Legends reunited! Motocross & Speedway Memories Reunion 3 – Race Report & Results

Over the weekend of 29th & 30th April Motocross & Speedway Memories Reunion 3 took place at the reopened track at Whiteway Barton Nr Kingsteignton in Devon which had been prepared to nigh on perfection and had attracted a big entry with many legends from the past in attendance to do a parade lap or two which included the likes of Dave Thorpe, Craig Pratley, Greg Hanson, Dave Watson, Steve Liddington, Kip Herring, Dai Smith, and Rob Andrews to name a few.

Race Report and Images by Dave Rich

There were three blocks of racing on Saturday and just two blocks on Sunday. Saturday saw the sun out in all its glory and was to produce some excellent racing and even with rain overnight it had left the track on Sunday in excellent sted for yet another day of racing.

Jim Davies took the overall in the Evo/Super Evo 125 class by one point

In the Evo/Super Evo 125 class it was Rob Holyoake who won all three races on Saturday and was going well in the first race on Sunday until he came to a halt after a stone had hit his fuel tap and he lost all his fuel and with it blew his chances of the overall as he did win the last race on the Sunday, but the overall went to Jim Davies who took it by literally one point from Dave Anthony.

Tom Gilbert took four out of the five Evo/Super Evo 250/500 races

The Evo/Super Evo 250/500 class saw Tom Gilbert win 4 of the five races and with a fourth in the last race which was won by Harvey James, this was enough to give Gilbert the overall.

In the Junior class, it was Tal Veale who ended the weekend with the overall with a 5-1-1-2-1 scorecard with Adam Prior with one win taking second overall and Lee Veale taking third overall by literally by one point ahead of Alex Hartley who was the winner of the first race on the Sunday.

Kyran Nicholas heading Dan Hartley in one of the intermediate races on Sunday.

In the intermediate class, it was Dan Hartley who was to take the overall with a 1-3-2-3-2 scorecard ahead of Chester Blair, but a rider that was on fire on Sunday was Kyran Nicholas who won all three races, but unfortunately for Kyran with not such a good day on Saturday he could only take third overall.

In the Vets class, there was no stopping Simon Lane who was to dominate the proceedings and won all five races over the weekend.

There was no stopping Simon Lane in the Vets class who took a clean sweep of wins

In the MX1 class, there were two wins for James Dodd on Saturday with Josh Taylor winning the other one after the race was cut short due to an accident. Dodd was in devastating form on the Sunday and was to have a real ding-dong battle with Taylor in the opening race and just managed to hold on to the chequered flag and was to dominate the last race by some fourteen seconds to take the win and with it the overall.

James Dodd MX1 Overall winner and Super Final Winner

In the MX2 class, it was George Hopkins who won the opening race on the Saturday with Ollie Beamish winning the other two and Beamish was to continue with his winning ways on Sunday and took the chequered flag in both races which gave him the overall.

Ollie Beamish took the overall in the MX2 class

Also over the weekend, there was a Novice 1,2 and 3 classes which saw Ben Radford win the opening Novice 1 race on the Saturday, but all the other four races were won by Kevin Wheeler who was to take the overall whereas, in the Novice 2 class, it was Tim Looker who took the overall with five consistent rides which included three race wins with second overall going to Kyle Richards literally by one point from Robbie Simmons who had won the other two races. The Novice 3 class saw Jack Baulch take the overall, but he was denied a clean sweep of wins by Jack Little who won the second race on the Saturday and with four other high-scoring races he took second overall.

Kevin Wheeler took four of the five race wins in the Novice 1 class and took the overall.

The Super Final was open to the top four riders in every class to compete against each other. Leading the way on the opening lap was Cornish youngster Louie Kessell with Dodd and Taylor tucked in behind him. Dodd managed to get past Kessell on the opening lap and was soon to pull away at the front, which left a good hard battle going on behind him with Kessell put under huge pressure from Taylor which Kessell dealt with for several laps until two laps from the end when Taylor found a way pass and up into second and was in a real hurry and was closing in on Dodd at the front at some rate, but the chequered flag came out just in time for Dodd who took the win by literally just 0.772 of a second with Kessell coming home a distant third.

