The Good times roll at Ironworks for Geddes-Green! 2022 Bridgestone British Masters Round 5 – Race Report & Results

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Round five of the Bridgestone Masters of Motocross, moved northwards to the fast and flowing Ironworks track in Middlesbrough. But, with Pro level entries so low, making it unviable to run the class, it gave all the other classes a chance to step into the spotlight and grab some attention.

Race Report and Images by Dick Law

That’s not to say there weren’t any Pro riders at the event, as four turned up with family members, like multiple British Champion Brad Anderson, who was with his son Vinnie racing in the junior 65cc class. The organisers decided that as they were there, they could race the amateur classes, but without championship points. Needless to say, Anderson (Honda) won all four of the amateur MX1 races with fellow pro rider James Hutchinson second, while in the amateur MX2’s James Hutchinson was second overall. But when they were taken out of the equation, all the usual points scorers were fighting for that all-important championship lead.

The weather conditions on both days of the event couldn’t be more different as the track owners heavily watered the track right up to the start of racing. Still, the strong wind and sunshine on Saturday dried the track out as quick as they could get the water down, which meant it was a bit dusty come to the end of the day.

But, after racing had finished and the paddock people thought about getting the BBQs out, it started to drizzle and rain. And it rained till the early hours of the morning. As the riders began day two, the well-prepared track had some very sloppy bits at the lower parts of the track. After the first few races had been run, the event was called to a halt to give the track crew time to push the slop to one side, and the racing got better and better as the day went on.

In race, one of the Amateur MX1’s, Sean Williamson (MotoLoko Husqvarna), led for the first half of the race till Jamie Fort (LAAB Park Honda), after passing John Joe Wright (JTL Honda) on the opening, passed him and went on to win. Williamson held on to second with Wright third and Josh Greedy (TCR/DH Carpentry Kawasaki) fourth.

Fort got the holeshot at the start of race two and went on to win the race. Williamson spent most of the race in second place but had that place snatched away from him on the last lap as Harry Bradley (Hydrogarden Kawasaki) came from fourth to second. Simon Booth (Acerbis UK KTM) started the race in eighth place but chassed Williamson over the finish line in fourth.

Once again, Fort got the holeshot at the start of race three but seemed to suffer more than some of the others in the Sunday morning slippery conditions as he slipped back to fifth come to the end of the race. Brad Thornhill (WMC KTM) slid in to lead at the end of the opening lap and went on to win the race once you take the “Pro” non-points scoring riders out. Bradley passed Fort and Greedy on lap two for second place, with Greedy chasing him over the finish line third and Wright fourth.

In the drying condition of race four, both non-points scoring Pro riders of Anderson and Hutchinson crossed the finish line in first and second, but the first of the points scorers was Wright, who spent all race in the lead. Greedy was second, with Bradley third.

Overall, without the non-point scores, Bradley, the winner from Fort, scoured the same amount of points and with Wright third, just three points behind the leaders.

Aaron Ongley (723 RaceBikes KTM) got the holeshot at the start of the first amateur MX2s but had the lead, and the win was snatched away from him on lap three by Travis Steels (ANSA MX Racing Gas Gas). Ben Clark (Rock Oil Husqvarna) caught and passed Ongley on the very last lap to drop him down a place as the pair finished second and third. Mitch Armour (Call-Mac Scaffolding Husqvarna) came from seventh place to finish fourth, with Adam Harris (AS3 Performance Fantic) fifth.

Steels led race two from the drop of the start gate to the race win and were followed for the whole race Ongley. Harris gated third but was passed on the opening lap by Clark and Armour, who finished in third and fourth.

Race three was almost a copy of race two, with Steels and Ongley spending all race in first and second places as Clarke passed Jesse Wren (Corby Kawasaki) and Mitchell Warhurst (KTM) on his way to third place.

Harris got the holeshot at the start of race three but was passed around the opening lap by Steels, while Ongley went down in the first turn but recovered to third place behind Steels and Clark.

Overall, it was Steels from Ongley and Clark, with Armour just missing out on a podium position.

