Hockey and Freeman claim Six Hour Endurothon Victory at Foxborough Quarry

Conditions were perfect for the annual six hour Endurothon at Foxborough Quarry Sible Hedingham last Sunday.  The organisers had prepared an excellent course including the two bogs but none of the extreme parts and the sun shone for most of the day.  Although there were only 29 teams of two this year 31 competitors rode the Iron Man (Solos) Class. 

In the Championship Class there were only two teams with Jason Morland (Halstead) and Julian Harvey (Ipswich) in one team while Chris Hockey (Sudbury) riding is the other team sprung a surprise teaming up with 18 year Brad Freeman from Staffordshire. In 2014 Freeman won the British 125cc Enduro Championship, Under 19 British Sprint Championship and Under 20 European Enduro Championship.  Morland got away first but Freeman kept him in his sights and although Freeman is a top rider at the end of lap 1 and 2 failed to place his wrist band transponder correctly to the receiver and failed to record his position however as there were two backup systems being operated on the day he was later credited with these two laps.   These two teams fought tooth and nail all day both completing the same number of laps however Hockey/Freeman took first place by 6 minutes and 7 seconds.  Freeman gave a great display of his ability and one day could be a World Champion. 

The Expert Class was hotly contested with Martin Stevens/Ed Pooley (Diss) taking first place on 36 laps and there were six teams competing 35 laps but first over the finish line taking second place were Stephen & Mark Green (Sudbury), 3^rd Danny Street/Dan Richardson (Sudbury/Halstead), 4^th Phil Roper/Paul Belton (Sudbury), 5^th Les & Alex Rampton (Sudbury), 6^th Ben & Jack Grice (Lowestoft) and 7^th Alex Walton/Andy Quorn (Sudbury).  If Walton had not got stuck in one of the bogs which cost his team 8 minutes he and his riding partner could have won the Class.  Matt Stone/Paul Hunt (Diss) won the Clubman Class with Dan Goodwin/Tom Morris (Sudbury/Diss) 2^nd, Marc Norton/Matt Smith (Sudbury) 3^rd, Martin Gunton/Gavin Potter (Sudbury) 4^th, Stuart Philips/Matt Rampton (Sudbury) 5^th, Paul Wilkinson/Dale Gladwin (Woodbridge/Sudbury) 6^th, Ben Martin/Mark Fenwick (Sudbury) 7^th and Edward & Euan Millar (udbury) 8^th. 

With Jamie and Craig Roper riding Ironman Class it was expected they would battle for the first two places however Craig twice got stuck in the bogs losing many minutes in time while Jamie had a few problems riding the bogs but both of them  just rode the day out taking long breaks as there were no points at stake.  The eventual winner was Dan Hunt (Diss) on 31 laps, 2^nd Will Hughes (Braintree), 3^rd Alex Motts (Sudbury) both 30 laps, 4^th Jason Carboult  and young Samantha Webb the only lady competitor finished a creditable 14^th.