The Lowdown From A Practice Track (Milton Park)

To start let me get one thing off my chest. Milton Park is a practice track, nothing more! You can try and get people amped by saying it's one of Britains 'premier' circuits, but in reality Hawkstone, Lyng and Desertmartin would beat the Northamptonshire track into a coma! The riders knew it, the spectators knew it, hell the organisers probably knew it. But the track is owned by the ACU so I think we'll be making an annual trip there for years to come.

With that said I rolled up to Milton Park on Sunday morning and found my self parked behind the Karro army who were all ready in full swing beering down in the car park. I then strolled into the pit area and headed to the Maxxis hospitality unit (they know what's up) where I spent most of the day getting a killer view of the track while the Maxxis girls eye fucked the shit out of me. The race format took a slight twist with the two classes running two motos each and then a combined MX1 and MX2 race at the end where the top 20 from each class did battle, 1995 style. Here's what I saw from my vantage point:

MX2

• Mr EBB was on fucking fire! Cleaned up in both MX2 motos and then finished 6th in the mixed race (is that PC?) Dude took home the red plate to go with the one his team mate has....oh wait....
• Pocock had a nightmare day (8th overall). Guy got docked (haha) a minute in qualifying for stopping on the track, and a crash in the second race meant he lost the red plate. Still got his red hair though, no one's challenging him for that.
• Bradshaw was doing his usual. Doin' work!
• Aubin gets 3rd overall despite a DNF in the last race? Considering he went of the side of one of the step downs in the last race, he'll take it.......like your mum (sorry couldn't help it). 
• Cottrell was a solid(ude) top ten guy, I told you it was coming.
• Ray Rowson is back! 7th overall for the former schoolboy champ.
• A Scotsman, a Frenchman and an Irishman sounds like a bad joke. Mackenzie, Lenoir and Irwin take 4th, 5th, and 6th overall.
• One of the TMC honda rider's was running purple rims to try and make his bike not look like the Sarah Jessica Parker of motocross bikes. Epic fail bro! #Fugly

1	44	Elliott Banks Browne (KTM)
2	272	Neville Bradshaw (Honda)
3	131	Nicolas Aubin (Honda)
4	121	Bryan MacKenzie (KTM)
5	685	Steven Lenoir (Yamaha)
6	5	Graeme Irwin (Yamaha)
7	111	Ray Rowson (Kawasaki)
8	119	Mel Pocock (Yamaha)
9	711	James Cottrell (Honda)
10	9	Stuart Edmonds (Suzuki)

MX1

• Karro pretty much pulled out his junk and slapped every other rider around the face with it. Dude was fastest in qualifying, goes 1-1-1, and earned the red plate. The Latvians were loving life and supplied the car park with some euro beat for celebration. Alloy shirts all round.
• Josh Coppins made a return to British motocross and picked up 3rd overall. Sweet as Brew!
• Simpson was doing it for the Brits by being solid(ude) as a motherfucker!
• Mark DeReuver didn't have the best day, he even joined the 'side panels can go fuck themselves' club that seems to be so popular this year.
• Strij-like-a-bos hates hard pack and Karro.
• This was one of the tracks that Whatley really impressed me at last year. Not even a semi this time around.
• More of the East Coast crew were in full effect with Aston Bird and Luke Benstead both going balls out for point scoring rides. That's how we roll in the ass end of England.

1	91	Matiss Karro (Kawasaki)
2	24	Shaun Simpson (Yamaha)
3	9	Joshua Coppins (Yamaha)
4	8	Stephen Sword (Suzuki)
5	227	Kristian Whatley (Honda)
6	37	Gert Krestinov (Honda)
7	25	Jamie Law (KTM)
8	22	Kevin Strijbos (KTM)
9	31	Alex Snow (Kawasaki)
10	50	Martin Barr (Kawasaki)