Home Comforts for Young Starlet Leeks who wins final DISS MCC Motocross meeting of 2024 – Race Report & Results

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On Sunday, September 22nd, Diss MCC hosted its final MX meeting with two all-comer groups, a round of the NGR championship, and the South-Eastern evos at Wattisfield Hall. With the forecast predicting rain, the track crew prepared the track accordingly and put on a fantastic race meeting.

Race Report by Stefan Hicks – Images courtesy of Andy Waters – Sourced from the ACU

The all-comers groups were split depending on their best qualifying lap times. Sponsor Evan Worby gave bonus prize money for the fastest lap in any of the qualifying or race sessions, and GMC Interiors put up prize money for the holeshot award, so it was all to play for as the race action kicked off.

Allcomers A group race 1 saw Max Broadbelt get out of the gate quickest and control the race to the chequered flag. Second was the local star Joseph Leeks (Lings Husqvarna), and third was Joe Jones. Ollie Brader and Chester Hyde, who was returning from a long injury lay-off, would finish inside the top 5.

In race 2, Max Broadbelt again was dominant as Joe Leeks made two costly errors in the battle of the top 5. As the race drew to a close and the last lap flag came out, it was a bizarre moment from the leader Broadbelt, who seemingly thought the chequered flag came out and pulled off the track and back to the pits! This would leave the race win to Joe Jones and Joe Leeks in second, Kayden Smith (Lings Triumph) was third.

The last Allcomers A race of the day saw Joe Leeks on his home track take a start-to-finish race win, defying pressure from behind by Broadbelt, who would finish second, and Jones, who was third. Chester Hyde would get his best result in the afternoon with fourth.

The overall award goes to Leeks, who tops off a productive 2024 season. Joe Jones would take second overall, and Chester Hyde would take third. The Evan Worby-sponsored fastest lap award would go to Max Broadbelt from race one, who had a 1:33.033.

Shaun Tacey took the Allcomers B group overall honours with a 2-1-1 ahead of Craig Page-Baker with a 1-3-2. In third was Sam Whittred with a 4-2-3.

In the NGR championship, Aaron Hopkins extended his points lead as he comfortably won the first race, then went on to finish second in the next two races. John Hinz finished second in the first race and then took the final two race wins, meaning we would take the overall ahead of Hopkins.

In the South-eastern evo group, Shane Lock won race one and was in control of race two before bike problems ruled him out, meaning Chris Thorpe won race 2. In race 3, Ryan Matthews and Chris Thorpe put on a bar-to-bar display at the front, and on the final lap, Matthews took the lead and went on to win his first race of the day.

The Diss MCC would like to thank you for your support in 2024 and look forward to welcoming you back next year!

Results

A Group

Pos	Competitor	Class	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3
1	Joseph Leeks	Expert	131	43	43	45
2	Joe Jones	Expert	127	41	45	41
3	Chester Hyde	Expert	113	37	37	39
4	Sam Arbon	Expert	109	33	39	37
5	Oliver Brader	Expert	109	39	35	35
6	Kayden Smith	Expert	109	34	41	34
7	Cullen Hawkins	Expert	99	35	34	30
8	Jae Jeffries	Expert	96	30	33	33
9	Mason Miller	Junior	90	28	30	32
10	Max Broadbelt	Expert	88	45	–	43
11	Thomas Batts	Junior	88	32	27	29
12	Harrison Fitchett	Junior	88	29	31	28
13	Teddy Hyde	Junior	87	27	29	31
14	Phil Burton	Expert	84	31	32	21
15	Jack Whitlam	Junior	78	23	28	27
16	Ross Taylor	Junior	77	26	26	25
17	Scott Claydon	Junior	72	21	25	26
18	Finlay Stead	Junior	72	25	23	24
19	Henry Cox	Junior	66	19	24	23
20	Robert Bond	Junior	60	20	18	22
21	Lee Keyton	Junior	58	17	21	20
22	Nathan Lock	Junior	57	22	20	15
23	Henry Crawford	Junior	55	15	22	18
24	Sam Hilton	Junior	54	18	17	19
25	Brad Watts	Junior	47	14	19	14
26	Aaron Saunders	Junior	41	10	15	16
27	Christopher Keeble	Junior	41	13	16	12
28	James Gadd	Junior	37	16	4	17
29	Ty Atkins	Junior	33	8	14	11
30	Joseph Mulley Forsdike	Junior	30	11	11	8
31	Luke Reeve	Junior	29	9	10	10
32	Ryan Whitehead	Junior	28	3	12	13
33	Samuel Cook	Junior	25	7	9	9
34	Cole Taylor	Junior	25	12	13	–
35	Bailey Jackson	Junior	24	24	–	–
36	Ryan Goode	Junior	18	5	6	7
37	Jake Hicks	Junior	17	4	7	6
38	Kieran Dawson	Junior	14	6	8	–
39	Jason Turner	Junior	12	2	5	5

B Group

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3
1	Shaun Tacey	133	43	45	45
2	Craig Page-Baker	129	45	41	43
3	Sam Whittred	123	39	43	41
4	Freddie Bond	113	41	35	37
5	Kai Ryder	112	34	39	39
6	Perry Fiddy	107	37	37	33
7	Lee Faulkner	101	33	34	34
8	Jake Faulkner	98	31	32	35
9	Adam Bird	93	28	33	32
10	Ryan Christmas	86	27	30	29
11	Andrew Smith	84	22	31	31
12	Robert Green	76	19	27	30
13	Henry Fox	76	24	24	28
14	Damian Flack	76	29	25	22
15	Darren Watts	74	25	28	21
16	Finlay Whitlam	69	20	29	20
17	Hector Storey	68	21	21	26
18	Scott Robertson	65	14	26	25
19	Ben Cook	62	35	–	27
20	Geraint Hubbard	60	30	18	12
21	Matthew Goodger	59	18	23	18
22	Shane Edwards	58	23	16	19
23	Tony Rooke	54	12	19	23
24	Cameron Hallett	47	17	15	15
25	Ky Rolfe	46	–	22	24
26	Mark Hegarty	46	26	20	–
27	Jack Hunton	43	10	17	16
28	Aiden Payne	42	16	13	13
29	Jason Eaves	39	11	14	14
30	Joshua Connor	32	32	–	–
31	Stephen Hood	28	8	11	9
32	Nick Hunton	27	6	10	11
33	Matthew Herring	27	15	12	–
34	Adam Baker	26	9	9	8
35	Connor Davison	23	5	8	10
36	Rory Williams	20	3	–	17
37	Harvey Bartrum	16	4	7	5
38	Colin Booker	15	2	6	7
39	Troy Taylor	13	13	–	–
40	Jake Davison	12	1	5	6
41	Steven Catney	7	7	–	–
42	Paul Neave	4	–	4	–