Dougie Lampkin hits the championship trail this weekend in the first round of the British Solo Series being staged for the first time in Ireland. The Silsden champion aims to take command of the ten round championship right from the outset.

Robin Luscombe and Wayne Kershaw plot a course for Newtown Powys early on Saturday morning for round three of a sidecar championship battle that is warming up with different winners to date, and the Cullingworth rider is not one of those listed. But he intends to alter that state of affairs in the Welsh hills.

The Ripon club's Jack Leslie Ellis at Winksley is the main target for all the local competitors.

Skipton rider Nathan Wrigglesworth hurtled round the ten mile Ilkley Grand National trials course on Middleton Moors on Saturday to win the old established cross country test of skill and stamina, defeating Manchester multi-winner Andy Cripps who set the fastest individual time.

Wrigglesworth combined speed with skill in the 20 observed sections and lost the least number of penalties on time and observation. Cripps paid for his speed with 89 observation penalties and that ruled him right out of the awards.

Morley teenager Rob Loney won the intermediate prize ahead of Anthony Ayrton. Only 31 riders completed the three lap course out of 44 starters.

Dougie Lampkin won both qualifying rounds of the FIM World Motor Cycle Trials Championship at Silleda, Spain and leads the new series by eight point over former champion Marc Colomer (Spain) after two very mixed-weather events on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday's two lap qualifier was in sunbaked conditions with very high temperatures while Sunday's programme took place in torrential rain.

Steve Colley (Isle of Man) was placed in each trial and is now ranked eighth ahead of Canterbury's Graham Jarvis in the overall points table.

Bingley rider Martin Crosswaite failed to score championship points in the contest after taking 24th place on Saturday but did climb to 21st when conditions were at their worst on Sunday.

Haworth trials rider Dan Clark won Sunday's Hillsborough MC national trial at Bradfield, near Sheffield beating former British champion Steve Saunders by two marks after 50 tough sections. Ian Austermuhle (Rosedale Abbey) won the clubman class on his Rathmell Scorpa and Ilkley's Graham Tales was placed sixth in the same category on his C & J Montesa.

Results: 1 D Clark (Beta) 5; 2 S Saunders (GasGas) 7; 3 I Austermuhle (Scorpa) 9; 4 B Hemingway (Beta) 12; 5 M Craven (Beta) 12; 6 S Connor (Beta) 13.

Bradford's Pam Lukeman is among the 100 competitors in Saturday's Granite City Rally in Aberdeen - the second round of the Mintex National Rally Championship.

The 30-year-old mother of three, who is driving a Chrome Systems and Computer Team-backed Vauxhall Corsa, will be looking to shine in the Castrol Coupe des Dames Ladies' Championship.

Second in the ladies' category in the first event of the series after a trouble-free run at Bournemouth, computer consultant Pam is likely to face stiffer opposition this time.

Seven other women have entered, and many of the stages over tracks in the Aberdeenshire forests are notoriously tough.

The overall women's winner after the seven rounds of the Mintex will be offered a package of support in 1999. There are also Castrol awards for each event.

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