Full bore at Brookthorpe for Smith! 2023 UK Evo MX Championship Round 3 – Race Report & Results

Back on the weekend of 20th & 21st May round 3 of the Uk Evo Mx Championships headed to Brookthorpe in Gloucestershire for what was a fast and furious couple days of racing, but before racing got underway on the Saturday all the competitors did a lap of honour as a mark of respect in memory of Simon Mitchell.

Race Report and Images by Dave Rich

The racing consisted of three blocks on the Saturday with two blocks on the Sunday and was to produce some of the best racing in the series so far, especially in the Evo 125 class which was stacked with talent and was to produce some good tussles not just at the front but further down the field as well. Daryl Bolter on his Cr125 Honda won the opening race after not the best of starts from fellow Cr125 rider Jim Davies with Bradley Doyle taking third, but in the second moto Bolter lead early doors but was pushed hard on the first couple of laps by Kristian Hutchings who eventually got pass Bolter and went on to take the win with Davies this time taking third.

Daryl Bolter giving his all in the Evo 125 class

In the third moto Bolter had the best start and lead the opening lap before a mechanical fault saw him pull up and it was Davies who took over at the front from Jordan Barrs with Barrs taking the lead by the end of the fourth lap, but a mistake saw Barrs drop back down the field and up into the lead now came Hutchings who had got the better of Davies who was to go on to take the win from Davies with Doyle taking third. Sundays racing in the 125’s saw a fine display from Bolter who won both races but there was some really good close racing behind him between Hutchings and Barrs with Barrs eventually taking second whereas in the fifth and final race it was much a carbon copy race with Bolter heading from the off, but all eyes were on Hutchings and Barrs again who were having a real close encounter with Barrs managing to get pass Hutchings two laps from the end but Hutchings kept coming back at Barrs and took it right to the line with Barrs just holding on to take second literally by a second, but with Hutchings taking third who had been consistant all weekend he was to take the overall from Davies and third overall went to Barrs.

No 98 James Paton and No 77 Jamie Gardener battling it out in the Super Evo over 50’s class

In the Evo 250 Class it was Jamie Smith on his Cr250 Honda who took the overall on the weekend with four wins out of the five races with Jordan Carrier on his Kx250 Kawasaki the only rider to beat him over the weekend but the best racing in this class was to take place between Nigel Kibble on his Yz250 Yamaha and James Kensington on his Cr250 Honda with Kensington just doing enough at the end of the weekend to take the second spot on the podium by six points from Kibble who took the third place overall.

First Corner action in the combined Evo 250/500 class

The Evo 500 class was to produce three different winners over the weekend with Ben Griffiths on his Cr500 Honda winning three of the five races with a race win each for the Yz490 Yamaha of Philip Dyson with the other win going to the Cr500 Honda rider Paul Edge but it was consistency that counted for the overall at the end of the weekend and that went to Griffiths who took the top step of the podium with James Price on his Kx500 Kawasaki taking second overall and Alex Wallis fellow Kx500 rider taking third overall.

In the Super Evo under 40’s class there was no stopping the Kx250 Kawasaki of Scott James on the Saturday who took all three race wins, but not such a good day for James on Sunday as he was leading the opening Sunday race before he came to a halt and this was a Dnf for him and this left the overall wide open with the little Kx125 Kawasaki of Chuck Davies taking both the wins on Sunday and with top three finishes in the Saturdays races it was Davies who took the overall from Ryan Allen with third overall going to Cr500 of Oliver Weeks, whereas in the over 40’s class it was John Butler who took the overall with a 2,1,1,1,2 scorecard by one point from Nathan Davies with Luke Dewey taking that third spot overall.

Jason Morris was a clear winner in the Super Evo over 50’s class

In the Super Evo over 50’s class there was no stopping Jason Morris on his Cr500 Honda who totally dominated all five races to give him the overall with the Kx500 Kawasaki of Dean Warren Morris’s nearest challenger in all five races with a scorecard of 2,2,2,2,2 taking second overall with Max Hendy with five consistant rides taking third overall.

