EASTBOURNE'S Graham Bodimeade is considering quitting motorsport because the fun has gone out of racing.

Bodimeade won the BEMSEE club's 125 Grand Prix class two years ago and finished second in last year's championship.

Before last weekend's round on the Grand Prix circuit at Brands Hatch Bodimeade was lying second again in his class.

But he only completed two of the five races over the weekend and admitted: "I got a second and a third, but it wasn't a good weekend.

"I am thinking of retiring because I am having a few problems this year. I didn't even go out for two of the races last weekend.

"I have crashed a few times, people have taken me out and it has knocked me down a bit.

"I am thinking of missing a few meetings."

Bodimeade hopes the break from action will revive his appetite for the sport.

He added: "I am not sure what I am doing at the moment. I don't even know if I will carry on at all. I don't think I will part with it completely but it's stopped being fun."

Another Sussex racer who is not enjoying a good season is Matt Bailey from Crawley Down.

Bailey won BEMSEE's Supermono singles class last year after leading the championship for much of the season.

The 26-year-old has stepped up to compete in the Powerbike class this year on a Yamaha YZF 750, but it has not worked out for him.

Bailey has finished in the top ten only three times this season and admits he is finding it difficult to get the necessary power out of the bike.

He said: "I have changed class but I am not doing very well at all.

"My lap times at Brands Hatch last weekend were three seconds slower than on the singles last year, which is a bit strange considering I have double the power now."

Bailey says he will be going to the Isle of Man in August to compete out there but he admits he might switch back to singles next season.

Andy Denyer's season is looking up after a troubled start. The Uckfield racer claimed two seconds, a fifth and an eighth from the five races in the 250 Grand Prix at Brands last weekend.

Denyer suffered a broken collarbone earlier in the season and admits he is not running at full capacity yet.

He said: "I am still troubled by the shoulder but it was a good weekend.

"I had two seconds on Sunday and in one of them I got the lead on the last lap, having come through from tenth, but I was beaten on the line by six hundreths of a second."

Denyer was ninth in the class before last weekend's action but with only 30 points separating the top riders he knows there is still plenty of racing to go.

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