Colley claims Grittenham maximum! 2024 UK EVO MX Championship Round 3 – Race Report & Results

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Back on the weekend of the 17th & 18th of May round 3 of the 2024 Uk Evo Mx Championships took place at Grittenham in glorious sunshine on both days. Saturday consisted of three blocks of racing on a fast and drying track whereas Sunday which had a further two blocks of racing it was a bit different after water had been put down prior to the start of the day and things were a bit tricky in places to begin with, but never the less there was still some good racing to be seen.

Race Report and Images by Dave Rich

In the Evo 125 class all three races on the Saturday were won by Arron Colley at the end of the day, but making a return from a long injury which was great to see was Neville Bradshaw who was back giving his all and did lead the last race for a while before a problem with the bike ended his day. Colley continued winning on the Sunday and was to take a further two race wins which meant he was unbeaten all weekend and took the overall, second overall went to Kristian Hutchings with Rusty Griffiths.

No 92 Carl Luke chasing No 47 Drew Lane in the Super Evo under 40’s

In the Pre 83 125 there was some good battles all weekend between Matt Nash and Jake Chamberlain with Chamberlain just holding off Nash in the first race on the Sunday to take the win by two seconds which was to denie Nash a clean sweep but still gave Nash the overall from Chamberlain with Jordan Hands with a consistant scorecard of 4,4,4,4,3 taking that third spot on the podium.

The Evo 250 class saw a good battle on the Saturday between Jamie Skuse and Jamie Smith especially in the second race as Smith held Skuse off for most of the race until the closing stages when Skuse managed to get pass and held off Smith to take the win by just over a second. Skuse was to win race 3 to take a hattrick of wins on the Saturday, but the first race on the Sunday saw Skuse go down in the wet on the first corner which put him totally last, but he was soon up and running again and was powering his way up through the field. Smith was to take the win in this one but only just as catching him all the time was Skuse who within another lap would have caught Smith and taking third in this one was a distant Rory Merchant. In the last race Smith led early doors before Skuse took over and from there went on to take a comfortable win with Smith having to settle for second with Merchant again third which was how the overall ended over the two days.

Nigel Kibble giving his all in the Evo 500 class and took second overall after finishing second in all five races

In the Evo 500 class there was a fine display of riding from Luke Dean who was to dominate all five races with Nigel Kibble also putting together five consistant rides finishing second to Dean in all five races with Nicky Jones also being pretty consistant all weekend taking third overall.

Craig Pratley was unstoppable in the Vets Evo over 45 class

The Vets Evo over 45 class saw Craig Pratley show his class completely dominating all five races, but there was a good tussle all weekend between Danny Smyth, Danny Blakley and Dean Warren with all three riders consistant but at the end of the weekend it was Smyth who took second overall just four points ahead of Blakley.

Chuck Davies on his way to taking the overall in the Super Evo under 40’s class

In the Super Evo under 40’s class it was Chuck Davies who took the overall with four wins out of the five races with Jack Seaborne winning the other race. Davies took the overall with Ryan Allen with five consistant rides taking second overall by one point from Seaborne who was third overall whereas in the over 40’s class it was Nathan Davies who was unbeaten over the five races with the overall, James Baker took second overall with third overall going to Craig Dowding. The over 50’s class saw Phil Lewis win the opening race with Paul Wildman winning the other two races on the Saturday, but Sunday saw Steve Wells take the opening race with Wildman the last race which gave Wildman the overall from Wells just 4 points adrift and third overall went to Ray Chivers.

No 50 Mike Allport chasing No 489 Steve Fews in the Vets Evo over 60’s class

In the Vets Evo over 60’s class there was no stopping Mike Allport who was in fine form and dominated all the races over the weekend to give him the overall with Glyn Morton taking second overall with second place finishes in all races and third overall was claimed by Greg Pascoe who finished on the same points as Steve Fews but with the better result in the last race Pascoe took the third spot on the podium.

