Sherwood glory for Todd & Adamson! 2021 Bridgestone British Masters Round 2 – Race Report & Results

Brad Todd on his Moto-Cycle Yamaha and John Adamson riding a Gabriel KTM both left a scorching hot and sunny Sherwood motocross track with maximum pro points as Todd was top in qualifying and combined that with two Pro MX1 race wins. At the same time, Adamson did the same in Pro MX2.

Report and Images by Dick Law

All the action last weekend was at round two of the Bridgestone British Masters as over three hundred riders took to the fast and technical Nottinghamshire track for a great weekend of racing. Considering the heat, the track personal kept the course well-watered with the only dust coming from the face of the jumps and well in control.

Todd got the holeshot at the start of the first combined pro MX1 and MX2 from Eliot Banks-Browne, Josh Spinks and Liam Knight, while the first of the MX2’s was Adamson in fifth. While Todd and Banks-Browne started to pull away from the rest in a personal duel for the race win, Spinks made a mistake allowing Knight through to third, with Adamson doing the same thing a lap later.

Gavin Stevenson was with Neville Bradshaw battling over sixth till at the halfway stage Lewis Hall blasted past them on his way to finishing the race in sixth, but the second MX2.

For lap after lap, Banks-Browne, now with his injured back well on the mend, did all he could to close the gap on the leader Todd, but as the race came to an end, Todd did just enough to the first Pro race win.

Knight was a distant third in the MX1 class with Adamson, the winner of the MX2’s fourth on the track. Tom Grimshaw didn’t make thing easy for himself with his eleventh-place start but after battling with Dan Thornhill and Bradshaw ended his race in ninth but third MX2.

Once again, Todd and Banks-Browne lead the pack in to turn one at the start of the second Pro race, and it looked like we were going to see a repeat of race one. But, just after the halfway point and with Todd still in his sight, Banks-Browne’s rear shock gave out, and he was forced to slow, leaving Todd unchallenged for his second win of the day.

Adamson started the race in fourth and inherited third when Spinks crashed out and then was handed second in the race when Banks-Browne slowed with his ailing bike. He closed on Todd, but his MX2 machine was no match for Todd’s bigger and more powerfull MX1.

Hall was chasing Adamson all race long and crossed the finish line in third but second MX2. Thornhill and Knight gated seventh and eighth, but Knight got the better of Thornhill as they passed Banks-Browne towards the end of the race.

Grimshaw once again made work hard for himself. He was fourteenth at the start to finish seventh at the flag but third in the MX2 class.

Overall, in the Pro MX1’s, it was Todd from Knight and Banks-Browne with Thornhill just missing out of the podium, but in the championship, Knight now leads Thornhill by fourteen points with Gavin Stevenson third. But look out, Todd is currently in fourth and moving up.

In the MX2 overall, it was Adamson from Hall and Grimshaw for the podium, with Sam Nunn just missing out. In the championship, Adamson has a race win advantage over Grimshaw, with Nunn and Hall filling the following two places.

“I had a nice gap in both races, but I had Adamson keeping me honest in race two,” said a happy Todd, “It was good last weekend at Canada Heights as I was out in fount for a lot of the race, but I got tired. That experience gave me a lot of confidence, and this helped me win today. The track here is quite good, but you have to keep your wits about you as there was some bit’s that could catch you out.”

MX2 winner and championship leader Adamson said, “Being out with the 450s, it’s hard to get going sometime, but having said that, it’s nice to have them pushing you along as it makes you go faster. Two class win’s and a fourth and a second in the races is good. The second race, when the track had dried out a bit, it was good for the 250, but it was a struggle in the first race. I liked the track as it was fast and flowing with loose soil. It got some naughty square-edged bumps towards the end of the day, but that’s to be expected, with all the classes today. But it was a good day out.”

The rest

Aaron crashed in the first Amateur MX1 race and had to fight his way from seventh, after his crash to end his race second behind Benjamin Knight. He didn’t do that again as he won all his next races to win the overall. Edward Briscoe didn’t finish out of the two-three all weekend was second with race one winner, Knight third overall.

