Motor Sport: World indoor and outdoor motorcycle trials champion Dougie Lampkin swept the board for the second time in seven days when he won the international indoor arena trial at Koblenz near Frankfurt, Germany, on Saturday night.

The 22-year-old rider from Silsden swept through the qualifying programme of nine test sections beating Japanese ace Takahisa Fujinami and Frenchman Bruno Camozzi.

Lampkin, riding his factory backed Italian Beta machine, lost marks on sections four and six where Fujinami failed on the fourth. Steve Colley hit trouble at the sixth and seventh while Spanish star David Cobos started badly with stops on the opening two sections.

Lampkin went into the final looking sharp but even the top man came unstuck with ten marks going on sections one and two.

Isle of Man ace Steve Colley and teenager Cobos came good in the final, Colley failing three and four and did well to get away with just three penalties at the second otherwise the final call would have been tighter for the podium places. Canterbury rider Graham Jarvis finished sixth behind Camozzi and Fujinami.

Results: 1 Dougie Lampkin (GB) Beta, 12 penalties; 2 Steve Colley (Isle of Man) GasGas, 15; 3 David Cobos (Spain) Bultaco, 19; 4 Takahisa Fujinami (Japan) Honda, 19; 5 Bruno Camozzi (France) GasGas, 21; 6 Graham Jarvis (GB) Scorpa, 28.

Wetherby Motor Club chopped their annual Group trial down to three laps because of icy patches on the Bayliss Gap Farm course at Bewerley.

Guiseley electrician James Noble was the top expert beating current national youth champion Michael Phillipson for the top award.

Richard Timperley, from Sheffield, won Class A of the youth section and was sixth overall riding the full hard course route beating Leeds youngster Henry Moorhouse and Skipton's Ben Naylor.

James Dabill, from Cookridge, ran away with class B which took in easier routes through the 12 sections. Otley's Gerald Rathmell beat East Yorkshire police officer Mark Summer for the clubman adult prize, but only by two penalties. Rathmell's son Jon was second in the easier Class B contest.

Sheffield teenager Dan Thorpe started his national trials season with a fine winning ride at Cleobury Mortimer on Sunday where he was the top rider in the Vic Brittain Trophy Trial. He beat ten times solo national champion Steve Saunders and new Bultaco signing Sam Connor for the top prize.

The contest formed part of the 1999 Auto Cycle Union National Clubman Championship series and the winning ride went to Richard Gaskell followed by Midlander Colin Crease.

This weekend the Monte Carlo rally kicks off with four days of high speed motoring.

Not quite in the same league but trying hard will be the trials bike brigade at Reeth, where one of the main events of the calendar takes place on Sunday. This one is for the upper echelon of the skills division.

Yorkshire Classic switch their British Bike trial to Robin Hood at Silsden this Sunday, and it is a late move according to Club official George Cordingley.

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