Sherwood glory for Todd & Adamson! 2021 Bridgestone British Masters Round 2 – Race Report & Results

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Brad Todd on his Moto-Cycle Yamaha and John Adamson riding a Gabriel KTM both left a scorching hot and sunny Sherwood motocross track with maximum pro points as Todd was top in qualifying and combined that with two Pro MX1 race wins. At the same time, Adamson did the same in Pro MX2.

Report and Images by Dick Law

All the action last weekend was at round two of the Bridgestone British Masters as over three hundred riders took to the fast and technical Nottinghamshire track for a great weekend of racing. Considering the heat, the track personal kept the course well-watered with the only dust coming from the face of the jumps and well in control.

Todd got the holeshot at the start of the first combined pro MX1 and MX2 from Eliot Banks-Browne, Josh Spinks and Liam Knight, while the first of the MX2’s was Adamson in fifth. While Todd and Banks-Browne started to pull away from the rest in a personal duel for the race win, Spinks made a mistake allowing Knight through to third, with Adamson doing the same thing a lap later.

Gavin Stevenson was with Neville Bradshaw battling over sixth till at the halfway stage Lewis Hall blasted past them on his way to finishing the race in sixth, but the second MX2.

For lap after lap, Banks-Browne, now with his injured back well on the mend, did all he could to close the gap on the leader Todd, but as the race came to an end, Todd did just enough to the first Pro race win.

Knight was a distant third in the MX1 class with Adamson, the winner of the MX2’s fourth on the track. Tom Grimshaw didn’t make thing easy for himself with his eleventh-place start but after battling with Dan Thornhill and Bradshaw ended his race in ninth but third MX2.

Once again, Todd and Banks-Browne lead the pack in to turn one at the start of the second Pro race, and it looked like we were going to see a repeat of race one. But, just after the halfway point and with Todd still in his sight, Banks-Browne’s rear shock gave out, and he was forced to slow, leaving Todd unchallenged for his second win of the day.

Adamson started the race in fourth and inherited third when Spinks crashed out and then was handed second in the race when Banks-Browne slowed with his ailing bike. He closed on Todd, but his MX2 machine was no match for Todd’s bigger and more powerfull MX1.

Hall was chasing Adamson all race long and crossed the finish line in third but second MX2. Thornhill and Knight gated seventh and eighth, but Knight got the better of Thornhill as they passed Banks-Browne towards the end of the race.

Grimshaw once again made work hard for himself. He was fourteenth at the start to finish seventh at the flag but third in the MX2 class.

Overall, in the Pro MX1’s, it was Todd from Knight and Banks-Browne with Thornhill just missing out of the podium, but in the championship, Knight now leads Thornhill by fourteen points with Gavin Stevenson third. But look out, Todd is currently in fourth and moving up.

In the MX2 overall, it was Adamson from Hall and Grimshaw for the podium, with Sam Nunn just missing out. In the championship, Adamson has a race win advantage over Grimshaw, with Nunn and Hall filling the following two places.

“I had a nice gap in both races, but I had Adamson keeping me honest in race two,” said a happy Todd, “It was good last weekend at Canada Heights as I was out in fount for a lot of the race, but I got tired. That experience gave me a lot of confidence, and this helped me win today. The track here is quite good, but you have to keep your wits about you as there was some bit’s that could catch you out.”

MX2 winner and championship leader Adamson said, “Being out with the 450s, it’s hard to get going sometime, but having said that, it’s nice to have them pushing you along as it makes you go faster. Two class win’s and a fourth and a second in the races is good. The second race, when the track had dried out a bit, it was good for the 250, but it was a struggle in the first race. I liked the track as it was fast and flowing with loose soil. It got some naughty square-edged bumps towards the end of the day, but that’s to be expected, with all the classes today. But it was a good day out.”

The rest

Aaron crashed in the first Amateur MX1 race and had to fight his way from seventh, after his crash to end his race second behind Benjamin Knight. He didn’t do that again as he won all his next races to win the overall. Edward Briscoe didn’t finish out of the two-three all weekend was second with race one winner, Knight third overall.

