April 13 2015.

Round 2, Sunday 12th April 2015, Grittenham, Hants
Report and photography: Rob McDonnell


250 Youth winner Lorne Sinclair

The hard and fast going of Grittenham proved ideal for George Callaway on Sunday when he took victory in round two of the NORA-MX Pro Championship class.

The RPG Yamaha rider showed his intent from the off by topping qualifying then, in the first race, setting the day’s fastest lap as he came through the pack from last to fourth following a crash in the whoops. In the remaining two races he moved to the front relatively early taking 11 and five seconds wins – and again setting the fastest lap – to secure a three-point overall win from Luke Cooper.


Carl Bunce (585) and Luke Cooper (69) head the first PRO race

KTM-mounted Cooper looked fully recovered from his recently dislocated hip while winning the first race by 3.6s. He backed that up with second and fourth. Carl Bunce – who holeshot all three races on his new RMZ powered Handy Suzuki – took third overall thanks to a 2-4-2 and gave Callaway a good run for his money for much of the third race.


Gary Aldington heads a tights Masters battle

In the Pro B Class Josh Waring bounced back from a first race crash to win the remaining two races and take the overall.

In the Clubman class young Welshman Dafydd Davies was in cracking form, winning all three races by a country mile. His smallest winning margin was 25 seconds! His KTM team-mate Tom Chell took second in the opener and was fourth in the second, but a mare of start in the final race left him down in 10th at the finish, dropping him to third overall behind Kyle Hawkes who went 5-2-2.


Clubman group headed by Miles Woodward (2) and Sam Brown (26)

Miles Woodward dominated the Clubman B class, with three class wins, and a fine brace of sevenths in the overall group.

In the Masters Ed Davies once again dominated proceedings with three wins – but for the second round in a row the racing behind him in the 31 strong group proved excellent.


PRO winner George Callaway was in class apart at Grittenham

Darren Bridge (2-3-2) and Gary Aldington (3-2-3) shared the remaining podium places, while Gary McKenna was the leading Group B rider in 11th overall after taking three class wins.

However, with semi-retired British Champion Paul Winrow joining the Master class at the next round the days of runaway Davies wins could be in the past!


250 winner Lorne Sinclair in the middle of the pack at the start of race one

In the 250 youth race, victory went to Scotland’s Lorne Sinclair, which should have made the 10-hour drive back to Oban more bearable! He went into final race neck and neck with Ayrton Knowles after each had taken a win and second place and in the third the pair served up a good battle with Sinclair eventually winning by 3.5 seconds.


250 Youth rider Vassna Willcock was sixth in the Standard class

With first round winner Olly Martin’s engine seizing in race one the way was open for another name to take the final podium spot, and 250 Modified rider Harry Carmichael duly obliged thanks to a battling 5-3-3- against the faster Open machines.

Daniel Hares and Bradley Lightfoot again duked out the 250 Standard class each notching up race wins, while Josh Birch took the 150 Open class thanks to three victories.


Harry Ruby gets his 250 Honda airborne

The 100 Group threw up some brilliant racing, not least of all the first race which saw Tom Fitzgerald hold off a race long assault from Robbie Wood to eventually win by just two seconds.

Alfie Walker had initially been amongst the leading battle but dropped back by the flag. However he well and truly found his legs in the remaining races to win the 100 geared by eight and six seconds respectively to take overall victory.


Callum Bates ad Oli Sansom in the Pro class

Lewis Humphris won all three Raptor races; Logan Paxton won the 50cc class and Aled Davies the 100 Standards.


Reece Swann in the 100 Youth group

RESULTS:
PRO: 1 George Callaway, 2 Luke Cooper, 3 Carl Bunce, 4 Sheldon Seal, 5 Oli Sansom, 6 Bailey Edwards.
PRO B: 1 Josh Waring, 2 James Bevan, 3 Callum Bates, 4 Jack Naylor, 5 Jordan Hickman, 6 Danny Smith.
CLUBMAN: 1 Dafydd Davies, 2 Kyle Hawkes, 3 Tom Chell, 4 Josh Kirby, 5 Joshua Crane, 6 Kieran Heath
CLUBMAN B: 1 Miles Woodward, 2 Bradley Cockrem, 3 Harry Grant, 4 Marco Zaffino, 5 Dean Porter, 6 Jacob Woodward.
MASTERS: 1 Ed Davies, 2 Darren Bridge, 3 Gary Aldington, 4 Darren Hunt, 5 Ray Burling, 6 Mark Stepney.


Sophie Bosworth mixing it in the Clubman class

MASTERS B: 1 Gary McKenna, 2 Shaun Eaton, 3 Marcus Knight, 4 Andrew Willcock, 5 Dave Lickfold, 6 Pat Carr.
250 GROUP: 1 Lorne Sinclair, 2 Ayrton Knowles, 3 Harry Carmichael, 4 Jack Norris, 5 Connor Paxton, 6 Harry Ruby.
250 OPEN: 1 Lorne Sinclair, 2 Ayrton Knowles, 3 Jack Norris, 4 Connor Paxton, 5 Harry Ruby, 6 Kieran Taylor.
250 MOD: 1 Harry Carmichael, 2 Iestyn Rowlands, 3 William Booth, 4 Catrin Davies, 5 Alice Kirby, 6 Scott Berlyn.
250 STANDARD: 1 Daniel Hares, 2 Bradley Lightfoot, 3 Joseph Dukes, 4 Josh Talent, 5 Shanice Mott, 6 Vassna Willcock
150 OPEN: 1 Josh Birch, 2 Shelley Smart, 3 Terence Palin. No other finishers.
100 GROUP: 1 Alfie Walker, 2 Tom Fitzgerald, 3 Robbie Wood, 4 Marcus Sprason, 5 Luke Berlyn, 6 Lewis Humphris
100 GEARED: 1 Alfie Walker, 2 Tom Fitzgerald, 3 Robbie Wood, 4 Marcus Sprason, 5 Luke Berlyn, 6 Reece Swann.
RAPTOR: 1 Lewis Humphris, 2 Tom Bainbridge, 3 Callum Lockett. No other finishers.
100 STANDARD: 1 Aled Davies. No other finishers.
50: 1 Logan Paxton, 2 Jago Jackson, 3 Nadine Barnes. No other finishers.


Ed Davies – winning the Masters