Ryan runs riot at Haverigg! 2021 Acerbis Amateur Nationals – Race Report & Results

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With the great British summer heating up, a weekend away at the beach sounded like a plan and why not throw a couple of days racing in while we are at it, that’s exactly what Darren and his Acerbis Nationals crew did for round two and did it deliver. Haverigg was the venue and the track provided some excellent nail-biting racing that was hotter than the weather.

Report by Arran Murphy – Images courtesy of Matthew Rudd Photography

First up on the perfectly prepared circuit were the Moto Connection 125 machines with series leader Matt Ridgway a no show it was left to Stu Owen and Liam Gale who were tied on points to take the reins of the class. However, they both had to play second fiddle to wildcard Rob Clitheroe who was the most consistent on his Yamaha and took the overall honours just two points ahead of Gale who bagged himself a pair of wins on day two which will definitely help his championship cause. Stu Owen stood on the lower step of the rostrum just another couple of points back from his championship rival while another wildcard Charlie Irwin was in hot pursuit finishing fourth overall and also stole a win while he was at it. Holeshot awards were dished out for the fifth block of racing and Liam Gale was the man to claim the 125 class prize.

In the California MX Dreams 250 Open 2 stroke category, championship leader James Dent came to Haverigg full of confidence after his Hawkstone win but made things hard work for himself after some start crashes and first lap carnage. It was a last race charge from behind and last corner pass which gave him the overall victory on home turf with a 3-1-2-3-1 scorecard and extended his lead by a couple of points over closest rival Adam Harris, who put his Fantic on the box for the runner up position along with the final moto holeshot award. Drew Roe took a moto win on his way to third overall for the weekend and Chris Nuttall also claimed the moto 4 victory to boost him up in the overall rankings.

It was business as usual for Brian Wheeler in the Roberts Plant Engineers Vets Over 50 category as he went on to dominate the weekend with 5 moto wins from 5 starts and the holeshot award to put the icing on the cake. Paul Wildman was best of the rest on his little 125 Yamaha and managed to fend off 2019 champ Chris Brown for the runner up position. Brown managed to claim a couple of runner up places over the weekend but a fifth in the third outing cost him points and so had to settle for the lower step of the rostrum this time around. James Whitlow and Rob Lewis fought hard all weekend to round out the top 5.

Ryan Voase was the man on form in the LS2 helmets Vets Over 40 category as he carried on his winning streak from Hawkstone bagging himself a maximum 200 points haul extending his series lead handsomely over closest challenger Danny Tollett. Tollett had to worry more about fending off the attentions of local man Richard Miller however as the pair battled all weekend long for the runner up spot in each of the motos. Tollett ended up coming out on top by the end of play Sunday as Miller struggled with the rougher conditions on both days meaning he had to settle for third while Lee Martin and Barry Gray rounded off the prize money placings by finishing fourth and fifth respectively with Gray picking up the holeshot prize too for his efforts.

In the Pro Green sponsored Ladies category it was all about who could stay most consistent and keep it on two wheels which Elaine MacEachern proved brilliantly as she only took one moto win all weekend. She backed that up with a pair of seconds and a pair of thirds giving her the overall by just two points over Amie Goodlad who amazingly never took a chequered flag for her efforts over the weekend. Hawkstone winner Kathryn Booth took two wins but first corner crashes put pay to her overall chances and she came up just four points short. Grace Richards was the victor in the other two motos which helped boost her up to fourth position after a tough weekends racing. Kady Moore managed to claim the holeshot prize from race five on her Husqvarna.

The Manchester Xtreme Junior Open class provided the spectators with some interesting racing as Alfie Calvert paced himself nicely in the rough conditions to come from behind and pick the pace up at the halfway mark taking control of each race for maximum points over the weekend making him the second rider to have a 100% win streak going to round three. Wildcard rider and fast starting Tayla Smith made it hard work for Calvert but had to settle for a stack of runner up positions and second spot on the rostrum along with his holeshot award from the final encounter. Ryan Davis finished the weekend in third even after a disaster in the third race and Lewis Davison took home fourth.

