Dafydd blasts to Warmingham double! 2023 Nora MX Quadcross Championship Round 6 – Race Report & Results

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The NORA MX Club hosted the sixth round of the NORA MX championships of 2023 at Warmingham Lane MX Park in Cheshire. It was part of another fantastic event which incorporated the fourth round of the NORA sidecar Championship.

Report and Images by Tracy Thacker

The weather was fantastic with the sun shining on the brilliant track, with just a few showers towards the end of the day. There was dust in places, but otherwise conditions were great.

The sidecar supporters were in for a treat with four GP teams present, British Champion Stuart Brown with his new passenger Nathan Cooper, Stuart’s Son Jake Brown with British Champion passenger Josh Chamberlain, George Kinge with Steve Kirwin, and Michael Hodges with Jack Wilkinson. Each team have been suffering with injuries after GPs crashes but are now working on fitness ready to re-join the GP races, with the British Sidecar GP next month (At Cusses Gorse) this was valuable bike time for them all. They raced with the Nora Championship crews but didn’t qualify for championship points.

Race one got underway with an early lead for Lee Foyle and Dan Phelps they held a safe lead until their sidecar wheel bearing broke up and the wheel fell off leaving them track side. Their championship rivals Tony and Scott Grahame took the lead until Stuart Brown and Nathan Cooper blasted past. Tony and Scott Grahame held second, with George Kinge and Steve Kirwin fighting through to third. Behind Jake Brown and Josh Chamberlain stayed ahead of Paul Pelling and Mike Curnow, with Ashley Williams and Jon Hunt in sixth.

In race two there was a crash on bend one with Paul Pelling and Mike Curnow practicing the tuck and roll manoeuvres after being thrown from the bike. Luckily, they weren’t hit by any bikes and were up and away before the leaders came round on their first lap. Stuart Brown and Nathan Cooper took the lead from the start and were looking for a second win, but it wasn’t to be, by the halfway point Jake Brown and Josh Chamberlain found a way past using every inch of track to take the wide line down the hill and across the start, they held the advantage going on to take a brilliant win. Stuart Brown and Nathan Cooper took second with Michael Hodges and Jack Wilkinson third. Tony and Scott Grahame were the first of the point scorers just ahead of George Kinge and Steve Kirwin, with Lee Foyle and Dan Phelps putting their race one problems behind them to take sixth.

In the final race of the day, time constraints meant the race was shortened to three laps, but the race was still fast a furious. The GP teams took the first four places, with Stuart Brown and Nathan Cooper taking a second win. Behind it was all to play for in the championship, Lee Foyle and Dan Phelps took fifth chased to the line by Tony and Scott Grahame who had gained enough points to move into the championship lead, with two rounds remaining this going to be a fight to the end.

In the Pro / Pro-am class, racing got underway with another first bend crash, this time a few riders were injured and didn’t join the re-start. Dafydd Davies was determined and blasted a safe distance ahead going on to take his first great win. Carl Bunce held second but was challenged by Jamie Morgan who fought past. Behind, Chad Beevers fought through to take fourth just ahead of Tom Day with James Bevan sixth.
Race two was shortened to five laps Dafydd Davies took the holeshot and a second win. James Bevan took advantage of a great start to take second ahead of Carl Bunce, with a battle for fourth behind. Jamie Morgan was determined, fighting past Tom Day. Paul Winrow was just behind in sixth.

The Masters A and B class had three races. In race one it was a battle between Johnathan Mcknight and Paul Winrow, they stayed very close throughout with Paul Winrow just managing to hold the advantage and took his first win of the day. Greg Fisher held third from Chris Keitch, with Keith Harden moving past Paul McConway and into in fifth.

In race two it was Johnathan Mcknight who led from the start with Paul Winrow blasting into the lead in the middle part of the race. This left Johnathan Mcknight to take second ahead of Greg Fisher and Chris Keitch in fourth. Keith Harden was just behind.

Their final day of the day was shortened to five laps. Paul Winrow took the early lead, and a third win. Johnathan Mcknight had another great race tucking into second ahead of Greg Fisher with Paul McConway just behind.

In the Masters B class Jason Hall had a great weekend and some brilliant starts to secure the overall in that class.

In the 150 / 250 races it was Louie Holt who took the overall in the 250 open class, taking wins in all races with Frank Marston close behind and taking second overall. Jay Sams had a couple of great wins in the 250 Air cooled class with Shane Havard Evans taking one wins and second overall. Brodie North did a great job to win the 150 Open class.

In the Clubman Elite and Clubman classes there were some great battles with Josh McKnight and Aled Davies challenging hard in every race, Josh McKnight took the advantage and three wins, but Aled Davies did have mechanical problems in race two which meant he had to be towed back to the pits. This meant Harry Koller took third overall.

In the Intermediates Morgan Junge had another great week with three wins. Brooke Bunce won the ladies class.

Finally the 50 / 100 class was well supported with Shay McKenna taking three wins across the weekend in the 100 Geared class. Kayla George took three wins in the 100 Autos, and Jayden Garrett had a brilliant day to take the overall in the 50s class.

