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GBXC 2009 Rd 6 - Tom Sagar
August 9th saw a last minute change of venue from Ashby De La Zouch to return to Baden Hall in Shropshire for the penultimate round of the GBXC championship. A win for Tom Sagar would give him the title for 2009 with one race remaining so spirits were high in anticipation of a possible championship winning ride. Fellow team rider Ollie Moyce decided not to participate this weekend in favour of preparing himself and the bikes for the long journey the next day to Slovakia for the European enduro championship.
The race started under sunny warm skies which made a pleasant change as the summer so far has been very wet, Tom completed lap one in 6th place and steadily made forward progress until after an hour made it to the front closely pursued by Greg Evans, Daryl Bolter and Aston Bird with Si Wakely retiring with clutch problems on his Husqvarna. The racing was very close up front between KTM riders Greg and Daryl when Tom entered a wooded section closely followed by Greg only Daryl and Aston appeared with Greg and Tom behind after colliding on a rutted corner, Greg remounted quickly but Tom was stuck underneath his bike and took a while to remove himself and remount. Shortly after the incident Tom re-fuelled in the pits and tried to straighten the handlebars so he could try and catch the leaders, but by this time the hard packed surface was producing clouds of dust making visibility poor on this high speed circuit. Tom couldn’t regain any time lost during his crash so at the finish was 4th behind winner Daryl Bolter with Greg Evans 2nd and Aston Bird 3rd. So the final round in September will decide the championship between Tom, Greg and Aston. Pictures by Martin Harding.
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