Maxxis powers on
By Team TMX on 30th Sep 15
The Maxxis ACU British Motocross Championship powered by Skye Energy comes to a close this Sunday (October 4) in the deep South Yorkshire sand of FatCat Motoparc.
The MX1 title has already been decided in favour of Shaun Simpson (Hitachi Revo KTM UK) who's dominated this season, winning all seven overalls so far and coming home first in 18 of the 20 motos run.
The Scot's determined to make it eight from eight to put the seal on his best season ever and in his favoured sand – he's won two GPs this season in the soft stuff – he's looking good to sweep the series.
Estonian Tanel Leok (LPE Kawasaki) sits a safe second and is pretty much assured of series silver.
But the battle for bronze is going down to the wire.
Gert Krestinov (Buildbase Honda) is currently third but the gap to former champ Brad Anderson (MBO Power ASA Yamaha) is just 10 points after he missed round seven with a broken collarbone.
Irishman Martin Barr (BRT KTM) is a further 17 points behind, just one ahead of his MXoN team-mate Graeme Irwin (Heads & All Threads Suzuki) with Kristian Whatley (Buildbase Honda) another 14 points adrift.
The top seven aren't the only riders capable of running at the front and expect Elliott Banks-Browne (Geartec Suzuki), whose season has been ruined by injury, to be a podium threat.
Jake Nicholls (Wilvo Forkrent KTM) is returning to action following a back injury and Billy MacKenzie (Monster Energy DRT Kawasaki) will complete his two-race Maxxis agreement with Steve Dixon.
MX2 looked a foregone conclusion until last weekend when championship leader Max Anstie (Monster Energy DRT Kawasaki) crashed out at Ernee, breaking his shoulder and T3 vertebra.
With a 44-point lead and 15 race wins – despite missing the series opener – he was in pole position for the title but instead it's Steven Lenoir (Dyer & Butler KTM) who's now favourite for the championship.
Ben Watson (Hitachi Revo KTM UK) and Adam Sterry (Wilvo Forkrent KTM) both have a slim chance of catching Lenoir but not Anstie so the drama in MX2 should come from the battle for third between the two teenagers.
Watson leads Sterry by two points but that counts for nothing when it's so close.
The MXY2 series also concludes on Sunday with Ollie Osmaston holding a 38-point lead over Robert Yates with Jay Hague third six points further back.