The Vets over 45 class saw Martin King run away with it and notched up a clean sweep of wins on his Cr250 Honda with the Cr125 Honda of Steve Bundock putting together some good results in all five race to be rewarded with second overall and taking third overall was Mark Hutchinson on his Kx500 Kawasaki.

In the Vets over 60’s class it was Nick Baum on his Cr250 Honda who won the opening race from fellow Cr 250 rider Vince Crawley with Crawley going on to win all the other four races and with it took the overall from Baum with Kevin Spiller on his Husqvarna 450 taking third overall.

Terry House took five out of five wins in the Twinshock over 50’s class

The Twinshock under 50’s class saw a dominant display of riding from Allen Waring on his 490 Maico on the Saturday and the first race on Sunday but unfortunately for Waring in the last race he was to pull up with a problem and this race win went to Matt Nash on his 250 Red Rocket Honda and with Nash second to Waring in the opening four races Nash took the overall from Phillip Peaster with James Reeves taking third overall, whereas in the over 50’s class there was no stopping Terry House who was out on a borrowed Maico from Sammy Doble who was to soon to get to grips with it and won all five races to give him the overall from Wayne Twidle and taking third overall was Nick Dyer.

In the Modern under 50’s 2-Stroke class it was Paul Burn on his Yz250 Yamaha who took the overall with four wins and a second from Jason Williams who was the only rider to beat Burns over the weekend taking second overall with Josh Herbert taking that third spot on the podium and in the over 50’s class it was Gareth Dunsford who took the overall with a 1,2,1,1,1 scorecard with Darren Shortt second overall and third overall was to go to Jeremy Timms.

Results

125 Evo

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	Kristian Hutchings	231	41	50	50	45	45
2	Jim Davies	223	47	45	47	41	43
3	Jordan Barrs	217	43	41	39	47	47
4	Bradley Doyle	217	45	43	45	43	41
5	Daryl Bolter	197	50	47	–	50	50
6	Sheldon Seal	193	37	39	43	37	37
7	Warren Clifton	163	33	33	35	27	35
8	Jason Evans	155	31	31	33	30	30
9	Neil Long	150	30	28	30	29	33
10	Chris Matthews	148	29	29	31	28	31
11	Aaron Colley	144	39	27	–	39	39
12	Matt Coles	142	35	37	37	33	–
13	Steven Shaw	136	27	26	28	26	29
14	Ryan Gee	129	26	25	26	24	28
15	Jason Davies	112	28	30	29	25	–
16	Ben Murray	111	–	35	41	35	–
17	Daniel Gissing	76	25	24	27	–	–
18	Jordan Shaw	31	–	–	–	31	–

250 Evo

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	Jamie Smith	247	50	47	50	50	50
2	James Kensington	223	43	45	45	43	47
3	Nigel Kibble	217	45	43	43	41	45
4	Jordan Carrier	216	47	50	47	47	25
5	Danny Smyth	203	41	41	41	39	41
6	Kyle Proctor	191	39	37	39	37	39
7	Steven Stutt	173	31	33	37	35	37
8	Dean Stutt	173	35	35	35	33	35
9	David Alderton	160	33	31	33	30	33
10	Scott Allen	152	29	30	31	31	31
11	James Baker	145	30	29	29	27	30
12	Lee Sims	134	27	27	28	26	26
13	Nathan Kennedy	131	26	26	27	25	27
14	Rory Merchant	116	28	–	–	45	43
15	Kyle Jones	116	–	28	30	29	29
16	Ben Hodgkins	76	37	39	–	–	–
17	Robin Wilkins	56	–	–	–	28	28

500 Evo

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	Ben Griffiths	244	50	50	47	50	47
2	James Price	221	47	45	45	45	39
3	Alex Wallis	213	41	43	43	41	45
4	Edward Williams	201	39	41	39	39	43
5	Philip Dyson	183	43	47	50	43	–
6	Paul Edge	142	45	–	–	47	50
7	Jamie Scott	119	37	–	41	–	41

