Series newcomers, AC Racing (Greg Allsop/Richard Charlton), won the second round of the ACU/Towergate National 1000 championship at Cadwell Park to climb to top of both the ACU/Towergate and Hottrax championship points’ tables.

They had to hurry home, though, because two other teams, Fast Past Pits and T. Watson Bikes, were on the same lap. The top three were covered by just 68 seconds after three hours racing.
The victory, added to fourth place in the opening round at Brands Hatch, gave AC Racing a total of 38 and a nine point lead over T. Watson Bikes (Rick Dickinson/Tom Stephens).

With his brother, Matt Truelove, racing at the BSB meeting at Donington Park, Harry had to draft in another Lincolnshire lad, Tim Neave to join Fast Past Pits.

Just as at Brands, the new team was unbeatable in the Towergate National 600 class, maintain their maximum score, crossing the line just over 41 seconds down on the overall winners.

T. Watson Bikes were delighted to be even running at the front.
In the Friday practice day an on-going ignition problem on Dickinson’s big Kawasaki seemed unsolvable.

Unsure of what the problem was the team arrived at Cadwell prepared to  go through the painful process of just changing components in the hope of resolving the intermittent fault.  At the very last minute the fault was cured.

They qualified on pole, but were only sixth after 30 minutes.
They were up to third after two hours, but could not improve on that and to make matters worse were handed a ten second penalty for cutting the chicane.

The next three home all completed 99 laps, two less than the top three. Fourth overall was More Moto (Byron Beckett/Paul Holden/Chris Kent), third home in the National 1000 class, two laps down on the top three.

Team Big Lads (Joe Connolly/Bob Barton), first Modern Classics home, were fifth, nearly 40 seconds back. The team had managed to put in a couple of fairly good laps in the wet, putting them 12th on the grid out of 35 and 1st in class.
 
The race started cold, but drying conditions, with a dry line now all the way around the circuit. Slick tyres were the only choice and after the team’s DNF last year at this track, they were eager not to repeat history! Connolly stalled the engine, just as he had in round one.

He fought back up through the pack, but a couple of laps in and his bike suffered a slight mechanical malfunction, with the rear brake lever dangling down, hitting the road when cornering. The unscheduled pit stop lost them valuable time, but was the only option.

After 30 minutes racing and some consistent lap times from Bob Barton, the team were up into 16th place overall and first in class. At the half way point the team were ninth overall and still first in class.

The team knew that they would have to have an extra late pit stop, due to the earlier unscheduled stop at the start of the race. Because of that they were pushing as hard as possible to minimise the effect that pit stop would have on the final result.

Connolly rode the final session, Joe took the chequered flag for the team, finishing fifth overall and first in class.
That win kept TBL top of the Modern Classic class, ten points ahead of GRS Racing (Karl Smith/Glen Rixon), who were 24th overall and second in class.

GRS Racing had only done one track day at the Lincolnshire circuit prior to this event. Friday’s practice day was really wet and foggy and Saturday not much better.

Rixon started to get a decent rhythm, but then lost the front end going into Charlie’s went. He was unable to get back to the pits to finish qualifying.

By the start of the race the weather had improved and the team started on dry tyres, 26th out of 33. Rixon began the race, but Smith’s lack of circuit knowledge left him struggling to set quick laps.

Soon the team was 30 seconds behind their rivals in fourth place. Rixon was quick in his next session, reducing the gap.
Smith also quickened his pace and a few incident that brought out the safety car, enabled them to climb to third and close on the others.

In his final 30 minutes Rixon had put the team second. Smith found his rhythm to open a 16 seconds lead over the closest rivals, taking second place for second time.
Wilcock Racing (Dave Murphy/Tom McHale) was sixth over the line, just over a second down on TBL.
Seventh, eighth and ninth were all on the same lap, completing 97 laps.

At the head of the trio and first Clubman 1000 over the line, was Tech 5 Racing (Nick Ford/Matt Stevens). Again Team Army ran three squads, instead of four, in this race.

Team Army 2 (Wayne Morgan/Richard Spencer-Fleet) was eighth, second National 600 home, just under eight seconds further back. Wedgie-Tyke Racing (Mark Thompson/Jon McNally) was ninth, second Clubmans 1000 over the line, 74 seconds behind the Army.

It has been a tough start to the season for Go Racing Developments 1000 (Andy Carpenter/James McBride). At Brands they had qualified third fastest, but started from pit lane waiting to see if it would rain.

Then James McBride collided with a slower rider at Druids,losing 19 laps. They finished ninth in the big class. This time they qualified sixth best, set the fastest lap of the entire race on the 63rd of 96 laps, but had problems and finally finished tenth overall.

