Cohen blisteringly fast at Bodmin! Apico BSMA National Round 2 – Race Report & Results

Swopping the Welsh mountains for the Cornish slate mines the Apico BSMA national took the series further afield down to Bodmin in Cornwall and a relatively new circuit just off the A30. A very technical track with hills, cambers, switchbacks and a few man-made elements through in with some great soil (and a few bits of slate). The track prep was spot on, moist in practice but after a couple of races, conditions were as close to perfect as could be even in the tropical conditions!

Report and Images by Ady Cowshall – Images of Speed

The combined vets started the race order off with the fastest qualifier Darren King not getting the best of starts with his closest on-track competitor in the younger age group out front James Dobson. This pair both took maximums in the respective groups Dobson went almost unchallenged both days as King didn’t have his starts dialled and took heat himself from one or two of the younger riders, notably Sam Callow who rounded out a solid weekend with runner up spot in the over 35’s. Mike Burgess got close on occasion to King in the over 45’s but had to settle for second overall ahead of the screaming 125 Yamaha of Paul ‘Wildman’ Willis.

Willis’s overall consistency and never give up attitude gave him third overall ahead of Neil Stevens who managed to beat the 125 pilot in a couple of the heats ending the weekend out with fourth overall while brother Mark Stevens looked good in practice a mechanical put him out before finishing one race! Ian James looked set for a great result in the over 35’s consistently running third in class until the final race, going down, in turn, one and then again while carving his way through the pack, but he did enough to stave off Chris Peaty some 6points behind. It was tighter than a slipper on one of the ugly sisters behind James as local warrior Scotty Williamson and Phil Jones finished the weekend out one point adrift of each other.

The premier class took to the line next and it featured some epic battles. Jones was cut off going into turn 2 and Phillips set off to try to break him. Coming through the pack Jake Curtis Stevens overhauled both Welsh boys to take the flag. Phillips got out front again in heat two and held off Stevens late charge and again in moto three. Stevens small bore bike was no match for the big bores out of the gate in and extremely ripped start straight sapping the power from his little KX250. Phillips had to play bridesmaid in the final two races of the weekend giving Stevens a 4 point advantage to take to the next round. Behind them, Jones had to battle with Regan Skinner and Nathan Frayne on Saturday but had a stronger ride in both motos on Sunday going 3-3 leaving Frayne to pick up a spot after Skinner went down hard in the final outing dropping him down the order. Jason Down suffered from poor starts but seemed to have the endurance to last the races finishing strongly as the weekend progressed. Shout out for youngster Dan Maule who was close to the front runners pace in several motos rounding out the weekend with a great sixth overall.

Seniors as always provided some class action with local ace Leon Williams sweeping the board only having a few laps to contend with any challenges Ben Zeale, Harvey James and Henry Life. Williams put his 250f at the front almost every time within a few corners of the start of each race leaving the competition with no doubt as to his intentions. Behind him, it was tight for runner up with Zeale and James both trading places but Zeale’s first race fifth place gave it to James who consistently placed top 3 all weekend. Henry Life was given a run for his money in the 125 class after Jack Peacey stole the race two win but Life pulled out the stops to win the remaining heats taking a 6 point advantage away to the next round. With third-place finishes being handed out to the top six overall it was close racing all the way down the order. Some flashes of brilliance from Colin ‘Bubba’ Stewart aboard his TM rewarded him with one of those third-place finishes and fourth overall while Roan Delaney, Jay Platt and Luke Woolgrove took the others.

The Auto riders may have been daunted by the size of the track with all but Cohen Jagielski doing three minute plus lap times at the best! Jagielski was in a class of his own with half minute gap back to the next finisher in all but one race his speed was that great he would of finished inside the top five of the 65’s! Behind saw a solid performance from Jacob Hackett coming home second in all five moto’s, third overall went to Jamie Currie again third in each race apart from the fourth after a spill dropped him to sixth at the line. Elliot Shawyer was lucky to stay in front of Oaklan Winnall after several ‘off’s’ but he did by one point in the overall standings. With only two top-five finishes Freddie Gurney benefited from the inconsistency of the field taking sixth overall.