Results

Super Final

Pos Competitor Diff Laps
1 JAMES DODD 0 10
2 JOSH TAYLOR 0.772 10
3 LOUIE KESSELL 18.406 10
4 GEORGE HOPKINS* 40.215 10
5 ROB HOLYEOKE 42.348 10
6 JIM DAVIES 01:21.9 10
7 HARVEY JAMES 01:33.2 10
8 CRAIG DOWN 01:36.5 10
9 MARK MORRIS SNR 1 lap 9
10 DAN HARTLEY 1 lap 9
11 PAUL VALANCE 1 lap 9
12 SPENCER COCKERILL 1 lap 9
13 MATT WELLS 1 lap 9
14 DAVE ANTHONY 1 lap 9
15 CHESTER BLAIR 1 lap 9
16 KYRAN NICHOLAS 1 lap 9
17 RUSSELL JARMAN 1 lap 9
18 TAL VEALE 1 lap 9
19 ROCKY LETHERBY* 1 lap 9
20 JACK WAJTKNECHT 2 laps 8
21 MARK BONNING 2 laps 8
22 SAM PERRIN 2 laps 8
23 RUSSELL ROMANS 2 laps 8
24 JAMIE GODDARD 2 laps 8
25 DANNY MORRIS SNR 2 laps 8
26 JACK BAKER 3 laps 7
27 JACK BAULCH 7 laps 3

MX1

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4 R5
1 OLLIE BEAMISH 223 43 45 45 45 45
2 GEORGE HOPKINS* 215 45 43 41 43 43
3 ROCKY LETHERBY* 191 35 35 43 39 39
4 SPENCER BROOKING 169 33 34 33 32 37
5 MARK CORNISH* 161 30 32 32 33 34
6 JACOB RANDALL 154 39 39 35 41
7 CALLUM PRIDDLE 152 37 37 37 41
8 BILLY WIECZOREK 133 32 31 35 35
9 JAMES TEENAN 132 31 33 34 34
10 NICK SHEPPARD 111 41 41 29
11 JACK GRIFFITHS 110 34 37 39
12 NEIL THOMAS 30 30

MX2

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4 R5
1 JAMES DODD 221 45 45 41 45 45
2 JOSH TAYLOR 217 43 43 45 43 43
3 LOUIE KESSELL 207 41 41 43 41 41
4 SHANE HOLMES 189 39 39 39 39 33
5 HARVEY JAMES* 184 37 37 34 37 39
6 CRAIG DOWN 176 32 35 37 35 37
7 DREW LANE 166 34 33 31 34 34
8 PETER GARRARD 157 31 31 30 33 32
9 BRENTS HARRIS* 136 35 34 32 35
10 JUDE GAYLARD-HALL 100 33 32 35
11 ADAM REEVE 33 33

Evo/Super Evo 125

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4 R5
1 JIM DAVIES 208 43 43 34 45 43
2 DAVE ANTHONY 207 41 41 43 43 39
3 PAUL WILDMAN-WILLIS 201 39 39 41 41 41
4 MARK BONNING 189 37 37 39 39 37
5 ROB HOLYEOKE 180 45 45 45 45
6 JAMES TEENAN 177 35 34 37 37 34
7 BEN SETCHELL 174 34 35 35 35 35
8 STEVE HAYWARD 158 31 30 32 33 32
9 JUSTIN CARPENTER 130 32 31 33 34
10 RUSSELL ROMANS 130 33 32 32 33
11 NEIL THOMAS 62 31 31
12 JOHN HOLMES 33 33

Evo/Super Evo 250/500

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4 R5
1 TOM GILBERT 219 45 45 45 45 39
2 MATT WELLS 207 41 43 39 41 43
3 GEORGE BOWERMAN 174 34 35 33 35 37
4 MARK CHAMBERLAIN 171 33 37 32 34 35
5 HARVEY JAMES 170 41 41 43 45
6 PAUL O’HAGEN 164 32 34 31 33 34
7 PAUL DEEBLE 146 39 35 39 33
8 NICK NOBLE 128 31 33 32 32
9 MARTIN HOLMAN 110 37 39 34
10 MARCUS ALBA 104 35 32 37
11 JAMIE HARRIS 86 43 43
12 RYAN HOOPER 78 37 41

