2025 season review

In 2025 I once again teamed up with Castings Technology Motorsport Team and took on the North Gloucester Road Racing Championship(NGRRC) onboard my Suzuki SV650 in the Minitwin Class and a Yamaha R6 supplied by Castings in the National 600 Class.

The aim for the season was to try and better my 3rd place championship finish from 2024 on the Minitwin and to learn the R6 and push for a podium by the end of the season.

MINITWINS

The season got off to a good start at round one and I was competitive finishing 2nd in all three races across the weekend in mixed early season conditions and I felt really good on the bike.

After a great start to the season, I ended up missing round two due to injury after a big crash racing classic bikes.

This unfortunately made round three rather difficult carrying an injury and not being 100% fit.

I still managed two 3rd place finishes.

We then moved onto round four at Anglesey and I felt a lot stronger and more agile on the bike taking two 2nd place finishes this time round and having a good battle with the leader.

Round five and a trip to Brands Hatch, a circuit I have done much racing at so always a struggle it didn’t make life any easier after a big tip off in qualifying at turn one in the wet.

This was unfortunately due to some contamination on the circuit which saw a fair few other riders have similar incidents in the same place.

The crash, however, scuppered the weekend with confidence issues in that section of the circuit but I still managed a respectable 3rd place finish in one of the races.

Round six and a week after the birth of my beautiful twin girls I had permission to go racing.

Still in a good championship position, however, in the fight for the championship we had a massive crash in qualifying and this time the bike wasn’t fixable, and I was declared unfit to ride for the rest of the meeting due to concussion.

After this crash, and with time and the cost of parts required, we ended up parking the bike for the remainder of the season and focused on racing the 600.

That being said, after only competing in half the championship we still met our goal as a team and finished 3rd overall in the Minitwin championship.

NATIONAL 600

The National 600 Class at NGRRC is much more competitive than the Minitwins with a large depth of field from the lads at the front dropping down from the British Supersport Championship and riders like myself stepping up from other championships.

Round one and with no previous testing on the bike she was a handful at Cadwell Park and it took a while to get comfortable with the extra power and suspension setup on the tight twisty circuit.

I came away with a few points but further down the field than I had hoped with two 12th place finishes and learning that setup on this bike makes a big difference to how the weekend pans out.

I did not compete in round two due to injury.

Rounds three and four were much of the same.

I was getting more confident on the bike and getting a good base setup that I was happy with and I was finishing further up the field with four 6th place finishes over the two meetings.

Round five was our best result of the season at Brands after my first time riding the bike in the wet in practice and finding a good pace and feel on the bike.

I was pipped at the line for a podium in the final race and finished 4th.

Round six was a no go due to concussion and round seven saw us have a technical issue on the test day with the rear shock having no rebound causing us a no score at this round.

Moving onto round eight and the final round of the season at Castle Coombe which is a circuit I had only been to once before, I showed good pace overall and with two 7th place finishes over the weekend I signed off the season very happy.

I felt it was a good learning year on the Yamaha after narrowly missing out on a podium and finishing the season 9th overall in the championship.