It looked like Patrick Jackson was going to dominate the amateur MX2’s as he won both of his races on Saturday and the first on Sunday. But it all fell apart in race four. He crashed on the first lap of a slippy-watered track and came past the lap-scoring van in twenty-eighth place. As Rory Jones crossed the finish line for the race win, it looked like he would get the overall, but Jackson had managed to get himself up to seventh, and with that snatched the overall out of Jones’s hands by just three points. Shaun Springer claimed the last step on the podium.

It was tight at the top of the clubman class as Mark Kinsley won the overall by just two points from Richy Roberts with Max Wood a distant third.

The young Charlie Hayman was in control of the 125cc two-strokes, and he took four wins from four starts. This left Rob Holyoake and Matt Bayliss to fight over second and third as the pair ended the weekend separated by just six points.

Youth

Ben Clark dominated the MXY2’s with four convincing wins from his four starts. Raife Broadley was second, with Jamie Watson taking the third step on the podium.

Billy Askew, like Clark in the MXT2’s, was all four of his Big Wheel 85 races for the overall with Finley Evens and Josh Vail on the podium and with Tyla Hooley just missing out.

Reece Jones was another rider with a maximum score, and he won all four Small Wheel 85 races from Drew Stock and Chester Hyde.

Joel Winstanley-Dawson won three out of his four Junior 65’s races with Finley Pickering and Alfie Geddes Green second and third and with race three winner Robbie Daly fourth in a very tight battle for the podium places.

The next round of this popular championship takes place at Wroxton on the 17^th and 18^th of next month.

Pro MX1

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	Brad Todd	90	45	45
2	Liam Knight	84	41	43
3	Elliot Banks Browne	82	43	39
4	Dan Thornhill	78	37	41
5	Gavin Stevenson	72	35	37
6	Richard McKeown	69	34	35
7	Charlie Putnam	67	33	34
8	Drew Anderson	63	30	33
9	Simon Booth	63	31	32
10	Zac Stealey	63	32	31
11	Josh Spinks	39	39	–

Pro MX2

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	John Adamson	90	45	45
2	Lewis Hall	86	43	43
3	Tom Grimshaw	82	41	41
4	Sam Nunn	74	37	37
5	Neville Bradshaw	74	39	35
6	Cullen Scott	69	35	34
7	Michael Ellis	67	34	33
8	Robert Yates	65	33	32
9	Louie Kessel	62	31	31
10	Oliver Beamish	59	29	30
11	Corey Nemeth	59	30	29
12	Calum Mitchell	39	–	39
13	Jack Bintcliffe	32	32	–

Amateur MX1

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	Aaron Patstone	172	37	45	45	45
2	Edward Briscoe	170	43	43	41	43
3	Benjamin Knight	160	45	35	39	41
4	George Clarke	152	41	37	35	39
5	Harry Bradley	149	34	41	37	37
6	Will Miller (w)	149	33	39	43	34
7	Dan Whitehead	138	39	34	33	32
8	Callum Gordon	127	35	33	26	33
9	Matt Lomas	126	32	32	31	31
10	Adam Wells	116	22	30	34	30
11	Kyle Creevy	113	31	26	29	27
12	Ross Millard	113	29	29	30	25
13	Brad Thornhill	107	23	27	28	29
14	Matty Fry (w)	106	27	19	32	28
15	Rob Wood	101	21	31	14	35
16	Jamie Dixon	95	20	25	24	26
17	Aiden Maloney	94	24	22	25	23
18	Michael Watson	81	17	13	27	24
19	John Mc Kenzie	79	13	23	22	21
20	Reagen Skinner	79	25	15	19	20
21	Connor Dickens	76	15	21	23	17
22	Colin McLuckie	74	18	24	13	19
23	Henry Partridge	68	19	28	21	–
24	Joshua Dodwell-Scott	67	16	11	18	22
25	Simon Jenkins	57	8	14	17	18
26	Liam Brosnan	54	14	20	20	–
27	Dan Best	45	11	18	16	–
28	Lewis O’Sullivan	40	30	10	–	–
29	James Park	36	9	12	15	–
30	James Day	29	12	17	–	–
31	Kieran Clarke	28	28	–	–	–
32	Scott Hail	26	26	–	–	–
33	Ben Gilbert (w)	26	10	16	–

