The weather tried its best all week to challenge the Melville Club to cancel the final round of the Melville Motocross winter series. Following the heavy rain all week Steven Gilhooley and the crew spend Saturday redirecting the track around the most waterlogged areas. The farmer graded the track and built some new jumps. On Sunday, much to everyone’s amazement, the track looked really good and ready for a 150 riders to have a real blast. The sandy track has stood up very well at every round and given all the competitors excellent racing over the winter.

The final round caused a problem at the SACU office with a last minute stampede for 2008 licences. The availability of regs on the website has proved a great success with full grids in most classes. The venue has been superb and every event has run despite the weather. The sandy track has given all the riders an opportunity to ride and race when many tracks have had to cancel.

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Points after final round of Winter Motocross Series

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Ross Rutherford won the A class overall at Lochhouses on Sunday 20^th January. 170 riders entered this second round of the Melville Motor Club Winter Motocross Series.  The track had dried out reasonably over the couple of days before the event. The sandy track drains very quickly to allow good racing conditions in the middle of winter despite heavy rain during the week leading up to the event. The quads scrubbed the track with only the 65’s finding the wet patches difficult in places.

Craig Trew was expected to clean up again as he has done in the past at Lochhouses, a hole in his cases cost him the win in his second race and his spare bike had not been set up for the final race. Ross Rutherford topped the podium and if Craig Trew had not had his problems it would have been a great spectacle to see them challenge each other. The pair had been very close in the first race and the pace was very quick with both riders finishing nearly half a lap ahead of the field. Sean Macdonald continues to improve in the adult class claiming the final spot on the podium in third place