By Continuous good-weather, optimum racing conditions, striking lap times in spades, echoed closely the previous day’s competition at this year’s Barry Sheene Festival.
Same as yesterday, feature race winner Tom Weeden, excelled times a trillion.
Taking home from the meeting, six race wins, Weeden (Supersport Races Two & Three winner), lowering his personal best Supersport lap time to 1 minute 48.072 seconds, moved onto thirteen Oliver’s Mount, Scarborough successes in total.
Aside from Weeden, the remaining Supersport contests saw Johnny Stewart, Joey Thompson (Classic Superbike Race Three winner), and Ryan Dixon capture top three finishes with John Marsh (overall P4/P5) No.1 Stock class exponent x2.
Stuart Hall (Two Strokes Races Two & Three winner), Dan Sayle (125/Moto 3 Races Two & Three winner), Russell Brook (Classic 350 Races Two & Three winner) completed weekend category hat-tricks.
The same notion glides towards to now established Mount specialist, 2026 Manx Grand Prix seeded rider Stephen Gorton winner of all three 400cc race bouts.
Gorton additionally captured the final Super Twins contest beating to P1, TH Racing’s Joey Thompson, winner of the earlier Twins race.
Roddy Taylor Racing’s Ricky Martin finished on top in the sole CB 500 race, OC Graphics Racing’s Oliver Dean won the concurrently run L.May Plant Support race (Support Race Two three-times red-flagged, not re-started post start-line, Mere Hairpin, Quarry Hill incidents) whilst Scarborough debutant Richard Molnar, clinched Classic 500 race spoils.
Molnar was the only Classic 500 competitor, credited in the final Road Racing News, Lightweights/Classics race results sheet.
Moving onto three-wheeling thrills and first team to spotlight, can only be, F2 Sidecars Race Three, yesteryear contests Two & Three victors, Kieran Clarke/Rob Coppock.
Driver Clarke (quickest newcomer TT driver in history), protégé of over three decades a race winner at Scarborough, Eddy Wright, looks certain to have an immense future in front of him at England’s only active road race circuit.
Dave Molyneux/Dan Sayle, Swiss debutants Guido Reichmuth/Zita Reichmuth shared the runner-up spots from second, third Classic Sidecar races.
Runners-up to Clarke/Coppock in the final F2 Sidecar contest were Carl Fenwick/Jake Roberts with the Ramsdens Steve & Matty back in third.
2026 Barry Sheene Festival over and out, wishing those involved in unfortunate incidents, swift and speedy recoveries.
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
