The Big guns were back! BSMA Reunion – MX & Speedway Memories – Race Report & Results

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The inaugural BSMA reunion motocross meeting at Littlehempston went down storm amongst riders and fans this past weekend. The brainchild of ‘Motocross and Speedway Memories’ Lee Ashby and fellow BSMA racer Kevin Wheeler was a genuine success as loads of riders from yesteryear rocked up in Devon for a fantastic two days of racing and nostalgia.

Images courtesy of Dave Rich

Racing came thick and fast on the valley laid track with classes for both Evo and modern bikes and old blokes and new kids on the block and the track soon got cut up and knarly, especially for some of the old boys who hadn’t raced or even ridden in years. But that didn’t seem to matter with everyone having a good time and catching up with old friends and reminiscing, which is what the event was all about, and that carried on into the beer tent!

They even laid on a bit of a legends parade with the likes of Craig Pratley (out on his Castrol Honda), Nathan Shelton, Steve Liddington, Dean Bachelor and Dirt Hub’s very own Jeff Perrett (who was worse for wear after succumbing to the perils of the beer tent).

A number of speedway legends were also presented including American legend Ronnie Correy. Paul Lee, 1982 British Champion Andy Grahame and Robbie Kessler were all shale stars who were in attendance as well as former BSMA turned speedway rider Carl Belfield.

On to the racing, Tom Moore was a class act in the Evo 125’s winning all five motos over the two days. James Ovens was second on both days while Matt Holcombe nailed Saturdays number three spot with Dean Kiff matching that on Sunday.

Terry House was Saturday’s victor in the Evo 250/500 class while young gun Tyler Westcott took over the top spot on Sunday. In second both times was Scott Arden with James Drinkwater rounding out Saturday’s podium, with Paul Edge on the third step of the box on Sunday.

Ben Saunders was victorious in the Super Evo 125’s heading home Stefan Little and Mark Bonning on day one and Daniel Clark and Danny Foreman on day two. In the last moto former Moreden boy Adam Tucker grabbed the holeshot in the class that was in memory of his dad, Chris Tucker was unreal considering he hasn’t raced for donkey years.

In the Super Evo 250/500 class Oliver Consterdine and Gary Brown shared the honours with Consterdine first on Saturday and second on Sunday with this flipped for Brown who was Sundays top dog. Nathan Davies was third on Saturday with Gareth Morgan repeating this feat on Sunday.

Harvey James blitzed the field in the Modern MX1 group fending off Nick Sheppard and Charlie Nightingale on each occasion while in Modern MX2 Nicky Watts won four out of the five motos for the overall victory on both days. Robert Lewis was the only rider to lower Watts colours winning the first moto on Sunday and grabbing second each time with Nigel Kibble third on Saturday and Sam Callow third on Sunday.

Neil Greenland stood on the top step of the podium in the Vets ahead of Casey Jones and Toby Hale in the first instance and Leon Day and Steve Liddington on day two.

In Novice 1 Scott Williams feasted on a maximum 5 wins from 5. Josh Chamberlain was second on each day while Martin Curtin was third on Saturday as was Paul Maynard on Sunday.

The Novice 2 champ was Paul Watts who went unbeaten over the five motos with former BSMA champ Vaughan Williams in second each time. Matt Lovelock nailed third on Saturday while Daniel Hooper got on the box on Sunday.

The event culminated with the Super Final which saw the top four from each class go at it for the final glory. Once again Harvey James was the victor ahead of Nicky Watts and Charlie Nightingale.

What can we say apart from what a fantastic weekend and congratulations to Lee Ashby and Kevin Wheeler for putting on such a superb event against all of the odds.

Roll on 2022!

Results

Saturday

Evo 125

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Tom Moore	135	45	45	45
2	James Ovens	125	41	43	41
3	Matt Holcombe	123	43	37	43
4	Dean Kiff	117	39	41	37
5	Richard Moulder	115	37	39	39
6	Neal Browning	107	36	36	35
7	Jason Davies	106	35	35	36
8	Lee Somerset	102	34	34	34
9	Justin Napier	66	–	33	33
10	Alan Thomas	65	33	32	–

Evo 250/500

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Terry House	133	45	45	43
2	Scott Ardren	125	43	41	41
3	James Drinkwater	109	36	37	36
4	Paul Edge	107	19	43	45
5	Paul Deeble	106	41	31	34
6	Steve Locke	101	39	32	30
7	Tom Ware	99	30	36	33
8	Philip Newman	97	32	30	35
9	Alix Foreman	97	37	29	31
10	Ty Westcott	96	33	34	29
11	James Sansom	95	34	35	26
12	Liam Wright	95	31	39	25
13	James Price	90	20	33	37
14	Mitchell Conway	89	29	28	32
15	Daniel Marsh	79	25	27	27
16	Dan Hartley	75	22	25	28
17	Rob Drinkwater	74	35	–	39
18	Alex Buckingham	73	28	21	24
19	Sean Stickland	72	24	26	22
20	Paul O’Hagon	70	23	24	23
21	Nathan Kennedy	64	21	22	21
22	Roy Wells	27	27	–	–
23	Jake Turnbull	26	26	–	–
24	Paul Rowe	23	–	23	–

