Motorsport

Kirton rider Aaron Clarke recorded a top 20 result in the penultimate round of the National Superstock 600 championship at Silverstone on Sunday as he edges nearer to a point-scoring finish. The Northamptonshire circuit was unfamiliar territory to Clarke, as it has been a couple of years since his last visit. The ACR Kawasaki rider had to familiarise himself with ...

Ben Wilson picked up 22 British Supersport Championship points at Silverstone over the weekend to close on a top-six finish in the rider standings. Kirton rider Wilson rode his Gearlink Kawasaki to a seventh and then a fourth place in his two races in the penultimate round of the series, taking his overall points tally to 165 points. Wilson is ...

Ben Wilson managed two top seven finishes at Assen over the weekend to keep himself in the hunt for sixth place in the Motorpoint British Supersport Championship. Kirton racer Wilson registered a seventh and then a sixth place in his two races at round ten of the series in Holland, moving himself up to seventh in the rider standings on ...

Mark Rudd kicked off Peterborough Motocross Club’s winter series in sensational style as he bagged a victory treble on Sunday. The Holbeach-based Team TRM racer, who is finally racing regularly again after four injury-hit years, was in dominant form in the over-35 category. Rudd got the hole shot in race one and waltzed to a flawless win. He didn’t look ...

It was a case of double debut delight for Saracen’s Head racer Ben Stafford over the weekend as he starred on his first-ever visit to Dutch circuit Assen. The Silicone Engineering race ace bagged two impressive victories as he found himself on the podium for the first time at this standard of competition. Stafford’s maiden trip to the popular circuit ...

Ashley Rudd clinched the Peterborough Motocross Club Championship title on Sunday after another confident ride in the final round of the schoolboy category. Teenager Rudd, who is a member of Holbeach-based Team TRM, placed second, first and second at the Chatteris track to claim top spot overall and win the title – capping months of hard work. His younger brother ...

Aaron Clarke raced to a satisfactory 24th place at round ten of the Pirelli National Superstock 600 Championship at Oulton Park. Free practice and first qualifying went well for Clarke over the weekend, with his lap times nearly a second better than on his last visit in May. But on Saturday overnight rain had dampened the track and after completing ...

Ben Wilson climbed up to eighth in the Motorpoint British Supersport Championship standings after two solid finishes at Oulton Park over the weekend. The Kirton racer steered his Gearlink Kawasaki to sixth and fifth place in the two outings at the Cheshire circuit, giving him a cool 21-point haul. Qualifying went well for the Lincolnshire ace, who was to begin ...

Ben Stafford shrugged off another disappointing qualifying bid to finish eighth at round ten of the Pirelli National Superstock 600 Championship over the weekend. Having travelled through the night to reach Oulton Park following a Silicone Engineering meet at the Manx GP, the Saracen’s Head ace found himself down in 18th position after Friday’s Q1. Changes were made to the ...

Holbeach lad Kieran Rudd enjoyed a trip to remember last Sunday as he romped to a hat-trick of motocross wins in Jersey. Racing on the beach-like track on something of a clifftop, the ten-year old raced with an impressive sea view backdrop. But it was his performance that stole the show in the junior category. Competing on a four-stroke bike instead ...

Teenage talent Ben Stafford produced one of his best performances to date as he stormed to a sensational sixth place at Cadwell Park on Sunday. One year to the day since his last National Superstock 600 outing at the famous circuit, Saracen’s Head ace Stafford was delighted to bring home ten championship points for Silicone Engineering. Stafford had to remove ...

Aaron Clarke recorded his best result of the current campaign on Sunday when he completed the ninth round of the National Superstock 600 championship in 19th place. The Kirton rider completed his qualifying in 30th place and started his 12-lap race at Cadwell Park from the tenth row. Although he got away to a really good start and made up ...

Ben Wilson enjoyed his best finish of the season so far as he collected 20 Motorpoint British Supersport Championship points at Cadwell Park over the weekend. Kirton ace Wilson scored a seventh and then a fifth at round eight of the championship, which moves him back into the top 10 in the rider standings. Qualifying went well for Wilson at ...

Spalding Autograss Club stages its fifth meeting of the season on Sunday (11.30am), with 45 races across 15 different classes. The track is at Hurdletree Bank, off the B1168, Holbeach, PE12 8QH. Admission cost is £8 (senior citizens £6 and accompanied under-16s free). Final meeting of the season is on October 11 (11.30am). All meetings are weather permitted so check ...

Spalding’s Andy Molsom picked up two fourth places on his first-ever outing at Zandvoort in Holland. The Caterham Graduates Racing Club race ace remains third in the driver standings after his solid showing. In a change to the usual formula, qualifying and racing was condensed into one day. Molsom didn’t get the clear laps in that he needed, but was ...

A first-lap crash rendered the latest round of the Pirelli National Superstock 600 Championship as one to forget for Saracen’s Head race ace Ben Stafford. The Silicone Engineering racer crashed out on lap one of the round seven meet at Thruxton, leaving him pointless. Stafford was unsure about his fitness going into this event, having suffering a broken hand two ...

Two top eight finishes earned a much-improved Ben Wilson 17 points at round seven of the British Supersport Championship over the weekend. The Kirton racer steered his Gearlink Kawasaki to seventh and eighth places at Thruxton, which sees him take his season’s total to 83 and leaves him 11th in the overall rider standings. Overall it was a much better ...

Young Kirton racer Aaron Clarke stormed to his best finish of the Pirelli National Superstock 600 Championship at Thruxton on Saturday – but was later disqualified. Clarke rode his ACR Kawasaki to a fine 24th place on his first outing at the Hampshire track and was delighted after hitting the chequered flag. However, after a post-race check he was one ...

Speedway star Simon Lambert has made his own slice of history by winning the Kent Laurels Individual meeting for a third year on the spin. The Gosberton Risegate ace enters the historic books as being the only British speedway rider to win the event three times since the Trophy’s inception – and is also the first rider to win in ...

It was a weekend to remember for three members of Holbeach-based Team TRM. On the motocross scene, brothers Kieran and Ashley Rudd starred at Chatteris, while supermoto ace Lee Rudd was on-song at Three Sisters. The youngest of the trio, ten-year-old Kieran, had one of the best outings of his embryonic career at the Peterborough Motocross Club meeting. Racing in ...