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2022 Scottish Twinshock Scramble Championship Round 1 – Race Report & Results

So here we are into another year and onto the first round of the 2o22 Scottish Twinshock Scramble Championship at a Superbly conditioned Drumclog track, I must say that Tommi and Stuart have done a lot of hard work and would recommend this track to anyone.

Report by Jim Grieves – Images courtesy of MadMaxMedia

The sighting laps were done with no major incidents, well done everyone for going steady during these laps.

Now onto the racing and we had a slight change in classes and the set-up too.

So the racing would commence with the Pre-77, 4 stroke, and the under 300cc twinshock class.
The Pre-77 class was a Barry Smith benefit race, with the returning Suzuki rider James Mclean in second, and enjoying his day thoroughly, in third would be Tam smiley.

The 4 stroke class was a lot more hotly contested and with two very, very close finishes in race one and three, it would be the second race as the decider and the rider taking the spoils in this race and the overall would be Keith Stanford with a very worthy close finisher Keith Birse in second, and taking the final step would be Findlay White, with three very consistent rides.

In the under 300cc twinshock it was a clean sweep for Jim Grieve for the overall with David Watson and Paul ness fighting it out over second and third positions, David Watson would take the silver trophy and would be chased hard by Paul Ness who would grind his way through the pack for third overall.

Moving swiftly onto the over 50’s and the open twinshock classes, these would be hotly contested, in the twinshock class it would be Brian Alexander, leaving the field for dead, and taking three straight wins for the overall with Craig “smitch” smith, and Paul Chiappa having their usual ding dong battle, and it would be smitch coming home in second and Paul in third.

The over 50’s class was a clean set of wins for Gordon Montana , Morrisson, as he romped away to leave everyone else for dead, and so taking up the final steps on the podium would be Suzuki man Robbie Allan in second and Jim(over60)Baxter would push his little ktm 150 to the max and was rewarded with the bronze prize.

So we would now see 33 riders line up for the clubman class, and with such fast times, it is surprising these guys are only clubmen as the first few had times fast enough to be in the top 5 of the monoshocks.

Anyway it was a clean sweep of the races and some super-fast riding from Louis Tobin and he would hold the red plate going into Kilmartin next week, and equally consistent were Stuart Wilson and Mathew Duncan, with a brace of second and third places respectively, To climb the last two steps on the podium.

Moving on swiftly to one of the largest groups of racing and it would be the 2 stroke open, the evolution class, the youth class and the evo 125cc class, racing together.

So in the 2 stroke class, we would see John Montgomery run to three solid wins and a well deserves first overall, being followed home by Bryan Colligan and kyle McClure who would have their own little battle most of the day, Bryan coming out top on this occasion and securing second overall with Kyle in third, well done to all.

Also zipping around the lovely sandy groomed track of Drumclog would be the evolution class and with Roy Potts winning the opening race and doing enough to take the overall by one point from a very consistent Mark Glegg and a superb couple of rides for Graham Blacklock to get onto the third step of the rostrum, after his DNF in the first race. There were indeed some very quick riders in this class.

The youth class would see the Haddow boys flying around the track and three super quick rides for Graham and Ryan, would put them in the top two positions with Graham first and Ryan second overall, also with a consistent ride from Husqvarna mounted Stewart Bagen who would take third overall.

The 125cc evo class was nice to watch too as the eight litre boys threw their small machines about at an impressive rate of knots and with Jonathan Young and Micheal Mclarty taking one win apiece it would be the second race that was the decider, with less than one second between both riders as they crossed the line it would be Jonathan who would take the overall, with Micheal taking silver, and comin home in third with a consistent brace of rides was Damian Carter.

Moving onto the monoshock class and we would see a mixture of two stroke and four stroke bikes. In the end it would be Gregor Campbell taking a well-deserved first overall, albeit by only one point, from Greg Maxwell securing second and two-stroke mounted Jason Martin, pushing his KTM to the limit to get a well-earned third step on the box, congratulations to all. And I certainly look forward to seeing some more close racing at Kilmartin.

Also, may I just say a big get well soon to Elaine Maceachearn and Mathew Harper, hope that you have a speedy recovery guys and girls and I look forward to seeing you at Kilmartin on May the first.

Well done to all involved.

