Broad Oak Club TT last week- 12 August

New PB For Stu!

There were two more sub 20 minute rides in the first of the end of season Broad Oak circuit club TTs. Joe Kingsman (19.06) won the event with second claim Stuart Hodd (19.14) setting a PB by 24 seconds in a private TT.

I thought Joe's was a big PB but had forgotten he went sub 20 last year as a 17 year old. I had also forgotten that President Stuart had told me of his absolutely stunning ride of 18.27 back in May when I was away on holiday. Apart from Peter Tadros I can only readily recall Jon Sharples going sub 19 on the course, I must try and dust off the archives to check. Joe has put in some incredible 10 times this year in Rovers club 10s, what would he be able to do if he rides a few open 25s, how far under the hour could he go? A sub 54 must be within his reach on the right day and right course.

 Second and third were Trevor Deeble (20.50) and Malcolm Daly (21.45) whose time includes 30 seconds extra for turning up to the start line after he should have set off. Gareth Purves (24.28) also has a 20 seconds late start, as did Alex Smith (25 seconds) back on 6 May.

 The rules are that if you turn up too late for your allocated start time then the delay in reporting to the timekeeper is recorded and you set off at the end of the field, or in an open event set off on a DNS (Apologies) number with the late reporting time being added to the actual time, so Malcolm had tied with second claim Alex Smith (21.15) on actual. So if you know that you are not able to turn up for an open please try and send your apologies to the event secretary so the timekeeper can hopefully be informed of any DNS before the first ride off is sent off and can let those that miss their start know when there is a slot for them to have a delayed start.


Chris Parker