With 13 wins and three second place finishes under his belt already this season, Ronnie Harris is already starting to visualise his name being engraved on the 2026 Properly Protected MRO Minitwin Championship trophy. And, as the season entered its halfway stage and the British Motorcycle Racing Club headed to Snetterton, Harris continued his run of form, with pole and three race wins.
He was seven tenths of a second quicker than anyone else in qualifying, and he converted that advantage into victory in the opening race of four, taking the chequered flag three seconds up on his brother, Bill. Six seconds behind Bill Harris was Mitch Ducran on his JP Haulage / Black Widow Exhausts Suzuki SV650, narrowly ahead of Jack Bettis, while the the Rookie runner was Jack Noble in sixth.
A shortened race two still saw a Ronnie and Bill Harris one-two, as Steve Costin pipped James Nagy to the final podium spot by a tenth of a second. The tight racing continued down the order, with only a second covering Ducran, William Howarth, and Noble - who was again top rookie - in fifth, sixth, and seventh.
Not to be outdone, Bill Harris took the win in first of Sunday’s races, notching his third victory of the season. He held of the series leader by half a second, the pair 12 seconds up on Nagy in third.
Four hundredths of a second was the winning margin in the final race, as Ronnie returned to the top step of the podium. He again bested Bill, with Ducran back on the podium in third, nearly 11 seconds adrift of the two outfront.
Noble secured both of the day’s rookie wins, crossing the line seventh in both. However, he was bumped up to sixth overall in the last race after Howarth was handed a 10-second jump start penalty, dropping him from fifth to seventh.
All four of the Team Green ACU Junior Cup and Senior Ninja races were dominated by senior runner Dan Bray, who extended his winning advantage in every race, and with it his championship lead. Junior Cup championship lead Lucas King secured a couple of podium finishes, but crashed out of race four though retains his championship advantage.
Bray was half a second quicker in qualifying and was victorious in race one by one and half seconds. He set his best lap of the race on his final circulation in his bid to keep Harry Barrell - eventual Junior Cup winner in second - behind him. King completed the podium in third, second in the Junior class.
Bray’s advantage went out to five and a half seconds in race two, as he won from Junior Cup runner William Round and Barrell, with King fourth and George Cowie fifth, two seconds splitting the four.
The winning distance became seven and a half seconds in race three, while half a second covered the following four riders fighting over the Junior class win. That honour again went to Round, with King third.
It was a repeat one-two in the final race, as Bray beat Round by just over 11 and a half seconds. Junior Cup championship leader, King, crashed out on the penultimate lap, dropping out of second place. Alfie Garrod was third.
10 wins, a second, and one DNF was the list of Helmet City MRO Supersport 600 Championship leader’s results tally for the season so far coming into Snetterton, but he left the Norfolk circuit winless at the weekend. Instead, all of the wins went the way of Aaron Silvester. However, Johnson was still able to extend his points advantage over Sam Hirst, after a DNF for the second placed rider in the championship in race two.
Silvester narrowly pipped Hirst to the win in the 10-lap opener, with Johnson nearly seven seconds back in third. He was again third in Sunday’s first race, behind winner Silvester and Charlie Huntingford, as Hirst crashed out on the final lap.
Though he missed out on the podium in the final race - taking the chequered flag in fourth - Johnson’s series lead remains intact. Hirst recovered to second, with Huntingford third, though Silvester was again untouchable at the front after he assumed the race lead on lap four, pulling nearly two seconds clear to take his third win.
William Howarth secured all three Clubman class wins to stay at the top of the championship.
In the weekend’s four Rookie 600 races the honours were split three ways. Championship leader Andrew Morris was the narrow victor in race one, followed by Keaton Leatherland in race two. Sunday’s races were won by Chad Shiner, twice ahead of Morris.
Just two points separated Scott Halliday and Brendan Mallinder at the top of the Seton Tuning MRO Powerbikes’ standings coming into the weekend at Snetterton, however, with the former absent from the action, Mallinder was clear to assume and secure a 73-point lead, winning all three races.
