Unstoppable Voase! 2021 Acerbis Amateur Nationals Finale – Race Report and Results

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Culham in Oxfordshire was the host venue for the final round of the 2021 Acerbis Amateur Nationals series and with all the championships still up for grabs, it was going to be a red hot weekend full of brilliant racing.

Race Report by Arran Murphy – Images courtesy of Matthew Rudd Photography

First up on the perfectly groomed circuit were the Craigs Motorcycles sponsored MX2 class with former double 125 champ Dylan Spencer planting his CPS Husqvarna on the top step of the podium for the first time this year giving him plenty of confidence going into 2022. Wildcard rider Max Lewis never swayed outside the top six all weekend and was rewarded with runner up for his efforts while Mitchell Meadows took the final race win to boost himself to third overall. Marshall Smith stayed cool, calm and collected on his way to claiming his first MX2 title by taking home fourth position.

In the Paradise MX Holidays MX1 category former top British Youth racer George Simmutch made an appearance for the final round as a wildcard and totally dominated the field taking five wins from five starts on his Yamaha. Jayden Ashwell, another wildcard, put himself onto the overall podium with three seconds and two thirds ahead of series regular Ed Briscoe who had a solid weekend inside the top five in each moto. Jack Beniston put in another solid effort for fourth overall for the weekend and claimed the runner up spot in the championship after a good year for the Honda man. Even after a first race crash and a weekend of battling through the pain barrier, north easterner James Hutchinson took the MX1 championship back up the A1 with him and the number 1 plate firmly attached to the front of his Yamaha.

In the Moto Connection backed 125 2 stroke class Luke Dean took his brand new Fantic machine to the line and that was the last any of the rest of the pack saw of him as he decimated the field. Dean was at least 3 seconds a lap faster than anyone in the first four motos and a second faster in the final race giving him a big cushion to cruise it home for five wins. Louis Vincent was the best of the rest but a massive 36 points adrift of the winner while Robert Barney was the top championship points scorer claiming the lower step of the rostrum. Dominic Newbury and Leon Ogley took fourth and fifth places respectively while Stu Owen finally claimed the championship he has worked so hard over the last few years taking the title a race early in moto four.

The top four overall in the California MX Dreams Open 2 stroke class ended up finishing the same positions in the championship as Adam Harris carried on his good form of late and took a maximum scorecard of 200 points and defended his championship from 2019 but this time giving Fantic their first National title in Britain. Harris had to deal with fast starting and ever-stylish Chris Nuttal as the KTM man was fast out of the blocks all weekend but had to settle for runner up on the weekend but in doing so fended off Drew Roe in the championship for the silver medal. Roe managed to stand on the lower step of the rostrum however and gave Nuttal a good run to the flag to cement himself as third in the series while Cumbrian Callum Bircher took home fourth after a solid season for the KTM man.

In the hotly contested Pro Green Ladies category it was the last race result that decided who stood on the top step of the podium as Kathryn Booth and Charlotte Hall tied on points for the weekend. Hall had a super consistent weekend with a 2-2-1-2-2 scorecard but Booth taking 3 wins, a second and a fourth was enough to bag the KTM rider the overall due to the final race victory. Nadiya Jones was hot on their heels all weekend and came away with the third spot overall but more crucially she became the Ladies Champion for the second time. Rebecca Newman and Molly Wernham rounded out the top five.

It was business as usual in the Manchester Xtreme Junior Open category as just like he has at 4 of the other 5 rounds in 2021 Alfie Calvert claimed all five race wins and with it the Junior Open title, just coming up a race short of a perfect season and proving he will be a solid top 10 rider in the MX2 class for 2022. Ryan Davis wasn’t far off Calvert’s pace but had to settle for a 4-2-2-2-3 scorecard to give himself the runner up on the day overall and runner up in the championship to go with it. Tom Card finished the season strong with a second place in the first and last motos of the weekend to help him up to third on the box.

Ryan Voase must be the first person in the Acerbis Nationals history to have a 100% unbeaten record in a season as the Kawasaki man-made it 30 wins from 30 starts over the six rounds in 2021 in the LS2 helmets Vets Over 40 category. He took a 2005 250 2 stroke Kawi to the top step this time around however proving he can also win on whatever bike you put him on. Danny Tollett resumed his position on the second step of the podium and you can be sure he will be pushing hard over winter to try and overhaul his rival in 2022 and stop the dominance. Simon Bonser came out to Culham for a wildcard appearance and put himself onto the third step of the rostrum after going into the final moto tied on points with Andrew Woolhouse who finished the weekend fourth overall.

