Full House for Franky! 2024 BSMA O’Neal Nationals Round 1 – Race Report & Results

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From a sunny, dry Sherwood track Friday morning to a torrential downpour in the evening, what looked to have been a track in prime condition had the track crew working overtime to make it rideable for Saturday morning! The first round of the BSMA Oneal nationals had a bit of work to do, and the race order had to be rescheduled to ensure a good race. Being the only national series to hold an auto class put a lot of extra work into the track prep.

Race Report and Images by Ady Cowshall – Images of Speed

The decision was made to run all the big bike classes for their first block before the youngsters even got to practice. So it was the MX1 and 2 combined class that went out first with a flyer from Scott Aldridge setting the pace going un-challenged. Ash Greedy got off to a slow start finally pulling up to second in the latter stages, but too late to give Aldridge bother. Dan Whitehead started off well, but dropped down to a final 6th place across the line aided by the demise of three frontrunners as first Henry Siddiqui dropped out, followed by Jayden Murphy and Josh Taylor all DNF’ing! Ben Zeale was another who went out with just 1 lap remaining. The fastest MX2 rider was Jak Taylor coming from a poor start cutting through the pack to pull all the way up to third!

Race two saw Josh Greedy pull the lead with brother Ash looking for a passing opportunity. Josh held second for the majority of the race after being passed and it looked like a class one two for the Greedy boys, but Aldridge gate crashed the party with two to go finishing some 30 seconds down at the flag on the older brother. Jak Taylor again put in a strong ride to be on top of the MX2 leader board. Elder statesman Steve Bixby got stuck in with a fantastic 5th place showing age is just a number!

Race three on Sunday saw much better track conditions. Again Ash Greedy got out to an early lead and set the pace with brother Josh battling with Aldridge in the first few laps but the flying 2 stroke of Josh Taylor charged through after passing Luke Sturgeon (who DNF’d before the race ended), but couldn’t catch Aldridge. Mx2 saw Siddiqui ahead of last years champ Leon Williams and Jak Taylor, the last of the Mx 2 riders on the lead lap.

The final race and Greedy did the business again, Aldridge came home second with Greedy jnr third. Siddiqui and Taylor both went out for a second time leaving Jak Taylor to inherit the lead in Mx2, getting pushed by Williams in the closing laps. Young newcomer Alfie Smith got the third placed MX2 bike after coming out of the youth ranks as the Senior open champ for 2023.

The Youth 125/250f class came out next with the 125 of Will Haddock showing the field he was the one to beat, putting in lap times quick enough to be inside the top 10 in the adult class! Ben Casey tried to stay with Haddock resulting in a comfortable gap over third placed rider George Corke who had to fend off Ollie Bubb on another 125.

Race two saw another domination by Haddock, but this time it was another Corke; Max battling with the other Corke, George. But this was for 250f honours. Casey was in the mix until it all went wrong with less than 2 laps remaining allowing another great result for Bubb with Travis Laughton rounding out the top five.

Sunday conditions saw it less technical in the early going and thus made the racing a lot closer as Haddock had close contention this time from Casey closing the gap down to less than two seconds by the flag. Max Corke came through the field to take George napping on the last lap for third. Bailey Mitchell took his best result with a fifth. Haddock took a clean sweep with another victory ahead of Max and George Corke, Laughton and Casey completed the top five.

Two maximums came from the combined vets class. Reigning over 45’s champion Mark Morris took a clean sweep and Sam Callow dominated the over 35’s both being Kawasaki mounted. Callow had moments when he had company from Stefan Little and Jamie Padget but once clear he came home unchallenged. Morris was quick out of the gate on the deep start straight and on Saturday was so far in front of his closest rival it looked like he was one of the younger old men! Sunday however the going was quicker and his margins where challenged by Scotty Williamson and Richard Green. So the fight for the minor podium places was decided by Little’s DNF in race three! Padgett’s 3-2-2-4 scorecard was enough to secure runner up while Tom White’s 4-4-3-3 edged out Lee Baggs for third overall. With The doughnut man taking the max it was a surprise Williamson taking the second step by two points from Green. The expected challenge from Wildman Willis was extinguished by several soil samples through the course of the weekend leaving him trailing a further ten points down.

