Mcknight of the Realm! 2021 Nora-MX Quadcross Championship Round 5 – Race Report & Results

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Sunday saw the fifth round of the 2021 Nora-MX Quadcross Championship take place at Cusses Gorse track near Salisbury in Wiltshire and with spectators present for the first time there was a great atmosphere.

Report by Tracy Thacker – Images Courtesy of John Cook

In stark contrast to the wet round four the sun was scorching down and meant watering was firmly on the agenda for the track prep team and the decision was taken in the end to only run two motos.

As usual for this Nora MC Championship event, there were six quad groups Pro / Pro Am, Clubman Elite / Masters A, Clubman / Masters B, Intermediates and Ladies, 250cc Open and Air Cooled, 100cc Geared, and 50cc Auto, 100cc Auto.

Pro / Pro am groups were the first quad race of the day, Mark McLernon took the holeshot, blasted into the lead and held on for a great win. Behind was a big battle for second, Dafydd Davies held fifth on lap one but fought hard every lap to battle past his rivals managing to take a brilliant second place. Harry Walker tucked in behind battling hard for that second place, but settled for a close third at the flag, George Day was initially ahead but took fourth after a good three-way battle. Jamie Morgan took fifth with Simon Hammersley having a brilliant race recovering from a slow start to take sixth.

In race two it was Jamie Morgan and George Day who headed the pack into the first bend, but Mark McLernon was tucked in behind and quickly blasted past, going on to take another great win. Dafydd Davies was on his tail throughout but not close enough to make a challenge and settle for second. Harry Walker fought up from fifth to take third passing George Day a few laps from the end. Jamie Morgan took advantage of that great start to take fifth with Simon Hammersley just behind.

The Clubman Elite raced with the Masters A group, George Oliver lead into lap one with Luke Berlyn behind, battle until he found a way past going on to take a safe win. George Oliver held second, with Iestyn Rees third (the first Under 21). Dylan Mckenna had a great first lap recovering from a difficult start to drop into fourth just ahead of Scott Berlyn. Ryan Hickman started outside the top 20 but battled throughout to take a brilliant sixth place.

In race two George Oliver took an early lead, staying ahead until the final few laps when problems struck and he dropped back to sixth, Luke Berlyn had a slow start to the race but recovered well to blast into the lead, picking off rival lap by lap until he took the lead in the final few laps. Iestyn Rees took third just ahead of Ryan Hickman, taking advantage of a great start. Edward Davies fought back from a terrible start and took fifth just ahead of George Oliver.

Like the above the Clubman and Masters B groups raced together with Lewis Painter snatching the Clubman overall with a 1-2 scorecard over Will Mead’s 3-1. Harry Koller was third while in the Masters Mark Smith hammered home two wins for the overall victory with Matthew Kirk second and Steven Smart third.

In the stacked Intermediates class, Myles Mott and Max Turner duked it out for the win, but it was Mott who edged it with Turner second and Fergus Macdonald third. In the Ladies race, Shelley Smart was in sublime form and took the chequers in both moto’s to take the overall fending off Gemma Mills and Chloe Green.

Josh McKnight went unbeaten in the Youth 250 category claiming the victory ahead of Aled Davies and Andrew Black. Over in the Junior 100cc geared group Reggie Binskin went through the card, Olly McDonald was second and Seth Balaam third.

a right ding dong with Josh Mcknight and Aled Davies

Harriet Mewse did the business in the Junior 100cc Auto’s and was joined on the podium by Beatrix Drinkwater in second and Josh Smart third.

In the Junior 50cc Auto’s Harrison Orr was the top dog beating Shay McKenna and Oliver Dawson to the number one spot finishing in second and third respectively.

Round 6 of the championship takes place on the 4th July at Sellindge in Kent. For more info go to >> https://www.nora-mx.co.uk/

Results

Pro

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	Mark McLernon	80	40	40
2	Dafydd Davies	74	37	37
3	Harry Walker	70	35	35
4	George Day	66	33	33
5	Jamie Morgan	62	31	31
6	Simon Hammersley	58	29	29
7	Dean Dillon (U21)	56	28	28
8	Tom Day (U21)	52	25	27
9	Carl Bunce	52	26	26
10	Sheldon Seal	52	27	25
11	David Hammersley	48	24	24
12	Zak Orchard (U21)	46	23	23

Pro-Am

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	Alfie Walker (U21)	80	40	40
2	Chad Beevers	74	37	37
3	Ayrton Knowles (U21)	66	33	33
4	Aaron Haslett	66	35	31
5	Kevin Meenagh	64	29	35
6	Marcus Sprason (U21)	60	31	29

Clubman Elite

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	Luke Berlyn	80	40	40
2	Dylan Mckenna	70	33	37
3	Iestyn Rees (U21)	70	35	35
4	George Oliver	68	37	31
5	Ryan Hickman	62	29	33
6	Scott Berlyn	59	31	28
7	Laurence Stopps	52	26	26
8	Sonney Ward	52	27	25
9	Aaron Herbert	46	23	23
10	Tom Roch	46	25	21
11	Craig Fisher	42	13	29
12	Danny Smith	39	17	22
13	Michael Hodges	38	18	20
14	Justin Parry	38	22	16
15	Zak Beevers (U21)	37	10	27
16	Catrin Davies (L)	37	24	13
17	Bradley Watson	36	19	17
18	Jamie Bone	35	11	24
19	Jacob Atkinson	34	16	18
20	Joe Pryke	34	20	14
21	Daniel Scott Evans	33	14	19
22	Josh Talent	28	28	–
23	Ryan Walters	27	12	15
24	Harry Grant	21	21	–
25	Connor Taylor	15	15	–
26	Jack Evans	9	9	–

