2023 Weymouth Beach Motocross Report & Results

By Dick Law on 16th Oct 23

News Motocross

Jamie Carpenter put on a sand racing exhibition as he completely dominated the 2023 Weymouth Beach Motocross with two decisive wins from two starts to repeat last year’s victory.

This event, which has been running for over 40 years, has everything. Almost 300 mad keen sand riders on a lovely old seaside town's beach. Nice bright sunshine and a massive crowd of spectators lining the sea wall that was in places five or six deep. But the most important thing was that it was all run for charity as the organising Purbeck MCC club teamed up with the Weymouth and Portland Lions Club to help the local charitable organisation with good causes.

As in previous years, there were three classes, Experts, Seniors and Juniors, all getting two races each in a six-race programme.

Carpenter made his intention very clear from the first lap of practice as he set the fastest time. This was 1.2 seconds faster than his nearest rival Tommy Alba on a track that was under two minutes long.

As the starter’s flag fell at the start of the first Expert race, Carpenter shot into the lead and was chased down the beach by Simon Booth and Alba, but as they completed their first lap, Alba had passed Booth in an effort to stay with the flying Carpenter.

On lap three of the 15-lap race, and with Carpenter and Alba already pulling further and further away from the chasing pack, Alfie Calvert found a way past Booth for third place.

Henry Siddiqui didn’t make the best of starts and ended his first lap way down in 19th place, but by the time the race had reached half distance, he was already up to third. By that time, the two leaders were so far away chance of any improvement on a third-place finish would need a mistake from Carpenter or Alba, which didn’t come.

Carpenter crossed the finish line almost 19 seconds clear of Alba in second, with Siddiqui third but over a minute behind the winner.

Harry Linton, after being in 14th at the start, came through fourth place after a second-half battle against Calvert, as these five riders were the only finishers on the lead lap.

The start of race two was almost the same as the first, with Carpenter getting the holeshot with Booth, once again chasing him down the beach. But as they completed the opening lap, and with Carpenter already acquiring a sizable lead, Siddiqui slipped by Booth for second place.

Alba had ended his opening lap in fifth place but was up to third by the end of the second lap as the cost of both Booth and Charlie Griffiths. From there, he relegated Siddiqui down a place on lap five as he went on to finish second to Carpenter again.

Griffiths spent the rest of his race in fourth, that was till the last lap when Linton, after an up-and-down sort of race, snatched the place away from him on the second to last lap.

Linton hadn’t made things easy for himself again as he started way down in 16th place but had fought his way back up to fifth. He then fell and let Lee Truman and Calvert, who was on his way to fourth place, pass. He remounted to finish sixth, albeit a lap down on the leading five.

Overall, it was Carpenter from Alba and Siddiqui on the podium, with Linton just missing out. Funnily enough, the top three finishers this year were the same as last year and in the same order. As for the fast-starting Booth. He finished eighth overall, two places better than he did in 2022.

It was close at the top of the Seniors, very close, as only eight points separated the top five when the two race scores were totalled up.

Oliver Hurst led the pack for a lap at the start of the first race, but after, he slipped down the running order to end his race in 24th place.

Mark Morris, from third at the start, took over the lead on lap three, after passing Oliver Macrae and led for three laps till Ady Peedle, from 10th, passed him and took the lead in the race, and with it, the race win.

Macrae hung on for second, with Morris finishing his race where he started in third. Ricky Harrison gated well, but a crash, there was a lot of them, dropped him back to ninth before he recovered to fourth place.

But the biggest mover in the race was Richard Lloyd, who worked very hard for his results. He started the race well down the running order in 41st position. But at the end of the lap, he was up to 22nd and at the halfway point, he was in 16th place. That would be enough for most people but Lloyd kept going and ended the race in fifth with a fist full of points.

Matt Nash just went about his racing in a quiet sort of way as started the race in 16th place. He worked his way methodically up to sixth, where he got into a battle with Thomas Watson as the pair finished in seventh and eighth.

Morris led the pack at the start of the red flag-shortened race two from Tallon Veale, Watson, and Nash. But, by the end of lap two, Veale was in the lead from Nash and Finly Abbott as Morris slipped down to fifth. By lap four, Nash was in the lead as the red flag stopped the race. This meant Nash was the winner from Veale and Watson, Jake Gay and Mark Morris.

Overall, Nash was the winner by two points from Macrae. Morris was third, another two points further back, with Watson and Peeble finishing on the same points in fourth and fifth.

It was even tighter at the top of the Junior class as Finley Horn and James Adams finished on equal points, with Horn being awarded the overall by virtue of his race two win.

Alfie Irons led the first Junior race past the lap scorers on lap one, but James Adams took over the lead on the second lap, which he held for a lap till Riley Saunders, from fifth at the start, swept by him and into the lead.

Saunders crashed out of the lead with two laps to go but managed to bring it home in 11th place. This put Adams back into the lead and took the race win, with Finley Horn coming from 14th to second place. Chris Johnson was third, with Irons hanging on to fourth place.

Luke Budziszewski crashed out of the lead at the start of race two as Horn swept into the lead, and the race win. Admas spent all of the race in second as Lee Johnson, after a tussle with Chris Johnson, was third.

Overall, it was Horn from Adams and the Johnsons as Chris made it to the podium, and Lee just missed out.

2023 Weymouth Beach Motocross Results

Expert

Seniors

Juniors

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