Neither Carpenter nor McBride felt confident in the changeable qualifying conditions. Later they found major problems with McBride’s front forks. Unable to rectify these they elected to run the race as a one bike team.

Because McBride had not ridden Carpenter’s machine before, they thought it sensible for Carpenter to start the race.
After the first stint they had a 37 second deficit, but with McBride then out against Richard Charlton, he managed to turn that deficit into a 27 second lead. They had high hopes of victory. At the half way stage they were second, just 4.37 seconds down. Fast Past Pits third, 4.7 second behind the leaders.

On McBride’s second stint, a speedy pit stop resulted in him going out without the fuel cap secured properly. McBride had to return to the pits having washed himself in some of Shell petroleum's finest!

After borrowing a fuel filler cap from another team they continued, well down the field. From now on their job was one of damage limitation.

First Towergate Clubman 600 over the line was Liquidskinz Hydrographic (Stuart Fitton/Martin Tromans) in 11th place.
They qualified in 15th place, but was up to 13th after just half an hour. They had slipped back to 17th at the hour mark and to work hard to climb up to 11th spot.

Team Army 1 (Peter Brown/Laurence Williams) had a traumatic race. Both riders hit trouble early on, one crashing at Park and the other having mechanical problems, forcing him to stop at Mansfield, putting them down in 26th position after 60 minutes.
They battled away to finish 12th overall, third in the Clubman 1000 class.

Scotbeen Racing (Kenny Paterson/Jim Laing), winners last year at Knockhill, are contesting the full series, this season.
This year they plan to contest the entire series. At Brands they were 19th overall, here they crossed the line in 13th spot, sixth in the National 1000 class.

Top Rookie team was G&M Racing (Robin Green/Mark McIndoe), the Clubmans 1000 squad, in 14th place. Team Sorrymate.com (Colin Norris/Warren Verwey), runners-up in last season’s National 600 championship, are keen to land the title this year. At Brands, in the opening round, Norris’s machine failed to fire up and they dropped from seventh on the grid to dead last. They battled through to finish fifth.

They qualified third fastest in their class and 13th overall, but 30 minutes into the race they were up to second spot overall, one lap down on AC Racing.

At half distance they were running fifth, second in class.
Then at just after 5.0pm, Norris, still in second place, tangled with John Kilcar at the Hairpin. Norris broke his right collarbone in the accident and suffered concussion.

It took the team 45 minutes to rescue the timing transponder from Norris’s bike. With 30 minutes to go in the race they were dead last, in 33rd place.

Verwey rode superbly, putting the fastest 600 lap of the entire race, to finish 29th and fifth in class. Sorrymate,com is third in the championship.

Yorkshire man Lee Wilson stormed to the top of the Moto Grand Powerbike 1000 points table after four clear cut wins over the weekend.
Wilson, making his first appearance in the series, has 100 points, 19 more than the absent Michael Brown, away through business.
Thomas Hallifax is third in the points table on 77.
Michael Hogarth, Tom McHale, Graham Hornby and Dave Hewson followed Wilson home in the four outings.
Paul Barker stretched his lead in the Moto Grande Pre National 1000 class from 20 points to 34, thanks to two seconds and a third place.

Barker’s only blank score was in the first of four races, when he was involved a multiple-crash at the Chicane. James Ververs is up to second in the points, thanks to notching up a fifth place and two wins.

Vevers might well have been even closer, but for a fall in wet conditions at Mansfield when leading the first race on the Sunday.

Craig Kennelly is up to third in the points’ table, 50 behind Barker, after taking a win, a third and a sixth.
Once again unchallenged all weekend, Andrew Cockburn took maximum points in the Pro Moto class to take his points’ tally to 200.

Jack Bleakley now tops the Motogrande Powersport 600 class after notching up three second places in his weekend’s four races.
He has 132 points, 32 more than John Lea, who was making his first appearance of the year in the championship.

Paul Slade’s unbeaten run in the Motogrande Pre National 600 series came to an abrupt halt in the first race on Sunday. He crashed out, breaking his radius. By then he had stretched his run of victories to six, taking his points’ tally to 150.

Matt Johnston, who had been trailing Slade by 38 points coming in to this meeting, took advantage of Slade’s fall by winning both races on the Sunday, to end the meeting on 152 points, two ahead of his rival.

Dave Wymer is firmly at the top of the V&M Motogrande Powersport Rookie 1000 class, He now has 190 points, 68 more than his closest rival, James Young. Wymer followed Mark Scott home in race one and was then runner up to Andrew Stockdale in the next.
The following day, though, Wymer was unstoppable.