Amateur MX2

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	Patrick Jackson	169	45	45	45	34
2	Rory Jones	166	39	43	39	45
3	Shaun Springer (w)	162	35	41	43	43
4	Ben Burridge	149	32	35	41	41
5	Alfie Jones	148	37	39	33	39
6	Josh Canton (w)	135	41	34	27	33
7	Todd Ritchie	132	43	27	37	25
8	Dan Brough	130	34	37	29	30
9	Josh Coleman (w)	128	31	30	30	37
10	James Rutter (w)	127	28	29	35	35
11	Thomas Dodsworth (w)	120	29	32	31	28
12	Mitch Armour (w)	114	25	31	26	32
13	Dee Jay Walker	109	22	24	34	29
14	Lewis King-London	109	27	28	32	22
15	James Angel	108	33	33	11	31
16	Bailey Betsworth	96	23	26	21	26
17	Luke Kennett (w)	86	26	11	22	27
18	Martin Jones	84	12	25	23	24
19	Mitchell Warhurst	84	24	9	28	23
20	Connor Baldry (w)	78	18	22	20	18
21	Jesse Wren	73	20	20	18	15
22	Arnis Paberzs (w)	72	7	23	25	17
23	Daniel Warby	68	19	21	14	14
24	Joe Driver	64	14	18	13	19
25	Luke McCarthy (w)	60	13	19	8	20
26	Jake Hall (w)	59	15	16	12	16
27	Billy Collins	58	16	12	19	11
28	Toby Avis	54	30	–	24	–
29	Elliott Pugh	54	17	–	16	21
30	Jake Marsh	52	10	15	15	12
31	Nathan Heath	47	–	17	17	13
32	Jaydon Wright	40	9	14	7	10
33	Connor Barnett	37	8	10	10	9

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Clubman

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	Mark Kinsley	164	37	45	37	45
2	Richy Roberts (w)	162	43	35	43	41
3	Max Wood	149	33	43	30	43
4	Aidan Carney	149	45	32	39	33
5	Curtis Henderson	144	30	41	34	39
6	Ben Hughes	138	34	34	35	35
7	Mitchil Collins	130	41	37	25	27
8	Matthew Jones	129	32	30	33	34
9	Karl Jenkinson	126	15	33	41	37
10	Scott Almore	119	35	39	45	–
11	Tod Thompson	112	29	26	29	28
12	Steven Lennie	111	26	31	23	31
13	Josh Watson-Bailey	106	25	21	31	29
14	James Thompson	105	21	27	27	30
15	Jacob Bell	102	31	7	32	32
16	Jack Loveridge	100	23	28	24	25
17	Joshua Lee Young	96	28	23	19	26
18	Joe Sargent	90	16	22	28	24
19	Richard Evans	82	27	29	26	–
20	Warren Banner	78	17	18	22	21
21	Dean Paling	77	19	19	21	18
22	Josh Ithell	76	22	15	17	22
23	Scott Isherwood	67	6	20	18	23
24	Robert Williams	62	12	14	16	20
25	Adam Paxton	57	24	24	9	–
26	Jake Pembridge	53	9	13	14	17
27	Kevin McBride	45	20	25	–	–
28	Steven Jones (w)	40	7	9	8	16
29	Lewis Grimshaw	40	13	12	15	–
30	Matthew Fuller (w)	39	39	–	–	–
31	Charlie Sutton	38	10	16	12	–
32	Duanne Baines	35	11	11	13	–
33	James Benson	31	14	17	–	–

