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2010 Goldspeed ACU British Quad Championship ATV Motocross Racing

2010 ACU British Quad Racing
Round 1 - Desertmartin MX
Desertmartin, United Kingdom
May 8, 2010
- By: Kieran Quinn

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Ireland - This past weekend Saturday the 8th and Sunday the 9th of May saw British Championship Quad Racing once again make the annual trip across the Irish Sea, Quad Racing Ireland promoting Rounds 1 and 2 of the 2010 GOLDSPEED ACU British Quad Championships at the fantastic Desertmartin Grand Prix Motocross Circuit.

With the elite of British and European Quad Racing converging on the challenging sand based Porters Pit venue eager to get their 2010 Championship campaigns of to a good start, the two days of racing provided some excellent close fought battles and plenty of drama.

Richard Cole - KTM 450SX ATV
2010 Goldspeed ACU British Quad Championship ATV Motocross Racing
With a picture perfect weekend for ATV racing, a large crowd of racers & spectators came out for the opening rounds of the British Quad Racing Championship & ATV racing legend, Richard Cole (above left), can almost always be found track side supporting his race team
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Paul Holmes - KTM 450SX ATV

Paul Holmes grabbed the Moto One holeshot followed by Justin Reid & John Mitchell

Bright sunshine and clear blue skies was the order of the day as Saturdays racing got underway on the beautifully prepped Porters Pit circuit, and as the gates dropped for the first of three twenty minute plus two lap motos it was reigning European Champion Paul Holmes who lead the field out on the opening lap, closely followed by John Mitchell, Giles Davis and local rider Justin Reid.

With a third of the race gone Mitchell passed Holmes for the lead with Reid moving up to 4th and Mark Watson joining the leaders after passing Davis with current British Champion Paul Winrow in 7th, and this remained the status quo until the halfway point when a freak incident took Holmes and Reid out of the running, Holmes’ nerf bar bending down and jamming his back wheel causing the KTM to stall on the downslope of a table top with an already airborne Reid running in to the back of him, Holmes eventually getting underway in 17th but for Reid it was game over, the incident leaving him with a broken wrist and a cracked bone in the other.

Justin Reid - CanAm DS450 ATV
Justin Reid - CanAm DS450 ATV
#14 Justwin Racing's Justin Reid was running strong in 4th place before an accident with #1 Paul Holmes, which took the pair out & left Reid with a broken ATV & wrist

At the front Mitchell set a blistering pace and gradually pulled away from Macbeth with Watson closing in and Winrow coming under pressure from local rider David Wray, but at two-thirds distance Watson took a tumble and dropped back to 10th as he dusted himself off, Carl Bunce now moving in to the top five. Wray got the better of Winrow for 3rd a lap later with a large gap to Macbeth, but in a cruel blow with three laps remaining Macbeth suffered the same problem as Holmes, his nerf ripping away from the front and trailing from the rear and dropping him back through the field.

After twenty five action packed minutes it was Mitchell who took a convincing win, Winrow taking 2nd with a delighted Wray taking his first ever British podium and the first of the Under 21 class riders home, Bunce following closely behind in 4th with Stefan Murphy rounding out the top five.
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