Vets

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4 R5
1 SIMON LANE 225 45 45 45 45 45
2 DANNY SMYTH 211 41 43 43 41 43
3 MARK MORRIS SNR 203 43 37 41 43 39
4 RICHARD SHARP 193 39 41 39 39 35
5 LEON DAY 180 37 35 33 34 41
6 TONY HALE 157 26 34 35 28 34
7 ANDY LITTLE 153 29 29 27 35 33
8 RUSSELL JARMAN 153 27 28 37 32 29
9 MARK RELLAND 149 28 31 32 27 31
10 MIKE ALLPORT 147 30 30 31 29 27
11 CHRIS WALKER 143 34 33 21 25 30
12 PAUL VALANCE 141 33 34 37 37
13 MARTIN CURTIN 139 31 27 25 30 26
14 PAUL GROOM 133 14 26 30 31 32
15 CLARK DAVIDSON 125 24 24 29 23 25
16 DALE PHILLIPS 118 25 32 33 28
17 MATT HUTCHINGS 115 18 25 23 26 23
18 TONY CLARKE 112 21 15 28 24 24
19 DAVE SHIPTON 108 23 22 20 22 21
20 RICHARD TAPSCOTT 103 20 20 26 15 22
21 MARK ROBERTS 101 16 23 22 21 19
22 CHRIS LAMBOURNE 93 13 21 19 20 20
23 DANIEL CAVANAGH 81 12 16 17 18 18
24 STEVEN TONKIN 75 15 9 18 16 17
25 ANDREW WATKINS 74 35 39
26 ANDY HOLLINGSWORTH 64 10 19 16 19
27 DAVE YARDLEY 57 11 14 15 17
28 CHRIS SHEARMAN 50 7 13 14 16
29 KYDE HARTWELL 44 32 12
30 PAUL WIECZOREK 42 18 24
31 JOHN HOLMES 34 17 17
32 JAMIE SMITH 33 22 11
33 RICHARD HOLMES 32 19 13
34 PHIL ROBERTS 26 12 14
35 JIM SIMPSON 10 10
36 JOHN RANDLE 9 9
37 KEVIN LEWIS 8 8

Intermediates

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4 R5
1 DAN HARTLEY 213 45 41 43 41 43
2 CHESTER BLAIR 204 43 43 41 43 34
3 KYRAN NICHOLAS 202 32 35 45 45 45
4 JOSH GRIFFITHS 185 39 37 31 37 41
5 JAMES DEACON 173 33 32 34 35 39
6 JACK HEATH* 173 34 34 35 39 31
7 LUKE LAMBERT 167 28 33 37 32 37
8 TOM SALT 153 31 25 32 30 35
9 COLT BRIGHT 151 37 24 26 34 30
10 JORDAN ANDERTON 150 30 29 33 29 29
11 CRAIG GARRETT 146 29 22 29 33 33
12 SEAN KETTLEWELL 128 22 27 25 22 32
13 KIERAN MCLELLAND 119 35 45 39
14 DAN WHITMAN 115 13 23 20 31 28
15 SHANE CAMPION 113 20 19 21 27 26
16 LEE HOCKING 110 41 39 30
17 DANIEL CHEESE 109 23 21 22 21 22
18 STEPHEN PERRY 104 19 20 19 28 18
19 KURT PUGSLEY 99 25 30 28 16
20 LOUIE HUTCHINS 94 14 15 16 26 23
21 HARRY BUTCHER 94 15 18 18 23 20
22 RYAN WYLES 92 16 17 17 15 27
23 SAMUEL UPTON 92 21 11 15 20 25
24 GEORGE PAY 82 9 16 14 19 24
25 KENNY RAWLINS 82 27 28 27
26 GEORGE JONES 78 24 31 23
27 OAKLEY SHARP 77 11 9 12 24 21
28 GLEN PHILLIPS 76 26 26 24
29 MARK MORRIS JR 61 7 7 11 17 19
30 LEWIS CORNWALL 54 12 14 10 18
31 ALEX WOODS 54 17 12 25
32 JOHNO HOSKINS 33 10 10 13
33 NICK SHAW 18 18
34 JOE CLERKSON 16 8 8
35 CHARLIE WOODS 13 13
36 BRYN FIELD 12 6 6