It looked like Patrick Jackson was going to dominate the amateur MX2’s as he won both of his races on Saturday and the first on Sunday. But it all fell apart in race four. He crashed on the first lap of a slippy-watered track and came past the lap-scoring van in twenty-eighth place. As Rory Jones crossed the finish line for the race win, it looked like he would get the overall, but Jackson had managed to get himself up to seventh, and with that snatched the overall out of Jones’s hands by just three points. Shaun Springer claimed the last step on the podium.

It was tight at the top of the clubman class as Mark Kinsley won the overall by just two points from Richy Roberts with Max Wood a distant third.

The young Charlie Hayman was in control of the 125cc two-strokes, and he took four wins from four starts. This left Rob Holyoake and Matt Bayliss to fight over second and third as the pair ended the weekend separated by just six points.

Youth

Ben Clark dominated the MXY2’s with four convincing wins from his four starts. Raife Broadley was second, with Jamie Watson taking the third step on the podium.

Billy Askew, like Clark in the MXT2’s, was all four of his Big Wheel 85 races for the overall with Finley Evens and Josh Vail on the podium and with Tyla Hooley just missing out.

Reece Jones was another rider with a maximum score, and he won all four Small Wheel 85 races from Drew Stock and Chester Hyde.

Joel Winstanley-Dawson won three out of his four Junior 65’s races with Finley Pickering and Alfie Geddes Green second and third and with race three winner Robbie Daly fourth in a very tight battle for the podium places.

The next round of this popular championship takes place at Wroxton on the 17th and 18th of next month.

Pro MX1

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2
1 Brad Todd 90 45 45
2 Liam Knight 84 41 43
3 Elliot Banks Browne 82 43 39
4 Dan Thornhill 78 37 41
5 Gavin Stevenson 72 35 37
6 Richard McKeown 69 34 35
7 Charlie Putnam 67 33 34
8 Drew Anderson 63 30 33
9 Simon Booth 63 31 32
10 Zac Stealey 63 32 31
11 Josh Spinks 39 39

Pro MX2

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2
1 John Adamson 90 45 45
2 Lewis Hall 86 43 43
3 Tom Grimshaw 82 41 41
4 Sam Nunn 74 37 37
5 Neville Bradshaw 74 39 35
6 Cullen Scott 69 35 34
7 Michael Ellis 67 34 33
8 Robert Yates 65 33 32
9 Louie Kessel 62 31 31
10 Oliver Beamish 59 29 30
11 Corey Nemeth 59 30 29
12 Calum Mitchell 39 39
13 Jack Bintcliffe 32 32

Amateur MX1

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4
1 Aaron Patstone 172 37 45 45 45
2 Edward Briscoe 170 43 43 41 43
3 Benjamin Knight 160 45 35 39 41
4 George Clarke 152 41 37 35 39
5 Harry Bradley 149 34 41 37 37
6 Will Miller (w) 149 33 39 43 34
7 Dan Whitehead 138 39 34 33 32
8 Callum Gordon 127 35 33 26 33
9 Matt Lomas 126 32 32 31 31
10 Adam Wells 116 22 30 34 30
11 Kyle Creevy 113 31 26 29 27
12 Ross Millard 113 29 29 30 25
13 Brad Thornhill 107 23 27 28 29
14 Matty Fry (w) 106 27 19 32 28
15 Rob Wood 101 21 31 14 35
16 Jamie Dixon 95 20 25 24 26
17 Aiden Maloney 94 24 22 25 23
18 Michael Watson 81 17 13 27 24
19 John Mc Kenzie 79 13 23 22 21
20 Reagen Skinner 79 25 15 19 20
21 Connor Dickens 76 15 21 23 17
22 Colin McLuckie 74 18 24 13 19
23 Henry Partridge 68 19 28 21
24 Joshua Dodwell-Scott 67 16 11 18 22
25 Simon Jenkins 57 8 14 17 18
26 Liam Brosnan 54 14 20 20
27 Dan Best 45 11 18 16
28 Lewis O’Sullivan 40 30 10
29 James Park 36 9 12 15
30 James Day 29 12 17
31 Kieran Clarke 28 28
32 Scott Hail 26 26
33 Ben Gilbert (w) 26 10 16