In the Roberts Plants Engineers Vets Over 50 class, it was 22 points that separated Chris Brown and Brian Wheeler heading into the weekend meaning all was to play for at Culham for the title. Wheeler did all he could to make up the ground like he has all year and took maximum points once again meaning he won every race he competed in but with the two races missed at Hawkstone he’d been playing catch up all season. Brown however is also ultra-consistent and has only been outside of the top three only once all year and with that managed to take home and defend the over 50 championships by only 10 points. Steve Elford rounded out the top three on the day and even snook a runner up spot in moto 4 to help his cause while Rob Lewis finished the year fourth overall and claimed the bronze medal in the championship for his efforts.

With 2021 all sewn up and in the history books, all focus turns to 2022 where we are surely in for yet another top year of action from the best Amateur riders in the country from one of the best series about.

Results

MX1

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	GEORGE SIM-MUTCH	200	40	40	40	40	40
2	JAYDEN ASHWELL	186	38	38	38	36	36
3	ED BRISCOE	180	36	36	32	38	38
4	JACK BENISTON	161	34	27	36	32	32
5	SCOTT HAMILTON	157	32	30	34	34	27
6	CORY NEMETH	148	28	32	30	29	29
7	SIMON BOOTH	139	25	28	29	27	30
8	BRAD WHEELER	132	27	25	26	26	28
9	JAMES HUTCHINSON	127	16	29	24	24	34
10	DANIEL SULTANA	117	24	22	25	23	23
11	DAN SHEP	116	26	20	16	28	26
12	JAMES GOODALL	115	23	24	23	21	24
13	GEORGE CLARKE	110	29	34	–	30	17
14	JOSH SCOTT	99	20	17	20	20	22
15	DAVID PLANK	98	–	21	27	25	25
16	THOMAS O’CONNOR	98	21	18	21	18	20
17	SCOTT MERADITH	94	12	23	22	16	21
18	ARRAN MURPHY	87	18	14	17	19	19
19	DANIEL EDGAR	85	19	13	18	17	18
20	BRADLEY FLAGG	84	30	26	28	–	–
21	DEAN CUMMINGS	51	17	15	19	–	–
22	JAMIE McCATHEY	38	–	16	–	22	–
23	JASON MARTIN	33	14	19	–	–	–
24	PETE HAMLETT	22	22	–	–	–	–
25	CHRIS HAMLET	15	15	–	–	–	–
26	LLOYDE CLARKE	13	13	–	–	–	–

MX2

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	DYLAN SPENCER	192	40	40	36	38	38
2	MAX LEWIS	172	38	36	34	30	34
3	MITCHELL MEADOWS	169	36	32	32	29	40
4	MARSHALL SMITH	159	34	30	29	36	30
5	JORDAN HUGHES	153	30	29	30	32	32
6	JOE DARK	152	–	38	38	40	36
7	TIM BURROWS	149	32	34	40	15	28
8	CORY COLLINS	148	29	28	28	34	29
9	JAKE MARSH	136	27	27	27	28	27
10	JORDAN HEARN	131	28	26	25	26	26
11	RYAN MANLEY	125	26	25	26	25	23
12	ADAM NEVITT	115	25	17	22	27	24
13	ADAM FORD	114	22	24	23	23	22
14	AIDEN CARNEY	108	23	21	20	24	20
15	LUKE TUNRER	102	24	23	14	20	21
16	CAMERON MCGREGOR	100	21	20	21	19	19
17	OLIVER DODDERS	79	20	19	18	22	–
18	BRADLEY LE FEUVRE	70	–	–	24	21	25
19	MACKENZIE CROCKATT	69	16	–	17	18	18
20	DAVID BRADLEY	65	17	16	15	17	–
21	LUKE POSS	60	19	22	19	–	–
22	BILLY WIECZOREK	52	18	18	16	–	–
23	ADAM GLENISTER	16	–	–	–	16	–

