Smout wins the bout! Apico BSMA Nationals Finale – Race Report and Results

The final round of the Apico BSMA national round incorporating the Georgie Evans memorial trophy scheduled to be at Wroxton had to be moved to Brookthorpe due to planning issues.

Report and Images by Ady Cowshall – Images of Speed

With the prospect of some fierce racing ahead and a beautifully prepped track under blue skies, all looked good. With Cohen Jagielski having already wrapped up one national championship the autopilot was in no mood to lose the BSMA crown as he set about continuing his domination of the miniature marvels. For the most part he was, like all season, unchallenged, but for the wildcard ride from Jett Gardiner. Jett was the only rider all weekend to get in front of Jagielski but such is the dominance of the #75 he had soon displaced the spirited challenge of the younger rider. Gardner followed him home in 3 out of the 4 races falling whilst leading the second moto on the first lap and only managing to climb back to 7th. Jamie Currie took second spot in this one with a great battle with Oaklan Winnall, Freddie Gurney, Seth Nichlinson, Tate Vincent, Gardner and Jimmy Whiston all in close combat a mere 12 seconds splitting all seven riders! Winnall had the better of Currie in the first outing but Currie had the upper hand in the remaining races giving him third overall on the day behind Gardiner. Winnall tied on points but was given third due to the scoring system.

The Junior 65cc riders came into the final round with a very small 8 point differential between Ifan Wyn Rees and Sean Smout. Rees went out to increase that points advantage in the first and lead from start to finish but couldn’t shake Smout off as he hounded the championship leader all race long. Smout needed to be in front of Rees and have a rider or two between them to take the championship. He went out and did his part by winning the next three motos but Rees rode way above his years and the pair gapped the rest of the field in the next two heats. Rees then rode a controlled final race to follow wildcard rider Ollie Truman home in third for the final race to clinch the crown. Behind the title chase, William Dennis was sitting pretty in the bronze position only needing a safe weekend to remain on the box. His main competition, Terry Challinor unable to muster enough pace to be a threat. With several wildcard riders in the action pushing both riders down the order. Truman gaining third for the day and Arthur King splitting Dennis and Challinor. A big failure stopped Meghan Williams from a chance of the top six after riding fantastically in her other races.

With numbers down in both the 85 classes, they were run together and with some upsets, at the previous round at Foxhills the championship table had shifted from a three-way title battle to Ben Sullivan’s championship to lose. Both William Murphy and Alfie Crealock-Lovell had received penalties at Foxhills giving Sullivan a huge advantage going into the final few moto’s. Sullivan only needed to score sensible points to bring it home on the top step.

The star of the class went to wildcard rider just back from injury, Freddie Gardiner. Not the quickest out of the blocks but on each occasion, he sliced through the pack to get clean air and take a maximum for the weekend. Equally, Shane Jones, who although registered had only competed in selected rounds went out and destroyed the small wheel field and actually beat all the big wheels apart from Gardiner in the final race. Had he competed in all the rounds he could of taken the SW crown. So with Gardiner taking the glory in the BW the eyes were on Murphy and Crealock-Lovell being able to reel in the points gap on Sullivan. Sullivan went out in the first moto and rode like a champion beating his rivals, Murphy was on his pipe the whole time but couldn’t put a pass on him. Moto two and Sullivan cemented the fact he was the one with the points lead again beating his rivals. This time it was Crealock-Lovell giving chase which in turn kept the battle for silver extremely tight as the pair playing catch up entered the round only 4 points apart. Sullivan continued his championship winning ride by again following Gardiner home in the third and only Crealock-Lovell and Riley Small got in front of him in the class for the final heat. Crealock-Lovell taking second away from Murphy after Murphy DNS the final moto. Reegan Rogers had a healthy points buffer over rival Harry Woodland as they came into Brookthorpe and Rogers was in fine form as he followed Jones home for second in both the first two heats. Woodland was there in third each time but needed roles to be reversed to stand any chance of overhauling Rogers. Gethin Morgan had an outside shot at moving up the championship table but that went out of the window with a DNF in the second race then giving Cameron Meades a shot at Morgan but Meades suffered a similar fate. While Jayci Dix got in on the action and stole points from those fighting for podium pie.