Amateur MX2

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4
1 Patrick Jackson 169 45 45 45 34
2 Rory Jones 166 39 43 39 45
3 Shaun Springer (w) 162 35 41 43 43
4 Ben Burridge 149 32 35 41 41
5 Alfie Jones 148 37 39 33 39
6 Josh Canton (w) 135 41 34 27 33
7 Todd Ritchie 132 43 27 37 25
8 Dan Brough 130 34 37 29 30
9 Josh Coleman (w) 128 31 30 30 37
10 James Rutter (w) 127 28 29 35 35
11 Thomas Dodsworth (w) 120 29 32 31 28
12 Mitch Armour (w) 114 25 31 26 32
13 Dee Jay Walker 109 22 24 34 29
14 Lewis King-London 109 27 28 32 22
15 James Angel 108 33 33 11 31
16 Bailey Betsworth 96 23 26 21 26
17 Luke Kennett (w) 86 26 11 22 27
18 Martin Jones 84 12 25 23 24
19 Mitchell Warhurst 84 24 9 28 23
20 Connor Baldry (w) 78 18 22 20 18
21 Jesse Wren 73 20 20 18 15
22 Arnis Paberzs (w) 72 7 23 25 17
23 Daniel Warby 68 19 21 14 14
24 Joe Driver 64 14 18 13 19
25 Luke McCarthy (w) 60 13 19 8 20
26 Jake Hall (w) 59 15 16 12 16
27 Billy Collins 58 16 12 19 11
28 Toby Avis 54 30 24
29 Elliott Pugh 54 17 16 21
30 Jake Marsh 52 10 15 15 12
31 Nathan Heath 47 17 17 13
32 Jaydon Wright 40 9 14 7 10
33 Connor Barnett 37 8 10 10 9

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Clubman

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4
1 Mark Kinsley 164 37 45 37 45
2 Richy Roberts (w) 162 43 35 43 41
3 Max Wood 149 33 43 30 43
4 Aidan Carney 149 45 32 39 33
5 Curtis Henderson 144 30 41 34 39
6 Ben Hughes 138 34 34 35 35
7 Mitchil Collins 130 41 37 25 27
8 Matthew Jones 129 32 30 33 34
9 Karl Jenkinson 126 15 33 41 37
10 Scott Almore 119 35 39 45
11 Tod Thompson 112 29 26 29 28
12 Steven Lennie 111 26 31 23 31
13 Josh Watson-Bailey 106 25 21 31 29
14 James Thompson 105 21 27 27 30
15 Jacob Bell 102 31 7 32 32
16 Jack Loveridge 100 23 28 24 25
17 Joshua Lee Young 96 28 23 19 26
18 Joe Sargent 90 16 22 28 24
19 Richard Evans 82 27 29 26
20 Warren Banner 78 17 18 22 21
21 Dean Paling 77 19 19 21 18
22 Josh Ithell 76 22 15 17 22
23 Scott Isherwood 67 6 20 18 23
24 Robert Williams 62 12 14 16 20
25 Adam Paxton 57 24 24 9
26 Jake Pembridge 53 9 13 14 17
27 Kevin McBride 45 20 25
28 Steven Jones (w) 40 7 9 8 16
29 Lewis Grimshaw 40 13 12 15
30 Matthew Fuller (w) 39 39
31 Charlie Sutton 38 10 16 12
32 Duanne Baines 35 11 11 13
33 James Benson 31 14 17