Juniors

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4 R5
1 TAL VEALE 215 37 45 45 43 45
2 ADAM PRIOR 206 45 43 34 41 43
3 LEE VEALE 185 35 37 39 35 39
4 ALEX HARTLEY 184 41 35 41 45 22
5 SAM VEALE 180 43 33 31 32 41
6 JOE KEMP 180 32 39 37 37 35
7 OWEN HASWELL 168 33 34 33 31 37
8 JAMIE TAYLOR 152 31 28 30 33 30
9 LUKE BUDZISZEWSKI 143 30 32 32 34 15
10 REEGAN WEST 142 39 7 35 27 34
11 MARK RAWLINGS 138 22 31 26 28 31
12 IAN LEGG 136 28 27 29 25 27
13 SAM WARREN 135 29 26 25 26 29
14 MARK OSBORNE 128 27 25 27 21 28
15 BEN DEEBLE 123 41 43 39
16 HARLEY SHARP 117 34 16 19 24 24
17 JAYDEN LOXLEY 114 26 30 28 30
18 SAM PERRIN 112 24 23 23 22 20
19 JAMES FUGETT 109 21 15 22 18 33
20 JOE WORKMAN 104 22 21 29 32
21 HARRY BURTON 97 17 24 16 15 25
22 MICHAEL WYNNE 93 20 20 17 13 23
23 BRETT KELLY 92 23 18 15 23 13
24 SCOTT WELDON 90 18 19 20 12 21
25 JAMIE GODDARD 81 19 21 13 9 19
26 JOE TARVER 76 14 17 14 17 14
27 DANIEL TRINDER 69 29 24 16
28 ALI AITKIN 67 11 14 12 14 16
29 MAX BATESON 62 16 10 8 10 18
30 PAUL CRISPIN 55 15 12 9 7 12
31 CHRIS SMITH 51 25 26
32 KARL RON 51 13 9 10 8 11
33 BRENNDON CREW 51 12 8 11 20
34 SHAUN WILLIAMS 50 13 18 19
35 MATT FAHY 49 10 11 11 17
36 SIMON BARRY 17 7 10
37 NORTON MABY 17 5 6 6
38 AARON HEWS 6 6

Novice 1

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4 R5
1 KEVIN WHEELER 221 41 45 45 45 45
2 MATT SKINNER 213 43 43 43 41 43
3 JACK WAJTKNECHT 192 37 34 41 39 41
4 STEVE MOODY 179 31 39 35 37 37
5 KEVIN PRIDE 172 33 37 34 29 39
6 CORY KELLY 167 30 35 33 34 35
7 TYLER KELLY 158 29 33 31 31 34
8 JOSH LACEY 150 35 41 39 35
9 ALEX DARK 149 25 29 32 32 31
10 DAN COOK 145 27 30 28 30 30
11 DEAN CHRIPPES 141 28 28 29 28 28
12 TIM RIGGS 139 32 31 20 33 23
13 JOHN TREVELYAN 137 24 27 27 27 32
14 LEWIS HALE 120 23 20 24 24 29
15 JOSH DUNN 114 20 24 22 21 27
16 DANNY MORRIS JNR 110 34 43 33
17 CONNOR RAWLINS 105 19 22 19 20 25
18 RYAN SINCLAIR 99 25 26 22 26
19 SHANE PARFOOT 95 21 26 23 25
20 LEWIS PEARSON 94 18 18 18 19 21
21 AARON LAING 90 39 21 30
22 JAMES GILMORE 89 16 16 17 18 22
23 NICK RADFORD 83 26 32 25
24 BEN RADFORD 82 45 37
25 JESS GILMORE 81 19 21 17 24
26 PHILIP BOWEN 64 17 15 16 16
27 JORDAN BRITT 48 22 26
28 JOEL THOMPSON 46 23 23
29 JOHN LESTER 17 17