The Twinshock under 50’s class there was a fine display of riding on both days from Matt Nash who took all five race wins with Matt Wells consistant in all the races taking second overall and third overall went to Marc Brockhurst whereas in the over 50’s category the overall went to James Reeves who took three wins with Mark Gleadhill beating Reeves in the other two races to give him second overall and third overall went to Neil Midgley with three consistant rides.

Matt Nash dominated all five races in the Twinshock under 50’s class

The Modern 2-Stroke under 50’s class was to go down to the last race with just one point separating Joshua Herbert and Kris Ayres as to who was going to take the overall over the weekend and it was Ayres who had the best start and he was not to look back from that point and held off Herbert all through the race to take the win to give him the overall from Herbert by two points with Dan Bartlett taking third overall where in the over 50’s there was no stopping Terry House on the Saturday who notched up a hattrick of wins but House was a non-starter on the Sunday and it was Rob Mead who was an absentee on Saturday who took both race wins on the Sunday, but the overall as to go to Gareth Dunsford with a scorecard of 4,2,2,2,2 with John Heath taking second overall with Darren Kennington a well-deserved third overall.

No 146 Dan Bartlett and No 810 Oliver Barnes battling it out in the Modern 2-Stroke under 50 class

Results

Evo 125

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3	r 4	r 5
1	AARON COLLEY	250	50	50	50	50	50
2	KRISTIAN HUTCHINGS	223	45	41	45	47	45
3	RUSTY GRIFFITHS	219	47	47	47	45	33
4	DARYL BOLTER	215	39	43	43	43	47
5	ARCHIE HICKS	199	37	37	41	41	43
6	BEN MURRAY	187	33	35	39	39	41
7	MATT COLES	177	31	33	37	37	39
8	BRADLEY POUNDER	162	28	29	33	35	37
9	NEIL LONG	161	30	30	35	31	35
10	JORDAN SHAW	149	29	28	31	30	31
11	GUY LEDDY	141	27	26	30	28	30
12	STEVEN SHAW	140	26	27	29	29	29
13	CARL BROOKFIELD	132	24	25	28	27	28
14	BRAD LANE	129	25	24	27	26	27
15	NICK MAUGER	121	23	22	26	24	26
16	NEVILLE BRADSHAW	86	41	45	–	–	–
17	DARREN BANWELL	74	35	39	–	–	–
18	RYAN GEE	73	–	23	25	25	–
19	JORDAN BARRS	43	43	–	–	–	–
20	ELLIOT BARRS	33	–	–	–	33	–
21	RICHARD VINCENT	31	–	31	–	–	–

PRE 1983 125’s

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3	r 4	r 5
1	MATT NASH	247	50	50	50	47	50
2	JAKE CHAMBERLAIN	238	47	47	47	50	47
3	JORDAN HANDS	217	43	43	43	43	45
4	DAVE RUSSELL	205	41	41	41	39	43
5	ANTHONY TWIDLE	180	45	45	45	45	–
6	SAM FOAD	117	39	39	39	–	–
7	TAYLER LEVETT	41	–	–	–	41	–
8	SAM IRELAND	37	37	–	–	–	–

250 Evo

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3	r 4	r 5
1	JAMIE SKUSE	247	50	50	50	47	50
2	JAMIE SMITH	238	47	47	47	50	47
3	RORY MERCHANT	223	45	45	43	45	45
4	GARETH ARTUS	217	43	43	45	43	43
5	KYLE PROCTOR	195	39	41	41	39	35
6	JAKE CHAMBERLAIN	191	37	39	39	37	39
7	SCOTT ALLEN	181	35	37	37	35	37
8	MATT WELLS	166	33	35	35	30	33
9	STUART PUDDLE	161	31	33	33	33	31
10	LEE SIMS	153	30	31	31	31	30
11	JOHN MCKENZIE	82	–	–	–	41	41
12	KEIRREN GENGE	41	41	–	–	–	–
13	MATTHEW GURKE	29	–	–	–	–	29

