Spinks schools em! 2024 Bridgestone British Masters Round 2 – Race Report & Results

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For round two of this year’s Bridgestone British Masters of Motocross, the teams travelled north to the Schoolhouse track near Consett in County Durham. Josh Spinks, in one of his race appearances, won both expert open races in a dominant style for the overall event win.

Words and Images by Dick Law

With a massive amount of hard work, the track crew provided the almost three hundred riders with a fast, jumpy, technical track to enjoy. In the heat and sunny conditions of Saturday, dust became a bit of a problem, but the overcast weather of Sunday made the track prime.

Local rider Carlton Husband (Phoenix Evenstrokes Kawasaki) looked to be on form and set the fastest expert open qualifying time by over half a second from Dan Thornhill (Chambers Husqvarna) and Husband’s teammate Charlie Cole, with Spinks way down in the seventh fastest position. But come the races, it was going to be a different story.

While Husband led the pack into the first turn, he drifted wide, and Spinks slipped up the inside and into the lead, a lead that was never really challenged.

Thornhill, Cole and Henry Williams (Honda) followed Spinks around the opening super fast lap with Husband, showing a new racing aggression did all he could in fifth place.

The top two riders stayed in the same order, with the gap between them fluctuating between one and three seconds. Husband, after passing Williams on the first lap, caught and passed
Cole for third at the halfway point. But this Husband charge would come to nothing, as a lap later, he was out with a blown engine, and with that, all hope of a round win was gone.

Charlie Putnam (SC Sporthomes Husqvarna) wasn’t having the best of times either. He went down in turn one after tagging another rider, which snapped off his engine starter button, giving him a DNF.

The biggest mover in the race was Ross Rutherford (Husqvarna), who started the race in eighth and passed Patrick Jackson (APJ Yamaha) and Travis Steels (Gas Gas) on the opening lap and Williams on lap four, and taking full advantage of Husbands problems to finish the race in fourth place.

James Dodd (Honda) led the pack around the track at the start of the second expert open race, followed by Spinks and Josh Greedy, Steels, Williams and Rutherford, with Thornhill and Cole in seventh and eighth places.

But as Spinks took over the lead on lap two, Greedy crashed down to eighth place and slipped all the way back to tenth before the end of the race.

Thornhill was on a charge as he passed Dodd for second place on lap three as Cole, the first rider on an MX2 machine, followed Dodd for five laps before snatching third place from him.
As for Husband? He had a strange race. He missed the start completely and rounded the first turn almost last. By the end of the lap, he was in seventh place, only to crash down to twelfth a lap later. But from then on, he looked like he was on rails as he powered his way up the pack to slide past Cole, with three laps to go and finish third, behind Spinks and Thornhill.

Overall, it was Spinks from Thornhill in second, Cole was third, and Rutherford missed out on the podium by three points.

“I have enjoyed myself today”, said a happy Spinks, “I am just so busy nowadays with the coaching side of the sport. I get to ride once a week, and I am happy about that. I pick and choose events I want to ride in. Colin (Hambridge) and his team always put on a good show, and it’s an amazing track, so I came here. To get the one one was awesome”

Thornhill said from the second-place podium, “Each week, we are getting a bit better. Two second places today which could have been better. Qualifying was good, as I was only point six off the pole. My riding and speed are both good, but there are still a couple of areas I have to work on and stop making simple mistakes. But we are coming to the mid part of the season, and I have to keep the ball rolling for the rest of the year”

Cole battled all day pitching his smaller MX2 machine against the bigger 450 MX1 bikes and said after racing was over for the day, “I had a good start in the first race and just went with Spinks and Thornhill. I am happy to have made the effort to come up here to Schoolhouse as it will stand me in good stead for the British next weekend. And, it is always nice to come away with a good result”.

The 125cc two-strokes provided some of the closest and most entertaining racing of the weekend. After their four races, the top three were separated by just four points.

With two race wins, a second and a fourth place, Damon Strydom (FUS Marsh Geartec Honda) was the overall winner from race four winner Charlie Richmond (JP KTM). The ever-improving wildcard rider, Ryan Waggott (KTM) won race three on his way to third overall.

