The British Motorcycle Racing Club’s 2026 season finale again took place at the club’s spiritual home of Brands Hatch, with a number of championships going down to the wire.
Seven points decided the Seton Tuning MRO Powerbikes Championship. Scott Halliday won all three races across the weekend, but a third and a sixth in the first two races were enough to clinch the title for Brendan Mallinder.
Matt Pallett set pole position in qualifying on a 765 Triumph, showing that power isn’t everything around the Brands Hatch Indy circuit. But it was Halliday that ran out the dominant winner. He took the chequered flag nearly 19 seconds up on Michael Austin and Tommy Jones - making it three Honda Fireblades on the podium - to keep his championship hopes alive, while Mallinder took fourth, after Pallett crashed out of second place with a handful of laps to go.
Halliday made it two from two with another victory, this time with Pallett second, six and a half seconds back. The battle for third provided the spectacle, with four riders within a second and a half after 16 laps. Jones claimed the bronze medal spot, crossing the line ahead of Karl Thompson, Austin, and Jason Siggs.
However, Mallinder’s sixth place was enough to put the championship out of Halliday’s reach.
Halliday went out on a high with another win in the third and final race of the weekend, with Pallett again second. Austin pipped Jones to third.
Halliday’s performances also saw him crowned the club’s Champion of Brands for a second year running. With four class wins in the Retro 1000s, with a best of ninth overall, Clinton Wood was awarded the Vince Bennett Trophy by Viv Bennett.
Already crowned the Clubman 1000 champion, Jones’ two thirds and a fourth ensured another perfect weekend for him, taking his win tally for the season to 20.
With new sponsorship courtesy of the Race Shack, the BMCRC Thunderbike Sport Championship saw Adam Jamison crowned champion, with an advantage of 61 points after the final four races at Brands.
James Fearn won all four races, while Jamison and title rival Logan Stone raced for the remaining podium positions.
Jamison extended his championship lead with a second place finish to Stone’s third. Stone then clawed some points back in race two, again finishing third but with Jamison in fourth. Kevin Wholley took the runner-up spot for his second podium finish of the season.
On Sunday, Jamison and Stone took a second and a third each behind Fearn at the front of the field, for Jamison to wrap up the title.
Toby Finnis was already guaranteed as the 2026 Supertwins champion, but still took two wins and a second at the final round, though his season ended with a DNF in race four.
Running the number one plate, Finnis set pole and won the opener on his 660 Triumph, though he was kept honest by Kieran Smith’s F900R BMW in second. Christian Smith, also on a BMW, was third.
It was a reversal of positions for Finnis and Keiran Smith in race two, and just two tenths of a second the gap between them, with Christian Smith again third, less than a second off the win.
Finnis added his season’s win count in race three, and this time he took the 25 championship points by a comfortable margin of over six seconds. Christian Smith also took another third, with Travis Rooker slotting in between the pair of them to take second on his Aprilia RS660. Kieran Smith was fifth, just behind William Howarth.
Rooker was again second, Christian Smith third, and Kieran Smith the winner in the last race of the year. Less than a second split the winner and Rooker in the runner-up spot, after Finnis crashed out on lap 10. Despite the DNF, Finnis had already been crowned the 2026 Supertwin champion. Ben Brown was second overall, despite missing the weekend’s action.
Lucas King had wrapped up the ACU Team Green Junior Cup way back at Cadwell Park, and was missing from the weekend’s action at the season finale.
Instead, Leo Soilleux bagged all four race wins in dominant fashion. After winning race one by two and a half seconds, he then won the remaining three races with a lead of over seven seconds.
He beat Tyler Hartley and Annabelle McCarthy in race one, an all-Junior Cup podium with Dan Bray - who had already been crowned the Senior Ninja champion after a dominant year - again the leading Senior Ninja in fifth overall.
It was almost an eight-second lead for Soilleux in race two, again from Hartley, himself two seconds clear of the chaotic fight for third that saw five riders cross the line within half a second. William Round just had his nose ahead to claim the last spot on the podium, just edging out Senior winner Bray, Senior runner Danny Huskinson, Harley Baker, and McCarthy.
Seven and a half seconds split Soilleux and Hartley again in race three, with Bray third and the Senior winner. Bray improved to second overall in the final race, though still seven and a half seconds adrift of the winner. Bray led a five rider fight for the runner-up spot, holding off Round, who took third, Baker, Hartley, and Huskinson.