125’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	Charlie Heyman (w)	180	45	45	45	45
2	Rob Holyoak (w)	168	43	41	43	41
3	Matt Bayliss	162	41	43	35	43
4	Bayliss Utting	146	37	33	39	37
5	Troy Willerton	140	30	37	34	39
6	Ollie Colmer	139	39	39	41	20
7	Jordan Bachelor	134	35	34	30	35
8	Chuck Davies	126	33	30	29	34
9	Bradley Doyle	124	31	29	31	33
10	Arai Elcock	122	26	32	32	32
11	Joel Fisher	119	32	28	37	22
12	Henry Siddiqui (w)	108	27	31	22	28
13	Jack Bachelor	106	25	26	26	29
14	Tye Jones	101	24	27	23	27
15	Harrison Forde	98	23	22	28	25
16	Finlay Boxall (w)	93	22	21	24	26
17	James Barker	83	34	35	14	–
18	Luke Newman	82	–	24	27	31
19	Archie Fremel	77	21	13	19	24
20	Archie Hicks	76	18	17	18	23
21	Hayden Stevens	75	20	19	21	15
22	Robert Storer	70	16	16	20	18
23	Keaton Ellis	65	15	20	16	14
24	Liam Deegan	63	14	15	13	21
25	Teddy Hyde	55	12	9	17	17
26	Tom Daniels	55	10	14	15	16
27	Matt Ridgeway (w)	48	–	23	25	–
28	Jake Boote	46	17	18	11	–
29	Jules Brigham	40	9	–	12	19
30	Liam Gale	29	29	–	–	–
31	Dan Arkell	28	28	–	–	–
32	Syd Putnam	25	13	12	–	–
33	Frankie Elwell	22	11	11	–	–

MXY2

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	Ben Clark	180	45	45	45	45
2	Raife Broadley	158	35	39	41	43
3	Jamie Watson	151	39	41	34	37
4	Callum Mccaul	141	33	31	43	34
5	Jude Turton	138	31	33	39	35
6	Ayden Smith	138	37	34	35	32
7	Kayde Rayns	136	41	21	33	41
8	Joseph Leeks(w)	129	32	29	37	31
9	Liam Bennett	120	28	30	29	33
10	Harvey Cashmore	115	43	43	–	29
11	Billy Hauxwell (w)	113	26	25	32	30
12	Josh Bassett	107	34	32	31	10
13	Max Lewis	105	29	37	–	39
14	Josh Jones	102	23	26	25	28
15	Harrison Drewell	97	25	23	27	22
16	Jasper Gibson	95	27	27	22	19
17	Kristian Paberz (w)	94	21	24	24	25
18	Cameron Jackson	90	22	22	23	23
19	Jake Barker	83	–	28	28	27
20	Seth Manners	76	24	–	26	26
21	Tyler Stevenson	75	19	17	19	20
22	James Rowsell (w)	69	16	14	21	18
23	Andy Morris (w)	67	–	20	30	17
24	George Elsden	65	17	18	15	15
25	Corey Collins	65	30	35	–	–
26	Ryan Lowe	63	18	16	17	12
27	Louis Perrin Brown (w)	61	14	13	18	16
28	Leyton Duffy	57	15	15	13	14
29	Riley Halstead	50	20	19	11	–
30	Joe Grace (w)	47	13	11	12	11
31	Frankie Elwell (w)	41	–	–	20	21
32	Syd Putnam (w)	40	–	–	16	24
33	Jack Saunders	39	–	12	14	13

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Big Wheel 85’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	Billy Askew	180	45	45	45	45
2	Finley Evans	168	41	43	43	41
3	Josh Vail	156	39	41	37	39
4	Tyla Hooley	154	43	29	39	43
5	Charlie Richmond	145	37	37	34	37
6	Ryan Waggott	143	35	32	41	35
7	Will Haddock	135	27	39	35	34
8	Ellis Poole	128	32	31	33	32
9	Jake Walker	123	34	25	31	33
10	Kyron Carron	122	31	35	27	29
11	Brandon Hedayat (w)	121	28	34	28	31
12	Dylan Meaney	120	33	33	26	28
13	Jack Brearey	113	29	27	32	25
14	Declan Wright	112	30	26	30	26
15	Levi Saunders	102	25	30	25	22
16	Lewis Proud	100	26	28	23	23
17	Lucy Barker	99	24	24	24	27
18	Ashley Matthews	81	20	21	21	19
19	Max Ellerker	80	11	23	22	24
20	Tyler Jones	75	19	20	18	18
21	Corey Gordon	74	22	15	20	17
22	Jack Ranner	70	14	17	19	20
23	Braidy Tucker (w)	63	16	16	16	15
24	Ashton Phillips	62	15	18	13	16
25	Billy Moriaty	59	–	–	29	30
26	Jon Waghorn (w)	59	21	–	17	21
27	Max Walsham	53	12	13	14	14
28	Jack Jenkins (w)	51	13	14	12	12
29	Troy Weaver	45	17	–	15	13
30	Danny Moore	45	23	22	–	–
31	Cameron Chell	37	18	19	–	–