The new clubman class had some close racing at the sharp end with 4 different race winners! Matthew Fuller took race one, Oliver Wickers race two, Nathan Heath took the third and Sam Menzie the final moto. Consistency was the key to taking the overall and it was Heath scoring inside the top three in each race that saw him pip Fuller by 2 points. Wickers win wasn’t backed up by any other top 3 results relegating him to third overall. Shea Ryan’s 5-6-5-4 results bagged him fourth ahead of race winner Menzie. Joel Kremer’s blistering second in race two helped secure him inside the top ten while Menzie rounded out the day fifth overall.

Wildcard Jensen Severn was on fire in the Big wheel 85 class taking all the wins. Chris Brindley, another wildcard rider kept him honest in the third moto and backing that second up with another second and two thirds securing him second overall. With those two not in the championship the real battle for supremacy was between Zane Stephens and Travis Bixby, but with yet another wildcard getting amongst them in the form of Riley Barrow it really shook things up. Stephens went 4-3-8-2 to Bixby’s 5-4-3-5 just edging it by two points courtesy of the second place finish. The next four registered riders rounded out the weekend only separated by eight points! Jack Brown may have finished sixth on the day but now runs third in the standings followed closely by Lewis Morgan, Jenson Cole and Oliver Burridge.

In Small wheel 85’s Franky Donoghue obviously liked the tough sandy going taking four out of four with big margins over the rest of the field, leaving them with something to think about going into round two! William Dennis was the best of the rest securing two second places but a third and fourth meant he lost big point to Donoghue. Wildcard Teddy Merrin got into the battle with the registered riders taking points away from the likes of Keedan Williamson, Freddie Gurney, Henry Lewis and Max Beard. Lewis and Beard somehow managed to end up in the overall standings ahead of the strong rides from Merrin.

Roan Watson started the weekend off with an impressive victory in the Junior group coming home half a minute in front of nearest rival Riley Rogers who in turn had a good 20 seconds on Charlie Tunnicliffe with the next three riders in close succession, led in by Logan Lewis, with Finlee Pope and Forrest Roberts all within striking distance of each other.

Race two was quite a shake up with Jack Clark taking the win with the only rider scoring top 5 in race one. Pope finished second, Oaklan Winnall, Ronnie Morgan and Tyler Peaty who were all outside the top ten in race one, came through next all courtesy of Watson’s misfortune.

Watson came out to set the record straight in race three leaving everyone in his wake. Pope had now gotten used to the going and again came in runner up ahead of an on fire Morgan with Winnall pushing him all the way. Peaty managed another fifth on possibly his least favourite circuit.

The final race of the weekend saw Roan again take a commanding win, Clark second, Pope third and Morgan continuing his form in fourth. Will Kremer got himself into the top five for the first time aiding a top ten overall.

Cohen Llewllyn stormed the first race in the Autos with nearly a two minute lead over second and third placed Leo Edward and Cody Roberts. The deep sandy going meant for a stretched out field as it was over another minute before fourth placed Jesse Eyles crossed the line.

Llewllyn dominated race two once again but it was Jake Sayers running second this time after not scoring in race one. Roberts got the better of Edward with Jaxson Hooper claiming fifth.

Race three saw Llewllyn’s closest challenge so far as Sayers kept him in sight for a few laps and managed to keep the gap down to 20 seconds at the finish. Roberts, Hooper and Edward kept it tight going into the final race.

Sayers took the final race after Llewllyn chucked it down the track, but remounted and scythed through the pack to come back to second and take the overall. Roberts, Hooper and this time Eyles got back into the top five.

With the next round on a more traditional hardpack going will it turn the tables on those that rode the sand so well?