Results

Team Positions

1st TEAM DIAL-A-TOW – 259pts
2nd TEAM STARTERS TROOPERS – 241pts
3rd TOM GRANT BIKE ADVENTURES 172pts
4th TEAM STRAITON SANDS – 170pts
5th TEAM FACTORY FITTERS – 164pts
6th TEAM ARGYLL – 131pts
7th TEAM GLASSERTON HRC – 111pts
8th TEAM SANDWICH SHORT OF A PICNIC – 56pts
9th TEAM SMOKEY AND THE BANDITS – 39pts

Twinshock Under 300cc Class

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Jim Grieve	60	20	20	20
2	David Watson	49	17	17	15
3	Paul Ness	47	15	15	17
4	Graham Miller	39	13	13	13
5	Mike Van Der Merwe	33	11	11	11
6	David Stanford	29	10	10	9
7	Richie McFadden	28	9	9	10
8	Mike Dobie	8	8	–	–
9	Neil Litterick	7	7	–	–

Pre ’77 Open Class

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Barry Smith	60	20	20	20
2	James McLean	51	17	17	17
3	Tam Smiley	43	15	15	13
4	Donald Fullerton	28	–	13	15

Fourstroke Class

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Keith Stanford	57	17	20	20
2	Keith Birse	54	20	17	17
3	Findlay White	45	15	15	15
4	Iain Clark	39	13	13	13
5	Ricky Caldwell	33	11	11	11
6	Albert Britton	27	10	8	9
7	Malcolm Miller	19	–	9	10
8	Jamie McInally	10	–	10	–

Twinshock Open Class

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Brian Alexander	60	20	20	20
2	Craig Smith	49	17	17	15
3	Paul Chiappa	47	15	15	17
4	Robert Smith	26	13	13	–

Over 50’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Gordon (Montana) Morrison	53	13	20	20
2	Robbie Allan	47	17	15	15
3	Jim Baxter	46	20	13	13
4	Brian Allardyce	37	15	11	11
5	Morton Hannah	34	–	17	17
6	David McFadyen	31	11	10	10
7	Johnny Rutherford	25	7	9	9
8	James Struthers	18	6	4	8
9	Kevin Forrest	17	10	7	–
10	Douglas Lace	16	8	8	–
11	Craig McFadyen	16	4	5	7
12	Grant McClure	15	9	6	–
13	John Hopton	5	5	–	–

Clubman

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Louis Tobin	60	20	20	20
2	Stuart Wilson	51	17	17	17
3	Mathew Duncan	45	15	15	15
4	Stewart Ferguson	36	13	10	13
5	Craig Gordon	31	10	11	10
6	Ross Heath	30	6	13	11
7	Kyle Marshall	27	9	9	9
8	James Walker	22	11	3	8
9	Darren Thomson	20	8	8	4
10	James Stewart	19	7	6	6
11	Max Hamilton	18	4	7	7
12	Shaun Allan	10	–	5	5
13	Kevin Pollacchi	7	3	4	–
14	Ian Sim	6	1	2	3
15	Craig Scott	6	5	1	–
16	Billy Easdon	2	–	–	2
17	Jake Reid	2	2	–	–
18	Dylan Dobie	1	–	–	1

2 Stroke Open

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	John Montgomery	60	20	20	20
2	Bryan Colligan	51	17	17	17
3	Kyle McClure	45	15	15	15
4	Paul Loughlin	37	11	13	13
5	Zander Martin	32	10	11	11
6	Graeme Smith	28	13	6	9
7	Laura Glegg	26	9	10	7
8	John Cockburn	22	9	7	6
9	James Johnstone	21	8	8	5
10	Greg Campbell	17	–	9	8
11	Ben Jackson	10	–	–	10

Youth

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Graham Haddow	60	20	20	20
2	Ryan Haddow	51	17	17	17
3	Stewart Bagen	43	15	15	13
4	Rossi Crawford	41	13	13	15
5	Cole Christie	33	11	11	11
6	Ronnie Ingram	28	10	8	10
7	David Page	19	9	10	–
8	Aaron MacLarty	18	–	9	9

Evo 125

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Jonathan Young	57	20	20	17
2	Micheal McLarty	54	17	17	20
3	Damian Carter	45	15	15	15
4	Mark Watson	39	13	13	13
5	Kris Crawford	33	11	11	11

Evolution

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Roy Potts	50	20	17	13
2	Mark Glegg	49	17	15	17
3	Graham Blacklock	40	–	20	20
4	James Haddow	39	15	13	11
5	Peter Graham	37	13	9	15
6	Jordan Doherty	32	11	11	10
7	Callum Carter	29	10	10	9

Monoshock A

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Gregor Campbell	55	15	20	20
2	Greg Maxwell	54	20	17	17
3	Jason Martin	47	17	15	15
4	Dylan Grieve	37	13	11	13
5	Russel Valentine	31	7	13	11
6	Robert Smith Jnr	30	10	10	10
7	Stuart Hogg	28	11	8	9
8	Liam Harvey	23	9	9	5
9	Jordan Gill	19	6	7	6
10	Scott Robertson	13	–	6	7
11	Scott Crawford	12	4	4	4
12	Connel Allardyce	11	–	3	8
13	Stephen Cassidy	10	5	5	–
14	Barry Gillan	8	8	–	–
15	Alex Mowat	8	3	2	3
16	Kyle Haddow	2	–	–	2
17	Shaun Robertson	2	–	1	1
18	Craig Donaldson	2	2	–	–
19	Mark Deeps Dempsey	1	1	–	–

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