Wildcard rider Baily Johnston (Husqvarna) in the Amateur MX1s, didn’t have his weekend of racing start too well, as he was involved in a crash at the start of his first of four races and came around in last place. But he charged his way through the pack to end the nine-lap race in a well-earned fifth place. He then went on to win all of his other races for the overall win. Ben Knight (Yamaha), who didn’t finish out of the top three, was second overall, with Josh Greedy (Moto33 Yamaha) third.

Raife Broadley (Fantic) was unbeaten in the Amateur MX2s for the overall win. With a couple of second places and two third places, Syd Putnam (SC Sporthomes Husqvarna) was second but on the same points as wildcard rider Aaron Ongley (Kawasaki).

Bradley Johnstone (KTM) had three convincing wins in the Clubman class, but a battle early on in race three with Colin McLuckie (Honda) ended up with them both being passed by James Collings (Difts Media Yamaha) on his way to third overall, Johnstone finished the moto in third, but that was enough for the overall first place. Scott Bates (IDS Kawasaki), who won race three, was second.

Wildcard rider Reece Jones (Husqvarna) won all four of the very competitive MXY2 races with Harrison Greenough (KTM), who didn’t finish out of the three all weekend in second and with Beau Brown (Boandock Racing KTM) third.

Only four points separated the top two riders in the Big Wheel 85’s. With three race wins and a second place, Alfie Geddes-Green (Gas Gas) won the overall, with race two winner, wildcard rider Finley Pickering (KTM) second. Joel Winstanley Dawson (KTM) did not get a look in, but finished a creditable third overall.

A crash at the start of his second race spoiled Arthur Moores (RHJ SJP Moto KTM) perfect weekend. It was a turn-two incident that put Moore on the ground and at the back of the forty-rider-strong field, but he scythed his way through that pack to end the seven-lap race in third. He won all the rest of his races for the overall win. Nixon Coppins (Yamaha), who didn’t finish out of the top three all weekend, was second overall, with race two winner Marley Marczak (JMR Foundation KTM) third.

Cohen Jagielski (KTM) dominated the Junior 65’s with four race wins from four starts. But only three points separated the next pair as Elliott Shawyer (Airport Autos KTM) was second from Roan Watson (MX Goat Gas Gas).

Results

Experts – Overall

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2
1	Josh Spinks	90	45	45
2	Dan Thornhill	86	43	43
3	Charlie Cole	80	41	39
4	Ross Rutherford	72	39	33
5	Travis Steels	69	35	34
6	Henry Williams	69	37	32
7	James Dodd	67	30	37
8	Aaron Patstone	63	33	30
9	Patrick Jackson	61	32	29
10	Carlton Husband	41	–	41
11	Charlie Putnam	35	–	35
12	Harry Bradley	34	34	–
13	Josh Greedy	31	–	31
14	Henry Siddiqui	31	31	–

Amateur MX1

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3	r 4
1	Bailey Johnson (W)	172	37	45	45	45
2	Ben Knight	170	43	41	43	43
3	Josh Greedy	156	41	39	39	37
4	Seth Manners	153	45	33	34	41
5	Bradley Wheeler	150	33	43	35	39
6	Daniel Maule	143	39	32	37	35
7	John Joe Wright	141	35	35	41	30
8	Ed Briscoe(w)	137	34	37	33	33
9	Jamie Fort (w)	128	29	34	31	34
10	Simon Booth	125	30	31	32	32
11	Bradley Flagg	115	26	29	29	31
12	Ross Millard	114	32	28	25	29
13	Thomas Dodsworth (W)	106	28	27	28	23
14	Liam Smith	104	27	30	20	27
15	Lewis Taylor	98	25	20	27	26
16	Billy Collins	98	31	24	23	20
17	James Thompson	94	22	25	22	25
18	Fraser Gardiner	83	21	23	18	21
19	Brad Thornhill	80	–	26	26	28
20	Liam Crellin	78	24	–	30	24
21	Josh Scott	78	18	21	17	22
22	Ethan Blackley	75	17	22	19	17
23	David Curtis	74	20	19	16	19
24	Kaie Stesel	68	13	18	21	16
25	Stuart Perry	56	12	16	13	15
26	Adam Paxton	50	23	15	12	–
27	Kullen Evans	49	16	–	15	18
28	Lewis Wigger	45	14	17	14	–
29	Ben Butler	43	19	–	24	–
30	Riley Stesel	29	15	14	–	–

