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Silva celebrates another clean sweep

Paolo of that name, carried on from success the last time the club met at Southside Raceway, and swept the board again last weekend to take top spot in the Mini Bike standings.

Club's season.

Paolo of that name, carried on from success the last time the club met at Southside Raceway, and swept the board again last weekend to take top spot in the Mini Bike standings.

Andre Jones took the runner-up position thanks to not finishing below third during the day's heats. Despite some mechanical problems, Termel Simons still managed to bring his machine in third overall.

A full contingent of Stock/Modified and Formula cycles meant the classes ran separately for the first heat. However, mechanical attrition saw them combined for heats two and three.

Newcomer Perry DeSilva took the honours in the Stock/Modified. He was followed by Joshua Tumbridge, who has taken the step up from Mini Bikes. Glen Mello took third.

In Formula, Ed Daniels, who has missed the whole season due to mechanical mishaps, finally got his Aprilia running and wore the biggest smile of the day after recording a clean sweep.

Vince Belboda had an outstanding day himself to come home second. On paper, his Honda should be no match for the Aprilia, yet he managed to harrass Daniels all day to take the runner-up honours.

Ray Thompson took third and as a result keeps the championship lead.

Special mention should be made of schoolboy, Danny Simons, who moved into the Formula class for the day and although he rode an uncompetitive machine, still managed to come in fourth overall.

The biggest shock of the day was to see nine Scooters lining up for the start of heat one.

However, the excitement must have got to several riders as three took a tumble before the end of lap one.

Davon Bailey brought home the honours for the Sub Zero camp, taking two seconds and a fifth on his brand new Piaggio Zip.

Championship leader Mark Lightbourn took second and another newcomer, Carlston Burgess, took third.

Grand Prix proved to be the battle of the Flying Firemen with Shannon Caisey and Ray `Patch' Masters going handlebar to handlebar in the first two heats.

Masters suffered tyre problems as his racing slicks went off in the heat of the 20 lap battles and this allowed Caisey to take the first two finishes.

Grant Goudge and Justin Belboda fought behind the front two all day.

In the final heat of the day, Masters had a good lead but pushing hard through turn two his tyres failed him and he was thrown high off his machine.

The following Caisey could not avoid his workmate, but managed to remount and grabbed his hat-trick of wins on the day.

Goudge and Belboda ended up tying for second overall, with Alex Dowling third and poor Masters relegated to sixth after his accident.