Maxxis British Championship 2013 preview

A lesser website might claim that all roads lead to FatCat Motoparc this weekend for the opening round of the Maxxis British MX 2013 Championship but that’d be a total lie…

But all pedantry aside the message is more or less right – the Maxxis kicks off at FatCat this weekend! Woop woop!

The 2013 championship is looking like it’s gonna be a corker as one of the best international line ups in recent history is set to battle it out in MX1 while there’s a real veterans versus young guns feel to the MX2 division. As well as that there’s the MXY2 class to consider n’all so you know you’re gonna gets your moneys worth provided you remember to jump in your car and head to Doncaster for round one.

What makes the opener even specialer, sorry, more special, is the fact that Tommy Searle and Mel Pocock have signed up as wild cards for round one – both are capable of winning but will they? Searle’s no stranger to FatCat as he trains there often but with Brad Anderson, Tanel Leok, Steve Ramon, Nico Aubin, Jon Barragan, Bert Krestinov, Jason Dougan and Kristian Whatley all in the mix is he really gonna? Most likely yes but we’ll see on the day.

The MX2 entry is headed by defending champ Elliott Banks-Browne who’ll be running the #1 plate like a good old boy. The 250F division is stacked too and although there’s only one GP winner in the mix – veteran Stephen Sword – as opposed to the six entered in the MX1 class the racing should still be super competitive.

Pocock’s definitely gonna be right up there as will Graeme Irwin, Martin Barr, Neville Bradshaw, Steven Lenoir and the Watson brothers. And before you start I’ve purposefully left Bryan MacKenzie’s name out of that list to further motivate him – I mean, he’s definitely one of DBR’s top five favourite columnists so we want him to do well, right?

Maxxis MX1 Riders

Maxxis MX2 Riders