Amateur MX2

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3	r 4
1	Raife Broadley	180	45	45	45	45
2	Syd Putnam	168	41	43	43	41
3	Aaron Ongley (w)	166	43	41	39	43
4	Jonathan Rodenick-Evans	139	22	39	41	37
5	Kayde Rayns	139	35	35	35	34
6	David Plank	137	39	37	30	31
7	Josh Bassett	136	31	33	37	35
8	Mitch Armour	134	37	30	34	33
9	Leon Ongley	124	32	32	31	29
10	Josh Buchanan (w)	120	30	34	29	27
11	Ryan Osborn	119	33	28	28	30
12	Corey Collins	117	29	27	33	28
13	Tye Jones	116	19	31	27	39
14	Jamie Watson	115	26	25	32	32
15	Jesse Wren	111	34	29	23	25
16	Lewis Bethell	104	28	26	26	24
17	Henry Partridge	93	23	23	25	22
18	Sam Menzies	92	25	22	22	23
19	Cody Spacagna	82	21	19	21	21
20	Joe Grace	80	20	20	20	20
21	Richy Roberts	75	27	24	24	–
22	Mitchell Warhurst	71	24	21	–	26
23	Liam Ryland-Pye	55	18	18	19	–

125cc

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3	r 4
1	Damen Strydom	172	45	45	39	43
2	Charlie Richmond	170	39	43	43	45
3	Ryan Waggott (W)	168	43	39	45	41
4	Matt Bayliss	151	41	41	30	39
5	Will Haddock	147	37	35	41	34
6	Daniel Brough	136	34	32	35	35
7	Chester Hyde	135	33	37	32	33
8	Yarin Evans	123	26	33	33	31
9	Troy Willerton	112	31	21	37	23
10	Samuel Jackson	112	32	34	29	17
11	Ashton Phillips	106	24	26	28	28
12	Jorge Parkin	104	29	28	17	30
13	Joe Grainger	104	23	27	25	29
14	Max Ellerker	99	25	22	26	26
15	Harrison Drewell	96	27	20	27	22
16	Louis Perrin-Brown	95	–	29	34	32
17	Jack Brearey	90	28	31	31	–
18	Max Harris (w)	89	30	–	22	37
19	Harry Shand	89	21	25	18	25
20	Phillip Tchorek	84	22	16	19	27
21	Oliver Almond (W)	84	18	18	24	24
22	Jamie Prentice	71	17	19	16	19
23	Hayden Steele (W)	68	16	17	15	20
24	Dee Jay Walker	67	20	24	23	–
25	Ryan Christian	65	–	23	21	21
26	Declan Wright	65	35	30	–	–
27	Halim Own	57	19	–	20	18

Clubman

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3	r 4
1	Bradley Johnstone(W)	176	45	45	41	45
2	Scott Bates	174	43	43	45	43
3	Jamie Collins	154	33	39	43	39
4	Dan Chapman	143	34	41	35	33
5	Colin McLuckie	137	39	27	37	34
6	Kane Fisher	134	24	34	39	37
7	Jack Loveridge	133	30	35	33	35
8	Lee Clarkson	127	41	14	31	41
9	Joe Sargent	119	28	31	29	31
10	Michael Graham (w)	117	37	24	26	30
11	Ivan Williamson (W)	117	27	33	28	29
12	Joshua Lee Young	111	32	32	34	13
13	Frank Elwell	110	26	37	23	24
14	Teddy Hyde	109	29	26	27	27
15	Jacob Bell	108	22	30	30	26
16	Liam Ware	105	23	22	32	28
17	Aidan Carney	92	18	29	24	21
18	Hayden Stevens (W)	90	35	23	–	32
19	Liam Deegan	89	21	28	15	25
20	Connor Maltby (W)	85	19	25	21	20
21	Shane Parker (w)	75	15	21	20	19
22	Roger Frean	73	13	19	18	23
23	Sam Lyons-Carr (w)	69	25	–	22	22
24	Kevin McBride	68	16	17	17	18
25	James Hargreaves	67	14	13	25	15
26	Jake Evans	66	20	20	16	10
27	Scott Isherwood	51	8	12	14	17
28	Morton Hannah (w)	50	11	11	12	16
29	Callum Radford	49	12	18	19	–
30	Ben Hughes	44	3	16	11	14
31	Chris Elcock (w)	39	7	10	10	12
32	Robert Williams	37	9	9	8	11
33	Jack Gatland	34	10	15	9	–
34	Andrew Williams (W)	31	31	–	–	–
35	Lee Harris (w)	30	17	–	13	–
36	Ryan Davies	30	6	8	7	9
37	Daniel Silvester	17	4	7	6	–
38	Ethan Bailey (W)	11	5	6	–	–

