Andy

There you go Craig. I don't normally do podiums, but they were taking forever with results. Got bloody soaked with champagne though.

Hospitality suite? Try sweatshop. Craig, I've just found Pat and passed on your congrats. In other news, Tsoyushi Ogawa came off the top of the large concrete indoor section and has been removed by ambulance. Hopefully it's not serious.

Full Youth results now up. They are as I said. Jack was 8th.

Right, these are PROVISIONAL and UNOFFICIAL although they very rarely change, but according to the big screen in the arena the final result was: 1. Pat Smage - 11 2. Alfredo Gomez - 17 3. Ross Danby - 33

No - WITH him. Patrick had a 4 point lead over Gomez at the end of the 1st lap.

Internet is fine. Just awaiting final results from the youth, but it's looking like you could lose a considerable amount of money...

He's classed as a guest rider so his results don't count in the Championship. It would be kind of crazy to come all this way and not be given the opportunity to ride.

Still riding. Patrick was 7th last time I saw scores, but that was during the first lap.

Original article with links to low and high-res videos here

According to Jake you sent an email yesterday. Jake obviously is working out here in Italy with me. He is aware of it and will get back to you. It's not a problem.

We're there already. I'll PM you my phone number. Give me a shout as there's a fair few folk out for this one.

Results are on the front page

Try it again later. I'm doing stuff that's putting a very heavy load on the server right now. It's possibly affecting things.

Andorra is always a good Trial. The downside is the distance it is from Barcelona and the crap road up. Other than that, yup I'd recommend it. As I've said before, Spa features too much man-made stuff for my liking.

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Or even better - fly out to Poland and stay on for the Czech round the weekend after. Join Andy and the Cota Kid on their tour of Eastern Europe. Can't wait

Yup. The traffic this forum is creating is just so much I might have to shut it down

I'd really love to go to this but this is my last weekend before the really busy World round month comes up with 4 rounds in 5 weeks plus the TC bash at Hawkers to sort out. I'm going to have to do the dutiful son bit this weekend and visit the folks I'm off to find a "jealous" smiley...

That doesn't alter things one bit. Actually, my initial six months was over-generous. Riding from March to October is a bit more realistic making 8 months available, not 6. That's 34 weekends out of 52 to hold 11 Trials. I don't believe this could not have been organised to avoid the Hawkstone weekend so those who wanted to go to it could do so.

It is purely that - rumour which has no basis. One thing I've learned in my time involved with the sport is that Trials folk love a good rumour - and if they don't know the facts about something they just make some up! It was recently rumoured, for example, that I'd sold Trials Central to TMX... go figure.

Were there? Let's assume there are six months of riding in the year. That's 26 weekends. To organise a Championship event on the same day as the biggest event in the UK Trials calendar, potentially Dougie's last world ride on home soil and the last time we'll see it on the UK mainland for who knows how long is crazy.

Not once I heard you were going to Hawkstone it wasn't

Sorted

Why, oh why, oh why, have the SACU decided to organise a Scottish Youth etc Championship round the same weekend as Hawkstone?