Adamson Rocks out at Cusses! 2022 Rock it ’til Sundown Midweek MX Classic – Race Report & Results

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Following the success of their Tuesday night Airborne Gunner Supercross event, less than 24 hours later the Steel Hawk MCC returned to promote a conventional motocross meet. Presenting the fifth staging of their ‘Rock it til Sundown’, there was to be racing for Youth competitors during the day before Clubman and Expert riders took centre stage in the evening. So, on a Cusses Gorse circuit again immaculately prepared by Justin Barclay and just about totally dust free despite the sweltering weather there was now the small business of an incredible prize fund, both monetary and products wise on offer to go racing for!

Report and Images by Mike Wood

Part one during the event was all about the Youth riders, and their competition presented by Stolen BMX was incredibly offering the golden carrot of a brand new BMX to all of the class winners. With that very tasty award available, it certainly intensified the competition level up a few notches!

In the Auto’s sponsored by Alpinestars, there was to be one very clear victor as Tommy Wood won all three moto’s chased home by Blake Marks Bracey. Next up in the Auto’s was Austin Edwards who had certainly endured a couple of very busy day’s. Austin had already took overall wins on Tuesday in both the Auto’s Supercross and Revvi Balance bike classes.

In the Troy Lee Designs Juniors 65cc contest, winner Casey Lister was also to max out. In all three moto’s, Lister was wheel perfect as Marty Spires chased him home in the opening two races before the pattern changed in the last moto. In that one, Riley-Ray Barrow took 2nd spot from Jett Gardiner, Ralfie Holloway and Spires.

After finishing 2nd in the previous night’s SW85cc Supercross contest, Joel Winstanley-Dawson went one place better at Wednesday’s motocross bash. In great style, Winstanley-Dawson bagged his glory in the Spy Goggles sponsored class by winning all three of the hot moto’s. Blake Ward-Clarke was to be equally consistent with a hat-trick of runners-up placings as Travis Bixby, Harrison Schofield and Olivia Reynolds were the next best.

On a day when maximums appeared to be the normal, Josh Vail also got in on the act in the Bell Helmets sponsored BW85cc class. In all three moto’s, Charlie Richmond finished in 2nd spot with Freddie Gardiner 3rd and Drew Stock 4th. After topping the standings in the previous day’s BW85cc Supercross event, Isaac Ash had to settle for 5th overall in this competition.

With both RFX and Seven joining Stolen BMX in the support of the Rookie Class it was time to go racing. In a combined 125cc and 250cc shoot-out, Kawasaki mounted Jak Taylor won the opener before being involved in a right old scrap with Ben Zeale in the next one. For almost the entire duration these two lads battled it out side by side before Taylor just got past the flag first. Any hopes though that Taylor had of making it a full house disappeared in the last one when starting 5th he had to settle for a 2nd place with Finley Evans taking top honours. In the 125cc class, Raife Broadley backed up his Supercross success the previous day with another overall victory. Really mixing it with those boys on the 250cc machines, Broadley recorded strong 5/4/8 moto placings.

Presented by Relax to Race and sponsored by both ASA Scaffolding Services and RS Air Conditioning Services, Welsh visitor Josh Greedy on his big, mean, green Kawasaki won both Clubman Group A contests from gate to flag. On each occasion, Callum Gordon was to be Greedy’s closest challenger for honours chasing all the way but without ever getting quite close enough to make an attempt at passing. Topping the A group for MX2 riders was Ryan Tanner. Over in the B class, Yamaha mounted Ryan Bowring won both moto’s to finish top of the MX1 class whilst Joe Smith was the best MX2 pilot.

So what about the Experts at Cusses Gorse? Well in the contest again presented by Relax to Race and with sponsorship from VIRIS and KPS it certainly did not start well for John Adamson, crashing on turn one of the opening clash. Quickly on his feet, by lap three the GasGas rider was already back up to 2nd passing Nev Bradshaw, Charlie Cole, Tom Grimshaw, Brad Todd and Adam Collings as Liam Knight led the pack. By lap five, Adamson’s recovery was complete, hitting the front only to crash again and thus hand the advantage right back to Knight. With just one circuit to go, the leadership changed for the fourth time as hard-charging Adamson was back in control to take the chequered flag. However, when crashing for the second time, it was noted that Adamson had not rejoined the contest at the point of his fall so was denied the win. That meant the finishing order was declared as Knight, Adamson, Todd, Grimshaw, Cole and Bradshaw.

