ADAM LE LACHEUR signed off from the motocross scene by denying Ben Carre yet another clean sweep at the last meeting before the summer break. Carre had been living up to his reputation as Guernsey’s top rider until he stalled his Honda CRF450 in the third race and could do no better than fifth.

Le Lacheur, the current adult open champion, plans to take time out from the sport, a great shame according to rival rider Anyon Robilliard, who says senior racing has never been more competitive locally.

Robilliard, 23, who has been racing over the Pleinmont humps and bumps since he was six, says he cannot contemplate leaving a sport he loves.

‘It’s more competitive now than when I first started,’ said the 2002 champion, who claimed two thirds and a fourth before placing runner-up behind Carre in the trophy race.

Robilliard says the class has ‘really picked up’.

‘There are four or five of us about the same, although obviously we’re all behind Ben.

‘It’s always close for second, third and fourth,’ he added.

Carre is in a class of his own, as Robilliard is happy to admit. But why?

Robilliard puts it down to ‘a combination of youth, fitness, skill and opportunity to get away and compete’.

Carre won three of the meeting’s four races, although he picked up two punctures on the way.

In the first race he was helped out by a red flag and a very timely re-start.

Fortunately for him, his second puncture came late in the race and he was able to finish.

Mind you the lad deserves a bit of luck.

He’s had more than his share of injuries in recent seasons and this campaign alone he has broken both a collarbone and wrist.

Just as dominant in their classes are James Shorto and Dexter Le Sauvage.

The latter’s SX65 has been unstoppable in the junior class, while Shorto has had it very much all his own way in the Open category.

Shorto, a Year 10 pupil at St Sampson’s School, missed the first race of the new campaign, but has since swept the board.

Jersey were represented by just three riders due to unhelpful ferry schedules and a busy domestic calendar, but with 34 riders in total on view a good day’s racing was had.

‘The track is superb at the moment,’ said Robilliard, who adds it is also more pleasing to the eye after a fair degree of tidying up.

And with numbers increasing all the time, it is a good time to be a scrambler.