In the Craigs Motorcycles MX2 category it was all square after round one between Mitchell Meadows and Marshall Smith at the top of the standings and they fought for honours once again at Haverigg. Smith managed to bag the honours for the weekend with a 3-2-1-2-1 result sheet and consolidated himself as sole leader going to Wroxton with Meadows hot on his heels. The 372 KTM man claimed the moto four victory helping himself upto second for the weekends overall result heating up the series and its starting to look like a 2 man show so far. Lee Sealey finished runner up in the last race on Sunday giving him the nod in the tie break over wildcard Braydon Ferguson who looked to be the man to beat after his two wins on Saturday but a couple of crashes meant he had to settle for fourth overall in the end. Marshall Smith came away with the holeshot prize.

The top five at Haverigg were the same as at Hawkstone just mixed up a bit in the Paradise MX Holidays MX1 class but the winner remained the same as James Hutchinson came to his most local round of the series, hailing from the North East, and took a fine overall victory claiming three wins and two second places along with a first turn crash to makes things a bit harder work than they already were proving he has a slight edge so far in 2021. Lee Harrison won the opening race of the weekend and finished runner up after all was said and done while former champ Ed Briscoe took the remaining race victory which helped him to third on the box. Irishman Scott Hamilton salvaged his overall by claiming a tenth in race three after having to pick himself up following a hefty spill on the final lap which helped him to claim fourth overall along with the final race holeshot prize ahead of Andy Wilson.

With a bit of time spare on Sunday, it was decided to have a fun race at the end of the day. The riders crazy enough to want another 6 laps of torture in the heat and on a rough Cumbria sand track had another element added to the mix…a le mans start where they would have to run the length of the start straight onto their bikes at the first corner and hammer a track that looked like a bomb had already hit. It was Andy Wilson that was triumphant and took the win from 250 2 stroke leader James Dent in second and Simon Booth picked up third.

With round two comfortably in the books all focus is on round three at the end of the month as the series heads south to the Wroxton circuit.

Results

MX1

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	JAMES HUTCHINSON	196	38	40	38	40	40
2	LEE HARRISON	182	40	34	36	38	34
3	ED BRISCOE	178	36	36	40	36	30
4	SCOTT HAMILTON	170	34	38	26	34	38
5	ANDY WILSON	160	32	29	34	29	36
6	JAMES LASSU	152	30	32	30	28	32
7	HARRY BRADLEY	150	22	27	27	26	29
8	ADAM THIRWELL	135	28	24	32	24	27
9	CORY NEMETH	135	25	28	29	30	23
10	JACK BENISTON	133	27	25	28	25	28
11	SIMON BOOTH	124	24	26	25	23	26
12	SEB BERTHIAUME	123	26	17	24	32	24
13	MATT LOMAS	103	16	23	23	16	25
14	LEWIS MEADOWS	102	21	16	21	22	22
15	JAMES GOODALL	93	20	20	18	17	18
16	KIA THIRWELL	91	18	22	12	18	21
17	PETE HAMLETT	90	23	18	15	14	20
18	JOEL HUGES	90	17	21	17	20	15
19	ALBERT MARTINDALE	86	14	19	22	12	19
20	LUKE BULHAM	86	19	13	19	19	16
21	DANIEL EDGAR	71	10	9	14	21	17
22	WILL MILLER	59	29	30	–	–	–
23	SCOTT HAIL	54	7	–	20	27	–
24	ARRAN MURPHY	52	6	11	9	15	11
25	SCOTT MERADITH	51	9	6	13	10	13
26	DAN SHEP	51	15	14	11	11	–
27	MICHAEL SMITH	50	13	15	16	6	–
28	TOBY BAILEY	45	5	7	6	13	14
29	OWEN WILKS	31	2	5	7	7	10
30	KEVIN GREEN	31	4	10	5	4	8
31	CHRIS HAMLET	29	8	–	–	9	12
32	JASON MARTIN	24	–	4	8	3	9
33	JAMES NEWBY	23	–	8	10	5	–
34	BEN WALSH	15	3	12	–	–	–
35	MATT WILLIAMSON	12	12	–	–	–	–
36	GRANT FRASER	11	11	–	–	–	–