Results

MX1

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	Ashley Greedy	178	43	45	45	45
2	Scott Aldridge	174	45	43	43	43
3	JACOB BOWDEN	143	41	34	35	33
4	Steve Bixby	139	35	39	26	39
5	TOM HUGES	131	34	32	34	31
6	KIERAN YORKE	128	32	31	31	34
7	DAN WHITEHEAD	125	37	30	32	26
8	ARRAN WELLS	120	33	28	30	29
9	RICKY CARTER	118	30	29	29	30
10	CALLUM GORDON	105	–	35	33	37
11	BEN ZEALE	105	–	33	37	35
12	JAYDEN MURPHY	87	–	27	28	32
13	JAKE CAREY	82	29	26	27	–
14	MARK MORRIS	77	27	–	25	25
15	LUKE STURGEON	68	31	37	–	–
16	Josh Taylor	41	–	–	41	–
17	James Rowsell	28	28	–	–	–
18	Darryl Wallis	28	–	–	–	28
19	Adam Hardy	25	–	25	–	–

MX2

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	Jak Taylor	176	45	45	41	45
2	LEON WILLIAMS	170	43	41	43	43
3	ALFIE SMITH	154	39	39	35	41
4	ELLIS BUBB	150	35	37	39	39
5	JAY PLATT	147	41	34	37	35
6	ASHLEY BOWDEN	139	37	35	34	33
7	CONNOR JAGO	128	34	31	31	32
8	JONAS BROWN	122	33	30	28	31
9	charlie slade	114	31	27	27	29
10	Lee Jones	110	30	26	26	28
11	Morgan Walters	103	–	33	33	37
12	James Rowsell	98	–	32	32	34
13	GEORGE ELSDEN	88	–	29	29	30
14	Henry siddiqui	88	–	43	45	–
15	riley halstead	32	32	–	–	–
16	jake o,gorman	30	–	–	30	–
17	GARETH COURT	29	29	–	–	–
18	TEGAN NIGHTINGALE	28	–	28	–	–
19	THOMAS ANDREWS	–	–	–	–	–
20		17	17	–	–	–

Clubman

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	NATHAN HEATH	170	43	41	45	41
2	Matthew Fuller	168	45	39	41	43
3	OLIVER WICKERS	160	39	45	39	37
4	shea ryan	148	37	35	37	39
5	SAM MENZIE	140	41	11	43	45
6	TRISTAN DANIELS	133	27	37	34	35
7	GUY BRITTON	130	35	34	28	33
8	LIAM JOHNSON	126	33	29	33	31
9	JORDAN EDWARDS	119	30	30	29	30
10	JOEL KREMER	116	10	43	31	32
11	JAK FORD	107	26	25	27	29
12	OWEN HASWELL	106	31	28	21	26
13	dan davies	102	–	33	35	34
14	JAMIE AITKIN	99	24	22	25	28
15	JOE HUMBERSTON	94	19	26	22	27
16	MICHAEL FREED	93	29	32	32	–
17	STUART KEEN	85	34	27	24	–
18	JORDEN KEEN	84	–	31	30	23
19	leo rixon	81	16	23	17	25
20	Chris Bescoby	80	23	16	19	22
21	MICHAEL SUMMERS	72	20	13	18	21
22	ETHAN BAILEY	70	15	17	14	24
23	LUKE GRIFFITHS	70	17	18	16	19
24	Richard Burridge	66	22	21	23	–
25	IEUAN JONES	50	12	8	12	18
26	ALEX TAYLOR	49	–	14	15	20
27	jordan hall	47	21	–	26	–
28	RYAN HENWOOD	44	–	24	20	–
29	KAIRON WATKINS	38	28	10	–	–
30	JACOB DEEN	33	14	19	–	–
31	COLBY WALKER	32	32	–	–	–
32	TYLER HENWOOD	30	18	12	–	–
33	THOMAS JAGO	26	11	15	–	–
34	JAK YOUNG	25	25	–	–	–
35	Brad Cartwright	22	13	9	–	–
36	SCOTT MAYHEW	20	–	20	–	–
37		13	–	–	13	–