Some of the hardest racing came out of the senior open class between Leon Williams and Harvey James. James didn’t need to beat Williams as he hadn’t competed in all the rounds but pride was on the line and James left nothing in the locker taking an excellent race win in the first. Williams had the machine advantage on the long uphill runs but James had the lighter bike and was able to throw it into the corners, the pair went at it in the next three races with James doing everything he could to get another victory. Williams somehow maintained his composure to take the next three victories with the commentary from Phil Gee really keeping everyone focused on the action on track. Ben Zeale was the best of the rest in the open but he had his hands full at times with wildcard Billy Duke on his Trurace GasGas. Duke was sporting a hand injury but apart from not jumping to his usual height seemed to cope well and took 3 out of the 4 races wins in the 125 class only beaten by Henry Life. Jack Peacey held it all together to maintain his advantage at the top of the championship table with 4 solid rides. Luke Woolgrove had Phill Gee checking his notes when he holeshotted the Apico price race and streaked away out front for 2 laps before Williams and James finally wore him down in lap 3. Had it not been for Jake O’Gorman’s horrific starts on his new Fantic he may well have been further forward than his 4th overall.

The B group adults were missing championship leader Martin Luckwell on Saturday due to family commitments leaving the door wide open for Thor Tucker to close down the points lead. Luckwell was back on Sunday to try to regain lost points and scorched off to a lead Sunday morning with Jamie Hibbard on his rear fender. A few laps in and Luckwell got it all wrong taking himself and Hibbard out handing Tucker the championship. Wildcard Thomas Casbeard took a maximum Tucker doing enough with a 2-4-2-2 to take the title. Dan Crocker battled intensely all weekend on his 250 2 stroke to be in the mix but lost the advantage to the 4 stroke machines on some of the slick surfaces. Ryan Davies got his red rocket out of the gate well on most moto’s and initially battled for podium places before fading down the order.

The A group adults saw Tyrone Cleaver hit the front in the first moto and as they got to the top of the track second-placed Mark Young snapped a chain, rolled all the way to the pits and replaced it going back out a lap down to finish 14th. Cleaver put on an ariel display to come home 30 seconds clear of the pack. The next 2 went Young’s way as he powered his JSR Hondato a convincing second heat win, the third moto was a lot tighter as he only just edged out Adam Collins after both took Cleaver in the last few laps. Cleaver took full advantage of Young’s DNF in the final race as he took another win with Collins closing in fast Josh Greedy had a bike issue in the final race putting him out of a potential third overall giving an easier run for Tommi Davies to take the final podium behind Collins and Cleaver. With injuries hitting several championship leaders this class had been hard to predict an overall winner but keeping the rubber side down was key to success as Nathan Frayne had battled all year with those at the top riding well all season and it paid dividends come crunch time.

The Vets class saw the two class leaders going at it in their usual style, fair but firm racing between the Kawasaki of Darren King and KTM of Jamie Dobson. Each taking class maximums and 2 wins apiece. Behind King in the old-timers class came Bryan Tucker on each occasion moving him up a place in the championship. Steve Hall took advantage of the missing Wildman Willis to move up a place in the table with 4 solid rides but wildcard Russell Groves claimed third on the day ahead of Rob Gittoes. The nippers lead home by Dobson, had Sam Callow making it an easy second place overall despite having to come through the pack on occasion. The battle for third in the championship was fought all the way to the final flag with Ian James riding like he was driving Miss Daisey to be sure of no mistakes holding a 40+ point advantage over Phil Jones, but Jones was all out to try to cut those points down. Alas to no avail as somehow James was never more than 2 places down on him!

The BSMA would like to thank all riders, marshalls, committee members, medical staff and parents for their help and participation in the championship and welcome you to join them at the championship presentation at Worcester rugby club, further details are available from the BSMA office. Championship positions will be posted up very soon.

