Waltham Chase Trials Club Awards

By Andy Withers Photo by Awsportsphoto

Waltham Chase Trials Club hosted the annual club awards ceremony along with the ACU Southern Centre Trials awards at Roddington Forge near Southampton with over 150 people in attendance. Club members were thrilled to have their awards presented by Road Racing and TT Ace James Hillier. Several riders have had particularly successful seasons with Rob Hoyles taking the expert class for the first time only two years after returning to trials, in addition to the

Southern Centre Clubman Award. Bob Hampton took the Pre65 C award along with several open trial awards including winning the George Greenland Pre65 award for the third time. Youth rider Finlay Coles has made an immediate impact on trials picking up multiple youth beginners awards and David James moved up a class and picked up the best youth C improver award having switched to petrol power this year. The Doreen Earle award for best female competitor was retained by Karen Clarke. The family nature of trials riding was reinforced with three generations of the Wiseman family being present and having ridden this season, the youngest member Finlay has been the most successful taking home the Youth E award.

Club Champions 2019

Expert: Rob Hoyles

Veteran B: Paul Garland

Veteran C: Clive Wilson

Veteran D: Tony Reynolds

Novice B: Scott Owen

Novice C: Richard Gamblin

Novice D: James Curnick

Twinshock C: Geoff Muston

Twinshock D: Geoff Parker

Pre 65 C: Bob Hampton

Pre 65 D: Andy Withers

Youth A: Zak Whalen

Youth B: Toby Brawn

Youth C: David James

Youth D: Finlay Coles

Youth E: Finlay Wiseman

Tom Moss took the Southern Centre Championships by storm receiving the coveted Southern Star award following in the footsteps of Sammy Miller, Geoff Chandler and other southern trials royalty. He went home with a hatful of awards of open trial awards. The clubman award went down to the last round with Rob Hoyles pipping Gary Tarrant by a few points. Max Agar was a worthy Youth B winner whilst Dan Locke kept up the Isle of Wight tradition of taking awards back to the island after an excellent season with the Youth C. Dale Francis took the Novice Award and along with dad Shaun received the The Vera Lambert Award on behalf of Mark Francis who was given the award posthumously for his contribution to trials in the Southern Centre. Mark sadly died at a round of the Southern Centre Championship late last year and this award was warmly supported by all those present.

Southern Centre Champions 2019

Solo Star Award: Tom Moss

Clubman Award: Rob Hoyles

Novice Award: Dale Francis

Twinshock Award: Geoff Muston

Youth B Award: Max Agar

Youth C Award: Dan Locke

The Vera Lambert Award 2019: Mark Francis

St Paul Trophy: Tom Moss

George Allan Pre 65: Bob Hampton

John Wright Memorial: Bob Hampton

Hobnail Trophy: Rob Hoyles

Geoff Chandler Trophy: Tom Moss

George Greenland Pre 65: Bob Hampton

George Greenland Twinshock: Paul Brown

Dick Hoyles Shield: Trevor Gatrell

Alan Sansom Shield: Rob Hoyles.