Round 8 British Youth Championship 2017 (500 and 250 riders only)

17th September 2017

Leicester

500cc

1st Drew Kemp 3 2 1 3 = 9 + 3
2nd Leon Flint 3 3 3 3 = 12 + 2
3rd Daniel Gikes 2 2 2 2 = 8 + 1
4th James Laker 1 1 2 1 = 5 + 0
5th Liam Little 0 1 1 0 = 2
6th Charlie Brooks ex ns ns ns = 0

250cc

1st Dan Thompson 3 3 1 3 = 10 + 3
2nd Joe Thompson 2 2 2 2 = 8 + 2
3rd Jordan Palin    ef 2 2 1 = 5 + 1
4th Nathan Ablitt    1 3 3 3 = 10 + 0
5th Kean Dicken    1 1 1 0 = 3
6th Jacob Clayton    0 0 0 ex = 0

Overall Series Scores (numbers in brackets are the amount of rounds competed, any riders that competed in 8 rounds drop their lowest score)

500cc

1st Drew Kemp 116 points (8)
2nd Daniel Gikes 98 Points (6)
3rd Liam Little 86.5 points (7)
4th James Laker 62 points    (5)
5th Carl Basford 44 points    (3)
6th Kean Dicken 36.5 points (3)
7th Kyle Bickley 30 points    (2)
8th Elliot Bloxsome 19 points (2)
9th Leon Flint    16 points    (1)
9th Taylor Hampshire 16 points (1)
11th Charlie Brooks 10 points (1)

250cc

1st Leon Flint 124 points (7)
2nd Jason Edwards 108 points (7)
3rd Dan Thompson 92 points (8)
4th Nathan Ablitt    89 points (8)
5th Jordan Palin    88 points (8)
6th Joe Thompson 83 points (8)
7th Jacob Clayton    59 points (7)
8th Sam Hagon 44 points (5)
9th Jake Mulford    26 points (3)
10th Kean Dicken 11 points (1)
11th Danny Curl 6 points    (1)
12th Ryan Morris    5 points (1)
13th Jordan Bull    4 points (1)

Report

The 2017 British Youth Championship concluded at Leicester on Sunday for both the 500cc and 250cc classes, with just 125cc British Final to be completed once a venue has been confirmed.

There were 6 entries in both classes, and as per normal some fantastic racing was witnessed by a decent size crowd of both Leicester and Coventry supporters who stayed to watch the stars of tomorrow after their challenge fixture at the East Midlands venue.

The 2 newly crowned British Champions Drew Kemp (500cc) and Leon Flint (250cc) were both competing although after Flint had clinched the 250cc British Title in the previous round, he now stepped up to the 500cc class.

Any concerns that Flint could compete at a higher level were quickly dispersed as he not only competed in his heats, he won all 4 qualifying heats, and already looked like an early contender for next years 500cc British Title.

As well as Flint winning 4 of the 6 qualifying heats, Kemp won the other 2 heats with 500cc Runner up Daniel Gilkes getting 4 2nd places to set up an epic final.

James Laker with a respectable 5 point score also qualified for the final.

With the 250cc title already decided and also Jason Edwards had already claimed enough points to guarantee 2nd place, all eyes were on who would claim the overall 3rd place finish with only 7 points separating 4 riders.

Nathan Ablitt was on 77 points , Dan Thompson and Jordan Palin were on 74, and Joe Thompson on 70, so all to play for.

With both Flint and Edwards (due to an injury) not competing in this 250cc class it really did set this class up nicely , and ironically it was those 4 riders who were chasing a 3rd place finish who all qualified for the final, so almost 1 race would define the series result for an overall 3rd place finish.

Both Ablitt and Dan Thompson had 3 wins apiece in the heats, Joe had 4 second places and Palin scraped through with a 5 point score.

Dan kept his nerve in the final and raced off to win both the Leicester round and more importantly his brother Joe and Palin kept Ablitt relegated back in 4th position which meant that Dan claimed 3rd overall.

So all in all another fantastic series, with just the 125cc British now to compete.

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