Evo Vets Over 45

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	Martin King	250	50	50	50	50	50
2	Steve Bundock	229	45	47	43	47	47
3	Mark Hutchinson	209	37	45	45	43	39
4	Stuart James	205	43	37	41	41	43
5	Phillip Gee	203	41	39	39	39	45
6	Glyn Moreton	203	39	43	35	45	41
7	Clyde Deacon	164	31	31	30	35	37
8	Rob Keyworth	164	30	29	33	37	35
9	John Ryall	154	29	30	31	31	33
10	Paul Woolford	143	28	28	29	30	28
11	Nick Noble	142	27	27	28	29	31
12	Andy Lidington	135	47	41	47	–	–
13	Nigel Mundy	135	25	26	27	28	29
14	Alex Luckes	107	35	35	37	–	–
15	Barry Sills	66	33	33	–	–	–
16	Mark Smith	63	–	–	–	33	30
17	Nathan Marston	26	26	–	–	–

Evo Vets Over 60

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	Vince Crawley	247	47	50	50	50	50
2	Nick Baum	234	50	47	45	45	47
3	Kevin Spiller	223	45	43	47	43	45
4	Aidan Quinn	221	43	45	43	47	43
5	Rob James	189	39	35	39	37	39
6	Keith Ricketts	181	35	39	37	33	37
7	Johnny Stagg	173	37	37	35	31	33
8	Doug Carrier	164	41	41	41	41	–
9	Mike Sealey	80	–	–	–	39	41
10	David White	70	–	–	–	35	35

Super Evo Under 40

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	Chuck Davies	239	47	45	47	50	50
2	Ryan Allen	225	45	47	45	41	47
3	Oliver Weeks	217	43	43	43	43	45
4	Alex Davies	211	41	41	39	47	43
5	Richie Frankcom	201	39	39	37	45	41
6	Jack Drogan	193	37	37	41	39	39
7	Scott James	180	50	50	50	–	30
8	Carl Luke	167	31	31	35	33	37
9	George Miles	167	33	33	31	35	35
10	Lee Brown	166	28	35	33	37	33
11	Bradley Clarke	152	35	30	26	30	31
12	Hannah Winbourne	140	29	28	29	28	26
13	James Teenan	133	27	24	27	26	29
14	Daniel Spencer	133	24	27	30	24	28
15	Harry Lindsey	118	23	22	24	25	24
16	Lewis James	104	25	25	–	29	25
17	Kieran Payne	102	–	23	25	27	27
18	Ben Setchell	80	26	26	28	–	–
19	Theo Prince	59	30	29	–	–	–
20	Josh james	31	–	–	–	31	–

Super Evo Over 40

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	John Butler	242	47	50	50	50	45
2	Nathan Davies	241	50	47	47	47	50
3	Luke Dewey	213	41	45	43	41	43
4	Craig Dowding	209	43	41	41	43	41
5	Phil Hunt	191	37	39	37	39	39
6	Nathan Jacobs	133	45	43	45	–	–
7	Kirk Bayton	111	39	33	39	–	–
8	Micheal Anderson	107	35	37	35	–	–
9	Casey Jones	92	–	–	–	45	47
10	Jason Hasaka	35	–	35	–	–	–