Four wins from four races were not enough for Andrew Wales to leverage the BMZRC series lead away from eventual champion Alexander Mann. Mann took three second placed finishes, though a DNF in the final race had no impact on the outcome of the championship. Gordon Ryan finished behind Wales in the final race.
Winning every race he’s finished this year, Kevin Wholley’s 2026 Twistgrip Yamaha Past Masters championship win had long since been beyond doubt. After, setting pole with a time three quarters of a second faster than anyone else, he won three races at the final round before electing to sit out the last race of the season.
Haydon Smith twice finished second on Saturday, with Mark Haigh and Tom Ridley taking a third placed finish each. On Sunday Smith was again second in race three, with Haigh third, before Haigh was the one to capitalise on Wholley’s absence in the final race, taking victory. He won ahead of Ridley and David Ball, as Haydon Smith failed to finish.
Luke Macrae had already sealed the overall SF Parts and Fyne Audio Thunderbike 500 championship and the C2 category, but that didn’t stop him winning all four races at Brands Hatch.
Two seconds covered the top six in race one, as Max Macrae - also already crowned the C3 champion - finished second and took the C3 win, and Adrian Kershaw finished third and took the C1 win, as that title fight - with Benjamin Round - went to the wire.
The Thunderbike 500s has provided some of the best racing this season, and in race two half a second covered the podium, as Luke Macrae won from Kershaw (C1) and Max Macrae (C3).
Kershaw kept closing in on Round’s C1 championship lead, taking another class win in race three in second overall, behind Luke Macrae, four hundredths of a second the gap. Max Macrae’s third overall handed him the C3 win.
The final race of the year ended with a second covering the top five. Luke Macrae made it four from four, as Round finally finished ahead of Kershaw and sealed the C1 title, the pair in second and third overall and split by less than two tenths of a second. Max Macrae’s fourth gave him another C3 class win.
Another treble for Anthony Johnson demonstrated why he was the deserving Helmet City Supersport 600 champion. In three dominant displays, he won from Gareth Cunningham in race one, and then beat Michael Mills twice in races two and three.
Frazer Lysaczenko was third in race one and the leading Clubman rider, before Cunningham and Kai Dickinson took a third place finish apiece on Sunday. Keaten Leatherland and Lysaczenko shared the Clubman spoils. Michael Howarth had already been crowned champion.
In the Rookie 600 races two thirds and a second ensured Albert Hall took the title, but all four races were won by Frazer Lysaczenko, who was finishing his year in the rookie class while also featuring in the MRO Supersport races.
Lysaczenko also won a bucket load of cash for beating the Rookie 600 lap record of the Brands Hatch Indy circuit, which has stood for 23 years after being set by Bob Collins. In fact, Lysaczenko and Leatherland both beat the record over the course of the weekend, which stood at 49.074. Leatherland became the first man under the record, setting a lap time of 48.958 in race two, before crashing out. In race three, however, Lysaczenko went quicker still, clocking a time of 48.946 to set a new record and claim the prize.
ProperlyProtected MRO Minitwin champion Ronnie Harris and his brother and runner-up Bill Harris shared the wins equally at the final round, with Bill twice the winner on Saturday, before Ronnie capped his title-winning year with a pair of wins on Sunday.
Just a tenth of a second split the siblings in race one, as Bill bested Ronnie. James Nagy took third, as he, Rookie winner Jack Noble, and Mitch Ducran crossed the line only a tenth of a second apart. Only two hundredths split Nagy and Noble.
Bill Harris’ second win came ahead of Noble and Nagy in race two, as Ronnie Harris retired on lap five after leading the opening half of the race.
He recovered to win both of Sunday’s races, winning twice from Bill, as Noble and William Howarth took a third each.
Luke Williams and Alfie Smith won all four of the club’s sidecar races, and with the victories all four in the F1 class. The F2 class wins were taken by 2026 champions Shaun McCain and Taylor Oldroyd.
There was also silverware for Ian Guy and Ken Edwards, as they were awarded the Tim McGrane memorial trophy.
With this year’s Open 500 four-stroke champion Sean Crone sitting out the final round, all four overall and by default all four four-stroke class wins at the finale went to Lucas King, with the two-stroke spoils going to 2026 champion Haydon Smith on three occasions: with a third and two seconds overall. In race four George Prinos’ third gave him the two-stroke class win.