Ilkley Motor Club jumped into an immediate lead in the Larkspeed Inter-club Championship at Sherburn in Elmet on Sunday.

British champion David Mosey hammering his home built, potent, Mini special to overall victory in the Sporting Escort Owners Club meeting that kickstarted the 2002 series.

It was no great shock that Sporting Escort pushed Ilkley hard.

The organisers laid out eighteen tests for a very healthy entry of forty five competitors, from all parts of the north, and the weather remain dry and bright, a perfect start to the Larkspeed series.

Cousins Ben Hemingway and James Lampkin shared the podium at the national Jack Wood trial at High Bradfield on Sunday afternoon with local ace Dan Thorpe taking third place.

The trial included round three of the ACU Clubman championship at top honours went to David Bacon from Richard Timperley and John Lampkin.

Scorpa starlet James Dabill won the West Leeds MC trial at Post Hill with younger brother Joe, national nickname 'Bomber' finishing runner-up to Chris Stobbs in Class B youths.

National youth title contenders Dane Sherwin, Ashley Smith, Lee Sampson and Matthew Jones also took part in the contest. One Post Hill regular, Chris Bradley, missed the action after being taken to hospital with a suspected heart attack.

Diary Dates:

Thursday

Horsforth DMC - club night, The Horsforth Club, New Road Side, Horsforth, (8.30pm)

National Sprint Association - club night, Shipley & District Social Club, Saltaire Road, (8.30pm)

Saturday

Mid-Wales Centre ACU - British trials sidecar championship, round two, Rhayader, (9am)

Scarborough DMC trial -, Harwood Dale, Hackness, (5pm)

Ilkley DMC scrutineering night - The Classic Car Group, Otley, sign on at The Westbourne Hotel, from 6.30pm.

Sunday

Ilkley DMC annual 'Jubilee Classic Rally' - Pool Mills Social Club, (9am)

Birmingham MCC national clubman 'Victory Trial' - Knighton, Rads, (9.30am)

Ripon DMC 'Jack Leslie Ellis Memorial' trial, - Mill House Farm, Winksley, (10.30am)

Bradford DMC trial - Rough Holden Farm, Silsden, (11am)

Falcon MXC national Zip Wear quad championship - Longedge Moto Park, Castleside, (11am)

Auto 66 MC solo and sidecar road races - Carnaby Two track, Leconfield, Beverley, (11am)

Monday

Airedale & Pennine MC club night, The Rock & Heifer, Thornton, (8.30pm).

The annual Ilkley Motor Club 'Jubilee Classic Rally runs on Sunday from Pool with a 150 mile run up into Wharfedale and Airedale.

The event starts with a scrutineering operation at the event sponsor's premises, Classic Car Group in Station Road, Otley, on Friday night from 6.30pm.

Competitors will sign on at the Westbourne Hotel in Otley on the same night.

The cars, and competitors, will be on view at Pool Mills from 7.30am on Sunday morning and will arrive back to the start area from 5pm onwards.

The pace will be far less sedate when the quad brigade fire up their chargers at Castleside, just above Tow Law, on the A68 trunk road on Sunday morning in the opening round of the Zip Wear British quad championship.

Numbers for the regional NETT series were up by a third from last year and national organiser Tony Nash has a double header meeting with 26 championship contenders and about the same number in the Support championship.

That means six races on the fast hillside track with champions Paul Winrow, John Mitchel, Willy Waggot and local ace, Elland's 20-year-old ATV World Honda star Richard Tordoff in the field.

Top star Paul Winrow has swapped his ATV 460 Yamha for a fire breathing Yamaha Raptor 660, and won all three races two weeks ago at Armthorpe in the NETT championship opener.