MXY2

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3	r 4
1	Reece Jones(w)	180	45	45	45	45
2	Harrison Greenough	170	43	43	41	43
3	Beau Brown	157	41	41	34	41
4	Max Corke (w)	152	39	39	37	37
5	Hayden Moody (W)	142	37	35	43	27
6	Austin Beasty	136	33	25	39	39
7	Shane Jones	128	31	30	32	35
8	Rhys Whyment (w)	127	30	37	26	34
9	Jack Wilson	121	35	33	25	28
10	George Corke (w)	118	34	26	33	25
11	Ryan Lowes	117	26	29	31	31
12	Lewis Proud (w)	117	28	32	35	22
13	Harley Maskill	116	32	34	20	30
14	Layton Sulley	110	27	28	29	26
15	Matt Fernley	108	21	27	27	33
16	Finlay Boxall	107	25	31	22	29
17	Curtis Roberts	98	23	24	28	23
18	Zac Newlands	91	29	–	30	32
19	Mitchell Conway	90	22	21	23	24
20	Fenton Rayns	84	24	23	19	18
21	Braedon Mc Ginn	83	16	22	24	21
22	Enzo Mussell	77	20	20	17	20
23	Ricky Barstow	77	19	18	21	19
24	Ripley Carter	68	18	19	16	15
25	Braidy Bilton (w)	67	15	17	18	17
26	Joseph Horn	60	17	15	14	14
27	Ashden Walsh	59	12	16	15	16
28	Josh Blackley	53	14	13	13	13
29	Tommy Gibbard	39	13	14	12	–
30	Tyla Hooley	11	11	–	–	–

Big Wheel 85

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3	r 4
1	Alfie Geddes- Green	178	45	43	45	45
2	Finley Pickering(W)	174	43	45	43	43
3	Joel Winstanley Dawson	156	41	41	35	39
4	Zane Stephens	146	33	35	41	37
5	Olly Waters	144	35	31	37	41
6	Kameron Greenhalgh	143	39	39	32	33
7	Andrew Piggford	130	31	34	30	35
8	Jenson Severn (W)	127	37	33	28	29
9	Harvey Collins (W)	125	27	28	39	31
10	Jack Leese	124	29	30	31	34
11	Leo Self	124	32	29	33	30
12	Maison Jones	120	30	32	26	32
13	Archie Stapley	118	34	37	19	28
14	Jaxon Haswell (W)	105	26	25	27	27
15	Archie Congdon	98	25	22	25	26
16	Alfie Herron	98	28	19	34	17
17	Oscar Gilham	96	15	27	29	25
18	Hayden Gibson (w)	91	21	23	23	24
19	Frankie Anderson (w)	87	23	24	20	20
20	Jack Galbraith (w)	81	22	26	24	9
21	Joseph Robinson	80	20	20	17	23
22	Max Williams	77	17	17	22	21
23	Robert Sweeney (W)	69	18	18	18	15
24	Jack Smith	64	16	16	13	19
25	Corey Jay Hull (w)	62	19	–	21	22
26	Liam Heptinstall	61	13	15	15	18
27	Harry Beattie	60	14	14	16	16
28	Jenson Cole	45	24	21	–	–
29	Scott Forsyth	43	12	12	7	12
30	Archie Humphery (w)	42	8	8	12	14
31	Lucas Todd	42	11	10	8	13
32	Liam Dickinson (W)	39	7	11	10	11
33	Olly Mc Clurg	37	10	13	14	–
34	Junior Wigglesworth (w)	37	9	9	11	8
35	Summer Watkins	32	6	7	9	10
36	Mylo Humphrey (w)	24	5	6	6	7

