Motor Sport: Well over 1,000 competitors are set to take part in bike events on Boxing Day and Monday in Yorkshire.

There are 12 trials and Thorne's end-of-season motocross at Armthorpe Moto Parc, and the latter alone could feature well over 100 riders.

Bradford Motor Club's annual Boxing Day Trial at Howden Wood, above Silsden, should be one of the top events, with the entire Lampkin team taking part in what will probably be a 'beat Dougie' affair. James and Harry Lampkin and cousins Dan and Ben Hemingway are trying to put one over the world champion.

Yorkshire Classic are running their Pre-65 Trial at Haworth, where 50 or so of the best British bikes will be taking the Bronte air.

One young man aiming to be at the top of the awards at national level next year is Leeds schoolboy champion James Dabill, 12 and older of the two Dabill youngsters by some 15 months.

James has had a great year, winning the National Class C title on his GasGas machine. That title was added to his Class D crown, and he is now bidding to crack Class B at his first attempt, which is on the cards judging by his recent achievements on his new 200cc version of the Spanish machinery.

James attends Lawnswood High School, lives in Cookridge and started riding motorcycles at four. He competed in his first event aged six and still owns the TY80 Yamaha on which he won the National Class D Championship. Last Sunday the family headed for Tideswell and a Sheffield and Hallamshire Trial, where James was placed third in the Youth Hard Course class.

Icy conditions at Greenhow got the marks flowing in the tenth round of the Horsforth DMC Trials Championship series, where riders battled with slippery sections that would have been too easy, but for their coating.

Mirfield's Andy Johnson gave the brand new Bultaco machine its first Yorkshire win since the first batch of the Spanish bikes arrived three weeks ago.

Skipton teenager Ben Naylor won Class B in the youth category, and was placed second overall.

Cullingworth youth rider Andrew Smith won the Class A age category on his 250cc Montesa, while Haworth self-employed welder and fabricator Gavin Thornton switched from his customary Beta to an elderly Fantic bike, taking second place in the Clubman adult division. Physical training student Jill Driffield won her class at the Yorkshire Classic Trial at Silsden.

Horsforth Motor Club secretary Barrie Fairburn has handed over a cheque for £1,071 from November's Bob Owen Charity Trial to the Auto Cycle Union Benevolent Fund.

lHonda, out of Formula One motor racing since 1992, will make their long-awaited return in 2000, the company's president Hiroyuki Yoshino has announced.

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