6 Robbie Kessler.............3
7 Mark Lemon...................1
8 Tony Primmer...............8.


NO STOPPING OLLY

Oliver Brindley took a max of four wins in the Youth Shorttrack Class riding his Arrow Racing Yamaha. All the battling was going on behind Olly, with some great racing from Leah Tokelove, Ben Neave, Kyle Bickley and Joe Hudson. When the points were tallied up from the 4 races Kyle took second spot Trophy and Ben the third.

Youth Results
1st # 1 Oliver Brindley .................85 Arrow Yamaha
2nd # 18 Kyle Bickley..................140 Spares
3rd # 10 Ben Neave......................150 Sky Team
4th # 33Joe Hudson.....................110 NSR KLX
5th # 16 Charlie Brooks...............150 Stomp
6th # 37 Leah Tokelove................85 RM Suzuki
7th # 47Josh Darius Nobes........150 Co-Built


Thanks to AfterFun for providing the winners with some great product.

Even bigger thanks to everyone who worked so hard in the cold all day - marshalls, pit crew, lap scorers, security, gate staff, commentators and officials. Great job done by all, as usual.