Junior riders on the 65cc machines went to the line next and after qualifying six seconds a lap faster than his nearest rival Cameron Chapman went out and smashed race one with a massive margin over second-placed Sean Smout. Heat two saw a similar result, Chapman taking the win but this time by only a few seconds over Ifan Wyn Rees and Smout a distant third. The tide turned in moto three as Rees took a comfortable win over Smout, Hayden Maslin third with Chapman crossing the line fourth. Rees went on to take the rest of the races with Smout and Chapman each going 2-3 giving Rees the overall, Chapman just managing to hold second and Smout taking third. Again the technically demanding circuit had thrown a lot of curveballs out with riders taking soil samples and throwing the overalls wide open with William Dennis going 7-5-5-4-5 for fourth and Maslin’s 4-4-3-13-6 good enough for fifth.

Small wheel 85’s saw fastest qualifier Danny Flaude go down on numerous occasions leaving him with an uphill struggle to get back on terms with the top 3 only managing fourth in race one and a disastrous second moto crossing the line tenth. Meanwhile, Lucus Moncrieff made hay while the sun shone. Followed home by over half a minute in moto one by eventual overall runner up Ruben Always and Reegan Rogers on his rear fender. Moncrieff went on to take the second and third heats again with a comfortable margin with both Rogers and Always squabbling for podium places. Flaude had a better third outing pushing Always down to fourth and then came out swinging for the first encounter on Sunday taking the win in a close-fought battle with Always and Moncrieff. Moncrieff got the better of Flaude in the final event securing himself a well deserved overall. Super consistent Harry Woodland got a fifth overall for his efforts one place behind Flaude.

Big wheel 85 actions came next and it was some super close racing for the number one spot between series point leader Ben Sullivan and William Murphy. Consistently setting the fastest lap in each race Sullivan took the first and fourth moto’s but Murphy took the other three wins to give him the overall and close the gap slightly in the championship race. The only rider that came close to putting any challenge in to either was Ashton Somerville in the final heat closing down Sullivan after he had lost the tow on Murphy while making a lunge down the inside for the lead. Somerville had been doing battle with Alfie Crealock-Levell, Lewis George and Ryan McKinney but had done enough to take the final podium place overall ahead of the competition.

The B group adults took to the track last to round out each block and first-round winner Guy Jacobs again put in lap times in qualifying to demoralise his competition. So it was another huge lead taking the first heat from Brandon Eva, Joseph Langyon, Jack Adamson and Dan Crocker. Moto two saw another victory again over Eva and Langyon. Behind things were getting interesting as riders fell and didn’t finish throwing the door wide open. Race three gave a hat trick to Jacobs and likewise the runner up and third places remained the same but with only a small margin to the leader. Sunday seemed to favour the 4 stroke of Eva as the going was a little harder underneath with a slick top surface and indeed Jacobs could do nothing to hold back a very determined Eva who stormed both moto’s leaving Jacobs with no answer and close to losing out to Crocker in the final moto. Martin Luckwell’s 11-6-7-7-6 was good enough to get his name in the paper gaining sixth overall.

With the next round moving to Culham on the 7th and 8th of August and the halfway point in the series it’s going to start heating up!

Reports

Auto’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	COHEN JAGIELSKI	225	45	45	45	45	45
2	JACOB HACKETT	215	43	43	43	43	43
3	JAMIE CURRIE	199	41	41	41	35	41
4	ELLIOTT SHAWYER	184	39	39	33	41	32
5	OAKLAN WINNALL	183	35	37	35	37	39
6	FREDDIE GURNEY	174	34	32	37	34	37
7	JIMMY WHISTON	166	30	35	39	39	23
8	ALFIE PINCHER	161	37	28	30	33	33
9	SETH NICHLINSON	160	32	30	32	31	35
10	FINLEY RUNDLE	156	33	29	31	29	34
11	RAFE SYMONS	149	28	34	34	26	27
12	CAMERON BERRY	148	24	33	28	32	31
13	PRESTON CHORLEY	147	29	31	29	30	28
14	HARRI LUCKWELL	131	31	26	26	23	25
15	RONNIE MORGAN	129	26	27	22	28	26
16	MASON STADDON	125	19	25	27	24	30
17	TYLER PEATY	121	27	24	25	25	20
18	FREDDIE DARVILLE	117	25	22	24	22	24
19	RUBEN MATTA	112	23	23	23	21	22
20	JUDE HENNEY	104	22	21	20	20	21
21	OSCAR PATTON	99	20	20	21	19	19
22	OLIVER EVANS	94	21	19	19	18	17
23	WILLIAM BULLEY	68	18	18	–	16	16
24	LUCAS SAMPSON	56	–	–	–	27	29
25	SONNY JEWELL	35	–	–	–	17	18

