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Eccles the sheriff at Sherwood! 2022 Apico BSMA Nationals – Race Report & Results

The 2022 season finally kicked off for the Apico BSMA Nationals in glorious sunshine at the demanding sandy venue of Sherwood on the outskirts of Mansfield. Stacked lineups provided some great action in all of the groups with no less than 6 maximums!

Report and Images by Ady Cowshall – Images of Speed

Autos were under complete domination from Tommy Wood straight off winning all 4 of his races with ease. The action was 30 seconds behind him in each moto! Charlie Wilcock and Forest Roberts seemed to find each other in most races that they stayed upright. They both fell in different races allowing the very consistent but slower starting Freddie Gurney to come away with a well earned 2nd overall. Finlee Pope was another poor starter having to come through the field and his efforts were rewarded with a 4th overall behind Wilcock and in front of Roberts. Sonny Saunders had some great starts but struggled with the rough conditions eventually ending up outside the top 10, maybe one to watch on firmer going. Mason Staddon had some good rides going but dropped out of a solid 5th with a fall in moto 3 putting him down in 8th overall. Preston Chorley was another who suffered from poor starts had a DNF in moto 3 dropping him outside the top 15 overall.

The Junior action was again a maximum but the victor was challenged and headed on a number of occasions by last year’s Auto champion Cohen Jagielski. Jagielski lead a number of motos before being overhauled by Casey Lister and although by looking at the results you would of thought it was a procession as the top 4 were the same in all 4 motos when in fact the racing could have been covered at times with a blanket! Both William Dennis and Arthur King kept things tight at the top with this quartet gapping the rest of the field. John Slade and Theo Stead both ended the weekend out on equal points and had Spencer Newman not faltered in the 2nd encounter he may well have been inside the top 5 overall. Jensen Henney was distraught when he went out of the first moto with a clutch problem and with a full line up never had a chance of featuring in the overalls after that.

The Small Wheel 85’s kicked off with overall winner, Jensen Severn going down on lap one handing what looked like the win to the only other rider able to match his lap time, Junior Caroll Stone but Stone went out halfway through. Charlie James and Spencer Robinson made it easier on Severn by both falling and by midway Severn was back at the sharp end. Finley Stead and Marty Spires battled hard to cross the line within seconds of each other and Travis Bixby kept them honest crossing in 4th. The remaining motos were all taken by Severn but not without incident as mistakes crept into Severn’s game allowing Stone to get back to the front on occasion. Stead pushed Stone in the dying stages of the 2nd moto and Bixby again close enough to pounce on any mistakes. Spires had lost the lead group tow and was under pressure for 5th by Lewys Morgan in the 2nd race. Morgan’s consistency rewarded him with 5th overall. Sunday saw Spires come out a determined rider taking two 2nd place finishes behind Severn. Special mention to the Apico holeshot winner in moto 2 Jessie-Lee Jessopp as she stormed the line to claim the prize!


The older Big Wheel 85 class didn’t have a maximum but was dominated by Ben Casey apart from moto 2 when he went down on the final lap and Riley Voase son of ex GP rider Ryan had worked his way through from 5th to be close enough to take advantage of his slip up to take the win. With second place in each moto occupied by a different rider, it was a close call as to who would get on the podium. Any one of three riders could have been there and with only 2 points between all three, it was Kai Thorpe who just missed out on the final step, taken by Voase who lost out after a nasty tumble in the latter stages of the final moto handing Rocco Hands the 2nd place step. Riley Small dumped himself out of a top 5 overall by dnf’ing the final moto and despite a valiant effort in the final moto from Jack Evans, he couldn’t quite get on terms with Sebbie Moore for 5th overall.


