Great George of Grittenham! 2022 Nora MX Quad and Sidecarcross Championship Round 6 – Race Report & Results

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The NORA MX Club hosted the sixth round of the NORA MX championships of 2022 at Grittenham in Wiltshire. The event also incorporated the fifth round of the NORA sidecar Championship.

Report and Images by Tracy Thacker

The recent rainstorms left the track wet in places and was initially quite stickly in places too, but that soon dried up and with a few alterations to the track layout, any issues were soon resolved.

In the sidecar class, it was great to see British Champion Stuart Brown supporting the event with stand in passenger Nathan Cooper, regular sidekick Josh Chamberlain off celebrating his birthday. As a GP teams both Stuart and Michael Hodges/ Jack Wilkinson couldn’t win NORA championship points but joined the regular teams in three great races.

In race one Stuart Brown / Nathan Cooper took an early lead, holding the advantage and going on to take their first win of the day. Michael Hodges / Jack Wilkinson kept them close and blasted into a great second just ahead of Lee Foyle with stand in passenger GP Ryan Humphrey. Sam Osbaldiston / Harley Lloyd were back from injury earlier in the season and held a safe fourth with Tony Grahame / Ryan Henderson fifth.

In race two it was Lee Foyle / Ryan Humphrey who took the holeshot, looking very determined to stay ahead until disaster struck and they were left track side with a broken exhaust. This left Stuart Brown / Nathan Cooper to battle with Michael Hodges / Jack Wilkinson for second, swooping in on the final lap to take a second win. Behind Tony Grahame/ Ryan Henderson took third after battling with Sam Osbaldiston/ Harley Lloyd, with John Murch/ Tony Murch in fifth.

In the final sidecar race of the day the leading sidecar touched together going into the first bend, this resulted in Stuart Brown / Nathan Cooper going wide and stalling the bike, they quickly got going but had to chase from the back of the pack. Michael Hodges / Jack Wilkinson took advantage and blasted into the lead and taking the win. Tony Grahame / Ryan Henderson had a great start holding second with a very close battle behind for third with Sam Osbaldiston / Harley Lloyd and Lee Foyle / Ryan Humphrey touching together on many of the bends, until Lee Foyle / Ryan Humphrey moved through to third. Stuart Brown / Nathan Cooper came from the back to take fifth.

Taylor Whitt/ Sam Marshall hold the championship lead with Tony Grahame/ Ryan Henderson working hard to close the gap, it will be a battle to the end.

In the Pro / Pro-am / Rookie class, there were just two longer championship races. George Day really dominated the racing, with the racing condition suiting him, he qualified second during the morning session, and this gave a good pick of the line which he used to his advantage to take two great wins.

In Race one George Day took the holeshot, Zak Orchard held second battling with Tom Day until he went missing, with Dafydd Davies just behind. The challenge for second was strong with Jamie Morgan fighting through to pass Zak Orchard and take second at the flag. Zak Orchard held third with Dafydd Davies right behind. Harry Walker battled to the flag for fifth place, but Simon Hammersley just held the position. With consistent finishes, Jamie Morgan holds the championship lead from Harry Walker.

In Race two took a second holeshot going on to take another win but this time was challenged by Harry Walker who blasted pasted Carl Bunce to take second, chasing the lead in a charge to the line but George Day held the win with Harry Walker alongside but second. Jamie Morgan fought through to take a close third with Carl Bunce just behind. Representing the Under 21 class Chad Beevers took fifth with Dafydd Davies close behind.

The Masters A and B class, Paul Winrow took an early lead but suffered problems with left him at the back of the pack, Ed Davies used that to his advantage and too a great win, ahead of Johnathan Mcknight, Greg Fisher took third from Chris Keitch with Darren Bridge recovering from badly damaged ribs at the last championship round, recovering well to take fifth.

In race two it was Paul Winrow who put his race one problems behind his to dominate, holding the lead, and staying ahead of Ed Davies. Johnathan Mcknight took third ahead of Chris Keitch. Greg Fisher took fifth.

In Race three Paul Winrow to a second great win with Ed Davies second from Johnathan Mcknight. Behind Chris Keitch and Greg Fisher battled for fourth.