MX2

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	MARSHALL SMITH	192	36	38	40	38	40
2	MITCHELL MEADOWS	176	38	30	34	40	34
3	LEE SEALEY	165	32	32	36	27	38
4	BRAYDON FERGUSON	165	40	40	28	32	25
5	TIM BURROWS	160	30	34	30	34	32
6	LEWIS GLYN	155	29	28	32	30	36
7	BRAD KNOWLES	144	28	29	29	29	29
8	BEN WARINWRIGHT	136	17	27	26	36	30
9	KANE RUMBLE	129	27	25	25	25	27
10	MATTY SANDERS	123	22	23	22	28	28
11	KARL SCHULZE	114	23	24	19	26	22
12	KIERAN GREGORY	108	34	36	38	–	–
13	GREG FISHER	107	15	21	24	21	26
14	LUKE TURNER	100	19	18	21	22	20
15	DYLAN SPENCER	98	26	26	5	17	24
16	ADAM NEVITT	93	14	17	27	12	23
17	ROB AINLEY	90	25	20	2	24	19
18	JUDE HARDTWELL	88	18	19	14	20	17
19	FRAZER HATCH	80	21	13	20	14	12
20	JORDAN HEARN	77	13	16	18	16	14
21	RYAN MANLEY	76	8	12	23	15	18
22	IWAN ROBERTS	71	16	7	13	19	16
23	BRADLEY LE FEUVRE	71	7	15	16	18	15
24	BILLY SAUNDERS	69	20	22	15	6	6
25	JASPER GIBSON	61	1	11	17	11	21
26	CAMERON MCGREGOR	60	11	14	11	13	11
27	CALLUM EVANS	52	10	8	12	9	13
28	MICHALE OGDEN	47	24	–	–	23	–
29	CHAZ NICHOLS	43	9	10	8	7	9
30	AIDEN CARNEY	43	12	3	10	10	8
31	SHEA RYAN	39	5	9	7	8	10
32	ADAM FORD	30	6	6	9	4	5
33	JOSH HART	22	4	4	4	3	7
34	MARK KIRK PATRICK	13	2	5	6	–	–
35	MACKENZIE CROCKATT	11	3	2	1	5	–
36	LUKE EDGAR	10	–	1	3	2	4

125’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	ROB CLITHROE	180	38	40	32	32	38
2	LIAM GALE	178	30	30	38	40	40
3	STU OWEN	176	36	38	36	30	36
4	CHARLIE URWIN	173	29	34	40	36	34
5	KEELAN HOPE	164	40	29	29	34	32
6	ROBERT BARNEY	139	32	32	30	25	20
7	BEN MURRAY	135	27	27	25	26	30
8	ASH HARLAND	133	34	36	34	29	–
9	TIM GARDHAM	132	23	25	28	27	29
10	ALAN PEARCE	115	19	23	24	23	26
11	LEWIS PETFIELD	114	10	28	27	21	28
12	JASPER UPHILL	103	–	19	19	38	27
13	JAMIE COX	103	22	17	18	22	24
14	JACK DROGAN	98	24	21	12	18	23
15	MATT RAYSON	85	13	18	20	15	19
16	STEVE GARDHAM	85	25	13	23	24	–
17	JAMES WILKINSON	81	9	16	15	19	22
18	HAYDEN STEVENS	80	15	10	14	20	21
19	KERR THOMPSON	79	21	5	–	28	25
20	GREGOR CAMPBELL	77	16	20	26	–	15
21	GEORGE POOL	68	12	12	16	14	14
22	LEWIS PARKINSON	65	26	22	17	–	–
23	CHAD PROSSER	65	18	14	22	11	–
24	JOSH NOON	64	17	4	10	16	17
25	JORDAN ACTON	60	14	7	8	13	18
26	ASH CROSSLEY	55	28	24	3	–	–
27	DANIEL NEVITT	52	11	9	9	10	13
28	WILL MORRIS	48	8	15	13	12	–
29	MATT TOLLEY	47	20	26	1	–	–
30	JACK JORDAN	41	6	11	5	9	10
31	HAYDEN BROWN	40	–	3	4	17	16
32	AARON DENT	38	7	6	6	8	11
33	RYAN LOWE	33	5	2	7	7	12
34	BEN PARKINSON	21	–	–	21	–	–
35	CAMRON BALMAIN	19	–	8	11	–	–
36	JORDAN KAMOUIL	6	4	–	2	–	–