Super Evo 125

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Ben Saunders	133	45	43	45
2	Stefan Little	127	43	41	43
3	Mark Bonning	121	41	39	41
4	Dave Anthony	112	37	36	39
5	James Richman	111	39	37	35
6	Danny Foreman	108	36	35	37
7	Dan Whitman	102	34	32	36
8	Toby Wright	100	33	34	33
9	Bradley Kelly	93	30	31	32
10	Matt Wright	89	28	30	31
11	John Radford	86	35	21	30
12	Simon Gill	83	29	28	26
13	James Feiven	79	27	25	27
14	Nathan Wells	79	31	23	25
15	Kevin Lewis	76	25	27	24
16	Jason Chapman	73	20	24	29
17	Billy Stewart	71	17	26	28
18	Ben Masters	67	–	33	34
19	Daniel Trinder	66	22	22	22
20	Simon Butler	64	24	20	20
21	Daniel Clark	63	18	45	–
22	Liam Walter	60	21	18	21
23	Hayman Scriven	55	26	29	–
24	Gav Richman	53	15	15	23
25	Danny Blake	53	16	19	18
26	Tony Smith	50	14	17	19
27	Jamie Clark	32	32	–	–
28	Mike Smith	23	23	–	–
29	Oliver Nutt	19	19	–	–

Super Evo 250/500

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Ben Saunders	133	45	43	45
2	Oliver Consterdine	135	45	45	45
3	Gary Brown	129	43	43	43
4	Nathan Davies	121	41	39	41
5	Gareth Morgan	119	39	41	39
6	Phil Lloyd	110	36	37	37
7	Ben Wills	107	37	35	35
8	Bradley Clarke	103	31	36	36
9	Jordan Watts	103	35	34	34
10	Ben Wyles	98	34	33	31
11	Dave Pullinger	97	33	31	33
12	Gareth Partridge	89	30	29	30
13	James Collier	88	29	30	29
14	Jack Jenner	64	–	32	32
15	James Stenner	56	28	28	–
16	Rob Mills	32	32	–	–
17	Ronnie Haycraft	27	–	27	–
18	Brian Turnbull	26	–	26	–

Modern MX1

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Nicky Watts	135	45	45	45
2	Robert Lewis	125	43	41	41
3	Nigel Kibble	121	39	43	39
4	Sam Callow	119	37	39	43
5	Dean Filby	109	36	37	36
6	Grant Bryant	103	35	34	34
7	Jasper Flashman	96	31	35	30
8	Brad Priest	95	30	30	35
9	Colby Walker	93	34	26	33
10	Matt Ward	92	27	33	32
11	Dean Stutt	89	29	32	28
12	Ashley Williamson	86	32	28	26
13	Jack Napier	85	23	31	31
14	Ricky Dorrington	82	33	20	29
15	Andrew Deadman	81	8	36	37
16	Dean Woodford	72	26	27	19
17	Rich May	70	25	22	23
18	Kyde Hartwell	70	24	24	22
19	Mark Cornish	69	21	23	25
20	Dean Hillier	64	18	19	27
21	Christopher Talbot	60	17	25	18
22	Josh Kirby	57	28	29	–
23	Stuart Harrow	53	15	18	20
24	Alan Constantine	45	12	16	17
25	Steve Stutt	43	19	–	24
26	Callum Mullis	43	22	–	21
27	Luke Powell	41	20	21	–
28	James Herring	41	41	–	–
29	Tony Wilde	37	9	12	16
30	Justin Congdon	33	16	17	–
31	Lee Quinn	31	7	11	13
32	Chris Chapman	27	13	14	–
33	Brett Kelly	27	14	13	–
34	Dave Trimby	27	6	9	12
35	Ben Lambert	25	10	15	–
36	Jack Holmes	25	–	10	15
37	Steve Griffin	25	11	–	14

Modern MX2

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Harvey James	135	45	45	45
2	Nick Sheppard	129	43	43	43
3	Charlie Nightingale	121	39	41	41
4	Spencer Cockerill	119	41	39	39
5	Leon Woodford	106	36	36	34
6	Jason Wells	104	34	34	36
7	Ashley Smith	104	37	35	32
8	Daniel Saunders	101	33	33	35
9	Lewis Hayward	99	29	37	33
10	Kona Jenkins	94	35	22	37
11	Phillip Doe	94	32	31	31
12	Simon Marston	84	30	28	26
13	Ryan Lowe	83	25	29	29
14	Shane Campion	83	28	27	28
15	Dale Lyons	82	26	32	24
16	Ben Radford	81	31	25	25
17	Michael Scoulding	77	23	24	30
18	Max Atherton	77	24	26	27
19	Neil Thomas	63	17	23	23
20	Tom Nutt	61	20	21	20
21	Craig Withers	57	27	30	–
22	Tyler Kelly	57	19	17	21
23	Aaron Shoemark	53	12	19	22
24	Alex Taylor	47	14	16	17
25	Craig Griffin	47	16	15	16
26	Jonathan Turner	45	13	14	18
27	Matt Hawkins	39	21	18	–
28	Jacob Hawkins	37	18	–	19
29	Ben Vizard	35	15	20	–
30	Jono Hoskins	22	22	–	–
31	Nigel Carter	22	10	12	–
32	Cory Kelly	13	–	13	–
33	Jamie Banning	11	11	–	–

