2015 has been an awesome year for DMR Dirt Wars UK as not only have we avoided most of the nasty British weather but we also held Round 3 @ The NASS Festival, Had 2 awesome rounds at the best spot in the UK (HoldShott), an off the hook round @ P.O.R.C and we brought Chicksands back on to the Dirt Jump comp scene by holding Round 4 there. We also became the UK FMB Bronze National Freestyle Series which we are still buzzing about.. After 5 rounds of Dirt jump madness it was time to journey to the NEC in Birmingham For the series final and it was all to play for. The course was set up as a huge roll in with an Mx style kicker to dirt landing for the first then another kicker to landing with a quarterpipe after with dirt landings either side.
MonsterEnergy/ Polygon Rider Sam Reynolds did an amazing job of re-jigging the course build along with DMR’s Olly Wilkins and Dirt Wars UK owner Cliff Barbeary. The guys were not quite happy with the course build so decided to do what they had to to make it the best as possible ready for the weekends events. After a day of re-working a few things the course was all ready for action (although still a little soft).
On the Friday all the riders took to the course for practice and a few of the the Dirt wars riders got to ride with some of the big euro riders who were over for the Sam Pilgrim Invitational on the Sunday.
Saturday arrived and the Dirt wars UK Riders we’re all ready to ride and see who would win the final round and take the overall series win. As we had time slots to stick to we decided to run on a slightly different format to the normal 3 run qualies and 3 run finals with each rider getting 3 runs then the top 5 from the 3 runs went through to a super final of one run to see if they could better their scores. We started off as always with the Open Class riders and a few were looking a tad nervous.
Ray Samson was back after missing a few rounds this year and in true ray style smashed out an amazing run with a flip whip on the first, We also had Rays big brother Blake Samson riding but due to injury Blake was unable to put a decent run together but fair play to the man as he was still hitting flipwhip attempts with kidney damage.
Tom Reynolds upped his trick bag by pulling his first Super whip in comp and Alfie Stephens pulling double whips on the first was off the Hook.
It was all about Freddy and Daryl tough as this determined where the overall series scores would go.
Daryl came out fighting big time and his 3 triple bar run gave him the highest score dirt wars has seen so far, Freddy unfortunately Freddy never got both hands off the bars with his flip bars to tuck on the first so it was all going to be down to the super final to decide who was taking the overall series win.
Riders through to the super final were..
Open
Jack Ambler, Cameron Crozier, Harry Campbell, Darren Estall, Kerry Pert
Pro
Daryl Brown, Alfie Stephens, Ray Samson, Freddy Pullman, Tom Reynolds
The Super final went ahead and Freddy Pullman was set to take the overall win win with his last run but didn’t manage to hold on to the bike on the second jump and Freddy’s hopes of overall title were crushed as Daryl brown took the Round 6 win and overall title.
None of the riders managed to better their scores in the super final so it was on to the podiums.
Round 6 Winners
Open Class
1st Jack Ambler
2nd Cameron Crozier
3rd Harry Campbell
4th Kerry Pert
5th Darren Estall
Pro Class
1st Daryl (Sharky B) Brown
2nd Alfie Stephens
3rd Ray Samson
4th Freddy Pullman
5th Tom Reynolds
With Round 6 out the way it was time to tally up the overall scores and see who would take the title in both classes.
Open Overall Top 3
1st Jack Ambler
2nd Cameron Crozier
3rd Harry Campbell
Pro Top 5 overall
1st Daryl Brown
2nd Freddy Pullman
3rd Alfie Stephens
A Massive thanks to UpperStreet Events, Chris Holman, Sam Pilgrim and The Crew@ Monster Energy UK for letting us hold our final at the Cycle show. A Massive thanks to Sam Reynolds and Olly Wilkins for getting the course ready and to all the riders, spectators and the DMR Dirt Wars Crew for making the day so awesome….
That’s the 2015 Series done and dusted so it’s time to get planning the 2016 series and make it bigger and better than ever…..
Dirt Wars UK Would like to thank DMR Bikes for being the 2015 Title Sponsor, All other Sponsors, All Venue Owners, All @ The FMB, All the Dirt Wars Crew (You know who you are), Our Media Crew of Ryan Nangle, Chris Greenwood @cagreenwood, Andrew Alexander, Cliff Barbeary and Tyler White, All the Riders, The Spectators, All @ Pinkbike and anyone else that has helped us out over the year..
SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!!!!!