Vets + 35

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	Sam Callow	180	45	45	45	45
2	JAMIE PADGET	166	41	43	43	39
3	TOM WHITE	160	39	39	41	41
4	LEE BAGGS	150	37	37	39	37
5	KRISTIAN GIBBONS	129	33	30	31	35
6	CURTIS PIPER	128	28	32	34	34
7	MARK VAN RENSBURGH	127	30	33	33	31
8	STEFAN LITTLE	127	43	41	–	43
9	PHILLIP JONES	126	29	35	30	32
10	DANNY JAMES	114	26	29	29	30
11	James Fugett	114	25	28	32	29
12	Jamie Epplestone	105	35	–	37	33
13	ASHELY SMITH	103	34	34	35	–
14	BEN BOWDEN	58	27	31	–	–
15	BEN CANNINGS	51	24	27	–	–
16	YAN HOWELLS	32	32	–	–	–
17	ROB PENFOLD	31	31	–	–	–

Vets + 45

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	MARK MORRIS	180	45	45	45	45
2	SCOTTY WILLIAMSON	166	43	39	43	41
3	RICHARD GREEN	164	37	43	41	43
4	WILD MAN WILLIS	154	35	41	39	39
5	RYAN THOMAS	142	33	37	35	37
6	JON JONES	137	34	35	34	34
7	GUY LANGMEAD	137	32	33	37	35
8	JASON FISHER	94	30	32	32	–
9	Grant Mayhew	92	29	30	33	–
10	STEVE LYONS	59	28	31	–	–
11	KIRK BAYNTON	41	41	–	–	–
12	RICHARD COLLINS	39	39	–	–	–
13	GREG FITCH	34	–	34	–	–
14	GUY PICKERING	31	31	–	–	–

Senior 125

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	Will Haddock	180	45	45	45	45
2	Travis LAUGHTON	162	39	41	39	43
3	BEN CASEY	160	43	33	43	41
4	Noel Brooks	142	35	35	35	37
5	CADEN TOMLIN	139	37	34	37	31
6	ASHTON BUBB	132	33	30	34	35
7	Braidy Tucker	131	22	37	33	39
8	JACK EVANS	129	28	39	28	34
9	MAX MONK	124	31	31	30	32
10	JAYDEN WILLIAMS	120	29	32	29	30
11	AIDEN BARKE	112	34	26	23	29
12	MALACHI STRATTON	112	26	29	32	25
13	GETHIN MORGAN	100	24	23	25	28
14	HARRY JOHNSON	100	25	24	24	27
15	Jay Dugdale	100	30	27	19	24
16	LUKE HODGSON	92	27	22	21	22
17	JACK RANNER	92	32	20	20	20
18	Troy Weaver	89	–	25	31	33
19	Ollie Bubb	84	41	43	–	–
20	LUIE LEWIS	82	23	21	17	21
21	BAILEY MITCHELL	41	–	–	41	–
22	COREY GORDON	26	–	–	26	–
23	OLIVER MCHUGH	19	–	19	–	–

Senior Open

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	MAX CORKE	178	43	45	45	45
2	GEORGE CORKE	174	45	43	43	43
3	ALFIE CREALOCK-LOVELL	160	39	41	41	39
4	JAYDEN JOESPH	149	41	39	35	34
5	MARLEY ALDER	148	35	37	39	37
6	LOUIE HUTCHINS	133	33	33	34	33
7	FIN STEAD	132	37	35	28	32
8	DANIEL CHARMAN	124	31	31	31	31
9	OWEN D’HONT	119	30	30	29	30
10	EILLIS ATKINS	62	32	–	30	–
11	CHARLIE WOODS	59	–	32	27	–
12	BAILEY MITCHELL	41	–	–	–	41
13	RIPLEY CARTER	37	–	–	37	–
14	KANE WELCH-CORBETT	33	–	–	33	–
15	OSCAR KNIGHTS	32	–	–	32	–