The 250 class was dominated by Ross Dillon, who took three great wins to extend his championship lead ahead of the final round. Alfie Pennington stayed close with second in each race.

Harry Miller took a win in race one of the Clubman class, but it was Ryan Hickman who took the overall with a third in race one, improving in each race to take the win in race three.

In the intermediates, it was the battle of Kieran. Kieren Johnson took one win with Kieren Johnson taking two and extending his championship lead.

After another fantastic meeting we look forward to the final round: RD7 – Oct 1st & 2nd – Culham

Results

Sidecars

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Tony Grahame/ Ryan Henderson	115	35	40	40
2	Sam Osbaldistin/ Harley Lloyd	109	37	37	35
3	John Murch/ Tony Murch	101	33	35	33
4	Sam Watson/ Jak Watson	91	31	29	31
5	Luke Banks / Jake Grahame	86	27	33	26
6	Taylor Whitt/ Samuel Marshall	85	29	28	28
7	Jack Rogers/ Ryan Beavis	84	28	27	29
8	Rob Foden / Luke Peters	82	24	31	27
9	Lee Foyle / Ryan Humprey	77	40	–	37
10	Thoma Mackay/ Neil Warrington	77	26	26	25
11	Jack Matthews/ Andrew Pat	25	25	–	–

Quads

Pro

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	George Day	80	40	40
2	Jamie Morgan	72	37	35
3	Harry Walker	66	29	37
4	Dafydd Davies	64	33	31
5	Zak Orchard (U21)	63	35	28
6	Carl Bunce	61	28	33
7	Simon Hammersley	60	31	29
8	Alfie Walker U21	53	27	26
9	Tom Roch	51	24	27
10	James Bevan	26	26	–
11	George Oliver	25	25	–
12	Tom Day	23	23	–

Pro Am

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	Chad Beevers U21	80	40	40
2	Marcus Sprason U21	72	37	35
3	Luke Berlyn (Rookie) U21	66	29	37
4	Zak Beevers (Rookie) U21	66	33	33
5	Dylan Mckenna (Rookie) U21	63	35	28
6	Alfie North U(Rookie) U21	62	31	31
7	Scott Berlyn (Rookie) U21	57	28	29
8	Craig Fisher (Rookie)	27	–	27

Masters A

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Edward Davies	114	40	37	37
2	Johnathan Mcknight	107	37	35	35
3	Paul Winrow	104	24	40	40
4	Chris Keitch	99	33	33	33
5	Greg Fisher	97	35	31	31
6	Darren Bridge	88	31	28	29
7	Keith Harden	82	28	26	28
8	Matthew Kirk	78	26	25	27
9	Lee Wearing	58	29	29	–
10	Clint Eagle	54	27	27	–
11	John Hall	49	25	24	–

Masters B

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	David Hull	120	40	40	40
2	Trevor Humphris (V)	103	33	33	37
3	Stumpy Lawrence (V)	102	37	37	28
4	Mark Moseley (V)	101	35	35	31
5	Danny Gilligan	95	31	31	33
6	Jason Hall	86	29	29	28
7	James Lees	82	28	28	26
8	Christopher Gyles (V)	80	27	24	29
9	Karl Pilcher	80	26	27	27
10	Nik Blythe(V)	51	25	26	–
11	Phillip Hammersley (V)	49	24	25	–
12	Rick Jones (V)	45	22	23	–
13	Steven Masters	23	23	–	–

Clubman Elite

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Ryan Hickman	115	35	40	40
2	Daniel Scott Evans	99	25	37	37
3	Iestyn Rees	99	31	35	33
4	Lewis Humphris	97	37	31	29
5	Ryan Walters	95	27	33	35
6	Joe Pryke	90	33	29	28
7	Charlie Davis	87	28	28	31
8	Harry Miller	83	40	20	23
9	Catrin Davies	80	29	26	25
10	Jack Evans	77	26	25	26
11	Luke Brown	71	24	23	24
12	Will Mead	49	22	27	–
13	Aled Davies	48	–	21	27
14	Dan Shellard	45	21	24	–
15	Mitch Couzens	45	23	22	–