He beat reigning champion Max Hardy in race one, with Phil Seton himself on the podium in third, before the trio repeated the feat in race two. Race three saw the same top two, but Matt Pallett completed the podium.
Ben Wood was twice the Clubman winner, the other class victory going to Kirt Powell.
Both of Saturday’s 2T Engineering Open 500 races were won by Bruce Dunn on his TZ250 Yamaha, and both ahead of Haydon Smith on another Yamaha. Sean Crone was twice third overall and on each occasion the leading four-stroke machine.
With Dunn absent on Sunday, Smith secured both two-stroke wins. Crone took another brace of four-stroke class wins in second overall on his ZX-4RR Kawasaki, with the podium completed by Damian Lee in both races.
Kevin Wholley continued his unbeaten run in the Yamaha Past Masters series, taking his season’s win tally to 16. He beat Haydon Smith by a little under two seconds in race one, and six seconds in a red-flagged race two. Mark Haigh and Richard Hayward took a third apiece.
Over 14 seconds was his advantage over Smith in race three, with Tom Ridley third. After Smith failed to finish race four, Wholley was 25 seconds clear of Ridley, who took the runner-up spot, with Haigh back on the podium in third.
Alexander Mann extended his BMZRC 250 MZ points lead with four wins from four races. In all four outings he bested Andrew Wales, while Chris Kent and Caleb Wright evenly shared the bronze medal positions.
Clinton Wood did the double on Saturday in the TBR Thunderbike Ultra races, winning ahead of Justin Rose and pole-sitter Tyler Donovan in race one, before Morgan Creasey and Matthew Wren made up the podium positions in race two.
Creasey was then the rider to best on Sunday, taking both wins in commanding style, crossing the line five seconds and then nearly 10 seconds up on his rivals. Donovan was second in race three but DNF’d race four. Wood, third in race three took second in the final race, with the podium finished by Robert Eagling.
In the TW Suspension Thunderbike Extreme class it was a repeat podium in all four races, as runaway series leader Tony Russo took victory from David May and Matt Hinnells.
After winning all four races at Cadwell Park Josh Harvey continued his run of form in the Clothing Kings Thunderbike Sport class, with another perfect score at Snetterton. He dominated all four races, while series leader Adam Jamison and his nearest rival, Morgan Creasey, battled over the podium positions.
Jamison was second in race one, with Creasey third, before they reversed positions for race two. They were third and fourth in race three, with Creasey taking the final podium position, as Logan Stone - currently third in the championship - took the runner-up spot.
Jamison was back on the box in the final race, finishing second, two tenths of a second ahead of Creasey.
Toby Finnis arrived at Snetterton with a healthy championship lead, and while he left still sat at the top of the TW Suspension Supertwins Championship table, he was unable to add to his current win tally of seven, and Ben Brown managed to nibble away at his points advantage.
The wins went the way of Mitch Ducran, who took both on Saturday. Sunday’s spoils were evenly shared between Travis Rooker and Brown.
Ducran took the chequered flag ahead of Rooker with Brown third and Finnis off the podium in fourth in both of the opening two races. Finnis did make it onto the podium in race three, finishing second to Rooker and ahead of Brown, clawing back some of the points dropped. However, Brown took a chunk of points out of Finnis’ lead in race four, winning from Rooker and Ducran, with Finnis again fourth.
The pairing of Simon Gilbert and Cameron Winfield took three overall and with them three F1 class wins in the Bemsee F1 and F2 Sidecars. They won twice on Saturday and the final race on Sunday. The other victory went to F1 pairing of Ben Holland and Wayne Stevens.
Brian Ilaria and Josh Saunders won all four F2 class races, with three runner-up finishes overall.
Each of the three subclasses in the SF Parts & Austin Jacobs Thunderbike 500s had repeat winners over the weekend. Aaron Silvester won all four races overall, and with his victories took four C1 class wins.
His brother, Max, ran out the winner in the C2 class at every opportunity, with a third and three seconds overall. Max Macrae was the dominant force in C3, with a best of second and three fourths overall.