No.1 JST GGUK Rider Michael Brown is the 2013 British Trials Champion!
The last round at the weekend in the Lakes was successfully organised by the Lakes MTA Ltd club. A good mixture of typical flowing streams and some real slippery rocky sections in a wood which took most of the marks. Sections 4 and 5 were the hardest of the day. The title was down to either Michael or James Dabill and whoever won on the day also won the championship so pressure was on.
Michael had a great first lap of only 3 marks lost and still had a five mark lead going into the last lap. He seemed to be fairly relaxed all day and rode confidently in front of Dibs all day. Factory Kev yet again prepared his bike superbly and everything on the day went well.
I think this years championship was deservedly won by Michael especially when he lost last years title through no fault of his own and also because of his knee injury at the SSDT. To ride and finish 2nd at the Richmond round was a fantastic ride considering the event was only a month after the injury and rode in a lot of pain. His ‘on bike’ time through the summer has been limited with his knee but has worked real hard with physio and gym work. He rode with crazy pain in Andorra and more rest was needed so he sat out the Spanish round which was frustrating. So after the injury id say that Michael is a very popular and well deserved winner of this year British Trial Championship.
Michael now looks forward to the Redbull event at Manchester this coming Saturday and will then start gearing himself up for his favorite event on October 19th….The Scott!
The rest of the Team had mixed results in this years championship with Alexz Wigg the next best JSTGG rider finished 4th in the Championship. For me Alexz should be an easy 3rd behind the top 2 and ‘on ability’ actually challenge for the title but Alexz still doesn’t seem to get on with the no-stop rules like I expected him to. Congrats must go to Ross Danby (JTG) who finished 3rd again this year.
Next best JST GGUK rider was Sam Haslam in 7th. With such a short four round series you can’t afford one bad ride which Sam unfortunately did at Richmond. JST rider Ben Morphett was 9th overall in the championship after 4 steady rides.
No-stop expert and multi National winner Dan Thorpe was 19th in the championship which actually baffles me because with the eased sections and no-stop rules you would expect Dan to be top 10.
Congrats also go to best GG rider in the Expert Class with JST Rider Jack Stones finishing 3rd overall.
Congrats also to GG rider Jack Price who won the Youth 125 Class