By The weather lords were not fully obliging, to say the least for day one of the latest, Oliver’s Mount, Barry Sheene Festival instalment.
Greasy, damp, mixed, wet all-round, proved the general conditions for those circulating around England’s ‘Nurburgring.’
After practice, qualifying stints, memorial parade laps celebrating the voice of Scarborough, Tony Coupland, it was racing time, with the HMH Civils Supersport opener first up.
Pole-sitter, Lincolnshire’s Jim Hind astride AKAI Yamaha liveried R6 tackle, got the initial hole shot before Cowton Racing’s Franco Bourne hit the front.
Nearly, two-seconds ahead of Hind as lap two entered fruition, ex BSB, National Superstock 1000 Championship competitor Bourne would not look back from here, charging clear, showing his reputable talent on route to taking, his first pure road racing win by just over 3.6 seconds.
130 Mph Club TT member Hind took second with Fostec Engineering backed David McArthur third ahead of Oliver’s Mount Championship leader, Super Twins qualifying winner Rob Hodson.
Aran Sadler, Johnny Stewart finished the six-lap encounter in fifth, Scott Aitkin bested local ace Paul Marley for seventh as TH Racing’s Joey ‘Yorkshire’ Thompson, Spalding rider Bailey Harker wrapped up the top ten finishers.
Quickly post the opening middleweight category bout, LMay Plant Support Race 1 competitors took to the start-line.
Making a storming start, holding P1 ownership towards the Esses, Back Straight was paddock favourite, Stephen Degnan.
In command as lap one action concluded, ‘Degsy’ went onto win in splendid fashion, finishing 8.836 to the good over Brook Built Racing’s Ben Long.
Michael Knorr finished third with only four more racers, completing the six-lap race stint, Daniel Pearson (P4), Fred Mcmullan (P5), IRRC regular Brian Fuidge (P6) and Sean Cookney (P7).
Next it should have been Bathmate Super Moto pilots including Mike Norbury, Darryl Pennington, Paul Reynolds, BSB race winner, Bathams Racing’s Storm Stacey, who spoke extremely highly of North Yorkshire’s ‘Mini TT,’ first race burst.
Unfortunately, the climate at Scarborough had turned decidedly misty, forcing a lengthy delay.
A course inspection lap took place at 4:30 PM from which organisers soon afterwards, made the decision to call the remainder of the day’s intended competition.
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