Junior 65’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	IFAN WYN REES	219	41	43	45	45	45
2	CAMERON CHAPMAN	213	45	45	39	41	43
3	SEAN SMOUT	211	43	41	43	43	41
4	WILLIAM DENNIS	184	34	37	37	39	37
5	HAYDEN MASLIN	182	39	39	41	28	35
6	RUBEN JENKINS	175	37	35	35	37	31
7	ELLIOTT MASON	165	32	32	33	29	39
8	HARRISON DOHERTY	163	35	34	32	33	29
9	JACK SAUNDERS	162	31	33	34	32	32
10	TIMMY PENGELLY	159	33	28	31	34	33
11	ALFIE MALINS	155	30	30	30	31	34
12	TERRY CHALLINOR	152	28	31	28	35	30
13	DANNY JAMAL	142	26	29	29	30	28
14	JENSEN HENNEY	133	27	25	27	27	27
15	ALFIE COTTER	126	24	26	25	26	25
16	SONNY PRICE	124	25	24	24	25	26
17	JAKE DIXON	106	29	27	26	24	–

Small Wheel 85’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	LUCAS MONCRIEFF	221	45	45	45	41	45
2	RUBEN ALWAYS	205	43	41	37	43	41
3	REEGAN ROGERS	203	41	43	43	37	39
4	DANNY FLUDE	199	39	31	41	45	43
5	HARRY WOODLAND	191	37	39	39	39	37
6	LEWIS MORGAN	163	33	35	34	29	32
7	CAMERON MEADES	163	28	34	33	34	34
8	LEON SAMPSON	156	35	32	25	31	33
9	JAY DUGDALE	151	34	33	31	26	27
10	BOBBY RAY-SMITH	147	30	26	27	33	31
11	HARRY JOHNSON	147	31	30	32	28	26
12	ISACC PENGELLY	144	29	27	28	30	30
13	BILLY LIFE	143	32	29	30	27	25
14	GETHIN MORGAN	142	–	37	35	35	35
15	FREDDIE RICHARDS	137	27	28	29	25	28
16	LEWIS JENKS	130	26	25	26	24	29
17	RUBEN TREW	128	25	24	24	32	23
18	HARRY CUTTLER	114	24	23	23	22	22
19	CODY LANE	88	–	21	22	21	24
20	DONTE RODEN	87	–	22	21	23	21
21	WILLIAM COCKING	40	–	–	–	20	20

Big Wheel 85’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	WILLIAM MURPHY	221	43	45	45	45	43
2	BENJAMIN SULLIVAN	219	45	43	43	43	45
3	ASHTON SOMERVILLE	199	37	41	39	41	41
4	ALFIE CREALOCK LEVELL	197	41	37	41	39	39
5	LEWIS GEORGE	182	35	39	34	37	37
6	RYAN MCKINNEY	179	39	33	37	35	35
7	TALLIS PRICE	170	34	34	35	34	33
8	HOLLIE ROBERTS	165	33	32	33	33	34
9	PIRAN GWENNAP	158	32	31	31	32	32
10	LEO RIXON	151	30	30	30	30	31
11	HENRY FENNER	147	28	29	29	31	30
12	CATLIN MEADS	143	29	28	28	29	29
13	MAX MILES	98	31	35	32	–	–
14	IEUAN JONES	54	27	27	–	–	–

Seniors

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	LEON WILLIAMS	225	45	45	45	45	45
2	HENRY LIFE	223	45	43	45	45	45
3	JACK PEACEY	217	43	45	43	43	43
4	HARVEY JAMES	209	43	41	43	41	41
5	BEN ZEALE	207	37	43	41	43	43
6	ROAN # DELANEY	197	37	41	41	39	39
7	LEWIS WILTSHIRE	193	41	39	37	37	39
8	CONNOR JAGO	191	39	37	39	39	37
9	COLIN STEWART	184	33	34	39	41	37
10	JAY # PLATT	180	41	39	34	32	34
11	LUKE WOOLGROVE	178	34	35	37	31	41
12	MITCHELL CONWAY	177	39	33	33	37	35
13	TRISTAN DANIELS	175	35	35	35	35	35
14	KENZIE # COLE	169	30	37	35	34	33
15	HARRISON JEPSON	159	31	32	31	33	32
16	RILEY WATTS	158	32	30	30	35	31
17	SOL OSBORNE	145	29	29	29	30	28
18	TAYLOR WILLS	139	25	28	28	29	29
19	ASHTON POTTER	134	26	26	27	28	27
20	THOMAS JAGO	134	28	27	26	27	26
21	ALFIE SMITH	128	35	31	32	–	30
22	RYAN HENWOOD	103	27	25	25	26	–