James Thompson (Kawasaki) with a win, two-second places and a fourth won the clubman class with Adam Paxton (Shires Scaffolding Honda) and Joshua Fytchie (Honda) finishing second and third but only separated by two points. After two race wins on Saturday, Oliver Ruddock was a non-starter on Sunday.

Tyla Hooley (ASA United Gas Gas) broke his collar bone at a British championship event on the last day of last month, but that didn’t stop him from winning all four of the 125cc two-stroke races three weeks later. Henry Siddiqui (Holeshot MX KTM) chassed Hooley over the finish line in three out of the four races for second overall, with Jordan Keogh (TM KT Racing TM) third.

Callum Murfitt (KTM) won three out of the four MXYs races, but a bad start in race three spoilt his 100% winning weekend as he fought his way up to second place and the overall win. Joshua Bassett (Duck Smart Gas Gas) didn’t finish out of the top four was second, with race three winner Ben Zeale (JD Racing Gas Gas) third, just two points behind Bassett.

Once again, the flying Billy Askew (GRT KTM) dominated all four of the big wheel 85cc races for yet another overall win. Josh Vail (RFX SSP Moto Husqvarna) chased him over the finish line in all four races. Wildcard rider Freddie Gardiner (Matt Gardiner Racing KTM) notched up four third places as Ryan Waggott (Raddie RY Racing Husqvarna) just missed a podium position.

Some of the weekend’s closest racing came from the small wheel 85s with three different race winners. Race three winner Alfie Geddes-Green (Matt Pope Motorcycles Gas Gas) backed up that win with a second place and two-thirds for the overall win, with race four winner Joel Winstanley-Dawson (Castle Trucks KTM) second and with Kameron Greenhalgh (Inglenorth Contracting Husqvarna) third. Unfortunately, a DNF in the last race of the weekend spoilt Robbie Daly’s (KTM) weekend as he had scored two race wins and a second coming up to the last race.

With three race wins and a second place, Marty Spires (DBC Motorcycles KTM) won the junior 65’s from race three winner Cohen Jagielski (Fasteddy Gas Gas) with Arthur Moore (RMJ Rookie Husqvarna) third.

Results

Amateur MX1

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	Scott Aldridge (W)	163	41	45	45	32
2	Harry Bradley	154	35	41	41	37
3	Jamie Fort	154	45	43	35	31
4	John joe Wright	151	39	34	37	41
5	Josh Greedy	150	37	35	39	39
6	Sean Williamson	149	43	39	34	33
7	Brad Thornhill	142	33	31	43	35
8	Simon Booth	136	34	37	31	34
9	Lewis Huckerby	127	32	32	33	30
10	Jamie Dixon	122	31	33	32	26
11	Liam Piggford	119	30	30	30	29
12	Matty Fry	114	28	29	29	28
13	Jake Hall (W)	112	29	28	28	27

Amateur MX2

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	Travis Steels	180	45	45	45	45
2	Aaron Ongley	168	41	43	43	41
3	Ben Clark	166	43	39	41	43
4	Mitch Armour	150	39	41	33	37
5	Mitchell Warhurst	144	35	35	39	35
6	Adam Harris	140	37	37	27	39
7	Jesse Wren	128	30	32	34	32
8	Harvey Cashmore	127	32	33	37	25
9	Jasper Gibson	120	29	29	31	31
10	Charlie Parker	107	25	28	28	26
11	Bailey Betsworth	96	27	–	35	34
12	Robbie Hollis	77	24	26	–	27