250 2 Stroke Open

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	JAMES DENT	190	36	40	38	36	40
2	ADAM HARRIS	188	40	38	34	38	38
3	DREW ROE	180	38	34	40	34	34
4	CHRIS NUTTALL	172	34	30	32	40	36
5	DANIEL BROUTH	162	28	36	36	32	30
6	CALLUM BIRCHER	153	32	29	30	30	32
7	ANDREW LAWTON	130	26	23	24	29	28
8	RYAN MATTHEWS	129	25	27	28	25	24
9	MATT HOCKENHALL	128	27	21	27	26	27
10	STEVEN McCORMACK	123	23	22	26	23	29
11	RYAN GARDINER	110	15	17	25	28	25
12	ALEX NEEDHAM	107	20	24	21	20	22
13	OWEN WOODHOUSE	105	18	25	18	18	26
14	DEEJAY WALKER	105	24	28	29	24	–
15	JAMIE NEEDHAM	100	21	12	22	22	23
16	BENNY LEWIS	96	22	26	–	27	21
17	TIMMY ANDREWS	90	16	18	19	17	20
18	ALEX BUCANNAN	84	29	32	23	–	–
19	LIAM SOMERVILLE	76	19	20	–	19	18
20	ALAN MORTON	75	14	14	15	15	17
21	TRYSTAN WILLIAMS	72	–	15	17	21	19
22	JOE KHAMOULI	52	13	19	20	–	–
23	TOM SHUTTLER	49	17	–	16	16	–
24	BEN BURRIDGE	46	30	16	–	–	–
25	TONY TENNETT	39	12	13	–	14	–

Ladies

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	ELAIN MaCEACHERN	188	38	36	36	40	38
2	AMIE GOODLAD	186	36	38	38	38	36
3	KATHRYN BOOTH	184	40	34	40	36	34
4	GRACE RICHARDS	178	34	40	34	30	40
5	CHARLOTTE HALL	156	29	32	32	34	29
6	TAYLOR SCOTT	147	30	29	29	29	30
7	NADIYA JONES	146	25	27	30	32	32
8	REBECCA NEWMAN	146	32	30	28	28	28
9	KADY MOORE	134	27	26	27	27	27
10	MOLLY WERNHAM	134	28	28	26	26	26
11	EMILY NOON	125	26	24	25	25	25
12	LILLY MORELAND	121	24	25	24	24	24
13	CHLOE CLEGG	115	23	23	23	23	23
14	ANDREA TAYLFORTH	110	22	22	22	22	22

Junior Open

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	ALFIE CALVERT	200	40	40	40	40	40
2	TAYLA SMITH	190	38	38	38	38	38
3	RYAN DAVIS	157	36	34	17	36	34
4	LEWIS DAVIDSON	153	26	32	36	34	25
5	TOM MARSH	143	30	27	25	29	32
6	BEN SOUTHWARD	138	34	36	30	20	18
7	DALE LYONS	136	24	28	34	28	22
8	RICHARD EVANS	134	29	26	29	24	26
9	JAKE BASHFORD	128	16	29	28	26	29
10	STEFAN ROBSON	126	23	24	24	27	28
11	TOM CARD	119	22	23	23	32	19
12	MATT READMAN	117	21	22	26	18	30
13	JACK GOTTS	117	18	25	22	25	27
14	REECE WILKINSON	115	27	30	27	11	20
15	BRADLEY OWENS	112	20	17	32	19	24
16	KEVIN BROWN	110	28	19	20	22	21
17	GRAHAM CLARK	105	32	20	18	23	12
18	STEVE RILEY	102	25	15	16	30	16
19	TAYLOR MISSELBROOK	86	13	21	21	17	14
20	FRASER SMITH	85	4	18	19	21	23
21	LEWIS RAYNE	75	19	11	12	16	17
22	ROSS HEPBURN	67	9	16	15	12	15
23	JOSH OATES	66	15	14	11	15	11
24	SAM HAMER	66	17	13	14	13	9
25	AIDEN MURPHY	42	11	10	7	10	4
26	SAM ALDERMAN	41	–	12	13	14	2
27	KARL KAVANNA	40	14	8	–	5	13
28	JAMES NEWBY	36	–	–	–	–	36
29	JOE SHACKLADY	32	1	4	10	7	10
30	CARL HOWES	32	8	5	8	8	3
31	DAN EVANS	29	3	6	4	9	7
32	ADRIAN WITCOMBE	27	12	–	9	6	–
33	TOM BERRY	20	5	9	1	4	1
34	LOUIS SMITH	18	7	–	3	–	8
35	RHYS BLAIR	15	–	7	6	2	–
36	TOM MATTHEWS	12	–	1	2	3	6
37	DOM COCHRANE	12	6	–	–	1	5
38	WAYNE CURRIE	12	10	2	–	–	–
39	MATT BENNETT	10	2	3	5	–	–

