Facciotti and Brown Crowned
Future West ACU British Supercross Champions
 Another
year for British Supercross series is once again done and
dusted! The 2007/2008 Future West ACU British Supercross Championships
wrapped up this past weekend at the amazing O2 Arena in London.
An enthusiastic crowd cheered on the best of British Supercross
for last event of the season. The talk of the weekend was
the amazing new O2 Arena and hot Supercross action.
In the Pro Lights class, CAS Honda’s Mike Brown broke
out to an early lead riding the Honda CR250f for the first
time in Supercross this year, preparing for the start of the
outdoor season this weekend at Hawkstone Park. Canadian Dixon
Yamaha team-mates Colton Facciotti and Jean Sebastien Roy
would enter the event separated by only three points.
Brown jumped out to the early lead and never looked back
with JSR and Facciotti in tow. Facciotti only need to finish
behind JSR to claim his second British Supercross Championship
title of his career. JSR would give it his all, ending the
Lights on Brown’s back tyre. South Africa’s Neville
Bradshaw rounded out the top three in the championship chase.
The Pro Open final was set for another CAS Honda Brown win.
Brown who looked comfortable on the 250f, would again get
another great start leading the pack and started to pull out
a sizeable lead before 19-year-old Kyle Beaton of Canada jumped
in behind Brown and started to up the pace. At the half way
point back markers started to become issue.
Beaton seized the opportunity and made the pass on veteran
Brown. Once passed Brown Beaton did not let up and claimed
a sizeable victory over Brown for Yamaha UK and Dixon Racing.
Brown would claim yet another British Supercross Championship
title. Jean Sebastien Roy would take 5th in the pro open main
and second overall in the championship whilst team-mate Facciotti
would take third on the night and in the overall standings.
Along with the pro racing titles were also decided in the
Clubman and Youth classes. In the Auto’s it was young
Tommy Schofield taking the championship over Jamie Clark and
Alfie Mountford. In the 65’s Tom Neal claimed the Championships
only three points ahead of Scooter Webster and Alfie Bowtell.
In the small wheel it was James Dunn who took his first British
Supercross championship ahead of Daniel Clark and Bradley
Ward.
Ross Clarke captured the Big Wheel 85 title ten points ahead
of Luke Norris and Ben Reed. Norway’s Per Kristian Bakke
claimed his first British Supercross title ahead of TM’s
Lewis King and Ryan Potenger. The Clubman lights saw Carl
Jones way out front of Harry Bertram and Vincent Cossard of
France. In the Clubman open it was South African Mark Atkinson
who climbed from dead last off the start to Championship winning
position on the night ahead Clubman Lights Champ Carl Jones
and Supercross Veteran Danny Blakely.
All-in-all it has been a great year for the Future West ACU
British Supercross Championship. Future West would like to
thank all of the companies who were involved this year. Your
help and support was much appreciated. Future West would also
like to thank all the spectators who came out and supported
the series your continued support of the series is great.
Tickets for Sheffield 08 on October 25th are now on sale
via the Sheffield Arena box office on 0114 256 5656 and Liverpool
09 on January 23rd and 24th are also now on sale through the
Liverpool Echo Arena box office on 0844 800 0400.
See you at Sheffield!
Pro Lites Main Event
1st Mike Brown USA
2nd Jean Sebastian Roy CAN
3rd Colton Facciotti CAN
4th Neville Bradshaw RSA
Pro Lites Championship Final Standings
1st Colton Facciotti CAN – DIXON YAMAHA 81pts
2nd Jean Sebastian Roy CAN – DIXON YAMAHA 80pts
3rd Neville Bradshaw SOUTH AFRICA – MXW HONDA 62pts
4th Ashley Greedy WALES – PAR HONDA 55pts
5th Kris Foster CAN – DK KTM 54pts
Pro Open Main Event
1st Kyle Beaton CAN
2nd Mike Brown USA
3rd Colton Facciotti CAN
4th Carl Nunn UK
5th Jean Sebastian Roy CAN
Pro Open Final Standings
1st Mike Brown USA – CAS HONDA 94pts
2nd Jean Sebastian Roy CAN – DIXON YAMAHA 75pts
3rd Colton Facciotti CAN – DIXON YAMAHA 58pts
4th Ashley Greedy WALES - PAR HONDA 53pts
5th Neville Bradshaw SOUTH AFRICA – MXW HONDA 48pts
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