The Seniors run together but scored separately saw a desolation by 125 rider Louis Vincent, no one in either class could stay in his roost as he put on a clinic of sand riding fast enough to be inside the top 10 in MX1. Jake Smith on the 250f was his closest rival but could only hold the pace for a few laps before Vincent had shaken him off. Smith was to take a maximum in that class. The deep sand caught a lot of the Senior riders out on one tight slower corner in particular throwing the results in the air as some laps 3 or 4 riders went down! Another son of an ex GP rider Charlie Hucklebridge suffered a bike malfunction that dropped him from a potential podium finish and the same fate fell to Jake Ogorman after a stone smashed his engine casing. With this pair out of contention, the 125 class was thrown wide open. The main benefactor was Jamie Kuehn who just managed to clinch 2nd by 2 points over Alfie Crealock-Lovell with Jay Bond not far behind and equally hot on his tailpipe the pair of Joe Beaumont and Alfie Smith. The 250f class was closer than any other of the weekend with 2nd through 4th all on 160 points but on countback it was Kawasaki mounted Kai Reason that took runner up spot with another KX of Levi Davies in third. It was Morgan Walters who missed out on podium pie. Jay Platt rounded out the top 5 and new to the four-stroke, Luke Woolgrove netted 6th.


MX1 saw vet rider Ryan Voase grab the lead in the first moto before arm pump slowed him down and Josh Taylor came through to pass Josh Caton and take the lead. Caton took advantage of Voase soon after and kept Taylor in sight. Taylor went on to take 4 out of 4. Caton was quick out of the gate in all the heats but after Voase had shaken the arm pump from the first moto he was not to be outdone and went on to take the next the races as runner up to Taylor. Behind the lead trio, a small gap appeared each time to the battle for 4th between Dan Maule Daniel Sultana and Josh Greedy ending up after the weekend in that order. Thomas Oconnor looked a different rider on the big red after many years on the RMZ and after a blistering 5th in qualification rounded out the weekend 5 points behind Tobias Sammut in 8th overall.

MX2’s first outing saw the fastest qualifier Jordan Eccles getting harassed by Kasey Hird as the pair traded places and Hird got the better of Eccles as they crossed the line feet apart! Hird went down in turn one of moto 2 while Eccles holeshotted and cleared off. Hird charged through the field to pass Adam Harris for 2nd in the late laps of the race. Harris aboard the 250 2 stroke Fantic was struggling a bit for fitness being his first outing of the year under race conditions. Eccles went on to win the remaining races from Hird pushing hard crossing the line on both occasions and eating Eccles’s roost. Harris was under threat from youngsters Ben Zeale and Harvey James as the first out of schoolboy racers mixed it up at the sharp end. Jake Marsh was lucky to fend off Ryan Mundell for 6th overall after his last race result ending up on equal points.

Vets ran as two classes under one race with over 35 and over 45. Last year’s championship winners were both present and both out front in moto one as Jamie Dobson took off. Darren King settled in feeling good after a solid winter riding but it all came undone when King took what could only be described as a WWF piledriver move into the sand over the only double jump on the track burying his helmet in the deep sand and giving himself a scare. Simon Bonser inherited the o45 lead at this point as King slipped down the order. New to the series Justin Robinson was coming through the pack and settled into 2nd behind Dobson by half distance. Adam Wilkinson another new face to the series had his 2 stroke singing and was another to benefit from King’s demise. Paul Willis coming back from horrific injuries from last season made his presence felt although still being far from fit. Regular Sam Callow, runner up last season had to work hard to stay in contention with the fresh blood but came away with 4th overall followed by Roy Townley in 5th.

Results

Auto’s

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4
1 TOMMY WOOD 180 45 45 45 45
2 FREDDIE GURNEY 164 39 41 43 41
3 CHARLIE WILCOCK 155 41 43 28 43
4 FINLEE POPE 146 35 39 39 33
5 FORREST ROBERTS 143 43 28 35 37
6 AUSTIN EDWARDS 132 32 29 41 30
7 RONNIE MORGAN 131 22 37 37 35
8 MASON STADDON 128 37 30 22 39
9 MASON FOREMAN 123 21 35 33 34
10 JIMMY BALL 122 34 27 30 31
11 tommy gaddes 121 28 32 34 27
12 SONNY SAUNDERS 117 30 24 31 32
13 JUDE HENNEY 117 25 31 32 29
14 HUNTER GROVES 110 33 34 15 28
15 OLIVER FLOOD 106 27 25 29 25
16 FRAZER BUCKLE 104 29 26 27 22
17 HEELEY COYNE 92 26 20 23 23
18 harrison chuddy 87 16 23 24 24
19 PRESTON CHORLEY 85 31 33 21
20 roy townley 81 19 22 25 15
21 MORRISON HIBBERT 79 24 19 17 19
22 LOUIE LANGFORD 72 18 17 20 17
23 CHARLIE MOODY 70 23 21 19 7
24 TRAVIS ASHE 69 20 14 21 14
25 TAYLOR CLARK 69 17 16 18 18
26 HARRISON ASHWOOD MACNEILL 66 13 7 26 20
27 WILLIAM KING 55 15 13 14 13
28 harvey taylor 52 8 18 26
29 FRANKYLEE LITCHFIELD 46 12 12 16 6
30 GEORGE MILNES 44 14 10 9 11
31 ZACHARY GROVES 41 10 9 12 10
32 AVA PEEDLE 40 11 13 16
33 CHARLIE PARK 38 11 15 12
34 BRODY CHAPMAN 33 9 4 11 9
35 ALBIE JACKSON 30 6 6 10 8
36 JAZZ BEACH 27 7 8 8 4
37 FREDDIE DENNIS 22 5 5 7 5