125’s

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4
1 Charlie Heyman (w) 180 45 45 45 45
2 Rob Holyoak (w) 168 43 41 43 41
3 Matt Bayliss 162 41 43 35 43
4 Bayliss Utting 146 37 33 39 37
5 Troy Willerton 140 30 37 34 39
6 Ollie Colmer 139 39 39 41 20
7 Jordan Bachelor 134 35 34 30 35
8 Chuck Davies 126 33 30 29 34
9 Bradley Doyle 124 31 29 31 33
10 Arai Elcock 122 26 32 32 32
11 Joel Fisher 119 32 28 37 22
12 Henry Siddiqui (w) 108 27 31 22 28
13 Jack Bachelor 106 25 26 26 29
14 Tye Jones 101 24 27 23 27
15 Harrison Forde 98 23 22 28 25
16 Finlay Boxall (w) 93 22 21 24 26
17 James Barker 83 34 35 14
18 Luke Newman 82 24 27 31
19 Archie Fremel 77 21 13 19 24
20 Archie Hicks 76 18 17 18 23
21 Hayden Stevens 75 20 19 21 15
22 Robert Storer 70 16 16 20 18
23 Keaton Ellis 65 15 20 16 14
24 Liam Deegan 63 14 15 13 21
25 Teddy Hyde 55 12 9 17 17
26 Tom Daniels 55 10 14 15 16
27 Matt Ridgeway (w) 48 23 25
28 Jake Boote 46 17 18 11
29 Jules Brigham 40 9 12 19
30 Liam Gale 29 29
31 Dan Arkell 28 28
32 Syd Putnam 25 13 12
33 Frankie Elwell 22 11 11

MXY2

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4
1 Ben Clark 180 45 45 45 45
2 Raife Broadley 158 35 39 41 43
3 Jamie Watson 151 39 41 34 37
4 Callum Mccaul 141 33 31 43 34
5 Jude Turton 138 31 33 39 35
6 Ayden Smith 138 37 34 35 32
7 Kayde Rayns 136 41 21 33 41
8 Joseph Leeks(w) 129 32 29 37 31
9 Liam Bennett 120 28 30 29 33
10 Harvey Cashmore 115 43 43 29
11 Billy Hauxwell (w) 113 26 25 32 30
12 Josh Bassett 107 34 32 31 10
13 Max Lewis 105 29 37 39
14 Josh Jones 102 23 26 25 28
15 Harrison Drewell 97 25 23 27 22
16 Jasper Gibson 95 27 27 22 19
17 Kristian Paberz (w) 94 21 24 24 25
18 Cameron Jackson 90 22 22 23 23
19 Jake Barker 83 28 28 27
20 Seth Manners 76 24 26 26
21 Tyler Stevenson 75 19 17 19 20
22 James Rowsell (w) 69 16 14 21 18
23 Andy Morris (w) 67 20 30 17
24 George Elsden 65 17 18 15 15
25 Corey Collins 65 30 35
26 Ryan Lowe 63 18 16 17 12
27 Louis Perrin Brown (w) 61 14 13 18 16
28 Leyton Duffy 57 15 15 13 14
29 Riley Halstead 50 20 19 11
30 Joe Grace (w) 47 13 11 12 11
31 Frankie Elwell (w) 41 20 21
32 Syd Putnam (w) 40 16 24
33 Jack Saunders 39 12 14 13

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Big Wheel 85’s

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4
1 Billy Askew 180 45 45 45 45
2 Finley Evans 168 41 43 43 41
3 Josh Vail 156 39 41 37 39
4 Tyla Hooley 154 43 29 39 43
5 Charlie Richmond 145 37 37 34 37
6 Ryan Waggott 143 35 32 41 35
7 Will Haddock 135 27 39 35 34
8 Ellis Poole 128 32 31 33 32
9 Jake Walker 123 34 25 31 33
10 Kyron Carron 122 31 35 27 29
11 Brandon Hedayat (w) 121 28 34 28 31
12 Dylan Meaney 120 33 33 26 28
13 Jack Brearey 113 29 27 32 25
14 Declan Wright 112 30 26 30 26
15 Levi Saunders 102 25 30 25 22
16 Lewis Proud 100 26 28 23 23
17 Lucy Barker 99 24 24 24 27
18 Ashley Matthews 81 20 21 21 19
19 Max Ellerker 80 11 23 22 24
20 Tyler Jones 75 19 20 18 18
21 Corey Gordon 74 22 15 20 17
22 Jack Ranner 70 14 17 19 20
23 Braidy Tucker (w) 63 16 16 16 15
24 Ashton Phillips 62 15 18 13 16
25 Billy Moriaty 59 29 30
26 Jon Waghorn (w) 59 21 17 21
27 Max Walsham 53 12 13 14 14
28 Jack Jenkins (w) 51 13 14 12 12
29 Troy Weaver 45 17 15 13
30 Danny Moore 45 23 22
31 Cameron Chell 37 18 19