500 Evo

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3	r 4	r 5
1	LUKE DEAN	250	50	50	50	50	50
2	NIGEL KIBBLE	235	47	47	47	47	47
3	NICKY JONES	215	43	43	45	39	45
4	SCOTT FAULKNER	211	41	41	43	43	43
5	JAMES PRICE	207	37	45	41	45	39
6	JAMES TEENAN	158	39	39	39	41	–

Vets Evo Over 45

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3	r 4	r 5
1	CRAIG PRATLEY	250	50	50	50	50	50
2	DANNY SMYTH	231	45	47	47	47	45
3	DANNY BLAKELY	227	47	45	43	45	47
4	DEAN WARREN	215	43	43	45	41	43
5	JASON PLANK	207	41	41	41	43	41
6	MARTIN KING	181	39	37	29	37	39
7	STEVE BUNDOCK	177	33	39	37	31	37
8	RICHARD DORS	165	29	33	35	35	33
9	JONATHAN BRIGGS	164	28	29	33	39	35
10	MARK HUTCHINSON	157	37	35	31	33	21
11	JOHN HOLMES	152	31	30	30	30	31
12	NATHAN KENNEDY	133	27	25	25	27	29
13	PHIL GEE	130	26	26	28	28	22
14	NICK NOBLE	121	22	24	23	26	26
15	GARETH WILLIAMS	120	25	23	22	25	25
16	DANIEL GOULD	113	30	28	27	–	28
17	SIMON B BRADBURY	110	21	21	21	24	23
18	ALEX BUCKINGHAM	107	–	22	26	29	30
19	WARREN CLIFTON	105	35	31	39	–	–
20	SEAN RENVOIZE	102	20	20	19	23	20
21	?	51	–	–	24	–	27
22	VINCE LARCOMBE	46	–	–	–	22	24
23	DAREN NEALE	43	23	–	20	–	–
24	ANDY LIDINGTON	27	–	27	–	–	–
25	ANDREW MARRIOTT	24	24	–	–	–	–

Super Evo Under 40

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3	r 4	r 5
1	CHUCK DAVIES	243	50	43	50	50	50
2	RYAN ALLEN	229	47	47	47	45	43
3	JACK SEABORNE	228	45	50	43	43	47
4	TYE BARRS	225	43	45	45	47	45
5	JORDAN OWEN	183	39	37	39	35	33
6	BRADLEY CLARKE	176	28	39	29	39	41
7	JACK DINSLEY	164	29	33	31	41	30
8	CARL LUKE	163	37	29	27	31	39
9	LEE HIGGINBOTTOM	162	23	30	35	37	37
10	LEE BROWN	160	35	31	33	30	31
11	CLINTON BARRS	143	41	41	–	26	35
12	HANNAH WINBOURNE	140	33	25	26	28	28
13	DREW LANE	138	–	35	41	33	29
14	BEN SETCHELL	124	24	24	28	24	24
15	JAKE HUMPHREYS	123	26	23	24	25	25
16	JORD MILLS	117	22	22	23	23	27
17	HARRY LINDSEY	106	21	20	22	21	22
18	CHRIS SMITH	100	27	–	25	22	26
19	TOBY HEAD	95	30	28	37	–	–
20	RICHIE FRANKCOM	86	–	27	30	29	–
21	GARETH MORGANS	84	31	26	–	27	–
22	TALLON SPARROW	65	–	21	21	–	23
23	JAMIE SCOTT	25	25	–	–	–	–

Super Evo Over 40

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3	r 4	r 5
1	NATHAN DAVIES	250	50	50	50	50	50
2	JAMES BAKER	217	39	41	45	47	45
3	CRAIG DOWDING	201	43	37	39	39	43
4	TOM CLEMANS	199	35	43	41	41	39
5	NEIL THOMAS	185	37	33	35	43	37
6	KIRK BAYNTON	183	33	35	37	37	41
7	MATT COLES	178	45	39	47	–	47
8	STEPHEN HURST	174	41	45	43	45	–
9	ANDREW MARRIOTT	130	31	31	33	35	–
10	CASEY JONES	94	47	47	–	–	–

