Tees rider Tom Leonard's Buff Headwear Thundersport 500 Championship title hopes took a hit in rounds nine and 10 at Oulton Park
Tees rider Tom Leonard’s Buff Headwear Thundersport 500 Championship title hopes took a hit in rounds nine and 10 at Oulton Park.
With only one day’s racing, double points were allocated for each round, meaning 50 points going to the winner of each.
In the first race after qualifying seventh, Hartburn rider Leonard worked his way through the field and had a race-long duel with one-off race entrant Richard Blunt.
He eventually finished fourth, just 0.001 seconds behind Blunt.
Leonard made a great start to race two and within three laps he was closing down the leading trio of Carl Smalley, Blunt and another one- off entrant Ben Coyle.
“I felt a move was imminent,” said Leonard.
“I made a lunge up the inside of Blunt, locked the front momentarily, then ran on to the grass and fell off trying to apply the power.
“It was something I’m not too pleased with as Smalley, the current series leader, has extended his championship lead again to around 90 points.
“But we’re at Rockingham for the next round and we hope to take the fight to Smalley and the rest of the contenders.”
Smalley leads the way in the overall points table with 425, ahead of Leonard (309 pts) then Adam Houghton (272 pts).
Stockton teenager Jak Liddle was 10th in the first race and 11th in the second.
Liddle, in his first full season of racing, is a commendable 14th place overall with 63 points.
Stockton’s Colin Mooney didn’t finish the first race but was second in the Senior Cup standings (and 12th overall) second time out).
Rob Mawbey leads the Senior standings with 426 pooints ahead of Mooney (325 pts) then Phil Brown with 309.
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