In a very exciting second Experts competition, Grimshaw led the way early on before Todd then took over. However, Todd was to then crash and drop back to 4th as a storming Adamson became the third different pacesetter of the contest. Gradually the moto settled down with Adamson, Grimshaw and Knight breaking clear at the front until the latter fell in a corner, being replaced by Todd. With Adamson cruising to victory, there was to be very late drama as Todd then passed Grimshaw on the last lap to bag 2nd spot.

So after two day’s of great action, the final race was a six lap dash carrying a very nice prize money fund. This moto had an extra interest with the inclusion of a Joke Lane sponsored by Stolen BMX and which a rider could only use once and not on the opening lap. After making a fantastic start, Adamson decided to use that massive Joker advantage at the very first opportunity to thus increase his lead. Chasing hard, Todd then used the lane on lap three and just failed to make it pay by the very narrowest of margins, exiting it just as the flying Adamson went by! From here onwards, it was Adamson all the way with Todd, Grimshaw, Josh Taylor, Liam Knight and Josh Coleman next up…

The Steel Hawk Motorcycle Club would like to say a huge thank you to their small team for pulling off a tremendous couple of days in the sweltering heat, the marshalls who did a fantastic job, Scott and his team at Toadpit Medical services, Justin, Christine and Kate Barclay for providing two tremendous race tracks and venue, Jake and Guy Nicholls at Tru-7, who without both events would not have happened, Mike and Tom Church at MJ Church, Revs from Stolen BMX, Don from Revvi, Gary, Dave and Max at Duck Smart, Ricky Charlotte and Steve at Monsters of Dirt for the fantastic programmes and awards, Roy, Gemma and Andy at Nora Motorsport, Alfie at AS Trax for creating a superb Supercross track, Bobby at Amplified Sound, Crabby & Josh at Hush Silent Disco company, Marcel Cullers and his team at Security Nation, the caterers and traders, and the sponsors for backing us including Relax to Race, CI Sport, Madison, RFX, Viris, KPS Recycling, ASA United Gas Gas, Simon at Gabriel Solutions, Clintan Putnam RS Air Conditioning Services, Fox Europe, Dirt Hub, United, JS Contrax, the riders and their and families for putting on a great show and creating a nice atmosphere and of course all of the spectators who came out and supported the event.

Results

Super Final

Pos	Competitor	Diff	Laps
1	John Adamson	0	6
2	Brad Todd	3.962	6
3	Tom Grimshaw	12.394	6
4	Josh Taylor	19.11	6
5	Liam Knight	27.917	6
6	Josh Coleman	35.82	6
7	Adam Collings	36.455	6
8	Josh Greedy	01:11.1	6
9	Mark Atkinson	01:23.2	6
10	Ben White	01:23.9	6
11	Harvey James	01:28.8	6

Expert MX1

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	John Adamson	88	43	45
2	Brad Todd	84	41	43
3	Liam Knight	84	45	39
4	Tom Grimshaw	80	39	41
5	Josh Taylor	74	37	37
6	Steven Bixby	71	36	35
7	Mark Young	70	34	36
8	George Clarke	35	35	–

Expert MX2

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	Charlie Cole	90	45	45
2	Adam Collings	84	41	43
3	Neville Bradshaw	84	43	41
4	Josh Coleman	78	39	39
5	Harvey James	73	36	37
6	Harvey Cashmore	73	37	36

Clubman MX1 A

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	Josh Greedy	90	45	45
2	Callum Gordon	86	43	43
3	Travis Reynolds	82	41	41
4	Sam Gabriel	78	39	39
5	Jason Brooke	73	36	37
6	Tallon Aspden	72	37	35
7	Jamie Watts	68	32	36
8	Tom Day	68	34	34
9	Luke Scriven	63	33	30
10	Radford Chugg	62	29	33
11	Glen Phillips	62	30	32
12	Tim Soane	62	31	31
13	Adam Dixon	57	28	29
14	Danny Kidd	55	27	28
15	Leon Read	35	35	–

Clubman MX2 A

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	Ryan Tanner	90	45	45
2	Ben White	86	43	43
3	Mark Atkinson	82	41	41
4	Jordan Meredith	78	39	39
5	Jake Evans	73	37	36
6	Josh Griffiths	71	36	35
7	Lewis Hayward	68	31	37
8	Gavin Jakeman	66	33	33
9	Tyler Stevenson	65	34	31
10	Alexander Williams	63	29	34
11	Matt Wells	62	32	30
12	James Kirby	59	30	29
13	Jed Rawlings	55	27	28
14	Ashley Smith	35	35	–
15	Pierre Nakhla	32	–	32
16	Danny Cavanagh	28	28	–