Super Evo Over 50

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3	r 4	r 5
1	PAUL WILDMAN	240	45	50	50	45	50
2	STEVE WELLS	236	47	47	45	50	47
3	RAY CHIVERS	201	41	41	37	39	43
4	JEFF LEWIS	195	39	39	39	37	41
5	JEFF EVANS	194	30	43	43	47	31
6	STEVE SPARROW	177	37	33	31	43	33
7	MAX HENDY	174	43	45	41	–	45
8	GARY HURST	171	27	35	33	41	35
9	BRAD DAVEY	170	35	37	35	33	30
10	JAMIE WINBOURNE	152	31	31	30	31	29
11	DAVID BOSWELL-JONES	148	33	30	27	30	28
12	JAMIE GARDNER	134	25	29	26	28	26
13	BILL HUTCHESON	129	24	27	25	29	24
14	KEVIN NASH	115	26	23	21	22	23
15	NICK NOBLE	113	19	21	23	25	25
16	JON PINKNEY	107	28	25	–	27	27
17	NIGEL DAVIES	106	22	17	20	26	21
18	PHIL LEWIS	97	50	–	47	–	–
19	MATTHEW HILLIER	90	16	15	18	21	20
20	JAMES PATON	83	29	26	28	–	–
21	SIMON KLEMIS	83	–	18	19	24	22
22	IAN MEAD	72	–	–	–	35	37
23	SHANE MANNING	71	14	–	15	23	19
24	DARREN BUNDOCK	69	21	24	24	–	–
25	PAUL WOOLFORD	67	23	22	22	–	–
26	CHRIS MATTHEWS	57	–	28	29	–	–
27	MARK DAVIES	56	13	12	14	–	17
28	DAVID KING	53	20	16	17	–	–
29	COLIN BOYLES	49	18	19	12	–	–
30	SEAN MITCHELL	41	15	13	13	–	–
31	MARTIN COOKE	39	–	–	–	–	39
32	ASHLEY BROWN	37	17	20	–	–	–
33	RUSSELL HURST	30	–	14	16	–	–
34	MARK UPTON	18	–	–	–	–	18

Twinshock Under 50

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3	r 4	r 5
1	MATT NASH	250	50	50	50	50	50
2	MATT WELLS	233	47	47	47	45	47
3	MARC BROCKHURST	92	–	–	–	47	45
4	LUKE PARSONS	43	–	–	–	43	–

Twinshock Over 50

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3	r 4	r 5
1	JAMES REEVES	244	50	50	47	50	47
2	MARK GLEADHILL	239	47	45	50	47	50
3	NEIL MIDGLEY	221	45	43	43	45	45
4	MARK RUSSELL	215	43	41	45	43	43
5	JASON FOUNTAIN	125	39	47	39	–	–
6	DEREK MILLS	121	41	39	41	–	–

Twinshock Over 60

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3	r 4	r 5
1	MIKE ALLPORT	250	50	50	50	50	50
2	GLYN MORETON	235	47	47	47	47	47
3	GREG PASCOE	205	37	39	41	43	45
4	STEVE FEWS	205	43	43	35	45	39
5	JOHN BENNETT	203	39	45	39	39	41
6	DAVID WHITE WHITE	195	35	41	45	31	43
7	MARK TILZEY	185	41	37	31	41	35
8	GRAHAM CHALLIS	164	33	35	33	30	33
9	ROB JAMES	154	29	31	30	33	31
10	JOHN RYALL	145	28	30	28	29	30
11	DAVE ELLIOTT	135	26	29	25	27	28
12	KEITH RICKETTS	134	25	28	26	28	27
13	DAVE DINSLEY	128	–	25	37	37	29
14	DUNCAN CHILDS	121	45	33	43	–	–
15	DAVE WHITE	97	21	26	24	–	26
16	VINCE CRAWLEY	96	24	–	–	35	37
17	PAUL STACEY	95	23	24	23	–	25
18	KEVIN SPILLER	81	30	22	29	–	–
19	AIDAN QUINN	81	27	27	27	–	–
20	KELVIN BAILEY-JONES	54	31	23	–	–	–
21	CHRISTOPHER DOWNING	22	22	–	–	–	–