There were three different winners in the V&M Motogrande Rookie 600 class races at Brands Hatch, but Jack Harvey was the man in charge at Cadwell.

He won three of the four races and was second home in the other.
With no points in round one, those 95 points were not enough to give Harvey the championship lead. He is fourth.

Kevin Clive now tops the points’ table on 130, with Mick Ducran pushed down to second with 122 and Joseph O’Rourke third with 98.  
Desmo Due Class A Championship leader, Dallas Hornblow, decided to sit out the wet qualifying putting him at the back of the grid for all three races.
In the first eight-lap race on the Saturday there was a wide dry line around most of the track Hornblow battled through to take the win and increase his championship lead over race runner-up and reigning champion, Matt Lawson.

Third home was former Class B front runner and pole setter, Andy
Claridge, taking his first Class A podium. Lawson was second and Tom Roberts third.

Hornblow had sat out that wet race, but race three, over ten laps, was held in almost dry conditions and Hornblow charged from the back of the grid to win. Lawson was again second to maintain his championship challenge. Claridge was third.

In Class B Steve Baden had set pole and then went on to take his first race win in the first race, followed home by local racer, Shane Campling and Dean Wilcock. Campling won race demoting Baden to second. Championship leader, Scott Wilson, was third.
Wilson boosted his championship hopes with victory in race three ahead of Campling and Baden.

Hornblow tops Class A on 113, 14 ahead of Lawson.
Wilson leads Class B on 124 points, 47 clear of Miles Watson-Cort.

Paul Baleta, was absent, saving his money for his TT efforts in June, but held on to the lead in the Modern Classics Superbike class. His score of 90 from the opening round was enough to stay ahead of the opposition.

Jason Edwards is now second in the points’ table after notching up three second places and a victory. He has 85 three more by Ian Pattinson.
 
Craig Robertson, on his Jacksons Butchers/Continental Tyres Kawasaki ZX7R, grabbed third place in qualifying, despite some last minute running repairs following the collapse of a sprocket carrier bearing. He was third in race one.

He was third in race two in extremely tricky conditions!, after losing fifth and sixth gears, due to a faulty gear selector,
Robertson was staying with the leading group in race three until he made a mistake at Barn and dropped back. The engine died off the line in the fourth race and Robertson was a spectator.
Craig’s dad, Neil Robertson (Compass Auto Centre Kawasaki ZX7R) was fourth fastest as he made a return to racing.

He battled with Chris Hayden in the first two races finishing fourth and fifth. Neil had a lonely ride in race three after losing ground at the start. HIS times were improving all the time and he finished fourth. He was second in his class in race, taking his first-ever podium finish.

Bob Barton qualified on pole for the Modern Classic Superbike EVO class despite the cold and wet conditions. His team-mate in TBL, Joe Connolly, struggled a little more on the tricky track and was ninth fastest.

Barton won both races, with Connolly second each time. Barton gave Sunday’s races a miss to attend a friend’s wedding, leaving Connolly to win both races and move into the championship lead.
Another Endurance racer, Karl Smith, joined in the action on the Sunday. He had to start at the back of the grid, but managed a seventh and a sixth, including a second place in his class.

Connolly has 176, with Barton second on 103 and Duncan Appleby third with 97. Both Carl Dodwell and Team Army 3 endurance racer, Darryl Hodder, were absent from this meeting and that allowed Ben Gibbs, who did not race at Brands, to take the lead in the Formula One championship.
 
Gibbs is now on 70 points, five more than Hodder. Local racer, Ross Walker, dominated the Formula Two class, with four wins from four rides and that was enough to give the lead in the series. He has 100 points, 50 more than Jack Harvey.

Jon Bolsover’s unbeaten run in the Modern Classics Supersport EVO class came to an end on the Sunday morning when he was beaten to the line by Neil Bell. Bolsover holds a commanding lead on 195 points, 115 ahead of the absent Adam Shepherd.

There was no change in the Formula 400/250 class. Dan Anderson stays top on 82 points.

Jonny Towers remains the leader in the Super Twin class.
Nick Wainwright rattled up four wins over the weekend to take the lead in the Modern Classics Supersport Pre-I class. The absent Rob Garland is second, 65 points adrift, with Justin Stephenson third, 89 behind.

Glen Rixon, part of the GRS Endurance team, raced in the two Sunday races. He was seventh and sixth, despite having to start from the back of the grid.

Corey Wilson grabbed three thirds and a second place to take charge in the Lightweight class. He has 120 points, 20 more than the absent Rob Garland.