The final round of the 2025 British Motorcycle Racing Club’s season took place on the two-mile Donington National circuit, capping off another exciting year and crowning the remaining champions.
Maximus Hardy secured the Reactive Parts MRO Powerbikes championship, ending the year with a commanding 85-point lead over Luke Wallington. Riding his Honda Fireblade, he took consistent podium finishes over the three-race weekend, despite competition from the likes of Max Lofthouse and Connor Thomson. Across the three races, Lofthouse, on his Matt Witney Racing Honda Fireblade, and Thomson, aboard his CRT33 Honda, traded victories, while Hardy maintained enough consistency to claim the title.
Race one saw Lofthouse take a narrow victory over Thomson, finishing a shade under three tenths of a second ahead after 10 laps. Hardy completed the podium, with the leading Clubman rider Aaron Daykin on his Yamaha R1 in sixth overall, while Justin Rose topped the Retro 1000 category in 13th.
Lofthouse repeated his success in race two, this time fending off Thomson by just over half a second in another tightly contested 10-lap battle, as Hardy again finished third, this time some 10 seconds off the winner. Daykin led the Clubman field once more and Rose repeated his Retro 1000 class success.
Thomson finally made it onto the top step of the podium in the longer 14-lap race three, a couple of seconds up champion Hardy. Series runner-up Wallington completed the top three, ending the year with a podium finish.
Karl Thompson was the leading Clubman finisher in sixth overall, and Rose completed his perfect Retro 1000 record by taking first in class for the third consecutive race.
The Clubman and Retro 1000 titles were decided prior to the last race, with Sam Cranstone crowned Clubman champion and Tyler Donovan taking the Retro 1000 crown at Brands Hatch.
The L&W Contractors Rookie 1000s had already been decided, with Tommy Jones the 2025 champion. Over the weekend at Donington Park he took two wins on Saturday, before sitting out Sunday’s races. Roy Nunes won Sunday’s opener, before Ryan Bull won the final race of the year.
The DART Motorsport MRO 600 championship also went to the wire, Henry Ross taking the title after overturning an 18-point deficit to Matt Pallett, who had entered the final round as championship leader. Ross, riding his Yamaha R6, secured two victories and a runner-up finish across the three races, while Pallett failed to reach the podium all weekend.
Ross was victorious in race one as he sought to take the championship fight to Pallett. In the 14-lapper he finished a second ahead of fellow Yamaha rider Zack Weston. Michael Tustin, aboard his Keder Greenhouse Yamaha R6, completed the podium. Leading the Clubman field was Rhys Forrest on a Kawasaki ZX-6R, finishing seventh overall.
Weston took the spoils in race two over Ross, who finished second and consolidated his newfound championship advantage. Gareth Cunningham, on another Yamaha R6, completed the podium and Rhys Forrest again led the Clubman class in sixth overall.
In the final race Ross raced to victory and the championship win, clearing off at the front to win by five seconds, again over Weston, with Cunningham taking third for the second race in row. Forrest once again led the Clubman class, this time in fifth overall, to make it the perfect weekend.
Despite the results for Forrest, it was not enough to impact the championship, and he finished second overall to 2025 Clubman champion Paul Bloomfield.
In the L&W Contractors Rookie 600s just two points split eventual champion Dean Neal and Daniel Preston. In the class’ four races Jack Crowley Mason took maximum points with four wins, while two seconds and two thirds for Neal were enough to better Preston - who took two fourths, a fifth, and a seventh - to the championship.
One solitary point was all that separated Daniel North and Luke Macrae in the Fyne Audio Thunderbike 500s after 35 races. North also secured the C2 subclass title by 15 points over Macrae, while the C1 and C3 championships had already been decided, with Jake Kourti and Ian Carter crowned class champions before the finale.
However, it was Finn Chalk that dominated the opening race, taking the overall and C1 victory eight and a half seconds ahead of Macrae, who claimed second overall and first in C2, with Kourti third overall and North fourth overall. In C3, Oliver Macrae led the field, with champion Carter and Richard Hayward rounding out the top three class positions.
Chalk was victorious once again in the second outing, taking overall and C1 honours, and once again he took the chequered flag ahead of Luke Macrae. Benjamin Round made it onto the overall podium and took second in C2, while North finished sixth, picking up 10 points to keep the title within reach. Oliver Macrae secured another C3 victory.
Luke Macrae finally bagged a victory in race three as he continued to keep his championship fight alive, while there was drama for North, who was a retirement after nine laps. Macrae was a little over a second ahead of Steven Allan as Round picked up another trophy in third and Kourti finished fourth and Dean Carver took the spoils in C3.
After North was a DNF in race three, it was Macrae’s turn to suffer misfortune and DNF the final race, allowing North to clinch the championship by the narrowest of margins.