Novice 2

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4 R5
1 TIM LOOKER 215 45 43 45 45 37
2 KYLE RICHARDS 209 41 41 43 41 43
3 ROBBIE SIMMONS 208 43 45 32 43 45
4 REISS LOXLEY 197 37 39 41 39 41
5 SAM HOUNSLOW 171 29 37 35 37 33
6 LUCA CLARKE 170 39 35 34 32 30
7 ANT SHEWARD 166 31 33 33 30 39
8 BEN LAMBERT 164 24 34 37 34 35
9 KYLE GODBEAR 157 32 31 31 31 32
10 LIAM CARPENTER 151 34 32 28 29 28
11 MILES SIMMONS 148 26 25 30 33 34
12 ZOE DEACON 142 27 30 19 35 31
13 JAMIE JOHNSON 132 33 28 24 21 26
14 LEE MITCHELL* 130 25 29 29 22 25
15 RICKIE PRIOR 127 13 22 39 24 29
16 FINLEY FAULKNER 120 28 19 26 25 22
17 LEWIS BUTLER 115 21 27 15 28 24
18 STEVE HEMPHREY 111 23 26 23 23 16
19 DAVE WALKER 109 15 20 25 26 23
20 ALFIE MOORE 100 16 23 22 20 19
21 JOE RITCHIE 100 22 21 20 19 18
22 DARREN ROGERS 85 20 15 18 12 20
23 CHRIS BALL 77 18 24 18 17
24 JACK JARMAN 75 19 13 14 14 15
25 MARTIN BATESON 74 14 16 16 15 13
26 JASON CAMPION 73 17 18 21 17
27 KEVIN CAIRNES 70 9 17 17 13 14
28 JACK BARNES 57 30 27
29 FLYNN PARSONS 54 27 27
30 BARRY JARROW 39 12 14 13
31 ALBY BRANNAN 37 16 21
32 ANDY IMRIE 35 35
33 HARRY FORD 33 11 12 10
34 ABBIE WALKER 33 10 12 11

Novice 3

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4
1 JACK BAULCH 178 45 43 45 45
2 JACK LITTLE 168 39 45 43 41
3 BEN WYLES 143 43 41 22 37
4 PAUL BRANFIELD 140 33 33 39 35
5 ALEX TAYLOR 135 34 35 34 32
6 LIAM PAULTER 122 37 30 26 29
7 LUKE WATSON 118 26 27 32 33
8 JEREMY TIDBALL 115 23 28 30 34
9 JACK BAKER 113 25 31 27 30
10 ALEX BICKHAM 106 31 34 41
11 SAM FORD 106 22 29 28 27
12 MARTYN ALDEN 105 35 37 33
13 DEAN CORDER 105 29 16 29 31
14 DAN MERIFIELD 102 27 26 24 25
15 DAN KEAR 97 24 22 25 26
16 SHAUN ANTHONY 91 32 24 35
17 TAILOR SEARLE 91 28 32 31
18 TYLER LANE 91 21 23 23 24
19 LLOYD GRIFFITHS 86 30 19 37
20 DANNY NICHOLLS 85 20 25 18 22
21 BEN POULTER 84 19 21 21 23
22 TIM MORAN 80 41 39
23 MICKEY WATERHOUSE 74 16 11 19 28
24 RHIANNA DIX 74 18 17 20 19
25 TOMMY MASKELL 70 14 20 15 21
26 LUKE TRIM 69 17 18 17 17
27 WARREN BIRT 66 15 15 16 20
28 GRAHAM DALLAS 56 11 13 14 18
29 NOAH SLATER 51 10 12 13 16
30 MICHAELA HICKMAN 45 9 10 11 15
31 DANNY MORRIS JNR 43 43
32 JOE CLERKSON 39 39
33 TOBY WAJTKNECHT 38 12 14 12
34 JOSH PRESTON 13 13

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