Cadwell Park saw bright and dry conditions for the British Motorcycle Racing Club’s first of two visits to the famous Lincolnshire ribbon of asphalt, and round of the 2026 season.
In the Properly Protected MRO Minitwins Ronnie Harris continued to extend his already commanding lead at the top of the championship standings, converting pole position into four wins and another perfect weekend.
Harris topped qualifying ahead of his brother, Bill Harris, but it was William Howarth who put up the biggest fight in the weekend’s four races, finishing second on every occasion, the narrowest of margins coming in race two on Saturday, when he crossed the line half a second down.
Bill Harris was three times third over the weekend, and on each occasion he crossed the line just a tenth of a second down on Howarth. His only non-podium finish came in race two, when Mitch Ducran took the bronze medal spot on the rostrum.
Three sixth placed finishes gave Robert Bryant a trio of Rookie class wins, though a DNF in Sunday’s opener handed the class victory to Conor Wolff.
Despite missing out on pole position and starting race one from third, Helmet City MRO Supersport series leader Anthony Johnson scored a hat trick of wins, winning all three races on his Triumph Daytona 675.
Pole was secured by Sam Hirst, who sits second in the championship, but a DNF in race one saw him slip a further 25 points behind Johnson, though he did recover to finish third in both of Sunday’s races.
Johnson’s win on Saturday came ahead of Kyle Jenkins on his RJS Superbike, Mclen & Co Yamaha R6, though Jenkins was over six seconds adrift. Third was Michael Mills.
Mills improved to second in race two, and he missed out on the win by the finest of margins. He took the chequered flag a mere seven thousandths of a second behind Johnson. Hirst was third, half a second up on Gary Johnson Pipewerx/B&B Suzuki.
Jenkins was back on the podium in the final race, claiming second ahead of Hirst, with Johnson the winner by nearly four seconds.
James May was the top Clubman runner on Saturday in 10th and on Sunday in ninth. William Howarth then took the honours in the final race, fifth.
In the four Rookie 600 races Kieran Robinson and Cian Ketteringham shared the spoils evenly, with a win a day each.
Championship leader in the Seton Tuning MRO Powerbikes, Scott Halliday, endured a relatively disappointing weekend, failing to finish on the podium in any of the three races at Cadwell Park. After a brace of fifths, he took a weekend’s best of fourth in the last race of the weekend.
Brendan Mallinder, Halliday’s closest challenger in the championship standings, qualified quickest by just over a second, but failed to convert that pace into victory, and finished runner-up in each of the weekend’s three races. He was beaten to the victory in every race by Harrison Crosby who was dominant on his Trail Group Honda Fireblade.
Lee Healey was twice third, but a DNF in the last race scuppered his run of podium finishes, the final podium place of the weekend going to Kieran Smith, who, with it, claimed his third Retro 1000 class win. Rafal Kisyk took two Clubman wins, the other going to Tommy Jones.
There was also dominance on display in the SF Parts & Austin Jacobs Thunderbike 500s, with Aaron Silvester winning every race and, as a result, he took four C1 class wins. He beat William Leaning twice on Saturday, though Leaning claimed two C2 class wins. Benjamin Round was twice third on Saturday, and runner-up in the C1 category. The C3 wins went to Max Macrae, his best result on the day a fifth in race one.
The Sunday programme was interrupted just before lunchtime with a serious 11 bike incident on the start line in the first Thunderbike 500 race of the day. Racing was suspended for approximately two hours whilst the Bemsee medical services, technical department, and the startline crew dealt with the incident. Three of the riders involved were hospitalised. Everyone at the British Motorcycle Racing Club wishes the riders involved a speedy recovery, and thanks its staff for the outstanding and immediate response.
When racing resumed, Round improved to second in race three, with Macrae third and the top C3 runner, while Max Silvester was the C2 victor, crossing the line in fifth. The final race saw Aaron Silvester make it four from four, with Macrae again the C3 winner, this time in second place, and Max Silvester the C2 winner, completing the overall podium in third.