Super Evo Over 50

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	Jason Morris	250	50	50	50	50	50
2	Dean Warren	235	47	47	47	47	47
3	Max Hendy	223	45	43	45	45	45
4	Steve Wells	213	41	45	43	43	41
5	Chris Koch	201	43	39	41	35	43
6	David Hopkins	195	39	41	37	41	37
7	Ray Chivers	185	37	33	39	37	39
8	Brad Davey	165	35	31	33	33	33
9	Jeff Lewis	160	29	35	30	31	35
10	David Boswell Jones	160	33	37	29	30	31
11	Jamie Winbourne	149	31	29	31	29	29
12	Jamie Gardner	141	30	27	27	27	30
13	James Paton	140	28	28	28	28	28
14	Nick Pritchett	127	25	25	26	24	27
15	Jeff Evans	127	23	30	35	39	–
16	Ashley Brown	125	27	26	25	22	25
17	Dave King	112	22	23	23	21	23
18	Matthew Hillier	99	15	22	20	20	22
19	Kevin Nash	90	19	24	–	23	24
20	Simon Klemis	85	21	21	24	19	–
21	Derek Cook	75	20	20	18	17	–
22	Phil Jones	72	16	16	22	18	–
23	Mark Davies	64	14	17	17	16	–
24	Gary Tipping	60	18	–	21	–	21
25	Darren Bundock	55	17	19	19	–	–
26	Vince Larcombe	51	–	–	–	25	26
27	Greg Pascoe	46	–	–	–	26	20
28	Mark Upton	34	–	18	16	–	–
29	Jon Pinkney	26	26	–	–	–	–
30	Mark Sankey	24	24	–	–	–

Twinshock Under 50

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	Matt Nash	238	47	47	47	47	50
2	Phillip Peaster	225	45	43	45	45	47
3	James Reeves	219	43	45	43	43	45
4	Ashton Coleman	207	41	41	41	41	43
5	Allen Waring	200	50	50	50	50	–
6	Alfie Reeves	197	39	39	39	39	41

Twinshock Over 50

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	Terry House	250	50	50	50	50	50
2	Wayne Twidle	233	47	47	47	45	47
3	Nick Dyer	225	45	43	45	47	45
4	Jim Allwood	215	43	45	41	43	43
5	Kelvin Bailey Jones	123	41	–	–	41	41
6	Andy Bowles	43	–	–	43	–	–

Modern 2 Stroke Under 50

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	Paul Burn	243	50	50	50	43	50
2	Jason Williams	234	47	47	43	50	47
3	Josh Herbert	217	45	37	47	45	43
4	Anthony Twidle	215	43	45	45	37	45
5	Dougie Jameson	185	41	41	41	23	39
6	George Baylis	176	37	26	37	39	37
7	Tom Cumber	173	33	35	35	41	29
8	James Herring	170	–	43	39	47	41
9	Nicky Jones	168	39	39	31	35	24
10	Henry Dunsford	163	35	29	33	33	33
11	Zak Cumber	147	27	28	30	27	35
12	Andrew Markey	143	29	27	29	28	30
13	Ollie Cumber	139	30	24	27	30	28
14	Leon Williams	136	26	33	20	31	26
15	Tom Turner	124	28	21	24	26	25
16	Daniel Bartlett	119	–	31	28	29	31
17	Taylor Levett	117	25	25	26	24	17
18	Luke Cumber	110	23	20	22	22	23
19	Lewis Smith	100	–	23	25	25	27
20	Jason Weeks	97	22	16	18	20	21
21	George Tucker	96	16	18	21	19	22
22	Chad Evans Samuel	92	20	15	19	18	20
23	Ben Mason	88	21	14	17	17	19
24	Matthew Dyke	80	17	13	16	16	18
25	Max Luckes	69	24	22	23	–	–
26	Brandon Chamberlian	65	18	17	15	15	–
27	Kiaran Watkins	61	31	30	–	–	–
28	Luke Pitt	52	19	19	–	14	–
29	Dean Tucker	27	15	12	–	–	–
30	Archie Howell	21	–	–	–	21	–

Modern 2 Stroke Over 50

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	Gareth Dunsford	247	50	47	50	50	50
2	Darren Shortt	215	43	43	43	43	43
3	Jeremy Timms	197	37	41	39	41	39
4	Keith Chandler	195	45	37	37	39	37
5	Darren Kenington	191	47	50	47	–	47
6	Andy Statham	187	39	35	35	37	41
7	Mark Mead	171	35	33	33	35	35
8	Martin Archer	121	41	39	41	–	–
9	Gary Henson	90	–	45	45	–	–
10	Dale Hunt	90	–	–	–	45	45
11	Anthony Tanner	47	–	–	–	47	–