The Classic Racing Motorcycle Club is holding the final rounds of its prestigious 2006 motorcycle road racing championships at Croft Circuit, North Yorkshire this forthcoming weekend (7th and 8th October). The meeting will include all CRMC classes which will be running to the usual two championship races on Saturday and then they will have a single, eight lap “Race of the Year” on Sunday. The programme also includes the final rounds of the Summerfield Engineering National Junior (350cc) and Senior (500cc) Championships and the Classic Racer Syndicate 1300 National Series. This is the opportunity to savour the evocative sights and sounds of Classic and Post-Classic solo and sidecar racing machines from the 1950’s to the early 1980’s, which many reckon was the Golden Era of road racing. The racing is always furiously quick and the action comes thick and fast with 29 races and four Classic parades taking place over a busy weekend. Paddock entry is inclusive and offers a great opportunity to ogle the wide variety of machinery and talk to the riders and sponsors. The cream of the UK’s Classic racing talent will also be in action with the Junior and Senior Nationals seeing the continuation of the great rivalry between Summerfield Engineering’s Lea Gourlay, and Steve Tomes, who rides for the rival Molnar Precision Engineering outfit. Both riders are on their sponsors’ incredibly rapid Manx Norton machines, modern replicas of the motorcycles that dominated road racing in the 50’s and 60’s, and they have fought tooth and nail all season with no quarter asked or given. This weekend they are joined in the 500cc races by Alan Oversby (Craven Manx), who has just returned from victory in the Ultra Lightweight Manx Grand Prix on the famous Isle of Man Mountain Circuit. Gourlay (Lidgate Triumph 750) also rides in the 1300 National Series, which sees a spectacular coming together of big multi and twin cylinder four-strokes such as BSA/Triumph triples and Norton Dominator and Commando twins. Although Gourlay currently leads the Series, 2005 winner Gary Thwaites (Watson 920 Norton) is breathing down his neck and ready to pounce on any slip. The rivalries are just as fierce in the CRMC Club Championship events, which include machinery from 125cc Honda two strokes to 80’s Superbikes, and just about everything else in between, including sidecar outfits. Among the sidecar contenders this weekend are Darlington’s Lenny Pallister and Ian Marriner on the Triumph 750cc outfit on which they have already won this season’s British Historic Racing 750cc pre-1972 Championship. Saturday kicks off with practice at 9.30am followed by a mammoth 19 race programme and the 11 race schedule on Sunday’s commences at 12.00 noon. Admission is £10 each day with accompanied children aged 15 and under admitted FREE. Further information is available from Claire Jones at Croft Circuit on 01325 721815 or from the CRMC contact Graham Lawlor on 07793 818064 ([email protected])