Post Pembrey Race Report by Jono

If the horrendous winds which happened both on Thursday and Saturday evening had been during the daytime, we would NOT have been racing, but the racing Gods were definitely with us and we had some brilliant racing. I can honestly say that out of the 44 races, only a handful were a little disappointing. There were some outstanding performances across all races and it certainly made for exciting commentating and I’m sure that everyone watching would have enjoyed them as much as we did. 

John Bolsover, Andy Green, Rob Mawbey and Mark Edge made for some super competitive racing in the same TZ 350 class. But the outstanding performance in that class has to be Daniel Jackson with 3 straight wins. Daniel was also pretty dominant in the Lansdowne races with 2 wins. It’s hard to think of two more different bikes than a TZ and a G50, so obviously he has talent aplenty. 

This was the inaugural meeting that saw the introduction of Post Classic Era 3 bikes, and with great anticipation we were able to welcome slightly younger machinery to our super friendly paddock, namely bikes like the Kawasaki ZXR 750, the Honda CBR 600, the Suzuki GSXr and last but no means least the big Ducati V twins in both 748 and 916 guises. And boy they did not disappoint. We had some truly thrilling races that’s for sure. Perhaps the best would be the brilliant battles between Ant Hart on his 916 and Mike Smith on his ZXR. Totally different bikes, but undoubtedly two of the finest classic bike riders anywhere in the world. Put simply there is absolutely nothing between them and the results show this with two wins apiece. But another rider that put in consistently excellent performances on the steel framed Honda 600 was Mark Roxborough, but he was not alone with the mix of 748’s and CBR 600’s proving a very even match for each other. So for sure PC Era 3 is proving a massive success for both riders and spectators alike. 

Of course any CRMC meeting would not be complete without Paraders and it was great to see Phil Landeg be awarded Parade Bike of the meeting for his immaculate Rob North Trident in it’s beautiful anthracite silver. Kevin Van de Worp’s spectacular Moto Guzzi was chosen as the Race Bike of the meeting. It’s great to see Kevin going so well on the big Italian V twin, several class wins and very respectable times are the proof of this. 

But Finally the Rider of the day award title, needed amending this weekend to ‘Driver & Passenger of the day. For myself & Rusty as commentators, this was an easy choice for us to make. It’s not that often that a very successful and established solo rider makes the decision to drive an outfit, but that’s exactly what David Tetley did. When offered the chance to have a go by Dave Gristwood, he jumped at the chance, and partnered by Dan Mills, they were immediately competitive and unbelievably was pushing Jack Gristwood & Alice Smith for the lead. We watched with open mouths as he drove with seemingly natural skill and talent. Quite simply top notch and brilliant. On Sunday they even took an outright win. I’ll be very excited to see them back in three wheel action hopefully soon. 

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