TEAM SaS EAST FORTUNE, July 2017
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- Written by Helen Pask, photo by Sylvia Beaumont
Husband and wife Sidecar racing team Giles and Jen Stainton from Upton made a late decision to travel north to East Fortune for a change of venue and opponents at the weekend resulting in three top 10 finishes to their races.
Jen said: “We made a quite late decision to travel to East Fortune last weekend and the long journey along with a week of engine swapping meant that we were pretty tired when we got there!"
Lowther Brothers Take First Oliver's Mount Win
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- Written by Tim Langham / Photographs - Dirk Wharton
Scunthorpe brothers John and Jake Lowther had an excellent weekend at the "Barry Sheene Road Races" on the 22nd and 23rd July, taking four podium places from the same number of starts, including their maiden win as a pairing at the famous Oliver's Mount Circuit. However, their team mates, Lee Crawford and new passenger, Scott Hardie endured a frustrating event, unable to replicate their dominant form they had enjoyed the previous weekend at East Fortune in the Scottish Championship meeting, where they had won all four sidecar races.
British F2 Sidecar Championship Campaign To Resume At Anglesey
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- Written by Words - Mark Dennis / Photographs - Dirk Wharton
The fourth round of the A.C.U./F.S.R.A. British Formula Two Sidecar Championship will be hosted once again by the Wirral 100 club at the coastal circuit Trac Mon on Anglesey. This will be the tenth consecutive year that the FSRA have visited this venue. In the last two years the weather has played a major factor with one day being blisteringly hot and the next day torrential rain so let's hope the “weather gods” play fairly this weekend!
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Cadwell Park replaces Silverstone in the Hyundai Heavy Industries British Championship schedule
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- Written by Steve E
TAKEN FROM http://www.rkb-f1-sidecars.com/2017-cadwell-news.html
The "Party in the Park" at the picturesque Cadwell Park circuit will now include the Hyundai Heavy Industries British Sidecar Championship on 18-20th August.
The Silverstone BSB round scheduled for the second weekend of September will go ahead as planned with a full solo programme, but the opportunity to switch the sidecars to a circuit that will provide much closer and more interesting racing was put forward.
ALL FEMALE SIDECAR TEAM CLAIM FOURTH PLACE AT ACE OF AINTREE
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- Written by Steve E
Maria Costello and her sidecar passenger Kirsty Hauxwell took 4th in class in the final sidecar race at Aintree on Saturday, 15th July, earning silverware and recording the pair’s best finish yet as an all-female sidecar team.
The duo took advantage of a free weekend in the Hyundai Heavy Industries British Sidecar Championship to attend the Ace of Aintree event, making the most of valuable track-time with their JG Speedfit / Cool Milk LCR sidecar outfit. Despite its being Hauxwell’s local track, racing at Aintree was a new experience for Maria, as was running on Avon’s wet tyres when wet weather predominated.
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Brands GP home ground as Reeves boys attack Round Six
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- Written by Barry Nutley,photos from John Mushet
Tim and Tristan Reeves arrive at their home track with maximum points from the ten races so far in this year's Hyundai Heavy Industries British Sidecar Championship. The Carl Cox Motorsport Kawasaki pair have dominated the 2017 series so far, with the most recent victories coming at the Mallory Park Bike Bonanza two weeks ago.
Defending champions Ricky Stevens and Ryan Charlwood (JG Speedfit Cool Kawasaki) have had mixed fortunes this year, and trail the leaders by one hundred points in second place.
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Pleasure and Pain at the Southern 100, Birchall Racing Report
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- Written by Helen Pask
Mansfield brothers Ben and Tom Birchall contested the two races in the Isle of Man Southern 100 F2 Sidecar class last week resulting in a resounding win in the first race and a DNF in the Championship race on Thursday.
Starting the first race on Wednesday from a second row grid position the Mitchells of Mansfield supported riders got a good start to the six lap Ace Hire and Sales F2 Sidecar event to nip through into second place. As they crossed the line to start lap two there was less than a second separating the first four outfits with all four running inside the existing lap record.
Read more: Pleasure and Pain at the Southern 100, Birchall Racing Report
Over “Two Grand” raised as Mallory Park and RKB-F1 run “Taxi Ride”
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- Written by Steve E
At the fifth round of the Hyundai Heavy Industries British Sidecar Championship over the weekend of 8/9 th July, more than eighty sidecar fans and “would-be passengers” tried the ultimate sidecar experience as they rode in the sidecars of top-flight championship
contenders.
Read more: Over “Two Grand” raised as Mallory Park and RKB-F1 run “Taxi Ride”
Southern 100 programme of events
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- Written by Steve E
The planned programme of events, as seen on the Southern 100 website
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Full Monday Night Southern 100 results from Phil Edge
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- Written by Steve E
From Phil Edge we have the full results of Monday night practice at the Southern 100 in timekeepers on the forum here - and please don't forget Mark Dennis' stirling efforts in there keeping everything up to date from all the meetings he can find!
BIRCHALL RACING ROUND FIVE BRITISH SIDECAR CHAMPIONSHIP
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- Written by Helen Pask, photo by Dave Yeomans
Mansfield brothers Ben and Tom Birchall took in the two races of round five of the British 600cc Sidecar championship at the weekend where they qualified in third place overall in the mixed grid of F1 and F2 outfits and took the win in both races in the 600cc class and second and third place overall.
The Mitchells of Mansfield supported brothers were running second fastest through the early stages of qualifying but dropped to third to start the first race from a second row grid position.
Ben said: “There was a lot of traffic out there and I was unable to get a clean lap in so pulled in to the pits for a while. We went back out and managed to get one fast lap in to finish third overall and fastest in the 600 class.”
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COSTELLO & HAUXWELL MAKE MALLORY PARK SIDECAR RACE DEBUT
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- Written by Steve E
The JG Speedfit/Cool Milk all-female sidecar team of Maria Costello and Kirsty Hauxwell, made their Mallory Park debut in Round 5 of the Hyundai Heavy Industries British Sidecar Championship.
With over 20 years of road racing experience, Maria Costello is well known to motorsport aficionados for her many achievements, including her MBE for services to motorcycling and achieving the first female podium in a race around the Isle of Man TT.
Given that she typically rides up to 12 different solo race bikes in one season, buying and racing an LCR F2 sidecar in the 600cc ‘Cup’ class is something of a departure for Maria.
“Sidecar racing is so fantastic,” Maria explained... Click read more!!
Read more: COSTELLO & HAUXWELL MAKE MALLORY PARK SIDECAR RACE DEBUT
TEAM SaS ANGLESEY, Giles and Jen, from Helen P
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- Written by Helen Pask, photo by Sid Diggins
Jen and Giles Stainton travelled to Anglesey for a round of the Wirral club championship where they rode to a clutch of fourth places in the F2 Sidecar races recently.
Saturday morning was spent familiarising themselves with the circuit layout as they had only been there once before and that was a year ago.
Qualifying saw the husband and wife team from Upton finish the session in seventh place and Jen commented: “Our competition for the weekend was really strong, and surrounded by class teams we were keen to get out and learn as much as we could on the Coastal circuit. We achieved a 1m 24s in qualifying but knew that our gearing wasn't quite right and also felt that we should make some adjustments to tyre pressure and suspension.”
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