We look forward to round seven on – July 9th – Cusses Gorse – SP4 6JW

Results

Sidecars

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Tony Graeme/ Scott Graeme	117	40	40	37
2	Ashley Williams Jon Hunt	103	35	35	33
3	Lee Foyle/ Daniel Phelps	101	24	37	40
4	Sam Osbaldoston/ Harley Lloyd	101	33	33	35
5	Paul Pelling/ Mike Curnow	93	37	28	28
6	Thomas Mackay/ Luke Peters	91	31	31	29
7	Jack Roger/ Ryan Beavis	88	28	29	31
8	Richard Gillham/ Miles Gillham	80	27	26	27
9	Neil Warrington/ Cameron Winfield	79	26	27	26
10	Brian Turner/ Kelly Higgins	74	25	24	25
11	Taylor Whitt/ Jake Grahame	54	29	25	–

Quads

Pro

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	Dafydd Davies	80	40	40
2	Carl Bunce	70	35	35
3	Jamie Morgan	70	37	33
4	James Bevan	66	29	37
5	Tom Day	62	31	31
6	Chad Beevers U21	60	33	27
7	Paul Winrow	57	28	29
8	Lestyn Rolands	54	26	28
9	Luke Berlyn U21	53	27	26

Pro AM

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	Dylan McKenna	80	40	40
2	Marcus Sprason U21	72	35	37
3	Craig Fisher	68	33	35
4	Scott Berlyn U21	64	31	33
5	Zak Beevers U21	37	37	–

Clubman Elite

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Josh McKnight	120	40	40	40
2	Harry Koller	105	35	35	35
3	Aled Davies	101	37	27	37
4	Lewis Humphris	101	33	37	31
5	Harry Grant	93	29	31	33
6	Catrin Davies	93	31	33	29
7	Luke Brown	85	28	29	28
8	Alfie Pennington	82	27	28	27

Clubman

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Charlie Wheatley	120	40	40	40
2	Zac Hull	111	37	37	37
3	Charlie Enticknap	103	33	35	35
4	Lance Hand	97	31	33	33
5	Richard Paynter	66	35	31	–
6	\|McKenzie Evan	58	29	29	–

Intermediates

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Morgan Junge	120	40	40	40
2	Harry Terrell	109	35	37	37
3	Josh Morris	97	27	35	35
4	Bradley Stanton	95	31	33	31
5	Charlie Eaton	90	33	24	33
6	James Scott	87	29	29	29
7	Paul Needham	82	26	28	28
8	Ewan Packman	68	37	31	–
9	Chris Thorn	55	28	27	–
10	Gary Piper	50	24	26	–
11	Richard Murphy	48	23	25	–
12	James Horrox	25	25	–	–

Ladies

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Brooke Bunce (L)	120	40	40	40
2	Chloe Keitch (L)	109	35	37	37
3	Amelia Mead (L)	103	33	35	35
4	Vasna Wilcock	98	37	33	28
5	Carly Sewell (L)	95	31	31	33
6	Grace Keitch	89	29	29	31
7	Amy Naylor (L)	85	28	28	29

Masters A

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Paul Winrow	120	40	40	40
2	Johnathan Mcknight	111	37	37	37
3	Greg Fisher	105	35	35	35
4	Chris Keitch	97	33	33	31
5	Paul McConway	93	29	31	33
6	Keith Harden	88	31	29	28
7	Clint Eagle	81	25	27	29
8	David Hull	81	26	28	27
9	John Hall	74	24	24	26
10	Matthew Kirk	52	27	25	–
11	Barrie Dennis	51	28	23	–
12	Richard Clark	26	–	26	–

Masters B

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	James Lees	114	37	40	37
2	Stumpy Lawrence (V)	104	40	29	35
3	Gareth Walters	102	27	35	40
4	Danny Gilligan	101	35	33	33
5	Jason Hall	93	25	37	31
6	Christopher Gyles (V)	93	33	31	29
7	Karl Pilcher	84	29	27	28
8	Nik Blythe(V)	81	28	26	27
9	Russ Wells	77	26	25	26
10	Mark Moseley (V)	59	31	28	–

250 Open

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Louie Holt (O)	120	40	40	40
2	Frank Marston (O)	109	37	35	37
3	James Matbury	103	33	37	33
4	Connor Yates (O)	99	31	33	35
5	Reggie Binskin (O)	93	35	29	29
6	Ellie Stott (O)	91	29	31	31
7	Lara Logan (O)	84	28	28	28

250 Air Cooled

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Jay Sams (A)	117	37	40	40
2	Shane Havard Evans (A)	112	40	37	35
3	Georgia Binskin (A)	101	33	31	37
4	Samuel-James Tatler (A)	99	35	35	29
5	Seth Terrell (A)	93	27	33	33
6	Ella Walters	91	31	29	31
7	Lenny Bevan	83	28	27	28
8	Abbie Eaton (A)	57	29	28	–

150 Open

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Brodie North	120	40	40	40
2	Luca Shaw	109	37	35	37
3	Seth Balaam	103	33	37	33
4	Malachy McKenna	99	31	33	35
5	Ethan Legg	91	29	31	31
6	Keian Willis	85	27	29	29
7	Ella Robe	84	28	28	28
8	Amelia Talent	62	35	27	–

100cc Open

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Kayla George (A)	120	40	40	40
2	Bentley Don Garrett (A)	111	37	37	37
3	Louie Garrett (A)	101	33	33	35
4	Dexter Griffin (A)	99	35	31	33
5	Owain Lewis (A)	95	31	35	29
6	Cameron Lees (A)	89	29	29	31

100cc Geared

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Shay McKenna (G)	120	40	40	40
2	Beau Terrell (G)	111	37	37	37
3	Rhys Williams (G)	105	35	35	35

50cc

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Jayden Garrett (50)	117	40	40	37
2	Macson Lorton (50)	108	37	31	40
3	Erin Mansell (50)	103	35	33	35
4	Harry Barker bLU cRU(50)	99	33	37	29
5	Tyler Willcock bLU cRU(50)	97	31	35	31
6	Gracie-Anne Blythe (50)	91	29	29	33
7	Hugo Griffin bLU cRU(50)	84	28	28	28
8	Hunter Griffin bLU cRU(50)	80	27	26	27
9	Oliver Willsher bLU cRU(50)	78	26	27	25
10	Jack Needham (50)	76	25	25	26