Clubman

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Christopher Bladon	113	33	40	40
2	David Marriott	109	35	37	37
3	Tom Miller	105	37	33	35
4	Max Turner	101	40	35	26
5	Nicole Lowry	95	31	31	33
6	Zack Hull	89	29	29	31
7	Lance Hand	84	27	28	29
8	Charlie Enticknap	80	26	27	27
9	Myles Mott	56	28	–	28

Intermediates

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Kieren Johnson	114	37	40	37
2	Kieran Marriott	113	40	33	40
3	Tom Welch	103	35	37	31
4	Benjamin Woodhead	101	31	35	35
5	Archie Welch	86	33	29	24
6	Vassna Willcock (L)	84	25	31	28
7	Ethan Williams	82	28	28	26
8	Samual Jenkins	78	29	16	33
9	Susan Coalter (L)	77	27	25	25
10	Ewan Packman	73	17	27	29
11	Jason Dickins	70	26	21	23
12	Grace Keitch (L)	69	24	24	21
13	James Scott	62	18	22	22
14	Chloe Keitch (L)	60	15	26	19
15	Chris Thorn	57	21	19	17
16	Carly Sewell (L)	56	20	18	18
17	Richard Murphy	52	19	17	16
18	Paul Needham	46	23	23	–
19	Shanice Mott (L)	43	16	–	27
20	Amelia Mead (L)	40	–	20	20
21	George Elks	37	22	15	–

Ladies

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Vassna Willcock (L)	117	37	40	40
2	Susan Coalter (L)	110	40	35	35
3	Grace Keitch (L)	101	35	33	33
4	Chloe Keitch (L)	95	29	37	29
5	Carly Sewell (L)	90	33	29	28
6	Shanice Mott (L)	68	31	–	37
7	Amelia Mead (L)	62	–	31	31

250’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Ross Dillon (O)	120	40	40	40
2	Alfie Pennington (O)	111	37	37	37
3	Frank Marston (A)	103	35	35	33
4	Morgan Junge (A)	95	31	29	35
5	Louie Holt (A)	93	33	33	27
6	Reggie Binskin (A)	86	29	28	29
7	Connor Yates (O)	85	23	31	31
8	Brooke Bunce (O)	83	28	27	28
9	Ellie Stott (O)	75	24	25	26
10	Jay Sams (A)	74	25	26	23
11	Harry Terrell (A)	71	26	23	22
12	Georgia Binskin (A)	67	22	24	21
13	Charlie Eaton (A)	51	27	–	24
14	Shane Havard Evans (A)	46	21	–	25

100cc Auto

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Seth Terrell (A)	120	40	40	40
2	Beatrix Drinkwater (A)	111	37	37	37
3	Owain Lewis (A)	105	35	35	35
4	Josh Smart (A)	97	33	31	33
5	Kayla George (A)	95	31	33	31
6	Keian Willis (A)	84	29	26	29
7	Beau Terrell (A)	84	28	29	27
8	Louie Garrett (A)	80	24	28	28
9	Bentley Don Garrett (A)	80	27	27	26
10	Abbie Eaton (A)	76	26	25	25
11	Brooke North (A)	49	25	24	–

10occ Geared

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Brodie North (G)	109	29	40	40
2	Luca Shaw (G)	109	37	35	37
3	Seth Balaam (G)	108	40	33	35
4	Liam McGowan (G)	99	35	37	27
5	Amelia Talent (G)	97	33	31	33
6	Malachy McKenna (G)	91	31	29	31
7	Ella Robe (G)	85	28	28	29
8	Shay McKenna (50)	82	27	27	28
9	Ethan Legg (G)	26	26	–	–

50cc

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Harry Barker (50)	115	40	40	35
2	Erin Mansell (50)	114	37	37	40
3	Jayden Garrett (50)	105	35	33	37
4	Oliver Willsher (50)	95	31	31	33
5	Gracie-Anne Blythe (50)	89	29	29	31
6	Cameron Lees (50)	85	28	28	29
7	Macson Lorton (50)	68	33	35	–