Clubman

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	James Thompson	170	43	43	39	45
2	Adam Paxton	148	39	33	33	43
3	Joshua Fytchie (W)	146	37	37	31	41
4	Jacob Bell	139	31	32	43	33
5	Colin McLuckie	138	35	41	23	39
6	Ivan Williamson (W)	136	34	39	37	26
7	Aidan Carney	129	33	28	45	23
8	Mitchil Collins	122	41	35	27	19
9	Matthew Fuller	118	24	21	41	32
10	Alex Harvey	117	26	19	35	37
11	James Milne (W)	114	29	30	34	21
12	Joe Sargent	113	27	23	28	35
13	Josh Watson-Bailey	113	30	31	24	28
14	Jake Taylor (W)	105	22	22	32	29
15	Joe Croft (w)	102	28	25	25	24
16	Joshua Young	92	32	26	–	34
17	Oliver Ruddock (W)	90	45	45	–	–
18	Taylor Misslebrook (W)	85	19	24	22	20
19	Max Wood	82	23	29	–	30
20	Richard Evans	76	25	20	–	31
21	Charlie Sutton	76	9	16	26	25
22	Matthew Jones	75	11	34	30	–
23	Ben Hughes	72	17	10	29	16
24	Matty Ryder (W)	65	21	17	–	27
25	Chris Elcock	63	16	13	20	14
26	Robert Williams	53	10	9	19	15
27	Joshua Keogh (W)	52	13	18	21	–
28	Nathan Heath (W)	47	20	27	–	–
29	Steven Lennie	46	12	12	–	22
30	Tyler Stevenson	46	15	14	–	17
31	Lee Bell (w)	32	6	8	–	18
32	Kevin McBride	29	14	15	–	–
33	Nigel Smorfitt (w)	19	8	11	–	–
34	Graeme Mckenzie (W)	18	18	–	–	–
35	Lewis Gibbs (w)	14	7	7	–	–
36	Anthony Maughan (w)	5	5	–	–	–
37	Kyle Reeves (W)	4	4	–	–	–

125’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	Tyla Hooley	180	45	45	45	45
2	Henry Siddiqui	170	43	41	43	43
3	Jordan Keogh	166	41	43	41	41
4	James Barker (W)	150	39	39	33	39
5	Kyron Carron	143	33	34	39	37
6	Harry Barker	135	37	35	31	32
7	Carl Harris(W)	134	32	33	34	35
8	Robert Storer	129	34	32	30	33
9	Hayden Stevens	116	30	29	29	28
10	Louis Perrin Brown	113	23	28	32	30
11	David Colton	108	27	25	27	29
12	Roman York	108	29	27	26	26
13	Oli Wickers	105	24	26	28	27
14	Jude Turton	100	–	31	35	34
15	Lewis Petfield (W)	96	35	30	–	31
16	Thomas McLean	96	25	22	25	24
17	Charlie Simons	96	26	23	24	23
18	Ben Hunter	77	28	24	–	25
19	Dan Arkell	74	–	37	37	–
20	Kevin Ranton (W)	31	31	–	–	–

MXY2 Youth

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	Callum Murfitt	178	45	45	43	45
2	Joshua Bassett	160	41	43	37	39
3	Ben Zeale	158	35	37	45	41
4	Arai Elcock	153	43	34	41	35
5	Kayde Rayns	150	37	41	35	37
6	Luke Southern	147	34	39	31	43
7	Jamie Watson	139	39	32	34	34
8	Jake Barker	135	32	35	39	29
9	Jamie Collins	120	30	28	32	30
10	Jack Wilson	120	31	31	30	28
11	Lewis Bethell	115	29	29	25	32
12	Harrison Drewell	108	25	24	28	31
13	Corey Collins	99	33	33	–	33
14	Sonny Shipton	97	28	27	22	20
15	Max Ellerker	94	20	23	26	25
16	Teddy Hyde	93	22	20	29	22
17	Mitchell Conway	90	21	21	27	21
18	Samuel Jackson	86	23	30	33	–
19	Charlie Henderson	78	26	26	–	26
20	Oliver Almond (W)	76	27	22	–	27
21	Tommy lee Gibbard	71	14	14	24	19
22	Connor Smith	67	24	19	–	24
23	Harley Mower (W)	57	18	16	–	23
24	Fenton Rayns (W)	53	15	15	23	–
25	Harvey Antrobus	44	19	25	–	–
26	Luke Wilson	34	17	17	–	–
27	Archie Fremel	34	16	18	–	–
28	Kei Wears (w)	26	13	13	–	–