Vets over 40’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	RYAN VOASE	200	40	40	40	40	40
2	DANNY TOLLET	188	36	38	38	38	38
3	RICHARD MILLER	168	38	36	29	36	29
4	LEE MARTIN	164	32	30	36	30	36
5	BARRY GRAY	160	34	32	32	32	30
6	ADAM WILKINSON	158	28	28	34	34	34
7	MICHAEL GRAHAM	154	30	34	30	28	32
8	DANNY BLAKELEY	143	29	29	28	29	28
9	ANDREW WOOLHOUSE	132	27	26	27	26	26
10	SIMON BONSOR	127	26	27	23	27	24
11	NEIL GRIFFITHS	123	22	23	26	25	27
12	PAUL COWARD	123	24	25	25	24	25
13	JOHN CURRUTHERS	110	25	21	24	20	20
14	MARK SUTHERLAND	109	21	22	22	21	23
15	CLAYTON HOGG	104	20	19	21	22	22
16	GAV SOUTHWARD	104	16	24	20	23	21
17	NIGEL SMORFITT	87	19	17	14	19	18
18	MARK MASON	80	15	14	17	15	19
19	ALAN THAIN	79	14	16	15	17	17
20	JAMIE MENZIE	63	9	13	13	16	12
21	LEE BUCK	62	23	20	19	–	–
22	NEIL PRINGLE	61	10	11	7	18	15
23	MIKE JOHNSTON	59	12	7	12	12	16
24	DAVID HOPKINS	57	7	15	11	13	11
25	GRAEME BIRD	54	18	18	18	–	–
26	DALE SILK	54	11	12	9	8	14
27	MATT LOWS	52	13	9	16	9	5
28	RICHY BRYCE	47	17	–	6	14	10
29	KEVIN CHARLES	44	8	8	10	11	7
30	ROY PARTINGTON	42	5	10	8	10	9
31	ADRIAN CLATWORTHY	32	6	6	5	7	8

Vets over 50’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	BRIAN WHEELER	200	40	40	40	40	40
2	PAUL WILDMAN WILLIS	186	36	38	38	36	38
3	CHRIS BROWN	178	38	34	32	38	36
4	JAMES WHITLOW	169	29	36	36	34	34
5	ROB LEWIS	156	32	32	30	32	30
6	STEVE WARD	155	34	30	34	25	32
7	IAN WILSON	144	30	28	28	30	28
8	ADRIAN LEWIS	132	28	26	29	27	22
9	CHRIS STEMP	130	23	29	27	24	27
10	STEVE HUMPHRIES	130	27	27	26	26	24
11	BRIAN FRASER	118	22	25	18	28	25
12	EWAN JOHNSTON	111	26	8	19	29	29
13	ADRIAN SMTIH	110	25	11	25	23	26
14	STEVEN POLLOCK	107	17	22	24	21	23
15	STEVE HOWES	102	19	20	20	22	21
16	MARCUS JEFFERSON	100	18	21	23	18	20
17	IAN MCGREGOR	95	15	23	22	16	19
18	ALAN MORTON	90	21	19	13	19	18
19	ADRIAN JESSOP	85	13	17	21	17	17
20	ADRIAN SAUNDERS	73	10	16	17	14	16
21	DAVE CLAYBORN	73	11	14	15	20	13
22	JOHN CARD	66	14	15	16	11	10
23	IAN SAYER	62	12	12	12	12	14
24	STEVE LYONS	60	16	10	10	15	9
25	STEVE THOMPSON	58	6	18	9	13	12
26	STAN MATTHEWS	53	8	7	14	9	15
27	COLLIN BERRY	47	9	9	11	7	11
28	STEPHEN THORNTON	44	20	24	–	–	–
29	STEVE MATTHEWS	38	7	13	8	10	–
30	PAUL RODGERS	34	5	6	7	8	8
31	ROB PROSSER	24	24	–	–	–	–
32	EDDIE BRISCOE	13	–	–	–	6	7