250 2 Stroke Open

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	ADAM HARRIS	200	40	40	40	40	40
2	CHRIS NUTTALL	188	38	36	38	38	38
3	DREW ROE	182	36	38	36	36	36
4	CALLUM BIRCHER	149	28	30	34	28	29
5	JOSH GREEDY	147	32	23	30	32	30
6	JAMES DENT	136	34	34	–	34	34
7	TRYSTAN WILLIAMS	134	29	28	24	29	24
8	ALEX NEEDHAM	132	27	27	26	24	28
9	OWEN WILKES	132	25	26	27	27	27
10	JAMIE NEEDHAM	131	23	29	28	25	26
11	RYAN MATTHEWS	115	30	32	32	21	–
12	LIAM SOMERVILLE	113	22	22	23	23	23
13	FRASER HATCH	111	21	21	22	22	25
14	REECE WAIN	101	26	24	25	26	–
15	BENNY LEWIS	78	24	25	29	–	–
16	BEN GILLETT	62	–	–	–	30	32
17	KIERAN WOODS	41	–	20	21	–	–

125’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	LUKE DEAN	200	40	40	40	40	40
2	LOUIS VINCENT	164	36	38	32	28	30
3	ROBERT BARNEY	159	34	25	36	30	34
4	DOM NEWBURY	157	28	34	34	32	29
5	LEON OGLEY	154	30	32	30	24	38
6	KEELAN HOPE	153	38	30	28	36	21
7	STU OWEN	150	29	29	29	27	36
8	ASH HARLAND	135	32	–	38	38	27
9	BEN MURRAY	130	23	27	23	29	28
10	TIM GARDHAM	129	22	24	26	34	23
11	TYE JONES	127	26	36	20	25	20
12	LEWIS PETFIELD	113	19	26	24	22	22
13	HAYDEN STEVENS	109	18	23	22	21	25
14	ALEX MORRIS	95	–	21	25	23	26
15	ASH CROSSLEY	92	24	17	27	–	24
16	JOSH JONES	92	20	14	19	20	19
17	OWEN WOODHOUSE	88	16	20	15	19	18
18	JAMIE COLLINS	82	21	13	16	18	14
19	LIAM GUNNING	80	7	19	21	16	17
20	JACK PARTINGTON	75	13	16	14	17	15
21	JAMES WILKINSON	72	15	18	9	14	16
22	ALAN PEARCE	62	27	28	7	–	–
23	AARON QNGLEY	58	–	–	–	26	32
24	MATT RAYSON	57	17	22	18	–	–
25	JOSH NOON	54	9	9	8	15	13
26	JOSH JAMES	50	10	7	12	10	11
27	BEN HUNTER	49	11	15	11	12	–
28	KERR THOMPSON	45	12	4	10	7	12
29	CRAIG REYNOLDS	44	8	10	13	13	–
30	JAMIE COX	42	14	11	17	–	–
31	FINLEY ABBOTT	37	6	6	6	11	8
32	MATT TOLLEY	37	25	12	–	–	–
33	CAIN LAST	27	–	5	4	8	10
34	AYJAY SIMPSON	23	–	–	5	9	9
35	REGGIE GESNER	13	5	8	–	–	–

Junior Open

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	ALFIE CALVERT	200	40	40	40	40	40
2	RYAN DAVIS	184	34	38	38	38	36
3	TOM CARD	171	38	32	29	34	38
4	TOM MARSH	161	36	36	30	27	32
5	LUKE PRICE	154	30	28	34	28	34
6	REECE WILKINSON	151	27	34	32	32	26
7	MITCHELL COLLINS	148	32	29	28	29	30
8	SAM AUST	124	28	25	19	30	22
9	RICHARD EVANS	122	24	23	26	22	27
10	TAYLOR MISSELBROOK	118	29	26	24	18	21
11	ADAM GUSTAFSON	117	18	27	22	26	24
12	JAKE BASHFORD	104	17	24	23	21	19
13	STEFAN ROBSON	96	10	18	20	25	23
14	NATHAN SMITH	96	16	20	25	19	16
15	KEVIN BROWN	89	23	8	15	23	20
16	LEWIS DAVIDSON	86	15	19	12	12	28
17	SEB BASHFORD	85	12	30	21	20	2
18	DAN TIMBRELL	83	26	21	36	–	–
19	JOSH OATES	82	19	17	14	14	18
20	FRASER SMITH	81	25	15	17	24	–
21	SAM HAMER	80	8	12	27	16	17
22	ADRIAN WHITCOMBE	77	22	16	16	11	12
23	JACK GATLAND	72	20	14	13	–	25
24	DEAN CUMMINGS	65	–	–	–	36	29
25	SAM ALDERMAN	61	21	22	18	–	–
26	DANIEL NEVITT	56	11	7	10	15	13
27	JASON WAYMAN	52	3	10	11	13	15
28	LEWIS SMITH	51	14	13	6	10	8
29	DAN EVANS	41	–	11	9	7	14
30	AIDEN MURPHY	41	13	3	8	8	9
31	CARL HOWES	31	6	6	5	9	5
32	ROSS DEAN	29	7	5	7	4	6
33	BILLY W	28	–	–	–	17	11
34	LOUIS SMITH	25	1	9	–	5	10
35	PAUL SHUTE	21	4	1	3	6	7
36	BEN PROSSER	14	9	4	1	–	–
37	TOM BERRY	13	2	–	4	3	4
38	JACK ADAMSON	7	–	–	2	2	3
39	MATT BENNETT	7	5	2	–	–	–