Small Wheel 85’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	Reece Jones	180	45	45	45	45
2	Drew Stock	168	43	43	41	41
3	Chester Hyde	156	41	39	33	43
4	Hayden Statt	149	34	35	43	37
5	Blake Ward-Clarke	145	39	34	37	35
6	Jamie Keith	136	37	37	28	34
7	Sonny Rooney (w)	133	35	32	34	32
8	Alfie Herron	126	21	31	35	39
9	Isaac Ash (w)	126	33	30	32	31
10	Oakley Kettle	119	32	28	31	28
11	Riley Small (w)	114	22	29	30	33
12	Zane Sibley – Deakin	110	28	27	29	26
13	Jorge Parkin (w)	103	31	33	10	29
14	Libby Chatburn	101	25	26	27	23
15	Zane Stephens	98	19	25	24	30
16	Mason Jones	95	26	19	25	25
17	Harvey Collins	95	30	20	21	24
18	Hayden Yeend	91	24	23	23	21
19	Kayden Smith	89	9	41	39	–
20	Jaxon Haswell	89	27	21	14	27
21	Ollie Jewitt	87	23	22	20	22
22	Liam Bell	79	29	24	26	–
23	Jamie Prentice	74	20	17	18	19
24	Logan Burns	70	16	18	16	20
25	William Siddons	66	15	16	17	18
26	Casey Kennett	60	13	15	15	17
27	Finley Easton	60	17	10	19	14
28	Callum Johnson	59	11	13	22	13
29	Jenson Cole	52	14	14	8	16
30	Bailey Williams	52	18	8	11	15
31	Tyler Rogers (w)	48	12	12	13	11
32	Bobby Smith	35	7	11	7	10
33	Logan Ireland	32	8	–	12	12
34	Lewis Park	28	10	9	9	–

Junior 65’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	Joel Winstanley-Dawson	174	45	45	39	45
2	Finley Pickering	155	41	39	43	32
3	Alfie Geddes Green	150	37	41	41	31
4	Robbie Daly	148	17	43	45	43
5	Olivia Reynolds	141	35	32	35	39
6	Olly Waters	136	43	15	37	41
7	Chase Panter	134	34	34	31	35
8	Jenson Severn	133	30	37	29	37
9	Jack Leese	130	39	35	23	33
10	Stanley Siebert	119	32	30	33	24
11	Elvis Totney	117	26	33	24	34
12	Harvey Rowe (w)	113	31	28	27	27
13	Archie Edwards	108	24	26	30	28
14	Ryan Taylor	103	29	27	17	30
15	Williams Evans	102	27	24	28	23
16	Casey Lister	98	33	31	34	–
17	Jamie Thorpe	97	28	23	21	25
18	Sean Smout	95	22	21	26	26
19	Tommie Perfect	91	25	22	25	19
20	Leo Wilson	90	–	29	32	29
21	Marty Spires	78	14	25	18	21
22	Mason Martin Doe	76	19	20	19	18
23	Teddy Merriman	72	20	16	22	14
24	Oscar Gilham	67	21	18	12	16
25	Ryan Prentice	64	12	19	13	20
26	Nixon Coppins	61	9	17	20	15
27	Harry Cuddy	56	18	14	11	13
28	Charlie Ward (w)	49	3	13	16	17
29	Amon Eschoe (w)	45	23	–	–	22
30	Terry Challinor	45	11	9	14	11
31	Troy Kennett	44	10	11	15	8
32	Mason Brown	39	13	8	6	12
33	Junior Wigglesworth (w)	38	8	10	10	10
34	Tom White	32	7	7	9	9
35	Walt Carroll (w)	31	15	12	4	–
36	Tyler Lloyd	24	4	6	7	7
37	Jay Weaver	24	6	5	8	5
38	Reggie Broadbent	20	5	4	5	6
39	Logan Falconer	16	16	–	–	–