Allan was the first to take the chequered flag and win in C2 class as well as take the overall win. He was followed by Scott Aitkin and Round. Kourti maintained his grip on C1 with a fourth-place finish, and Colt Dwyer led the C3 class from start to finish.
The Clothing Kings BMCRC Thunderbike Sport went to the final race of the year and the title was decided in dramatic fashion. Joe White, holding second in the standings behind Adam Jamison going into the final race and needing a massive helping of misfortune for his title rival got just that, when Jamison crashed out on the final lap.
With a win and two seconds from the first three races Jamison looked to have done enough, but White, who’d finished second and taken two wins earlier in the weekend, picked up another victory in the finale, and the 25 points and no score for Jamison meant he took the title by 23 points.
Logan Stone was second to White in the last race, and the third place finishes went three times to Jordan Killworth, and once to Greg Pymm.
Three riders were still in with a shout of winning this year’s DFDS Yamaha Past Masters championship at the final round, and after four races of Donington National 25 points covered the trio. Alan Cooper was crowned champion, carding three third place finishes before sitting out the final race with the title secure.
David Ball was the season’s runner-up, and after failing to make the start of race one, he notched two fifths and a third across the remaining races. Mark Haigh took the bronze medal spot in the standings, with a third, second, DNF, and then a win from the four races.
Kevin Wholey took the other wins available, winning twice on Saturday and once on Sunday to make him the winningest rider in the class this year with 14 victories to Cooper’s seven.
14 points was the difference between Darren Dowds and Ben Brown at the culmination of the TW Suspension BMCRC SuperTwins season, after Dowds took victory in the final race, to go with his two fifths and a fourth. Brown, was second to Dowds in the final race, his best result of the weekend, after collecting two fourths and a third.
The other wins went to Zack Weston, twice, and Craig Dance.
Tyler Donovan was crowned TBR Performance Thunderbike Ultra champion and Tony Russo secured the TW Suspension Thunderbike Extreme title.
Donovan took all four overall and class wins at Donington to take the gong. He won ahead of Daryl Dance and James Fearn on Saturday, with Clinton Wood twice third. In the Extreme class, Darren Corkett’s seventh overall gave him the class win over Russo, before Russo took the spoils in sixth overall in race two.
The final day of action again saw Donovan win outright, ahead of Fearn and Tony Keilty with Russo the Extreme winner on both occasions.
Luca Wilkinson dominated the BMCRC Formula 400s to take all four wins and with them the championship. On all four occasions he bested Sean Crone and Jake Donkersley, who finished second in the championship standings this season.
Hudson Cooper had already secured the ACU Team Green National Junior Cup, ending the year with a 68-point lead, while Daryn Busa had also ensured he would top the Senior Ninja standings, with 28 points the margin after the final round. However, both were absent from proceedings at Donington Park.
In Saturday’s races Lucas King and Lewis Jones took the class wins; King taking the junior and overall victories ahead of senior winner Jones and junior Travis Rooker.
In race three Jones ran out the overall winner and senior victor, finishing ahead of King and Rooker, before an all-junior podium in race was topped by Alfie Garrod, ahead of George Cowie and Archie Ormrod. Jones was seventh in the wet affair.
After clinching this year’s Properly Protected MRO Minitwins with a perfect score at the previous round, David Twyford elected to sit out the weekend at Donington Park.
In his absence Bill Harris took his first victory of the season in race one, and followed it up with wins in races two and four. The other victory went to Ronnie Harris.
Darren Dowds was second to Bill Harris in the opener, with Ronnie Harris third. Ronnie Harris and Dowds then reversed positions in race two, before Ronnie Harris took victory in Sunday’s opening encounter, taking the flag ahead of Steve Costin and Mitch Ducran.
Bill Harris was back on top in the season finale, Costin was again second, and third went to Dowds.
Four class wins demonstrated why William Howarth had secured this year’s rookie minitwin title.
New 2025 BMCRC F1 Sidecar champions Jim Faiers with passengers Mark Fox and Jason Pitt skipped the final round of the year, leaving Sean Hegarty and Jack Knapton to take three of the four class wins available, the other going the way of Will and Andy Smith, the pair winning Sunday’s opener after two second place finishes on Saturday.
Greg Lambert and passenger Andrew Jevans and Robin King were F2 class champions before the penultimate round but still turned up to take two third place finishes in class on the Saturday and a sixth in race one on Sunday before their year ended in retirement from the final race.
Saturday’s F2 class wins went to Liam Saunders and Rob Coppock, before Brian Ilaria and Lee Saunders were twice victorious on Sunday.
The RevdCoin BMZRC 250 series was wrapped up by Alexander Mann a long time ago, but that didn’t stop him looking to sign off 2025 with another perfect weekend. He made it three from three but faltered in the final race to cross the line in second place behind Gordon Ryan. Still, he ended the season 273 points clear of Peter Woodall at the top.