The opening round of the 2013 Red Bull Pro Nationals took place at Landrake Moto Parc over the weekend with 4,000 fans enjoying an action- packed 29-race programme and unseasonably good weather.

Big winner in the Pro MX1 class was MBO Sport Yamaha’s Kristian Whatley who went 1-1-2 over the weekend to top the podium from the French pairing of wildcard rider Milko Potisek and defending champ Nico Aubin.

“The weekend’s been good and I’ve had some good starts for the first time this season,” says K-What. “I’ve been using a start gate from Risk Racing in practice and it’s made a big, big difference. It was vital to get my starts dialled this weekend – especially in the last race when it got so slick. I’m happy to be back on the podium.”

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The French connection also had a strong showing in MX2 where Evotech Stevens KTM rider Steven Lenoir came out on top with a 1-2-1 card ahead of Heads & All Threads Suzuki’s Graeme Irwin and South African defending champion Neville Bradshaw.

“It’s good to start with the red plate and it’s one I’ll try to keep,” says Steven. “We had a good weekend, made a lot of changes to the bike and I was feeling comfortable.”

The rising stars of the Red Bull Elite Youth Cup put on an awesome show over the weekend with James Harrison topping the Rookies after a weekend-long duel with Dan Thornhill while down in the BW85cc class Jay Hague remained unbeaten with a fantastic five-from-five card.

“It’s been a great start to the season,” grins Jay. “I was expecting to be up there – I’ve done a lot of hard work over the winter at lots of different tracks with Rich-Mike Jones and the RMJ Academy and it feels like it’s paid off.”

Shock result of the weekend came in the SW85cc division where last year’s 65cc champ Tom Grimshaw won both Sunday’s motos to put his Powerband Racing KTM on top of the podium after winning a tie-breaker with Charlie Cole.

“I don’t know what it is about me and this track – I call it Landrake luck,” says Tom. “I always seem to do well and I really enjoy the track so that’s probably got something to do with it. We were just aiming for top five and we never expected this. When I got my first race win we thought it was brilliant so to take the overall is amazing.”

The 65cc class was won by 11-year-old Gary Ashley from Kent.

Former GP rider Lewis Gregory topped the 2-Stroke 125cc Expert class and Rob Holyoake was the man to beat in the Junior category. The 2-Stroke Open Expert class went to Robert Hamilton from Northern Ireland as Chris Povey led home the Junior field.

The series now moves to Weston-super-Mare beachfront for round two on May 18-19.

 

Red Bull Pro Nationals Landrake 2013 results

 

 

Red Bull Pro Nationals MX1 points

 

Pos

No.

Name

Total

Diff

Gap

Total

1

227

Kristian Whatley

72

0

0

72

2

32

Milko Potisek

67

5

5

67

3

131

Nicolas Aubin

56

16

11

56

4

37

Gert Krestinov

52

20

4

52

5

60

Brad Anderson

52

20

0

52

6

25

Jamie Law

43

29

9

43

7

160

Scott Elderfield

39

33

4

39

8

9

Stuart Edmonds

27

45

12

27

9

155

Jack Brunell

27

45

0

27

10

295

Ross Rutherford

27

45

0

27

11

22

George Baldwin

26

46

1

26

12

68

Shane Carless

24

48

2

24

13

681

Tommy Alba

22

50

2

22

14

70

Dorran Coutts

19

53

3

19

15

5

Josh Waterman

18

54

1

18

16

111

Kelvin Townsend

18

54

0

18

17

411

Steve Ramon

13

59

5

13

18

140

Luke Burton

13

59

0

13

19

42

Nez Parker

12

60

1

12

20

33

Wayne Garrett

11

61

1

11

21

74

Partick Major

10

62

1

10

22

500

Luke Hill

4

68

6

4

23

3

Robert Hamilton

4

68

0

4

 

Red Bull Pro Nationals MX2 points

 

Pos

No.

Name

Total

Diff

Gap

Total

1

685

Steven Lenoir

72

0

0

72

2

5x

Graeme Irwin

62

10

10

62

3

272

Neville Bradshaw

56

16

6

56

4

214

Lewis Trickett

49

23

7

49

5

66

Lewis Tombs

44

28

5

44

6

121

Bryan MacKenzie

43

29

1

43

7

36

Matthew Moffat

43

29

0

43

8

991

Nathan Watson

42

30

1

42

9

7

Stephen Sword

38

34

4

38

10

114

Jordan Booker

32

40

6

32

11

24

Luke Remmer

29

43

3

29

12

303

Jake Millward

28

44

1

28

13

919

Ben Watson

26

46

2

26

14

11

Matt Burrows

11

61

15

11

15

23

Edward Allingham

10

62

1

10

16

12

Luke Dean

8

64

2

8