Junior 65’s

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4
1 CASEY LISTER 180 45 45 45 45
2 COHEN JAGIELSKI 172 43 43 43 43
3 WILLIAM DENNIS 164 41 41 41 41
4 ARTHUR KING 156 39 39 39 39
5 JOHN SLADE 135 30 33 37 35
6 THEO STEAD 135 32 37 34 32
7 HARRY CUDDY 131 35 29 33 34
8 WILL KREMER 129 34 34 28 33
9 JIMMY BOXALL 120 29 35 32 24
10 SPENCER NEWMAN 120 37 11 35 37
11 OAKLAN WINNALL 108 20 27 31 30
12 reuben jenkins 101 27 20 29 25
13 TERRY CHALLINOR 100 31 26 16 27
14 JACOB HACKETT 98 28 28 22 20
15 RILEY DALLIMORE 95 33 32 30
16 COLBY BRISCOMBE 93 22 31 12 28
17 alfie pincher 93 21 24 27 21
18 CHARLIE GODWIN 87 25 23 8 31
19 ALFIE COTTER 84 26 18 11 29
20 JIMMY WHISTON 82 19 12 25 26
21 LUCAS GROVES 81 23 22 18 18
22 GEORGE THOMAS 74 25 26 23
23 TATE VINCENT 71 24 21 23 3
24 OLIVER BARDOE 71 14 14 21 22
25 FRANCIS NELLIST 68 18 19 14 17
26 FINLEY RUNDLE 66 16 16 15 19
27 BAXTER WINNE GLAZE 62 17 17 19 9
28 BRODY NOCK 50 10 24 16
29 THOMAS BAILEY 49 15 20 14
30 HARRY DARLE 46 13 5 13 15
31 JAKE POWELL 44 15 7 9 13
32 OSCAR BIRD 44 7 8 17 12
33 JENSEN HENNEY 44 30 10 4
34 TYLER PEATY 35 8 13 6 8
35 CALLUM HARPER 34 10 9 5 10
36 JACK CLARKE 30 12 4 7 7
37 KALEB COPELAND 28 9 6 2 11
38 ETHAN SPURR 19 6 3 4 6
39 SAM WILKINSON 15 5 2 3 5
40 TOM WHITE 11 11

Small Wheel 85’s

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4
1 JENSEN SEVERN 180 45 45 45 45
2 marty spires 164 41 37 43 43
3 FINLEY STEAD 160 43 41 39 37
4 TRAVIS BIXBY 158 39 39 41 39
5 LEWYS MORGAN 141 37 35 34 35
6 SPENCER ROBINSON 132 32 33 33 34
7 brooklyn gabbitas 129 29 32 35 33
8 JESSIE-LEE JESSOPP 126 33 30 31 32
9 brody billton 122 35 28 28 31
10 JUNIOR CAROLL STONE 121 43 37 41
11 LUIE LEWIS 113 30 27 27 29
12 TOMMY PHILLIPS 111 26 25 32 28
13 DONTE RODEN 108 28 26 24 30
14 LEWIS DAY 104 27 24 26 27
15 OLIVER PARRY 80 25 29 26
16 GEORGE WHITE 74 24 25 25
17 leah rees evans 65 31 34
18 CHARLIE JAMES 65 34 31
19 beau smith 59 29 30