Big Wheel 85

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	JENSEN SEVERN	180	45	45	45	45
2	CHIRSTOPHER BRINDLEY	168	41	43	43	41
3	ZANE STEPHENS	156	39	41	33	43
4	TRAVIS BIXBY	154	37	39	41	37
5	RILEY RAY BARROW	148	43	37	29	39
6	JACK BROWN	135	35	34	35	31
7	LEWYS MORGAN	133	31	29	39	34
8	Jenson Cole	128	24	35	34	35
9	OLIVER BURRIDGE	127	27	30	37	33
10	BROKLYN GABBITAS	126	30	32	32	32
11	ARCHE CONGDON	121	34	33	31	23
12	RYLEE MORTIMER	117	33	25	30	29
13	HARLEY INCE	116	29	31	26	30
14	FREDDY RICHARDS	111	28	27	28	28
15	WILLIAM PURCELL	106	26	26	27	27
16	SAM VERBEETEN	94	32	21	21	20
17	SONNY BIXBY	91	23	24	23	21
18	HAYDEN CLARKE	90	21	22	22	25
19	CHARLIE HOBDEN	79	22	9	24	24
20	MAX GREENWELL	78	25	20	25	8
21	CHARLIE WARD	71	17	28	–	26
22	Max Gilmore	71	15	17	17	22
23	RICCO HARDY	71	16	18	19	18
24	RILEY LAWRENCE	62	11	15	20	16
25	LEWIS DAY	61	12	14	18	17
26	OLIVER LOWE	61	19	19	8	15
27	CADEN PILL	56	14	13	15	14
28	HARVEY SHIPP	47	6	12	10	19
29	AARON SHEPHERD-SMITH	47	10	11	14	12
30	Luka Thatchell	45	13	16	16	–
31	Harry Lyons	44	9	10	12	13
32	HARRISON DOHERTY	36	7	5	13	11
33	ewan smith	35	8	8	9	10
34	OLLIE MAXWELL	29	20	–	–	9
35	AIDEN WAIT	27	4	23	–	–
36	SID MONGER	24	18	6	–	–
37	CHARLIE ROBERTS	18	–	7	11	–

Small Wheel 85

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	FRANKY DONOGHUE	180	45	45	45	45
2	WILLIAM DENNIS	166	41	43	39	43
3	HENRY LEWIS	145	35	37	34	39
4	MAX BEARD	128	29	31	35	33
5	TEDDY MERRIN	123	43	39	41	–
6	Finley Rundle	122	31	33	26	32
7	THEO STEAD	115	26	32	27	30
8	OLIVER BARDOE	111	27	24	29	31
9	WOODY HILL	111	32	21	31	27
10	FREDDIE GURNEY	109	37	35	37	–
11	OSCAR BIRD	107	24	16	33	34
12	FREDDIE BOX	100	34	34	32	–
13	LUCAS GROVES	99	25	27	30	17
14	Finley Thompson	95	28	11	28	28
15	KAILAN TERRELL	91	23	22	25	21
16	HENRY VAUGHAN	89	19	23	22	25
17	BLAKE HIRST	89	22	28	23	16
18	CHARLIE PARKER	87	20	26	15	26
19	RUBEN JENKINS	84	21	20	20	23
20	TAYLOR UDY	81	17	25	19	20
21	GEORGIE CROSSMAN	76	15	18	21	22
22	GWION DAVIES	76	18	19	24	15
23	BRAD-LEE ASPDEN	74	30	30	14	–
24	RHYS JONES	63	14	13	18	18
25	JACK PARKER	62	11	15	17	19
26	Brodie Nock	61	8	29	–	24
27	THEO ELDERSHAW	57	12	17	16	12
28	OLIVIA SALT	48	10	12	13	13
29	Brad Sheldon	44	16	14	–	14
30	EDDIE SPIDERMAN	42	9	10	12	11
31	TEDDY MERRIN	41	–	–	–	41
32	FREDDIE GURNEY	37	–	–	–	37
33	FREDDIE BOX	35	–	–	–	35
34	JIMMY BOXALL	33	33	–	–	–
35	C J MORRIS	13	13	–	–	–

