John Damarell (15) on his motocross bike leads Jon Le Page on his slider out of the ‘wet bend’. (Picture by Andrew Le Poidevin, 0560681)

GUERNSEY’S sand-race season finally got into full swing with a programme of races for all classes at the second meeting of the year, although on a very rough beach.

For the adult bike riders, the event was different from past years in that five of the races, although held as scratch races with sliders and motocross riders racing together, were in fact counting towards the Pealing Carey Handicap Trophy.

Before the meeting all riders had been handicapped on a golf-type system so that the slowest started from a position of 40 points, while the fastest were on nil. That meant that while the first and second places were going to different slider riders, the motocross bikers were more consistent in gaining points with lower finishing positions.