Big Wheel 85’s

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4
1 BEN CASEY 178 45 43 45 45
2 ROCCO HANDS 162 41 39 39 43
3 RILEY VOSE 161 43 45 41 32
4 KAI THORPE 160 35 41 43 41
5 sebbie moore 142 37 37 37 31
6 jack evans 138 33 32 34 39
7 CONNOR WILLIAMS 136 32 34 33 37
8 LEWIS EVANS 132 34 33 30 35
9 NOEL BROOKS 122 31 31 31 29
10 JONAS BROWN 112 30 28 27 27
11 riley small 109 39 35 35
12 TALLIS PRICE 109 13 30 32 34
13 BOBBY RAY-SMITH 109 29 29 26 25
14 TROY WEAVER 107 27 18 29 33
15 JOSEPH WRIGHT 101 17 26 28 30
16 JAYCI DIX 99 28 19 24 28
17 MAX BEAUMONT 94 23 27 23 21
18 ASHTON PHILLIPS 94 26 25 17 26
19 AUSTIN SANDFORD 94 22 24 25 23
20 millie sweeny 90 25 22 21 22
21 OSCAR KNIGHT 90 21 23 22 24
22 LEWIS PARK 79 20 21 19 19
23 ROMEO MEADS 77 24 17 20 16
24 LILIE EASTLAKE 68 19 15 16 18
25 TOM JAMES 66 18 16 15 17
26 HENRY FENNER 54 16 18 20
27 TAYLOR ADAMS 40 12 14 14
28 cowan vaughan 34 14 20
29 brady tucker 15 15

Senior 250’s

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4
1 JAKE SMITH 180 45 45 45 45
2 KAI REASON 160 43 43 37 37
3 LEVI DAVIES 160 39 39 39 43
4 MORGAN WALTERS 160 37 41 41 41
5 JAY PLATT 149 34 33 43 39
6 LUKE WOOLGROVE 135 33 34 33 35
7 MACKENZIE MARSHALL 131 31 32 34 34
8 FLETCHER RIDOUT 126 32 31 30 33
9 ALFIE THOMPSON 124 30 30 32 32
10 THOMAS JAGO 120 29 29 31 31
11 archie fremel 111 41 35 35
12 COREY TINSLEY 72 35 37

Senior 125’s

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4
1 LOUIS VINCENT 178 45 45 45 43
2 JAMIE KUEHN 152 39 35 43 35
3 ALFIE CREALOCK- LOVELL 150 37 37 39 37
4 JAY BOND 145 30 33 41 41
5 JOE BEAUMONT 139 34 29 37 39
6 ALFIE SMITH 139 35 39 33 32
7 preston lewis 134 31 34 35 34
8 CHARLIE HUCKLEBRIDGE 129 43 41 45
9 DREW RIGBY 123 28 32 30 33
10 JOEL KREMER 123 29 31 32 31
11 CURTIS ROBERTS 122 32 30 34 26
12 STEFAN DARBY 115 27 27 31 30
13 CARLTON SMITH 106 26 25 28 27
14 TEGAN NIGHTINGALE 101 24 24 25 28
15 LEWIS BAILY 96 23 23 26 24
16 PIRAN GWENNAP 92 21 22 24 25
17 IEUAN JONES 89 22 21 23 23
18 JAKE OGORMAN 84 41 43
19 LEWIS BONSER 81 25 27 29
20 FINLEY HORN 61 33 28
21 MACKENZIE GORDAN-SMITH 55 26 29

MX1

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4
1 JOSH TAYLOR 180 45 45 45 45
2 RYAN VOASE 170 41 43 43 43
3 JOSH CANTON 166 43 41 41 41
4 DAN MAULE 154 39 39 37 39
5 DANIEL SULTANA 144 31 37 39 37
6 JOSH GREEDY 141 37 35 35 34
7 TOBIAS# SAMMUT 135 34 34 32 35
8 TOM O’CONNOR 130 33 33 33 31
9 JAKE STRANGE 120 29 32 30 29
10 JACK HANSFORD 111 25 31 28 27
11 JAMES PARK 106 26 30 27 23
12 GRANT TUCKER 104 24 29 25 26
13 FRASER GARDINER 98 32 34 32
14 rhys grimes 97 21 28 24 24
15 RICHARD CURTIS 96 23 25 23 25
16 TOBY BROOKS 93 22 27 22 22
17 THOR TUCKER 87 28 29 30
18 JOE RITCHIE 85 19 24 21 21
19 JAMIE HIBBARD 81 27 26 28
20 SAM WESTCOTT 46 20 26
21 LUKE BULL 30 30