Juniors

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	FINLEE POPE	164	37	43	43	41
2	Ronan Watson	162	45	27	45	45
3	JACK CLARK	152	33	45	31	43
4	RONNIE MORGAN	146	27	39	41	39
5	LOGAN LEWIS	142	39	35	33	35
6	OAKLAN WINNALL	140	29	41	39	31
7	TYLER PEATY	132	28	37	37	30
8	WILL KREMER	128	31	28	32	37
9	Harley Barrow	126	32	34	27	33
10	CHARLIE TUNNICLIFFE	126	41	32	30	23
11	BLAKE MARK BRACEY	122	26	33	29	34
12	Riley ROGERS	108	43	30	35	–
13	MASON STADDON	105	19	29	28	29
14	Forrest Roberts	101	35	–	34	32
15	CHARLIE PARK	88	22	20	21	25
16	Noah Tandy	86	24	25	19	18
17	MORRISON HIBBERT	84	25	19	23	17
18	AVA PEEDLE	83	23	14	22	24
19	ZACK WHITE	78	–	24	26	28
20	CALLUM HARPER	78	30	21	–	27
21	THOMAS BAILEY	72	21	22	9	20
22	GEORGE HICKINBOTTOM	71	16	31	24	–
23	Freddie Dennis	69	12	16	20	21
24	Riley Beagley	68	10	18	18	22
25	LOUIE ELDERFIELD	57	17	11	14	15
26	TAYLOR CLARKE	57	20	9	17	11
27	JACOB WRIGHT	54	–	23	12	19
28	FRANKIE TUCKER	53	13	8	16	16
29	Harrison Ashwood	51	–	–	25	26
30	Kyler Bradley	50	18	17	15	–
31	HARVEY WOOD	48	15	10	10	13
32	FREDDIE PRESTON	46	8	13	11	14
33	ALFIE TUCKER	46	11	15	8	12
34	Harper Powell	37	14	–	13	10
35	Harrison Ashwood	34	34	–	–	–
36	Harrison Ashwood	26	–	26	–	–
37	Freddie Curtis Stephens	19	–	12	7	–
38	JASPER MORGAN	15	9	–	6	–

Autos

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	Cohen Llewllyn	178	45	45	45	43
2	CODY ROBERTS	164	41	41	41	41
3	LEO EDWARD	154	43	39	37	35
4	JAXSON HOOPER	147	32	37	39	39
5	JESSE EYLES	140	39	34	30	37
6	FRANKIE WILLIAMS	136	33	35	35	33
7	JAKE SAYERS	131	–	43	43	45
8	ROCZEN RAE-PICKERSCILL	128	30	32	32	34
9	DEXTER MORGAN	127	31	30	34	32
10	WALTER BARNETT	123	35	31	33	24
11	JONATHAN JR MERRIMAN JNR	122	37	33	24	28
12	Leo Golding	112	29	28	29	26
13	ALFIE RUNDLE	105	23	25	28	29
14	RALPH JONES	103	24	27	25	27
15	ELI POLE	99	28	21	27	23
16	FYNNLEY CONE	95	25	24	21	25
17	ALAN-LEE ROACH	94	20	22	22	30
18	ELIZA RODENHURST	82	27	29	26	–
19	KEENAN JONES	78	19	19	19	21
20	JAMES BURRIDGE	72	18	17	17	20
21	Jenson Hibbert	66	21	–	23	22
22	BLAKE BARKER	62	–	–	31	31
23	LACHLAN AVIS	60	22	20	18	–
24	Ruben Hodgson	60	34	26	–	–
25	LENNOX TURVEY	51	17	18	16	–
26	BRODI WALDRON	49	26	23	–	–
27	FOX HAMILTON	20	–	–	20	–