By Mitch Rees ended the 2025 Cemetery Circuit Races, as the talk of Whanganui having become the first racer in the event’s history, to seal four consecutive feature race triumphs.
Rees (Team Rees Motorcycles Honda), a top eight finisher at Macau, this year’s quickest solo TT Races newcomer finished the trimmed in distance to six laps, Robert Holden Memorial Feature Race, 4.528 seconds ahead of top chaser Rhys Lindsay (Auto Super Shoppe Tawa Suzuki).
Forty-two plate carrier Lindsay, additionally finished runner-up to Rees in both Whites Powersport Shoei Premium Helmets sponsored F1, F1 New Zealand TT race contests.
F2 Supersport Race 1 conqueror Jesse Stroud completed the feature race podium with Tahana Parker, F2 Supersport Race 2 winner Sasha Drain, Formula Sport Junior victor x2 Jeff Croot, Pre 89 Senior Classics Race 1 victor Jordan Burley, Joshua Laurence-Curtis the remaining race finishers.
Richie Dibben (Super Motard – triumphant within F3 Race 1 as well), Marc McKenzie (Pre 89 Junior Classics), Eddie Kattenberg (Pre 95 Junior Classics), Mark Smith/Graham Wilkinson (Classic Sidecars), Richard Markham Barrett (Formula Sport Senior) went unbeaten in their respective classes.
UK newcomers, Obsession Engineering team’s Dave Hewson (P3 – Formula Sport Senior Race 2) and Eric Wilson, hauled between them four top six finishes.
Competitors not spotlighted yet, to have scored ‘Southern Hemisphere Isle of Man’ victories, are-disclosed below:
David Hall (Classic Solos Race 1), Jadin Galway (Classic Solos Race 2), Ash Payne (F3 Race 2), Adam Unsworth/Bryce Rose (F1 Sidecars Race 1), Phillip Law/Angus Ravenwood (F1 Sidecars Race 2).
Tracey Bryan/Jo Franzen (F2 Sidecars Race 1), James Dowman/Michael Dowman (F2 Sidecars Race 2), Tyler King (Pre 95 Senior Classics Race 1/Supersport 300 Race 1).
Ivan Smith (Pre 95 Senior Classics Race 2), Gian Louie (Pre 89 Senior Classics Race 2) and the first solo female competitor to gain P1 glory at Whanganui, Harriet Grace (Supersport 300 Race 2).
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