Small Wheel 85

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3	r 4
1	Arthur Moore	176	45	41	45	45
2	Nixon Coppins	170	43	43	43	41
3	Harley Marczak	168	39	45	41	43
4	Alfie Lawrie (w)	140	37	34	35	34
5	Harry Hall	139	33	30	37	39
6	Keedan Williamson	136	35	32	34	35
7	Jamie Thorpe	130	34	33	32	31
8	Ethan Gawley	118	24	35	27	32
9	Leo Wilson	115	–	39	39	37
10	William Macaulay	112	32	25	33	22
11	Dylan Standing	107	21	28	29	29
12	Baili Black	107	31	26	24	26
13	Harry Cuddy	106	27	29	20	30
14	Daniel Devine	102	28	22	19	33
15	Jay-j Cooper (w)	102	20	24	30	28
16	Chad Prince	90	23	23	17	27
17	Lyall Rutherford (w)	88	22	17	28	21
18	Henry Lewis	87	25	31	26	5
19	Ryan Taylor	86	29	20	31	6
20	Teddy Merriman	85	18	19	25	23
21	Jakson Ross	83	26	27	18	12
22	Archie Butterfield	78	41	37	–	–
23	George Dryden	78	17	15	21	25
24	Alan Thomson	76	19	18	15	24
25	Brooklyn Tinkler	72	16	16	23	17
26	Callum Harper (w)	68	14	13	22	19
27	Woody Hill	56	13	14	11	18
28	Freddie Box (w)	51	30	21	–	–
29	Ivan Williamson (W)	51	12	10	14	15
30	Ben Alexander	49	15	11	16	7
31	Charlie Gerrard (w)	47	9	12	6	20
32	Remi Wigglesworth (w)	43	8	6	13	16
33	Caleb Shearer	43	11	9	10	13
34	Charlie Dalgleish	40	10	8	12	10
35	Jack Digby	34	5	7	8	14
36	Oliver Monks (w)	28	4	4	9	11
37	Harris Curran (w)	27	7	5	7	8
38	Sebastian Todd	23	6	3	5	9
39	Alfie Brough	13	3	2	4	4

Junior 65

Pos	Competitor	Total Points	r 1	r 2	r 3	r 4
1	Cohen Jagielski	180	45	45	45	45
2	Elliott Shawyer	164	39	43	41	41
3	Ronan Watson	161	43	32	43	43
4	Alfie Cotter	145	30	39	37	39
5	Forrest Roberts	145	35	37	39	34
6	Sydney Williams	132	33	29	35	35
7	Francis Nellist	123	31	31	32	29
8	Charley Wilcock	119	41	41	–	37
9	Riley Rogers	119	37	19	33	30
10	Tommy Gaddes	117	32	23	29	33
11	Freddy Graham	117	21	34	30	32
12	Preston Chorley	106	27	30	23	26
13	Max Jones	105	26	28	31	20
14	Sonny Saunders	104	28	27	26	23
15	Harrison Chiddey	103	29	22	25	27
16	Jack Waters	102	18	26	34	24
17	Tyler Peaty	100	34	35	–	31
18	Bradley Thompson	99	24	33	17	25
19	Archie Oakes	99	25	25	27	22
20	Mason Staddon	96	22	24	22	28
21	Isaac Arnold	90	20	21	28	21
22	Charlie Farmer	81	23	18	21	19
23	Katie-Jayne Beecroft (w)	76	19	20	24	13
24	Liam Hannah	69	15	16	20	18
25	Mason Shields	63	17	17	12	17
26	Oliver Flood (w)	61	16	14	15	16
27	Harvey Taylor (W)	61	14	15	18	14
28	William King	59	13	12	19	15
29	Louie Elderfield	52	11	13	16	12
30	Reece Gibson (W)	45	10	10	14	11
31	Olly Mclean (w)	36	12	11	13	–
32	Harper Unwin (W)	18	9	9	–	–