Vets

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	JAMIE DOBSON	225	45	45	45	45	45
2	DARREN KING	225	45	45	45	45	45
3	SAM CALLOW	215	43	43	43	43	43
4	MIKE # BURGESS	215	43	43	43	43	43
5	PAUL WILDMAN WILLIS	197	37	39	41	41	39
6	IAN JAMES	191	41	41	41	41	27
7	NEIL STEPHENS	189	39	37	37	35	41
8	CHRIS PEATY	185	39	35	39	35	37
9	SCOTTY # WILLIAMSON	184	37	39	35	34	39
10	PHIL JONES	183	29	37	37	39	41
11	BRYAN TUCKER	179	35	35	33	39	37
12	JAMIE EPPLESTONE	175	35	34	34	37	35
13	STEVE HALL	163	32	31	31	34	35
14	STEVEN # HARRIS	162	33	33	30	32	34
15	JAMES CHAMBERS	159	34	31	31	33	30
16	JAMES # WILLIAMS	158	41	41	39	37	–
17	BEN CANNINGS	157	32	32	32	28	33
18	DAVID WARNER	156	31	30	33	30	32
19	ANDREW # PLATT	155	29	29	30	33	34
20	BRIAN GRIME	154	30	30	29	32	33
21	JASON FISHER	116	30	29	29	–	28
22	CHRISTION # HILL	102	34	33	35	–	–
23	DARREN # PEARCE	99	31	34	34	–	–
24	JUSTIN # NAPIER	97	33	32	32	–	–
25	MARC x HOSKINS	60	–	–	–	29	31
26	RYAN x HOSKIN	60	–	–	–	31	29

Adult A

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	JAKE CURTIS STEVENS	221	45	43	43	45	45
2	GLEN PHILLIPS	217	43	45	45	41	43
3	CARL JONES	201	41	37	39	43	41
4	NATHAN FRAYNE	189	37	39	35	39	39
5	JASON DOWN	181	35	35	37	37	37
6	DAN MAULE	169	34	32	34	34	35
7	THOMAS SHUTLER	167	33	34	33	33	34
8	FRAZER GARDNER	158	30	33	31	32	32
9	DANIEL BARTLETT	157	32	31	30	31	33
10	REAGAN SKINNER	156	39	41	41	35	–
11	TOM O’CONNOR	150	31	29	29	30	31
12	RHYS GRIMES	141	28	27	27	29	30
13	SAM MORCON	91	29	30	32	–	–
14	CONNOR LIBBY	56	–	28	28	–	–

Adult B

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	GUY JACOBS	221	45	45	45	43	43
2	BRANDON EVA	219	43	43	43	45	45
3	JOSEPH LANYON	201	41	41	41	39	39
4	DAN CROCKER	193	39	39	37	37	41
5	MARTIN LUCKWELL	169	31	35	34	34	35
6	JACK MILSTED	167	37	33	33	30	34
7	JOEL WORTHINGTON	166	34	34	32	33	33
8	THOR TUCKER	156	26	31	35	35	29
9	JORDAN HARRIS	152	33	32	39	22	26
10	ANTONY TWIDDLE	150	35	37	–	41	37
11	ALFIE CROCKER	146	30	30	30	25	31
12	ALISTAIR GWENNAP	134	27	29	29	24	25
13	STEVEN DAY	130	23	25	26	28	28
14	RIKKI BURTON	126	25	27	28	19	27
15	KELLY PHILLIP	112	22	24	24	18	24
16	HARLEY JONES	104	28	26	27	23	–
17	ADAM DIXON	97	24	28	25	20	–
18	LUKE PRICE	92	29	–	31	32	–
19	JONATHAN BUDD	61	–	–	–	29	32
20	LEON REED	61	–	–	–	31	30
21	LUKE BUTLER	32	32	–	–	–	–
22	JAMES SANSON	27	–	–	–	27	–
23	KONA JENKINS	26	–	–	–	26	–
24	DANIEL BUDD	21	–	–	–	21	–