Big Wheel 85

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	Billy Askew	180	45	45	45	45
2	Josh Vail	172	43	43	43	43
3	Freddie Gardiner (W)	164	41	41	41	41
4	Ryan Waggott	154	39	39	37	39
5	Conor McGrath	145	37	37	34	37
6	Chester Hyde	140	35	35	39	31
7	Lucy Barker	138	34	34	35	35
8	Jorge Parkin (W)	127	32	32	33	30
9	Owen Kenningley	121	28	27	32	34
10	Cailen Jai Griffiths	118	30	29	27	32
11	Libby Chatburn	117	27	28	29	33
12	Aston Over	106	26	26	25	29
13	Robert Wood	104	25	25	26	28
14	Jack Brearey	97	33	33	31	–
15	Hayden Moody (W)	92	31	31	30	–
16	Bailey Mitchell (W)	87	29	30	28	–
17	Mason Wardle (W)	50	23	–	–	27
18	Ebony Brown	24	24	–	–	–

Small Wheel 85

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	Alfie Geddes- Green	170	41	43	45	41
2	Joel Winstanley-Dawson	164	43	37	39	45
3	Kameron Greenhalgh	150	39	39	33	39
4	Sonny Rooney	146	35	27	41	43
5	Harvey Collins	138	34	34	37	33
6	Maison Jones	137	33	35	34	35
7	Robbie Daly	133	45	45	43	–
8	Leo Salf	131	37	32	31	31
9	Lucas Lee	128	31	30	35	32
10	Oliver Watson	123	32	33	29	29
11	Travis Bixby	121	24	28	32	37
12	Jaxon Haswell	120	29	31	30	30
13	Halim Own (W)	103	26	24	27	26
14	Ellis Nelson	102	25	25	24	28
15	Josh Hutchinson (W)	100	22	26	25	27
16	Ethan Jordan	98	–	41	23	34
17	Ollie Jewitt	96	27	23	28	18
18	Jordan Kinsella	86	23	17	21	25
19	Leo Wright (w)	85	30	29	26	–
20	Corey Wheatley	82	18	21	19	24
21	Harley Pastoor	81	20	20	22	19
22	Oscar Gilham	79	21	22	16	20
23	Louie Pritchard (W)	76	17	18	18	23
24	Ryan Prentice	76	16	19	20	21
25	Jamie Prentice	74	19	16	17	22
26	Ben Arthurton	28	28	–	–	–

Junior 65

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	Marty Spires	178	45	45	43	45
2	Cohen Jagielski	168	41	39	45	43
3	Arthur Moore	160	43	41	35	41
4	Harry Hall	158	39	43	41	35
5	Jett Gardiner (w)	143	37	30	37	39
6	Caiden Brand	142	32	37	39	34
7	Amon Eschoe	130	33	31	34	32
8	Jamie Thorpe	128	25	35	31	37
9	Arthur King	124	30	32	33	29
10	Tommy Hutchinson (W)	118	29	29	29	31
11	Teddy Merriman	116	31	27	28	30
12	Jacob Hackett (W)	114	28	28	32	26
13	Jakson Ross	111	26	33	27	25
14	Harry Cuddy	109	27	24	30	28
15	Leo Wilson	101	34	34	–	33
16	Sonny Burton	94	22	22	26	24
17	Junior Wigglesworth	82	16	18	25	23
18	Remi Wigglesworth	82	20	21	23	18
19	Vinie Anderson (w)	80	19	20	21	20
20	Ethan Lee Jenkins (W)	75	18	19	17	21
21	Riley Seeds (W)	72	14	16	20	22
22	Alan Thomson	71	21	23	–	27
23	Ivan Williamson (w)	71	15	15	22	19
24	Lewis Tavernor (W)	69	13	17	24	15
25	William Macaulay	67	23	25	19	–
26	Jamie Currie	64	24	26	–	14
27	Tallice Gibson (W)	58	12	14	16	16
28	Ricky Barrack	48	35	13	–	–
29	Travis Manning (W)	34	17	–	–	17
30	Charley Gerrard	18	–	–	18	–