Summercross Day 1 - Juniors and Women.

Mon 27 Dec: Hot was the best description and add dusty. Typical BOP MCC - it ran like clockwork. They put on a great event but all are worried about the Senior day tomorrow as big rains are forecast - couple of good showers in Whakatane tonight but we are 25 minutes from the track. 5.4 earthquake at 3am this morning as well !!!

The new rollers section we had featured worked a treat and the bigger boys and several of the Women had it absolutely nailed. The new, big left hander to re-join the main track will not be used as they did not anticipate the sheer speed riders would be travelling at. If anybody over-jumped it they would be in trouble with the descending section of the track so they have decided to leave it out. A good example was Isaiah McGoldrick, Dion Picard and Haki Waller - there sheer speed through that new section was quite remarkable, so the top riders on Sunday will be slightly quicker.

Out the back in the open terrain section the Minis had 106 riders in 6 differing classes.

Smallest 85 Class was dominated by Josiah Natzke. He won all 3 races by 12, 23 and 18 seconds.

JMX 85cc 8-11 yrs - Kaimai Motors


Pos	No.	Name	Total points	R1	R2	R3
1	342	Josiah Natzke	150	50	50	50
2	958	Wyatt Chase	135	43	46	46
3	2	Dylan Breingan	127	41	43	43
4	901	Jayden Turnwald	126	46	40	40
5	186	Ashton Grey	118	38	41	39
6	44	Maximus Purvis	108	39	35	34
7	999	Jovhann Phillips	106	30	38	38
8	222	Xavier McBrydie	105	29	39	37
9	60	Tyler Steiner	104	35	33	36

Cohen Chase also won all of his races in the 12-13yrs bbut it was closer with 1.5, 5 and 9 seconds.

JMX 85cc 12-13 yrs - Protecta Insurance


Pos	No.	Name	Total points	R1	R2	R3
1	454	Cohen Chase	150	50	50	50
2	178	Sean Kelly	130	46	41	43
3	68	Warren Bartlett	130	43	46	41
4	197	Nick Hornby	122	33	43	46
5	512	Jacob McKinley	116	39	40	37
6	126	Richard Newton	115	37	38	40
7	886	Zac Tierney	106	32	36	38
8	76	Aaron King	105	36	37	32
9	111	Benedict Hahn	101	40	39	22
10	26	Mason Kanters	101	34	32	35

There was lots of interest in the fact that Courtney Duncan was up from the bottom of the South Island and riding two classes. In the 14-16yrs 85s practice she was 3.7 seconds quicker and won her three races by 37, 22 and 30 seconds.

JMX 14-16yrs 85cc/12-16yrs 150cc - CSC


Pos	No.	Name	Total points	R1	R2	R3
1	151	Courtney Duncan	150	50	50	50
2	200	Sean O'Connor	135	46	43	46
3	912	Kurtis Lilly	130	41	46	43
4	8	Hayden Kanters	122	43	39	40
5	7	Scott Sowry	122	40	41	41
6	13	Bill McCulloch	115	39	40	36
7	226	Nathan Sharland	113	38	38	37
8	331	Anthony Parker	112	36	37	39
9	289	Aaron Manning	111	37	36	38
10	906	Tony Botica	101	35	35	31

James Anderson was a certain podium but I don't know what happended to him in the last race.

JMX 125cc 12-15 yrs - Kaimai Motors


Pos	No.	Name	Total points	R1	R2	R3
1	905	Dion Picard	142	50	46	46
2	146	Micah McGoldrick	136	43	43	50
3	808	Cameron Vaughan	125	41	41	43
4	7	Kurt Langford	119	39	40	40
5	556	Henry Griffith	112	32	39	41
6	505	Hamish Clausen	110	35	37	38
7	106	Tyler Breingan	110	36	38	36
8	888	Billy Frank	108	34	35	39
9	912	Jack Jensen	101	33	36	32
10	115	James Anderson	96	46	50	--

A clean sweep to Josh Jack - his dad Andy had told me recently that if/when the sell their house they too will head for Europe.

JMX 125cc 16-17yrs - Underwood & Wilkins


Pos	No.	Name	Total points	R1	R2	R3
1	11	Joshua Jack	150	50	50	50
2	222	Campbell King	132	46	43	43
3	4	Callum Moore	126	43	46	37
4	200	Stuart Young	122	40	41	41
5	74	Ryan Thompson	118	38	34	46
6	427	Liam Underwood	118	41	37	40
7	11..	Jacob Kneebone	112	39	38	35
8	721	Kent Morley	107	35	40	32
9	719	Quade Young	107	36	32	39
10	110	Blair Holdt	106	37	35	34

Isaiah also won each race, tight in the first but decent gaps in the next two motos of 1.2, 12 and 13 seconds

JMX 250cc 12-17yrs - Kelly's Garage


Pos	No.	Name	Total points	R1	R2	R3
1	50	Isaiah McGoldrick	150	50	50	50
2	905	Dion Picard	130	46	43	41
3	82	Haki Waller	128	36	46	46
4	704	Peter Smit	125	41	41	43
5	222	Campbell King	119	40	39	40
6	213	Kade Adlam	117	39	40	38
7	108.	Samuel Dews	115	38	38	39
8	992	Damon Rees	107	34	36	37
9	809	Josh Wedge	102	33	33	36
10	905.	Kieran Harnett	102	32	35	35

Women's and in Practice Courtney Duncan had the smallest of margins over Nikki Scott of 0.198 seconds. Courtney is 14yrs (soon 15) and on an 85cc. Nikki is 21 yrs and on a 250F. Courtney won by 32, 32 and 10 seconds.

She had collisions and crashes but she was my 'Rider of the Day' - a remarkably talented young lady. She was quick everywhere and whilst I have avoided naming brands (cos it takes too much time !!) through the rollers/whoops her YZ85 suspension worked a treat. I caught up with Norman Cobb from Suspension Tech who does her suspension. Norm goes back a fair while and says Courtney's suspension is super hard - a Suspension Tech kit that he has used for 20 years and still exports to Australia and beyond.

CD and her Step-dad, Carey Turner left straight away as the have a ferry at 2:15am - the weather on 6pm News said 160kph winds are forecast.

It's not all about Courtney Duncan and the top 6 put on some excellent racing.

WMX (12 yrs + Woman) - Coastline Honda


Pos	No.	Name	Total points	R1	R2	R3
1	151	Courtney Duncan	150	50	50	50
2	414	Alex Dillon	132	46	43	43
3	37	Nikki Scott	131	39	46	46
4	881	Letitia Alabaster	124	43	41	40
5	521	Courtney Lindsay	120	40	39	41
6	360	Jessie Waterhouse	120	41	40	39
7	380	Casey Waterhouse	112	36	38	38
8	280	Kelly Kneebone	112	38	37	37
9	..	Julie Greenslade	108	37	35	36
10	232	Rebecca Clark	105	34	36	35