Clubman

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	Lewis Painter	77	40	37
2	Will Mead	75	35	40
3	Harry Koller	68	33	35
4	Bleddyn Jones	62	29	33
5	Luke Brown	62	31	31
6	Jack Shone	55	26	29
7	Iwan Jones #	55	27	28
8	Richard Paynter	52	25	27
9	Gary Griffin	49	24	25
10	Joe Sharp	48	22	26
11	Adam Lomas	47	23	24
12	Georgia Lent	43	21	22
13	Connor Paxton	37	37	–
14	Cameron Wildman	28	28	–
15	Kieran Taylor	23	–	23
16	Pat Carr (V)	21	–	21

Masters A

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	Edward Davies	80	40	40
2	Johnathan Mcknight	74	37	37
3	Darren Hurt	70	35	35
4	Darren Bridge	66	33	33
5	Chris Keitch	60	29	31
6	Gary Jones	56	27	29
7	Geoff Otway	55	28	27
8	Richard Clark	54	26	28
9	John Hall	50	24	26
10	Keith Harden	50	25	25
11	Paul Winrow	31	31	–
12	Greg Fisher	23	23	–
13	Ben Morgan	22	22	–

Masters B

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	Mark Smith	80	40	40
2	Matthew Kirk	72	35	37
3	Steven Smart	72	37	35
4	Stumpy Lawrence (V)	62	29	33
5	Phillip Hammersley (V)	62	31	31
6	Trevor Humphris (V)	59	33	26
7	David Hull	55	27	28
8	Rick Jones (V)	55	28	27
9	Mathew Parry	54	25	29
10	Jason Hall	51	26	25
11	Christopher Gyles (V)	47	23	24
12	Kevin Sumbler (V)	46	24	22
13	Mark Moseley (V)	45	22	23
14	Nik Blythe(V)	42	21	21

Intermediates

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	Myles Mott	77	37	40
2	Max Turner	75	40	35
3	Fergus Macdonald	72	35	37
4	Samual Jenkins	61	28	33
5	Alfie North	59	31	28
6	Stephen Claro	58	29	29
7	Tom Welch	52	26	26
8	James Lees	52	27	25
9	Sam Francis	49	22	27
10	Michael Watmore	46	23	23
11	Martyn Doyle	45	14	31
12	Benjamin Woodhead	45	21	24
13	Karl Pilcher	42	20	22
14	Ewan Packman	39	25	14
15	Richard Murphy	35	16	19
16	James Scott	34	13	21
17	George Patterson	34	17	17
18	Will Frost	34	18	16
19	Russ Wells	33	15	18
20	David Marriott	33	33	–
21	Archie Welch	27	12	15
22	Keaton Danter	24	24	–
23	Simon Pilsworth	20	–	20
24	Ashley Willis	19	19	–

Ladies

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	Shelley Smart (L)	80	40	40
2	Gemma Mills (L)	72	35	37
3	Chloe Green	66	31	35
4	Vassna Willcock (L)	64	33	31
5	Chloe Keitch (L)	58	29	29
6	Shanice Mott (L)	57	24	33
7	Susan Coalter (L)	56	28	28
8	Sally Donald (L)	54	27	27
9	Carly Sewell (L)	51	25	26
10	Maddie Martin (L)	51	26	25
11	Nicole Lowry (L)	37	37	–

Youth 250

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	Josh McKnight	80	40	40
2	Aled Davies	74	37	37
3	Andrew Black (G)	68	33	35
4	Lewis Humphris	68	35	33
5	Kieran Marriott	62	31	31
6	Sam Sellers	58	29	29
7	Arthur McDonald (A)	54	28	26
8	Louie Holt (A)	50	25	25
9	Alfie Pennington	48	26	22
10	Morgan Junge	47	24	23
11	Brooke Bunce (A)	46	22	24
12	Taylor Hyndman (A)	42	23	19
13	Rylee Marshall	41	14	27
14	Connor Yates (A)	41	20	21
15	Logan Paxton	41	21	20
16	Finnley Bedding (A)	35	17	18
17	Amelia Mead(A)	34	19	15
18	Ellie Stott (A)	33	16	17
19	Shane Havard Evans (A)	32	18	14
20	Charlie Eaton (A)	31	15	16
21	Ross Dillon (A)	28	–	28
22	Tomas McNulty	27	27	–
23	Charlie Wheatley (O)	13	13	–

Junior 100cc Geared

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	Reggie Binskin (G)	80	40	40
2	Olly McDonald (G)	74	37	37
3	Seth Balaam (G)	66	31	35
4	Amelia Talent (G)	66	35	31
5	Luca Shaw (G)	58	25	33
6	Ethan Legg	57	28	29
7	Malachy McKenna (G)	57	29	28
8	Rose Walker (G)	47	24	23

Junior 100cc Auto

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	Harriet Mewse (A)	60	33	27
2	Beatrix Drinkwater (A)	51	26	25
3	Josh Smart	51	27	24
4	Ella Robe (A)	45	23	22
5	Dexter Griffin	38	19	19
6	Sion Jones (A)	35	18	17
7	Beau Terrell	33	15	18
8	Keian Willis	28	14	14
9	Seth Terrell	12	12	–

Junior 50cc Auto

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2
1	Harrison Orr	47	21	26
2	Shay McKenna (50)	43	22	21
3	Oliver Dawson	37	17	20
4	Bentley Don Garrett	35	20	15
5	Blair Hyndman	32	16	16
6	Bobby Clarke	26	13	13