By Top draw conditions, Scarborough specialists starring, regular lap times under two minutes summed up the opening day’s qualifying, racing at a sun kissed Barry Sheene Festival.
In great form throughout qualifying sessions, Tom Weeden, the 2016 Senior Manx Grand Prix winner, went onto haul race victories x3.
Victorious in opening Potter Plant Classic Superbike contests, Weeden into double figures Oliver’s Mount wins wise, also captured the afternoon’s sole HMH Civils Supersport race, helped ten-fold by a new PB middleweight category lap-time of 1 minute 48.841 seconds.
Early race leader, Trickbits Racing’s Ryan Dixon took second, 5.279 behind Weeden with TH Racing’s Joey Thompson, astride Darran Lindsay tribute liveried Honda apparatus third.
Joey ‘Yorkshire’ finished two places higher in the prior Pub & Kitchen Super Twins race, holding off pole-sitter, the already spotlighted Weeden and Scotsman Johnny Stewart to take his Scarborough wins to twenty-six.
Stuart Hall commanded the Two-Strokes category whilst Stephen Gorton, Dan Sayle, Ricky Martin, Russell Brook, Richard Molnar chalked up respective opening 400cc, 125/Moto 3, CB 500, Classic 350, Classic 500 encounter honours.
Scarborough newcomer Brad Burn (Royal Air Force Motorsports) caught the eye via an impressive run to L. May Plant Support Race 1 glory, beating to P1, Mike Knorr and OC Graphics Racing’s Oliver Dean.
Onto three wheeling superheroes and a crowd pleasing F2 Sidecars curtain raiser, with the Ramsdens Steve & Matty, Kieran Clarke/Rob Coppock, Race Two conquerors Carl Fenwick/Jake Roberts battling it out.
Ultimately getting the verdict were the father and son Ramsdens pairing, keeping at bay Fenwick/Roberts (eventual third place finishers), the charging Clarke/Coppock (second place finishers), who joined an exclusive group of crews to lap Oliver’s Mount inside 1 minute 56 seconds.
Clarke/Coppock would join the Scarborough winners circle in the day’s only J. Hughes Plant Classic Sidecars race, comprehensively winning by fourteen seconds plus over TT greats Dave Molyneux/Dan Sayle.
Third place clinchers, debutants Guido Reichmuth/Zita Reichmuth with their distinctive sounding MRE Ducati outfit, are the first top three finishers in this decade at Scarborough from Switzerland.
2026 Barry Sheene Festival – Saturday Race Results:
Classic Superbike Race 1:
1st – Tom Weeden
2nd – Joey Thompson
3rd – Curtis Milburn
4th – Johnny Stewart
5th – Oliver Morgan Edwards
6th – Kristian Didelot
7th – Greg Haylott
8th – Steve Birtles
9th – Paul Moir
10th – Charlie Hopkins
Two Strokes Race 1:
1st – Stuart Hall
2nd – James Tucker
3rd – John Hannaford
F2 Sidecars Race 1:
1st – Steve Ramsden/Matty Ramsden
2nd – Kieran Clarke/Rob Coppock
3rd – Carl Fenwick/Jake Roberts
4th – Mark Hegarty/Alex Ludlow
5th – Bruce Moore/Tom Dawkins
Pre-Injection Sidecars Race 1:
1st – Greg Lambert/Robin King
2nd – Jamie Hanks/Jonathan Kirk
Super Twins Race 1:
1st – Joey Thompson
2nd – Tom Weeden
3rd – Johnny Stewart
4th – Stephen Gorton
5th – Oliver Morgan Edwards
6th – Bailey Harker
7th – Daniel Pearson
8th – Russell Brook
9th – Kevin Barsby
10th – Oliver Dean
11th – Charlie Hopkins
12th – Jack Andrews
13th – Alex Tufnall
14th – Eric Wilson
15th – Jack Griffiths
16th – Seb Evenden
17th – Colin Croft
18th – Dean Carver
Classic Sidecars Race 1:
1st – Kieran Clarke/Rob Coppock
2nd – Dave Molyneux/Dan Sayle
3rd – Guido Reichmuth/Zita Reichmuth
4th – Alistair Lewis/Patti Lewis
Supersport Race 1:
1st – Tom Weeden
2nd – Ryan Dixon
3rd – Joey Thompson
4th – Johnny Stewart
5th – John Marsh
6th – David McArthur
7th – Joey Lambden
8th – Paul Marley
9th – Bailey Harker
10th – Fred McMullan
11th – Daniel Pearson
12th – Scott Aitkin
13th – Adrian Hodson
14th – Nicholas Round
15th – Jack Worth
16th – Aarron Cooke
17th – Mark Jackson
18th – Ben Long
19th – Aiden Goodings
20th – Christian Slater
21st – Paul Moir
Support Race 1:
1st – Brad Burn
2nd – Mike Knorr
3rd – Oliver Dean
4th – Tom Pickford
5th – George Anderson
6th – Alan Curtis
7th – Ryan Hose
8th – Jack Crowley Mason
9th – Sean Cookney
10th – Dean Carver
11th – Graeme Neil
12th – Will Kearney
13th – Kieran Barker
14th – Andrew Guy
125/Moto 3 Race 1:
1st – Dan Sayle
2nd – Tony Flinton
3rd – Tom Snow
4th – James Tucker
400cc Race 1:
1st – Stephen Gorton
2nd – Steve Sewell
3rd – Greg Haylott
4th – Roddy Taylor
5th – Brandon Brinded
6th – Paul Battersby
CB 500 Race 1:
1st – Ricky Martin
2nd – Shaun O’Hara
3rd – Steven Allan
4th – Grant Aitchison
5th – Ian Carter
Classic 350 Race 1:
1st – Russell Brook
2nd – Andrew Guy
3rd – Shelley Pike
4th – Robert Knoyle
Classic 500 Race 1:
1st – Richard Molnar
2nd – Pete Nicholls
F2 Sidecars Race 2:
1st – Carl Fenwick/Jake Roberts
2nd – Steve Ramsden/Matty Ramsden
3rd – Kieran Clarke/Rob Coppock
4th – Michael Russell/Alice Smith
5th – Mark Hegarty/Alex Ludlow
6th – Bruce Moore/Tom Dawkins
7th – Paul Riley/Jody James
Pre-Injection Sidecars Race 2:
1st – Greg Lambert/Robin King
2nd – Jamie Hanks/Jonathan Kirk
Classic Superbike Race 2:
1st – Tom Weeden
2nd – Joey Thompson
3rd – Paul Marley
4th – Johnny Stewart
5th – Oliver Morgan Edwards
6th – Mick Goodings
7th – Curtis Milburn
8th – Lee Brocklebank
9th – Kristian Didelot
10th – Steve Birtles
11th – Roddy Taylor
12th – Greg Haylott
13th – Paul Moir
Two Strokes Race 2:
1st – Stuart Hall
2nd – James Tucker
3rd – Richard Hewitt
4th – John Hannaford
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