Clubman MX1 B

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	Ryan Bowring	90	45	45
2	Jack Holmes	86	43	43
3	Ashley Wigmore	82	41	41
4	Daniel Silvester	76	37	39
5	Daniel Adams	76	39	37
6	Jack Baker	72	36	36

Clubman MX2 B

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	Joe Smith	90	45	45
2	Antonio Souza	84	41	43
3	Leroy Burniston	78	37	41
4	David Gonzalez	78	39	39
5	Samuel Upton	71	34	37
6	Gino Coen	71	35	36
7	Jody Crawforth	66	31	35
8	Gary Mitchison	66	32	34
9	Jason Smith	63	30	33
10	Zoe Deacon	60	28	32
11	Scott Weldon	59	29	30
12	Specner Watts	58	27	31
13	Cameron Lingley	55	26	29
14	Callum Jerams	52	25	27
15	Steve Turvey	43	43	–
16	Chris Carter	36	36	–
17	Kyle Richards	33	33	–
18	Andy Statham	28	–	28

Rookie 125

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Raife Broadley	135	45	45	45
2	Harrison Greenough	129	43	43	43
3	Jamie Collins	119	39	41	39
4	Levi Saunders	115	37	37	41
5	Billy Moriarty	110	41	39	30
6	Joe Beaumont	109	36	36	37
7	Tyler Jones	106	35	35	36
8	John Waghorn	100	32	33	35
9	Alfie Thomson	97	31	32	34
10	Owen Richards	97	34	30	33
11	Bayley Ward-Clarke	96	33	34	29
12	Max Standfield	93	30	31	32
13	Seth Hopwood	87	28	28	31
14	Max Hopwood	86	29	29	28
15	Joel Kremer	27	27	–	–

Rookie 250

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Jak Taylor	133	45	45	43
2	Ben Zeale	122	43	43	36
3	Finley Evans	120	39	36	45
4	Hudson Roper	119	41	39	39
5	Josh Basset	114	36	37	41
6	Mckenzie Marshall	112	34	41	37
7	Leon Williams	107	37	35	35
8	Ethan Sills	101	35	33	33
9	Harvey Cashmore	99	31	34	34
10	Tyler Kirby	97	33	32	32
11	Charlie Gutteridge	92	30	31	31
12	Corey Gordon	92	32	30	30
13	Myles Taylor	85	28	29	28
14	Joe Cracknell	84	29	28	27
15	Harrison Hopwood	83	27	27	29
16	Bradley Hathaway	77	25	26	26
17	Cain Denham	51	26	–	25

Big Wheel 85’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Josh Vail	135	45	45	45
2	Charlie Richmond	129	43	43	43
3	Freddie Gardiner	123	41	41	41
4	Drew Stock	117	39	39	39
5	Isaac Ash	110	36	37	37
6	Ashton Somerville	103	34	34	35
7	Harry Lee	102	37	36	29
8	George Corke	98	29	33	36
9	Austin Beasty	98	35	30	33
10	Fabian Junior Morrison	97	28	35	34
11	Travis Laughton	94	32	31	31
12	Connor Williams	92	30	32	30
13	Riley Saunders	90	31	27	32
14	Jack Rudge	79	26	25	28
15	Max Beaumont	76	25	28	23
16	Hollie Roberts	71	18	26	27
17	Alicia Conduct	70	23	29	18
18	Ethan Anderson	69	22	23	24
19	Sam Cook	68	20	22	26
20	Oliver Smith	67	24	24	19
21	Oliver Mchugh	62	21	20	21
22	Josh Mitchison	58	15	21	22
23	Reuben Sturmey	54	19	18	17
24	Max Corke	53	33	–	20
25	Zak Murphy	50	17	17	16
26	Harvey Hunt	48	14	19	15
27	Poppy Banning	42	16	15	11
28	Jack Snakey	41	11	16	14
29	Preston Hepburn	36	10	13	13
30	Zac Perren	36	13	11	12
31	Kade Thomas	35	–	10	25
32	Freddie-Dean Randell	34	12	12	10
33	Brady Bilton	27	27	–	–
34	Lilly Hall	26	9	9	8
35	William Cockings	23	–	14	9

