Sword and Crockard share spoils

Gordon Crockard and Stephen Sword won their respective classes at the opening round of the British Motocross Championship on Sunday (March 16)

The first round took place at Canada Heights in Kent, with reigning champion Stephen Sword winning the 125cc class, and Gordon Crockard storming to the Open Class victory with maximum points.

The first 125cc Moto was won by Billy Mackenzie on a Yamaha YZ250, which was the first win for a 250cc four-stroke in a British Championship. Sword was second followed by team-mate Tom Church on their Albion KTM 125s.

Sword took victory in the second race, with Tom Church demoted to third by American Jeff Dement.

In the Superfinal, Sword took tenth place, with Dement in eleventh and Church in fifteenth.

In the Open Class, CAS Honda’s Gordon Crockard won both Motos before underlining his dominance by winning the Superfinal. In the first race, Crockard was followed home by fellow Honda rider Christian Burnham, and CAS Honda teammate Jussi Vehvilainen.

The second race was another all Honda affair, with Crockard and Vehvilainen followed home by Paul Cooper.

The Superfinal podium was business-as-usual for CAS Honda. With Crockard and Vehvilainen followed home by team-mate Yoshitaka Atsuta in third.

Superfinal results:

1) Gordon Crockard. 2) Jussi Vehvilainen. 3) Yoshitaka Atsuta. 4) Mark Hucklebridge 5) Christian Burnham. 6) Carl Nunn. 7) James Noble. 8) Paul Cooper. 9) Stuart Flockhart. 10) Stephen Sword. 11) Jeff Dement. 12) David Campbell. 13) Marko Kovalainen. 14) David Willet. 15) Tom Church. 16) Wayne Smith. 17) Billy Mackenzie. 18) Craig Pratley. 19) Brad Andersen. 20) Jason Higgs.

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