Ladies

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	KATHRYN BOOTH	192	34	40	38	40	40
2	CHARLOTTE HALL	192	38	38	40	38	38
3	NADIYA JONES	176	36	36	32	36	36
4	REBECCA NEWMAN	166	32	34	34	34	32
5	MOLLY WERNHAM	147	29	29	29	30	30
6	KADY MOORE	144	28	28	30	29	29
7	EMILY NOON	136	26	27	28	28	27
8	LILLY MOORLAND	135	27	26	27	27	28
9	TAYLOR SCOTT	128	30	32	–	32	34
10	GEORGIA BOTTRIELL	124	25	25	24	26	24
11	CHLOE CLEGG	122	23	23	25	25	26
12	ANDREA TAYLFORTH	114	22	21	22	24	25
13	AALIYAH HILBERT	112	21	22	23	23	23
14	GRACE RICHARDS	106	40	30	36	–	–
15	LAUREN COX	74	24	24	26	–	–
16	KATIE LANCASTER	20	–	20	–	–	–

Vets Over 40

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	RYAN VOASE	200	40	40	40	40	40
2	DANNY TOLLET	188	38	38	36	38	38
3	SIMON BONSER	172	36	36	38	26	36
4	ANDREW WOODHOUSE	168	34	32	34	36	32
5	NEIL GRIFFITHS	160	30	34	32	34	30
6	DAVID EVANS	150	32	30	26	28	34
7	PAUL WIECZOREK	146	27	28	30	32	29
8	JOHN CURRUTHERS	145	29	29	29	30	28
9	MARK SUTHERLAND	139	28	27	28	29	27
10	NIGEL SMORFITT	126	24	25	27	25	25
11	MIKE JOHNSTON	113	21	21	24	23	24
12	DALE SILK	108	20	20	23	22	23
13	PAUL COWARD	104	26	26	25	27	–
14	DAVID HOPKINS	97	23	24	–	24	26
15	CHRIS PEATY	48	25	23	–	–	–
16	JAMES ANDREW	44	22	22	–	–	–
17	EWAN	19	–	19	–	–	–

Vets Over 50

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	BRIAN WHEELER	200	40	40	40	40	40
2	CHRIS BROWN	188	38	38	38	36	38
3	STEVE ELFORD	182	36	36	36	38	36
4	ROB LEWIS	166	32	34	34	34	32
5	CRIAG POTTER	160	30	32	32	32	34
6	ADRIAN LEWIS	143	28	28	28	30	29
7	CHRIS STEMP	139	27	26	27	29	30
8	ADRIAN JESSOP	125	22	23	24	28	28
9	ALAN MORTON	119	25	20	22	26	26
10	STEVE HUMPHRIES	118	20	25	26	27	20
11	STEVE HOWES	116	21	21	23	24	27
12	BRIAN FRASER	114	19	24	21	25	25
13	GARY MASON	105	23	19	16	23	24
14	ANDREW PROSSER	95	15	18	19	20	23
15	EWAN JOHNSTON	93	34	30	29	–	–
16	IAN MCGREGOR	88	13	16	18	22	19
17	JOHN MORELAND	85	26	29	30	–	–
18	BRAD DAVEY	85	14	13	20	21	17
19	JOHN CARD	79	17	12	13	19	18
20	GARY HENSON	76	24	27	25	–	–
21	VINCE CRAWLEY	76	11	15	17	17	16
22	DANIEL WOODMAN	74	10	11	14	18	21
23	DARREN MUMFORD	60	12	14	12	–	22
24	DAVID IBBERTSON	58	8	8	11	16	15
25	ROB PROSSER	51	29	22	–	–	–
26	COLIN BERRY	48	16	17	15	–	–
27	KEVIN McCATHEY	46	9	9	–	14	14
28	PAUL RODGERS	32	–	7	10	15	–
29	STEVE MATTHEWS	18	18	–	–	–	–
30	EDDIE BRISCOE	13	–	–	–	13	–