Motor Sport: Ilkley's James Hanson (team JLR) celebrated his first Formula Vauxhall win at Silverstone, crossing the line after an amazing race which observers acclaimed the most exciting in the Formula's nine-year history.

Second place went to 16-year-old Stefan Hodgetts (Redditch, Paston Racing), who had led the race on more than one occasion. Brazilian Daniel Scandian (Cambridge, Team JLR) took third place despite dropping to 15th on the opening lap after spearing off the circuit. The result ties 21-year-old Hanson and Hodgetts at the top of the Formula Vauxhall points table.

A superb start by Yugoslav Milos Pavlovic (Milton Keynes, Tim Sugden Motorsport) gave him the lead from the second row of the grid, but he and pole-sitter Scandian tangled and both went off at Bridge Corner, to rejoin the race well down the order.

Once the safety car pulled off, there were nine laps of pulsating action, with a lead group consisting of Gary Paffett (Hoddesdon, Herts - Zip Young Guns), Bell, Hodgetts, Hanson, John Dalziel (Lanark, DFR) and the closing Scandian changing places every lap.

Paffett led for the middle laps, but a touch from another car sent him off the circuit, and when Hanson went past Hodgetts to take the lead with a lap to go that proved the decisive move.

World and British motor cycle trials champion Dougie Lampkin won Saturday's round of the World Trials Championship at Mons, Belgium, despite heavy rain.

The 23-year-old was supported by hundreds of British trials enthusiasts. Canterbury's Graham Jarvis made a midweek switch from a French Scorpa machine to a Spanish-built Bultaco, and put in his best result so far this season, taking third spot despite little pre-event practice.

Japanese Honda rider Takahisa Fujinami split the battling Brits from hogging the podium by snatching runner-up spot, while Steve Colley came a fighting fourth. Lampkin now has 100 points, 20 more than Marc Colomer, who finished fifth.

On Sunday it was much the same story - Lampkin in charge, the weather threatening and the rest playing catch-up. Bruno Camozzi read the weather forecast correctly and sped round before the sections became more troublesome.

Colomer eased to third place and 15 championship points, Graham Jarvis plunged to ninth, but Colley delivered a good result with fourth spot on factory GasGas, and that augurs well for Steve on Saturday at home on the Isle of Man.

Robin Luscombe and Wayne Kershaw had the National Sidecar Championship Trial more or less in the bag at Welshpool until they arrived at the last three groups of sections. Then it was misery as the 20 points and the premier spot slipped away in the Welsh mud and into the hand of current champions Robin and Gill Morewood on their GP Beta.

Ilkley Motor Club staged a main road navigational event over a 40-mile course centred on Pool, and also fielded the winning combination of driver and navigator in Otley's Graham Hepworth. Ilkley's Nick Dobson handled the maps and route finding.

Autotest ace David Mosey (Guiseley) headed for Bolton and a national Autotest championship, his Mini-based special taking third overall against 40 other national contenders and 12 timed-to-the-second tests.

Ben Hemingway won the Yeadon & Guiseley MC Trial at Greenhow from Guiseley rider Chris Carter and Skipton's Paul Preston. Gerald Rathmell was the top clubman.

It's a home-town weekend for Lampkin and Colley this weekend when the World Championship trials cross the Irish Sea for round four of the world series on the Isle of Man at Douglas, where Dougie lives. He will head for the contest with maximum points in the series, but there are still 20 trials on the agenda.

The Larkspeed Inter-Club Championship Series continues at Melbourne Airfield, where Trackrod Motor Club stage a round at the demanding high-speed venue. Ilkley Motor Club should emerge from the contest with a points lead, but Sporting Escort and North Humberside could change the leaderboard.

The Wetherby Motor Club's annual 'Tetley Trophy Trial' will attract more than 100 riders, but not the world contenders. Nathan Wrigglesworth and Graham Tales should head the expert field.

Baildon co-driver Joanne Lockwood and driver Eynon Price (Dyfed) are joint class leaders of the Daihatsu Rally Challenge. They won the third round in Somerset after forest and tarmac stages.

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