British 250cc motocross champion Shaun Simpson won both races in the opening round of the new Maxxis Tyres-backed series in Kent.

He won the first race by 27 seconds from Jake Nicholls, who finished one third of a second in front of Stephen Sword.

With Nicholls taking a heavy tumble on the now rutted Canada Heights circuit in the second race, it was Neville Bradshaw who took second place to Simpson, who had a 42-second advantage at the finish. World junior champion Mattis Karro was third.

Brad Anderson was top points scorer in the open class races. He won the first encounter by four seconds from Frenchman Cedric Melotte. Reigning champion Billy Mackenzie failed to shine and he fell at the first turn in the second race and again on the opening lap and was never in contention.

Marshfield's Tom Church led the race for seven laps before losing the advantage to East Anglian Carl Nunn, who went on to win by 13 seconds.

Anderson took third place after a confrontation with Jordan Rose and Jason Dougan after he had recovered from a bad start.

Wessex Centre Timed and Observation Trial champion Shane Lovatt was a marginal winner of the North Somerset Club's Wynnes Trophy event at Chelwood. He was slightly faster in completing the hour-long event at Malthouse Farm than runner-up Barry Husband, and he was also a shade better on observation. But only they and Peter King and Jeremy Walters managed to complete eight laps.

Stockwood builder Adrian Dark took the Enduro Class win by five marks from Tom Smith and Lee Cornish, who were the only others to go the distance.

Yeovil's Ricky Wiggins is still unbeaten in the South West Centre Trials Championship. He netted his sixth consecutive win in the Tiverton Club's round at Cove, near Bampton, where he finished 34 marks in front of Cornwall area champion Ross Hancock in three laps of a dozen sections at Marwood Farm.