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Disgruntled Shannon Caisey is crying foul over a points mix up, which he says robbed him of the Bermuda motor racing championship.

But cycle club president David Jones says the rider only has himself to blame.

Caisey led all season only for Cyril Whitter to overtake him on the last day and claim the GP 125 title by two points. But Caisey appealed the result, and provided evidence that he should have had five more points.

The mix-up centered around the Bermuda Motorcycle Racing Club's policy of awarding riders points for attending club meetings.

Caisey claimed he was not been given the mandatory five points for a meeting that he attended. He said a paperwork mistake by the committee cost him those points.

His complaint was upheld and the committee agreed that he should have had the five points. But the committee ruled that, because Caisey did not protest the discrepancy until after the season had finished, he would not be allocated the points and Whitter would be retained as champion,

Caisey said: "It is as clear as day, that I did beat him, but they have already said Cyril's the champion and they are sticking with that.

"I can't accept that decision and I'll continue to fight it until a just decision is made. Right now my feelings are anger, disgust and outright frustration. I won the championship. If you look at the points, I won, if you discard the meetings and look at points on the track, I won, if you discard that and look at who had the most first place finishes, I still won. It's as clear as night and day."

Caisey said that though the club committee had made it's final ruling, following a meeting on Monday night, the battle for the championship was not over yet. He said he would even consider taking legal action if he had to.

David Jones snr, president of the BMRC, said it would not budge from its position.

He said he regretted that the mistake had been made, but said riders had been told from the outset that they were responsible for keeping check on their own points tally and appealing any discrepancies in a timely manner.

He added that Caisey had been told this on several occasions but had not followed the protocol.

It was unfair to Whitter, said Jones, to amend the point totals after the season had finished because he had already done what he had to do on the track.

Whitter went into the final race of the season knowing he only had to finish second to win the title. Had the points been amended in advance he would have known that he had to finish first and his approach to the race might have been different.

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