MX2

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4
1 JORDAN ECCLES 178 43 45 45 45
2 KASEY HIRD 174 45 43 43 43
3 ADAM HARRIS 164 41 41 41 41
4 HARVEY JAMES 156 39 39 39 39
5 ben zeale 148 37 37 37 37
6 jake marsh 136 35 35 35 31
7 ryan mundell 136 34 34 33 35
8 CONNOR JAGO 127 32 30 31 34
9 THOMAS CASBEARD 126 33 31 30 32
10 JOSH HICKINBOTTOM 122 31 29 29 33
11 DANIEL BARTLETT 109 27 24 28 30
12 TROY GILLETT 105 29 25 26 25
13 DAN CROCKER 105 26 27 25 27
14 JOSH TALBOT 103 24 28 22 29
15 KULLEN EVANS 102 25 26 27 24
16 FINN EADY 95 30 33 32
17 GEORGE ELSDEN 92 21 21 24 26
18 THOMAS ANDREW 89 23 32 34
19 RYAN REYNOLDS 83 19 22 19 23
20 DAIN TRAYLOR 81 7 23 23 28
21 jamie johnson 79 22 20 15 22
22 LAWRY HERBERT 78 28 14 21 15
23 KYE MARSHALL 73 18 19 17 19
24 JOEL WORTHINGTON 66 12 18 16 20
25 DOUG WYNNE 64 6 17 20 21
26 LEON WILLIAMS 64 20 15 18 11
27 JAMIE EPPLESTONE 55 15 12 11 17
28 charlie slade 53 16 8 13 16
29 CALLUM HALL 52 13 13 14 12
30 KRISTIAN GIBBONS 46 9 9 10 18
31 ALISTAIR GWENNAP 45 17 16 12
32 JACK DAVIS 33 14 11 8
33 JACK ADAMSON 30 7 9 14
34 nick lowe 20 7 13
35 LORENZO SUMMUTT 18 8 10
36 PAUL OHAGAN 11 11
37 TEO POPADOPOULOS 10 10

Vets Over 35’s

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4
1 JUSTIN ROBINSON 176 43 43 45 45
2 JAMIE DOBSON 174 45 45 43 41
3 ADAM WILKINSON 164 39 41 41 43
4 SAM CALLOW 158 41 39 39 39
5 roy townley 146 35 37 37 37
6 GRAHAM CLARK 141 37 35 35 34
7 SEAN KETTLEWELL 133 33 34 33 33
8 JAMES JACKAMAN 131 31 31 34 35
9 IAN JAMES 131 34 33 32 32
10 CHRIS PEATY 126 32 32 31 31
11 JASON FISHER 116 29 29 29 29
12 PHILP JONES 113 23 30 30 30
13 BEN CANNINGS 110 27 27 28 28
14 KELLY PHILLIPS 103 25 26 27 25
15 SCOTT EATON 102 24 25 26 27
16 ASHLEY MAIR 101 26 24 25 26
17 LEE EATON 56 28 28
18 JONATHAN CRAIG 30 30

Vets Over 45’s

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4
1 DARREN KING 178 43 45 45 45
2 SIMON BONSER 174 45 43 43 43
3 PAUL WILDMAN WILLIS 158 35 41 41 41
4 BRYAN TUCKER 154 37 39 39 39
5 RICHARD GREEN 148 39 35 37 37
6 JAMES TRETHEWEY 145 41 37 32 35
7 david warner 133 32 34 33 34
8 brian grimes 129 31 33 34 31
9 KEVIN MCCARTHY 129 33 32 31 33
10 STEVE HALL 128 30 31 35 32
11 DARREN HANSFORD 34 34
12 nick vine 29 29

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