What's on Weekly-7th & 8th May (2025)

This weeks ‘What’s on Weekly’ features more events from around the country. Here is a selection of just a few events taking place this weekend.

Motocross

The Woodbridge club will be holding their second meeting of the year at the Blaxhall circuit on the 8th May. The meeting will be an allcomers meeting where the Best Expert and Junior riders on the day will be competing in a series of heats, consolation finals, semi-finals finishing off with a Grand Final. Local favourite Syd Bales will be in action along with Jay Morland, Clint Wright, Stuart Dyerson, and Luke Benstead and on form Brad Tomlin, while Chris Bastick will be riding after recovering from an arm injury. The 12 race timetable gets under with practice starting at 9.30 with racing getting underway about 10.15. Adults £8 accompanied children under 16 years old are free, unaccompanied £4 and the event will be Signposted from the A12.

Also this weekend the Red Dragons will be hosting a meeting at Banger on Dee on Sunday 8th May, the Red Dragons Club are a schoolboy motocross club and will be run an event that feature all classes from Auto to MX1 and MX2, as well as line ups of EVO machines, Veterans and Twinshocks. The event will be staged at Banger on Dee, Gorse Farm, Worthenbury, and can be found using the postcode LL13 0AL. Practice begins at 10am followed shortly after by racing. The club is still looking for marshals and if anyone can help please call Zell on 07772926605 or Gail 07885293555.

Enduro

The Portsmouth Motorcycle Racing Club will be hosting a three hour Hare and Hound event on the 8th May. The event will be incorporating the second round of the Southern Centre Championship. The event will be taking place at Woodberry Lane at Rowlands Castle in Hampshire and features the following classes, Championship, Expert, Clubman A/B, Sportman and Veterans. For more details please go to www.pmcrc.org.

Meanwhile the Ryedale Motorcycle Club will be hosting Round 1 of the Pirelli North of England Enduro Championship. The event is being held at the Langdale Forest, signposted from A170 Pickering to Scarborough Road in Thornton-Le-Dale and the course will consist of Forest land with a lap of approximately 20 miles. The start time for the event will be at 10:00am with groups of three and four riders setting off together every minute.

While in Poland no less than eleven ACU Licence holders will be competing in the opening round of the UEM Enduro Championship at Kielce. Kielce marks the start of the 2011 UEM Championship following the cancellation of the round in Spain organised to take place in on the 23rd and 24th April. The eleven riders taking place are Jonny Walker, Alex Rockwell, Lewis Belfield, Danny McCanney and Ashley Wood competing in the Junior E2 and E3 class, in the Junior E1 the three riders to look out for are Joe Deakin, Jack Rowland and Stuart Owen, while Jordan Rose and Greg Evans will be competing for top honours in the Senior E2 class. Julian Crimp is the only Veteran entry for Poland when the event kicks off on Saturday morning.

Trials

The Mansfield Maun Motorcycle Club will be hosting the Chesterfield Motorcycle Centre Youth Trials at Bracken Rocks in Derbyshire. This event will mark the third round of the 2011 Luscombe Suzuki Leeds British/ACU Youth Trials Championship. Going into Round Three of the Championship it is currently Sam Yeomans that leads to C Class Standard Wheel Championship, with Joe Faunthorpe leading the Medium Wheel. In the D Class it is Billy Green that leads the Medium Wheel Championship with Samuel Land leading the Small Wheel Class. The event will begin at 11:00am from Bracken Rocks.

Sunday 8th May will see the Oxford Ixion MCC holding the Third Round of the 2011 Club Championship at Steeple Hill Bank in Beckley nr Oxford. The event consists of nine different classes including Expert, Inter, Novice, Clubman, Youth A/B/C, Pre-65 and Twinshocks. The event will be made up of four laps around a course of ten sections and the club will be providing three different routes to cater for all standards of riders when the event starts at 10:30am.

Grass Track

Yorkshire JGTC begins their season, along with Top Guns Opening Round, on the 8th May at Dearne Dike Lane, Cumberworth, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD8 8YA. Both YJGTC & Top Gun MX, get their 2011 seasons underway, & no doubt with all the riders & Champions from 2010, wanting to improve on last year’s performances. Top Guns 2010 "Champion", Tim Greig, Ben Baker & Ben Wells will have their work cut out this weekend, as they will be travelling back, from racing on, Friday Night, at Oxford. So, the 2nd season of the "Simpson Racing UK" Top Gun MX, gets underway, along with help from "Rock Oil", MagicCote UK, Helmets 4 U, Spares Unlimited, M-Tec Racing, SDA (Tarmac), K M Barker (Car sales), Adam Ward Tyre Services, WEAB Motors. Practice will begin at 11:00am with racing starting soon after on a track of 400m in length.

Road Racing

Europe's biggest and most family friendly, street party will be held over the weekend 7th /8th May in the pretty market town of Northwich, Cheshire. But the Thundersprint is far more than just a festival for bike fans. Away from the track is a mile of trade stands; a spectacular fun fair; huge inflatable play area for little ones; bands; street entertainment; fine food and an aerobatic display by an RAF Spitfire. Saturday 7th May will see the Thundersprint Bike Show right in the centre of Northwich town next to Northwich Memorial Hall. There will be classic and modern bikes on display, test rides, a huge trade area and bike safety information. There will be non-stop appearances by star riders throughout the weekend including World Supersport Champion Cal Crutchlow, BBC TV’s Steve Parrish and Matt Roberts, six times World Champion Jim Redman, British Superbike star Chris Walker and 125 World Championship star Danny Webb.
The Thundersprint itself takes over Northwich on Sunday May 8th with all the stars in action round the tight town centre sprint track. There is a fantastic international entry of modern and classic riders including French star Alain Marie with his ex-works BMW, German ace Joerg Trautvetter and Swiss classic motorcycling icon Jean Claude Castella. Lunchtime sees a giant cavalcade around the town centre followed by a Spitfire aerobatic display. A feature of the Thundersprint is outstandingly good food at reasonable prices and free street entertainment. Spectator admission is completely free of charge and parking, in Cheshire West Council controlled car parks, is free of charge. Grandstand seating is also free of charge. Disabled and less sprightly customers are particularly well catered for and well-behaved pets are welcome too. Excellent camping, with showers, toilet facilities and on site food, is available for the whole weekend at £30 per pitch, regardless of the number of people in the tent, or for Saturday evening only at £20.

This weekend the Thundersport GB Championship will be travelling to Anglesey in the North of Wales for their latest event. With a timetable packed full of every class possible the event is sure to be a good one. The racing is sure to close and jaw dropping, with the event being covered for both Eurosport and Motors TV, with the Aprilia Superteens and the all new Aprilia 450 Challenge featuring in their own hour and half slot on Eurosport.

If your club is running an event in the coming weeks and would like to be a part of this feature please contact Richard Blyth on pr@acu.org.uk with details of your event.

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