Small Wheel 85’s

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4
1 Reece Jones 180 45 45 45 45
2 Drew Stock 168 43 43 41 41
3 Chester Hyde 156 41 39 33 43
4 Hayden Statt 149 34 35 43 37
5 Blake Ward-Clarke 145 39 34 37 35
6 Jamie Keith 136 37 37 28 34
7 Sonny Rooney (w) 133 35 32 34 32
8 Alfie Herron 126 21 31 35 39
9 Isaac Ash (w) 126 33 30 32 31
10 Oakley Kettle 119 32 28 31 28
11 Riley Small (w) 114 22 29 30 33
12 Zane Sibley – Deakin 110 28 27 29 26
13 Jorge Parkin (w) 103 31 33 10 29
14 Libby Chatburn 101 25 26 27 23
15 Zane Stephens 98 19 25 24 30
16 Mason Jones 95 26 19 25 25
17 Harvey Collins 95 30 20 21 24
18 Hayden Yeend 91 24 23 23 21
19 Kayden Smith 89 9 41 39
20 Jaxon Haswell 89 27 21 14 27
21 Ollie Jewitt 87 23 22 20 22
22 Liam Bell 79 29 24 26
23 Jamie Prentice 74 20 17 18 19
24 Logan Burns 70 16 18 16 20
25 William Siddons 66 15 16 17 18
26 Casey Kennett 60 13 15 15 17
27 Finley Easton 60 17 10 19 14
28 Callum Johnson 59 11 13 22 13
29 Jenson Cole 52 14 14 8 16
30 Bailey Williams 52 18 8 11 15
31 Tyler Rogers (w) 48 12 12 13 11
32 Bobby Smith 35 7 11 7 10
33 Logan Ireland 32 8 12 12
34 Lewis Park 28 10 9 9

Junior 65’s

Pos Competitor Points R1 R2 R3 R4
1 Joel Winstanley-Dawson 174 45 45 39 45
2 Finley Pickering 155 41 39 43 32
3 Alfie Geddes Green 150 37 41 41 31
4 Robbie Daly 148 17 43 45 43
5 Olivia Reynolds 141 35 32 35 39
6 Olly Waters 136 43 15 37 41
7 Chase Panter 134 34 34 31 35
8 Jenson Severn 133 30 37 29 37
9 Jack Leese 130 39 35 23 33
10 Stanley Siebert 119 32 30 33 24
11 Elvis Totney 117 26 33 24 34
12 Harvey Rowe (w) 113 31 28 27 27
13 Archie Edwards 108 24 26 30 28
14 Ryan Taylor 103 29 27 17 30
15 Williams Evans 102 27 24 28 23
16 Casey Lister 98 33 31 34
17 Jamie Thorpe 97 28 23 21 25
18 Sean Smout 95 22 21 26 26
19 Tommie Perfect 91 25 22 25 19
20 Leo Wilson 90 29 32 29
21 Marty Spires 78 14 25 18 21
22 Mason Martin Doe 76 19 20 19 18
23 Teddy Merriman 72 20 16 22 14
24 Oscar Gilham 67 21 18 12 16
25 Ryan Prentice 64 12 19 13 20
26 Nixon Coppins 61 9 17 20 15
27 Harry Cuddy 56 18 14 11 13
28 Charlie Ward (w) 49 3 13 16 17
29 Amon Eschoe (w) 45 23 22
30 Terry Challinor 45 11 9 14 11
31 Troy Kennett 44 10 11 15 8
32 Mason Brown 39 13 8 6 12
33 Junior Wigglesworth (w) 38 8 10 10 10
34 Tom White 32 7 7 9 9
35 Walt Carroll (w) 31 15 12 4
36 Tyler Lloyd 24 4 6 7 7
37 Jay Weaver 24 6 5 8 5
38 Reggie Broadbent 20 5 4 5 6
39 Logan Falconer 16 16

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