Results

Auto’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	COHEN JAGIELSKI	180	45	45	45	45
2	JETT # GARDINER	163	43	34	43	43
3	JAMIE CURRIE	160	35	43	41	41
4	OAKLAN WINNALL	160	41	41	39	39
5	TATE # VINCENT	144	39	35	35	35
6	JIMMY WHISTON	141	34	33	37	37
7	FREDDIE GURNEY	137	37	39	33	28
8	SETH NICHLINSON	131	33	37	27	34
9	RAFE SYMONS	125	28	32	32	33
10	WILL KREMER	123	30	28	34	31
11	PRESTON CHORLEY	119	27	30	30	32
12	MASON STADDON	118	32	31	31	24
13	RONNIE MORGAN	117	31	27	29	30
14	HARRISON # ASHWOOD MACNEILL	115	29	29	28	29
15	HEELEY # COYNE	102	25	26	24	27
16	LILLY # SENIOR	101	26	23	26	26
17	OSCAR PATTON	94	24	25	23	22
18	JUDE HENNEY	92	23	24	22	23
19	COBY # COLE	86	22	22	21	21
20	MINNIE DUFTY	82	21	21	20	20
21	HARRI LUCKWELL	50	–	–	25	25
22	ELLIOT # EVANS	38	–	–	19	19

Junior 65’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	SEAN SMOUT	178	43	45	45	45
2	IFAN WYN REES	172	45	43	43	41
3	OLLIE # TRUMAN	166	41	41	41	43
4	WILLIAM DENNIS	152	39	37	37	39
5	ARTHUR # KING	150	37	39	39	35
6	TERRY CHALLINOR	140	34	35	34	37
7	HARRISON DOHERTY	132	33	32	33	34
8	RUBEN JENKINS	124	31	33	27	33
9	JENSEN HENNEY	122	32	28	31	31
10	RYLEY # HICKENBOTTOM	121	30	29	32	30
11	JAKE # POWELL	119	29	31	30	29
12	OLIVER # BARDOE	117	27	34	29	27
13	ALFIE COTTER	112	28	30	28	26
14	BRODIE # NOCK	104	25	25	26	28
15	SONNY PRICE	103	26	27	25	25
16	MEGHAN WILLIAMS	102	35	–	35	32
17	SETH POTTER	98	24	26	24	24

Small Wheel 85’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	SHANE JONES	180	45	45	45	45
2	REEGAN ROGERS	170	43	43	41	43
3	HARRY WOODLAND	162	41	41	39	41
4	JAYCI DIX	146	39	39	31	37
5	GETHIN MORGAN	146	37	27	43	39
6	CAMERON CHAPMAN	135	34	35	37	29
7	CAMERON MEADES	133	26	37	35	35
8	MAX # BEAUMONT	133	33	34	32	34
9	BOBBY RAY-SMITH	126	32	32	30	32
10	HARRY # KEET	126	31	31	33	31
11	LUIE LEWIS	118	30	30	28	30
12	KIAN # HARPER	105	27	26	27	25
13	GEORGE # PITTS	101	35	33	–	33
14	FREDDIE RICHARDS	87	29	29	29	–
15	DONTE RODEN	80	28	25	–	27
16	LEWYS MORGAN	62	–	–	34	28
17	CHARLIE # ROBERTS	52	–	–	26	26
18	HARRY CUTTLER	28	–	28	–	–

Big Wheel 85’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	FREDDIE # GARDNER	180	45	45	45	45
2	BENJAMIN SULLIVAN	168	43	43	43	39
3	ALFIE CREALOCK- LOVELL	162	39	41	39	43
4	RILEY SMALL	152	35	35	41	41
5	HARRISON # DAVIES	145	37	34	37	37
6	TALLIS PRICE	139	34	37	34	34
7	HOLLIE ROBERTS	129	33	32	31	33
8	TROY WEAVER	129	32	33	32	32
9	HENRY FENNER	118	31	29	29	29
10	PIRAN GWENNAP	118	30	30	28	30
11	WILLIAM MURPHY	115	41	39	35	–
12	MILLIE # SWEENY	92	–	31	30	31
13	PRESTON LEWIS	68	–	–	33	35