Vets

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Neil Greenland	133	45	45	43
2	Casey Jones	131	43	43	45
3	Tony Hale	117	37	41	39
4	Leon Day	112	39	37	36
5	Rob Topp	106	41	33	32
6	Steve Liddington	105	33	39	33
7	Darren Harvey	104	35	35	34
8	Mark Pelland	97	36	26	35
9	Neil Long	97	34	32	31
10	Clarke Davidson	88	30	29	29
11	Matthew Lowe	87	26	31	30
12	Lee Barter	85	32	30	23
13	Jason Robson	80	25	27	28
14	Dale Hunt	78	28	24	26
15	Dean Batchelor	75	–	34	41
16	Dave White	74	22	25	27
17	Robert Church	73	–	36	37
18	Matthew Loader	71	23	23	25
19	Steven Holmes	71	24	28	19
20	Robin Bayman	61	19	20	22
21	Andrew Spender	57	18	19	20
22	Martin Edgell	51	27	–	24
23	Ian Cherry	51	29	22	–
24	Adam Winslet	41	20	21	–
25	Andrew Batten	31	31	–	–
26	Dan Ridge	21	21	–	–
27	Matthew Hillier	21	–	–	21
28	Chris Juggins	17	17	–	–
29	Spencer Briggs	16	16	–	–

Novice 1

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Scott Williams	135	45	45	45
2	Josh Chamberlain	121	39	41	41
3	Martin Curtin	120	41	43	36
4	Brad Smith	118	43	32	43
5	Ashley Atherton	111	33	39	39
6	Paul Maynard	109	35	37	37
7	James Adams	108	37	36	35
8	Jonathan Haden	99	32	34	33
9	Mark Horwell	95	36	35	24
10	Joe Kemp	93	29	30	34
11	Kye Flippance	89	30	27	32
12	Gino Coen	87	31	33	23
13	Paul Stacey	86	28	28	30
14	CJ Mills	83	26	29	28
15	Warren Payne	74	34	9	31
16	Scott Eaton	72	21	24	27
17	Shaheen Safaee	65	22	21	22
18	Matthew Burns	62	25	8	29
19	Gary Mitchinson	61	19	17	25
20	Mark Greenbank	59	8	25	26
21	Kevin Pride	58	27	31	–
22	Dean Chrippes	57	20	22	15
23	Luke Palmer	56	18	20	18
24	Simon Howells	54	14	19	21
25	Jon Trevelyan	50	12	18	20
26	Jack Sherwood	49	16	14	19
27	Ashley Mair	49	17	16	16
28	Phillip Pullin	49	23	26	–
29	Geoff Bracey	39	9	13	17
30	Mark Turner	37	11	12	14
31	Joe Ritchie	34	10	11	13
32	Daniel Adams	32	13	7	12
33	Robert Kendryna	24	24	–	–
34	Daryl Mills	23	–	23	–
35	Scott Davies	22	7	15	–
36	Gail Helyar	15	15	–	–
37	Connor Stenner	10	–	10	–

Novice 2

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Paul Watts	135	45	45	45
2	Vaughn Williams	127	43	41	43
3	Matt Lovelock	117	41	37	39
4	Brett Hellyer	115	39	39	37
5	Matthew Khera	111	32	43	36
6	Ian Barnett	105	35	35	35
7	Lee Bolt	102	36	33	33
8	Mark Chapman	90	30	28	32
9	Kyle Godbear	89	31	24	34
10	Rhys Brown	85	26	31	28
11	Ben Lacey	84	25	30	29
12	Andy Statham	82	27	29	26
13	Dan Cook	81	29	22	30
14	Daniel Hooper	77	–	36	41
15	Jack Baker	75	24	26	25
16	Shane Parfoot	71	23	25	23
17	Craig Savage	68	28	19	21
18	Callum Davidson	67	20	27	20
19	Rob Smith	67	33	34	–
20	Josh Lacey	66	7	32	27
21	Ricky Prior	66	21	21	24
22	Russell Romans	65	34	–	31
23	Jack Wajktnecht	64	19	23	22
24	Shaun Anthony	54	18	20	16
25	Reiss Loxley	52	17	18	17
26	Colin Broadbank	51	16	16	19
27	Mark Mead	39	12	13	14
28	George Gale	37	37	–	–
29	Elliott White	32	–	14	18
30	Daniel Morley	32	15	17	–
31	Toby Waj	31	9	9	13
32	Bo Derrick	28	13	15	–
33	Ashley Stenner	22	22	–	–
34	Daniel Williams	20	8	12	–
35	Matt Jarvis	20	10	10	–
36	Matt Arnold	14	14	–	–

Sunday