Motor Sport: Twenty-two-year-old Silsden ace Dougie Lampkin destroyed the opposition last Friday in the second round of the FIM World Arena Trials championship at Cannes.

The Beta factory rider and double world motor cycle champion beat Japanese rider Takahisa Fujinami and teenage Spaniard David Cobos in the grand final.

Graham Jarvis won a battle of nerves in the qualifier tie-break ride and although Steve Colley did not make the final cut he did score ten valuable points that hoist him ahead of former champion Colomer.

On a night of shocks former champion Marc Colomer failed for the first time to qualify for the final after crashing out of one section.

Colomer failed in a triple one section tie-breaker involving Graham Jarvis and Cobos. Colomer dropped two marks on the concrete pipes where Jarvis lost one mark and when Cobos threw in a brilliant clean that was the end of Colomer's Cannes hopes.

After the victory run at Cannes, Lampkin and his father Martin motored to Amnyville in France for an Elf Petroleum backed contest on Saturday night taking top position ahead of Isle of Man rider Steve Colley.

Lampkin leads the world series on a maximum 40 points from Cobos, but the Spanish teenager went down hard on his knee on Saturday and took no further part in the Elf backed event in Amnyville.

"He went down very hard on what was basically a marble floor, the Bultaco was spinning round in circles with its throttle jammed open for a while with David laying on the floor of the arena," said Martin, who managed to grab the wildly flailing machine.

For the first time three British riders feature in the top five ratings with Colley third and Jarvis in fifth.

Results - Cannes world qualifier, Friday: 1 Dougie Lampkin (GB) Beta 4; 2 Takahisa Fujinami (Japan) Honda 5; 3 David Cobos (Spain) Bultaco 18; 4 Graham Jarvis (GB) Scorpa 25.

Non-qualifiers: Marc Colomer 16; Steve Colley 21; Amos Bilbao (Spain) Montesa 22; Gregory Eyries (France) GasGas 37.

Provisional world points: 1 Lampkin 40; 2 D Cobos 32; 3 Steve Colley 25; 4 Marc Colomer and Graham Jarvis 24; 5 Amos Bilbao 19; 6 Takahisa Fujinami 17; 7 Bruno Camozzi 9.

Results - Amneville Elf Trial, Saturday: 1 Lampkin 1; 2 Steve Colley (Isle of Man) GasGas 12; 3 Marcel Justribo (Spain) Montesa 16; 4 Graham Jarvis 27; 5 Bruno Camozzi (France) GasGas 37.

New Bultaco signing Phil Alderson came out top of the Bradford DMC West Yorkshire Group championship trial at Yarnbury, high above Grassington, on Sunday where the organisers were shocked by the huge number of competitors that arrived to contest the old established event on the Bradford calendar.

Over 160 riders arrived covering all ages from youths to near pensioners. Mick Grant and former speedway star Eric Boocock and Ossett's Chris Bradley also appeared on their old, but immaculate, British trials bikes.

The serious battle at the top of the expert class was between Ilkley decorator Graham Tales and top Guiseley teenager Chris Carter who with Alderson and Tales were the only riders to hold scores below 50 marks on the muddy sections.

Expert ranked riders filled the first seven places with Mirfield's Andy Johnson taking the top Inter prize.

The Guisborough Motor Clubs National Hardaker Trial at bleak, remote, Commondale, east of Whitby, is no place to be in February.

For a start, when it snows in north east Yorkshire it snows hard and Commondale lies at the bottom of a valley so there is no way out.

But that does not deter trials riders who up to last week flooded the entry list to such numbers that some 70 applications were turned down, and that does not include the lucky 130 riders that have managed to get an entry.

Predominantly Clubman grade riders head the numbers, about 80 in all with the rest a mixed bunch of inters and experts.

Former youth national champion Jonny Starmer makes his first Hardaker appearance to take on Ben Hemingway, Ian Austermuhle and Paul Bolton.

And David Pye on home ground is bound to be at the sharp end of the results. On paper Starmer should be the Hardaker Trophy recipient on Sunday afternoon.

Two laps of 20 sections and about ten miles to the lap means that spectating will not require masses of leg work, but the big coats and wellies are a must.

l Motocross star Harry Lampkin fell at the Finngley meeting week Sunday and broke his left arm. "It is not a bad break but I am out of the Hull Club's Winter Championship series," the injured Silsden rider reported at the weekend.

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