Seniors

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	LEON WILLIAMS	178	43	45	45	45
2	BILLY # DUKE	178	45	45	43	45
3	HARVEY JAMES	174	45	43	43	43
4	HENRY LIFE	172	43	43	45	41
5	JACK PEACEY	164	41	39	41	43
6	BEN ZEALE	162	41	39	41	41
7	TRISTAN DANIELS	156	39	41	39	37
8	CONNOR JAGO	150	37	37	37	39
9	JAKE # OGORMAN	148	35	41	37	35
10	JOE # BEAUMONT	147	37	32	39	39
11	LUKE WOOLGROVE	142	34	37	34	37
12	GRACE # PACKMAN	140	35	35	35	35
13	COLIN STEWART	135	33	33	35	34
14	COREY # GORDON	129	32	34	33	30
15	MITCHELL CONWAY	121	29	29	31	32
16	HARRISON JEPSON	119	28	28	30	33
17	LEON # WILLIAMS	118	30	25	32	31
18	JOEL KREMER	112	27	31	29	25
19	MACKENZIE MARSHALL	104	24	27	26	27
20	TEGAN NIGHTINGALE	100	23	26	25	26
21	ALFIE SMITH	95	31	35	–	29
22	ASHTON POTTER	84	26	30	28	–
23	SOL OSBORNE	80	25	–	27	28
24	LOUIE # VINCENT	39	39	–	–	–
25	FRANKIE FEETHAM	34	–	–	34	–

Vets Over 35’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	JAMIE DOBSON	180	45	45	45	45
2	SAM CALLOW	172	43	43	43	43
3	CHRISTIAN SELDON	164	41	41	41	41
4	PHIL JONES	154	39	37	39	39
5	IAN JAMES	144	35	35	37	37
6	JAMIE EPPLESTONE	138	34	34	35	35
7	BEN CANNINGS	132	32	32	34	34
8	JASON FISHER	132	33	33	33	33
9	LEE # EATON	126	31	31	32	32
10	JAMIE # SMITH	76	37	39	–	–

Vets Over 45’s

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	DARREN KING	180	45	45	45	45
2	BRYAN TUCKER	172	43	43	43	43
3	RUSSELL # GROVES	164	41	41	41	41
4	ROB GITTOES	152	37	37	39	39
5	STEVE HALL	140	35	35	35	35
6	BRIAN GRIME	136	34	34	34	34
7	KEV MCCARTHY	132	33	33	33	33
8	RYAN # PALMER	78	39	39	–	–
9	KEVIN # PRIDE	74	–	–	37	37

Adult A

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	TYRONE CLEAVER	174	45	43	41	45
2	ADAM # COLLINS	170	43	41	43	43
3	TOMMI DAVIES	145	35	34	35	41
4	FRAZER # GARDNER	141	33	35	39	34
5	NATHAN FRAYNE	137	39	32	27	39
6	JOSH # GREEDY	137	37	37	37	26
7	JASON DOWN	135	34	30	34	37
8	SAM MORCON	119	30	27	30	32
9	MARK # YOUNG	117	27	45	45	–
10	EZRA # BLACKWELL	110	28	25	28	29
11	RHYS GRIMES	103	26	24	26	27
12	LEWIS # GLYNN	93	–	28	32	33
13	DANIEL BARTLETT	90	31	31	–	28
14	TOBIAS# SUMMIT	88	–	26	31	31
15	DAN MAULE	80	41	39	–	–
16	JAMIE MCCARTHY	74	41	33	–	–
17	RORY # MERCHANT	68	–	–	33	35
18	TOM HUGHES	59	–	–	29	30
19	SAM # BROWNING	58	29	29	–	–

Adult B

Pos	Competitor	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	THOMAS # CASBEARD	180	45	45	45	45
2	THOR TUCKER	168	43	39	43	43
3	DAN CROCKER	156	39	37	41	39
4	RYAN # DAVIES	147	33	34	39	41
5	JOEL WORTHINGTON	138	37	33	31	37
6	ALISTAIR GWENNAP	138	34	35	37	32
7	LUKE # JENKINSON	127	32	27	35	33
8	RIO # MILSOM	126	27	32	32	35
9	GEORGE ELSDEN	126	29	30	33	34
10	RIA # TRUMAN	120	30	31	30	29
11	GRANT TUCKER	118	31	28	29	30
12	JAMIE HIBBARD	106	35	43	28	–
13	SHAUNA # HOPE	103	24	24	27	28
14	LORENZO # SUMMUTT	96	22	21	26	27
15	LEE # JONES	94	21	22	25	26
16	DAISY # BLACKWELL	93	23	23	23	24
17	KELLY PHILLIP	87	20	20	22	25
18	STEFAN # LITTLE	82	41	41	–	–
19	ALEX # HARVEY	65	–	–	34	31
20	CHRISTIAN COLE	54	25	29	–	–
21	BEN BOWDEN	54	28	26	–	–
22	HARLEY JONES	51	26	25	–	–