Modern 2 Stroke Under 50

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3	r 4	r 5
1	KRIS AYRES	234	50	41	50	43	50
2	JOSHUA HERBERT	232	47	50	47	41	47
3	DAN BARTLETT	219	45	45	43	47	39
4	BEN CRYER	217	43	47	41	45	41
5	OLIVER BARNES	214	41	39	39	50	45
6	JAMES HERRING	189	39	43	37	27	43
7	OLIVER HURST	173	35	35	33	35	35
8	DUGGIE JAMIESON	148	31	30	28	29	30
9	JASON WILLIAMS	141	26	23	45	19	28
10	ANTHONY TWIDLE	140	37	37	35	31	–
11	JACK SIMCOCK	136	19	31	31	22	33
12	ELLIOT WOODWARD	136	30	28	19	33	26
13	KEVIN SANDERS	134	25	24	26	30	29
14	HENRY DUNSFORD	130	33	25	24	23	25
15	NICKY JONES	128	24	33	30	26	15
16	OLLIE CUMBER	125	27	27	25	15	31
17	TYLER GREEN	122	–	29	29	37	27
18	RICH MAY	108	23	19	21	21	24
19	ZAK CUMBER	106	22	22	20	25	17
20	MAT FEWS	94	13	21	22	16	22
21	CALLUM HURST	94	17	18	11	28	20
22	JAKE MOULD	89	21	–	23	24	21
23	HARRY NOAKES	87	20	20	15	9	23
24	CHAD CHAD EVANSSAMUEL	83	12	16	16	20	19
25	DAN ROBERTS	83	16	14	18	17	18
26	LUKA ASTON	82	29	26	27	–	–
27	MATT BENNETT	77	14	15	14	18	16
28	ADRIAN CHALKLEY	76	–	–	–	39	37
29	GEORGE TUCKER	68	15	12	13	14	14
30	LUKE CUMBER	58	28	13	17	–	–
31	BEN MASON	57	10	11	10	13	13
32	THOMAS WARING	49	8	8	9	12	12
33	JOE THOMAS	47	18	17	12	–	–
34	ALFIE REEVES	39	6	6	6	10	11
35	BRANDON CHAMBERLAIN	35	7	9	8	11	–
36	DANIEL MEAD	31	4	5	5	7	10
37	DEAN TUCKER	27	5	7	7	8	–
38	JAMIE SHEPPARD	19	9	10	–	–	–
39	BLAKE DUDLEY	11	11	–	–	–	–

Modern 2 Stroke Over 50

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3	r 4	r 5
1	GARETH DUNSFORD	231	43	47	47	47	47
2	JOHN HEATH	223	47	43	45	43	45
3	DARREN KENINGTON	221	45	45	43	45	43
4	DALE HUNT	197	39	37	39	41	41
5	BRUCE GARSIDE	191	41	39	35	39	37
6	SEAN DOYLE	177	27	33	41	37	39
7	JOHN HOLMES	171	35	31	37	35	33
8	ANDREW ANTAL	161	31	29	33	33	35
9	TERRY HOUSE	150	50	50	50	–	–
10	MARCUS BARNES	147	30	26	31	30	30
11	BRENDAN CORR	141	25	24	30	31	31
12	ALEX LUCKES	141	29	30	26	28	28
13	KEVIN WOOLFORD	136	24	27	29	27	29
14	BARRY HOLBROOK	134	28	28	28	25	25
15	MATT DYKE	130	22	25	27	29	27
16	ANDY STATHAM	111	21	21	21	24	24
17	MARK MEAD	104	19	19	20	23	23
18	ROB MEAD	100	–	–	–	50	50
19	JEREMY TIMMS	98	–	22	24	26	26
20	DARREN SHORTT	91	33	35	23	–	–
21	ANDREW RENO	78	37	41	–	–	–
22	MARTIN ARCHER	74	26	23	25	–	–
23	NICHOLAS WITT	45	23	–	22	–	–
24	KEITH CHANDLER	40	20	20	–	–	–