6th July 2009
Scot­tish Quad Rac­ing Cham­pi­onship 2009
Round Six Leuchars

John Mitchell took the over­all win this week­end as he made a sur­prise return after nine weeks out with a shoul­der injury. Rac­ing in round six of the Quad Rac­ing Scot­land SACU Cham­pi­onship, John was com­pet­ing against some of the British Cham­pi­onship con­tenders at the Leuchars track.

It was the first time this fan­tas­tic track was being used to race quads and it had been pre­pared to a very high stan­dard. John was rid­ing his ATV World Yamaha YFZ450R Fuel Injec­tion to a stan­dard setup. Feel­ing a lit­tle appre­hen­sive, John rode steady in race one and started from the back. Work­ing his way round the track, John still didn’t feel 100% fully fit and was very pleased with his fourth place finish.

In race two, John decided again to start from the back and began to find some race pace, work­ing his way through, John said that he felt lucky as he crossed the line in first place. In the final race of the day, John had the con­fi­dence to push hard from the start. Unfor­tu­nately his shoul­der became so painful he had to stop, stretch it and re-join the race. John still man­aged an incred­i­ble sec­ond place fin­ish and first place overall.

Clearly delighted with his per­for­mance John explained that he found the days rac­ing hard going and very sore but had given him the con­fi­dence on the bike to push harder for the next round of the British Cham­pi­onship in two weeks time. John also wishes to thank Paul Gow­land for help­ing pre­pare his quad for this round.

Nor­folks ATV World Youth rider Tyler Soar made the trip to the ACU South­ern area cham­pi­onships round 6 this week­end which showed him back on form with an 11 sec­ond lead win in race one with a best lap time only 3 sec­onds of his 450cc cham­pi­onship class counter parts.

His win­ning ways were cut short in race 2 when a fail­ing spark plug ham­pered his progress, but his dogged deter­mi­na­tion paid off to bring home a sec­ond. With a new spark plug installed it was out for race 3, where a poor start, which is some­thing that Tyler has suf­fered with all sea­son left him hav­ing to bat­tle through the slower race run­ners and after 2 laps get up to the race leader and apply the pressure.

At this point it turned in to one of the most elec­tri­fy­ing races of all the classes all day with posi­tion changes in the final laps by both rid­ers. The race was unfor­tu­nately short­ened due to acci­dents in pre­vi­ous races so when Tyler and his rival George Call­away came over the final jump on to the fin­ish line together you can imag­ine the ten­sion in the crowd and the cheers. unfor­tu­nately there was point 1 of a sec­ond sep­a­rat­ing George and Tyler so Tyler had to set­tle for another sec­ond place.

Changes to Tylers bikes gear­ing will be car­ried out this week in prepa­ra­tion for a long trip to the Scot­tish bor­ders this com­ing week­end where he will com­pete in round 5 of the ACU North East cham­pi­onship, where hope­fully poor starts will be made a thing of the past.