The British Motorcycle Racing Club’s Sidecar races saw four separate outfits take a victory over the weekend. The F1 pairing of Luke Williams and Jason Pitt were victorious by five seconds in race one, the F2 winners were Brian Ilaria and Josh Saunders in fourth overall.
Sean Hegarty and James Neave took the overall and the F1 win by a whopping 20 seconds in race two, while Ilaria and Saunders climbed onto the overall podium in third place to take the F2 win. The F2 pairing then improved again to finish second overall in race three to secure another class win, while Simon Gilbert and Jed Pilmoor-Brady secured the overall win.
Continuing their upward trend of improving by one position every race, Ilaria and Saunders took both the F2 and the overall win in the final race of the weekend. Second place and the F1 win went to Mark Hegarty, with James Neave in the chair.
In the BR Performance Thunderbike Ultra and TW Suspension Thunderbike Extreme races Kieran Smith made his first appearance in the Ultra category aboard a Kawasaki ZX-7R and dominated proceedings, winning all four races and each by roughly 20 seconds.
Tyler Donovan - the Ultra championship leader - took three second place finishes, before being beaten into third place in race four, as Philipp Stich took second. Tony Russo was the four-time winner in the Extreme class, with a best finish of fourth overall in the final race.
In the Clothing Kings Thunderbike Sport, which shares a grid with the growing TW Suspension Supertwins class, which includes modern day Sportbike class bikes, Harrison Mackay claimed all four wins on his Armarda/SC Racing Aprilia RS660, and as a result he bagged all four Supertwins wins. Josh Harvey, with a third and three runner-up finishes took all four Thunderbike Sport wins.
Mackay’s first win of the weekend came ahead of fellow Supertwin runner Zack Weston, with Harvey third. Morgan Creasey was third in Saturday’s second race on his Thunderbike Sport Suzuki GSX-R600. On Sunday Samuel Munson was third in the opener on another RS660 Aprilia, before Max Wilson took third overall and second place in the Supertwins in the final race.
After a perfect season to date - with 12 consecutive wins - Kevin Wholley’s absence from the Yamaha Past Masters action at Cadwell gave other riders a chance to take a victory, with three different riders getting in on the act.
Mark Haigh was the first, winning the opener from Haydon Smith by half of a tenth of a second. Just two tenths further back was David Ball. Smith then capitalised in race two as Mark Haigh carded a DNF. Smith took the chequered flag just over a tenth of a second ahead of Ball, as Tom Ridley claimed the final spot on the podium.
In the first of Sunday’s two outings Richard Hayward took a win, as he, Ridley, and Smith all took the chequered flag within three tenths of a second, as Haigh and Ball failed to finish. Smith took his second win in the last race of the weekend by the relatively dominant margin of a little under two seconds. Haigh made it back onto the podium in second, as Hayward rounded out the top three.
The 2T Engineering Open races Haydon Smith was the winner in three of the four races on his HI-Precision Engineering Ltd Yamaha TZ250, the other win going to Bruce Dunn on his Yamaha TZ250, backed by VHM UK. Sean Crone took three four-stroke category wins, the other going to Euan Bainborough.
Lucas King extended his points lead in the ACU Team Green Junior Cup with three wins and a second place finish. The other victory went to Dan Bray in the first of Sunday’s races.
King bested William Round in race one, taking the win by 9 seconds. Harry Barrel was third. The leading Senior rider was Alex Mann in ninth. Bray finished down in 22nd after running off track on the opening lap. In race two Bray finished second, 10 seconds down on the winner, King, but this time he claimed the Senior class win. Round was third.
Bray took his overall - and Senior - win from King, with Round again third, before King capped off his weekend with another victory, as Bray took second place. Alfie Garrod was third.
In the BMZRC 250 MZ class results Alexander Mann was in dominant form to take all four wins and overtake Andrew Wales at the top of the championship.