Small Wheel 85’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Joel Winstanley-Dawson	135	45	45	45
2	Blake Ward-Clarke	129	43	43	43
3	Travis Bixby	121	41	39	41
4	Harrison Schofield	117	37	41	39
5	Olivia Reynolds	112	39	36	37
6	Oliver Burridge	105	35	35	35
7	Oscar Gilham	102	32	34	36
8	Charlie Hobden	99	34	31	34
9	Jack Dugmore	99	33	33	33
10	Edward Luker	88	29	27	32
11	Finley Markham	88	31	29	28
12	Elliott Mason	86	30	25	31
13	Jessie-Lee Jessopp	84	26	28	30
14	Sam Verbeeten	76	27	20	29
15	Finley Camden	75	25	24	26
16	Jensen Henney	75	28	26	21
17	Marley Alder	73	36	37	–
18	Tyler Griffiths	72	22	23	27
19	Henry Mitchell	70	24	21	25
20	Alfie Pincher	66	20	22	24
21	Sonny Bixby	64	23	18	23
22	Aaron Shepherd-Smith	60	21	19	20
23	Theo Richardson	54	–	32	22
24	Frankie Stacey	54	19	17	18
25	Tallulah Oram	49	15	15	19
26	Lawson Peedle	49	18	14	17
27	James Peters	48	16	16	16
28	Jacob Luker	47	17	30	–
29	Jake Collins	42	14	13	15

Junior 65

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Casey Lister	135	45	45	45
2	Riley-Ray Barrow	125	41	41	43
3	Marty Spires	123	43	43	37
4	Jett Gardiner	114	39	34	41
5	Henry Lewis	105	34	35	36
6	Archie Butterfield	105	37	36	32
7	Ralfie Holloway	104	26	39	39
8	Mason Doe	103	32	37	34
9	Harry Hall	99	31	33	35
10	Elliott Shawyer	98	36	29	33
11	Jamie Currie	98	35	32	31
12	Jake Dixon	91	33	30	28
13	Will Kremer	85	27	28	30
14	Alan Thomson	85	25	31	29
15	Colby Briscombe	78	28	23	27
16	Riley Butterworth	78	30	27	21
17	Rafe Symons	72	21	25	26
18	Meghan Williams	71	20	26	25
19	Tyler Peaty	68	22	22	24
20	Chad Prince	66	19	24	23
21	Cameron Berry	60	29	9	22
22	Travis Meese	58	24	20	14
23	Zach White	56	18	18	20
24	Kailan Terrell	52	16	19	17
25	Archie Oakes	50	17	15	18
26	Harry Dearle	48	13	16	19
27	Bobby Ross	44	23	21	–
28	Caylub Rich	42	14	13	15
29	Harry Peacock	40	15	14	11
30	Archie Logan	39	11	12	16
31	Franky’Lee Litchfield	36	12	17	7
32	Jack Masters	32	9	11	12
33	Ava-Mae Hulbert	30	10	10	10
34	Elliot Clarke	26	6	7	13
35	Austin Sturmey	21	7	5	9
36	Dottie Hopewood	19	5	6	8
37	Baxter Winglaze	16	8	8	–
38	Danny Williamson	13	3	4	6
39	Arthur Tribbeck-Western	12	4	3	5

Auto

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Tommy Wood	135	45	45	45
2	Blake Marks Bracey	129	43	43	43
3	Austin Edwards	119	39	41	39
4	Mason Staddon	117	37	39	41
5	Harley-James Barrow	108	34	37	37
6	Finlee Pope	108	41	33	34
7	Jesse James	104	35	36	33
8	Harrison Ashwood McNeill	103	32	35	36
9	Jude Henney	102	33	34	35
10	Tyler Moss	96	36	30	30
11	Lilly Senior	95	31	32	32
12	Jenson King	92	30	31	31
13	Coby Cole	87	29	29	29
14	Ava Peedle	84	28	28	28
15	Blakely Morrissey	79	25	27	27
16	Archie Cornwell	79	27	26	26
17	Samuel Mcevoy	73	23	25	25
18	Joey Wells	71	26	22	23
19	Austin Senior	70	24	24	22
20	Rudy Symons	64	22	21	21
21	Harley Kidd	63	16	23	24
22	Oliver Watts	57	17	20	20
23	Jesse Eyles	57	19	19	19
24	Oliver Hogg	56	21	17	18
25	James Dugmore	53	20	16	17
26	Levison Usher	36	18	18	–
27	Oscar Morris	30	15	15	–