Weston Beach Race 2015

The 33rd edition of the RHL Weston Beach Race adult solo race was a thriller from start to finish as the Watson brothers Nathan and Ben came to spoil the party in front of a bumper crowd at Weston-Super-Mare with a 1-2 finish, while Jamie McCanney took a hard fought third place.

Last year’s winner and race favourite Shaun Simpson made a phenomenal start, but suffered a technical problem early on, and was believed to be out of the race, as was David Knight who limped into the pits after two laps. Simpson remounted after frantic work was done on his KTM machine, and the Scottish-ace put on a valiant effort from around 400th place, five laps down, to finish in 36th position.

We also had local riders and friends of GH Motorcycles take part in the event and they all did very well respectively. Jamie Roper did fantastic and finished 16th, Craig Roper 28th, GH Motorcycles team rider Brendon Mayers finished 53rd, Steve Roper finished 57th, enduro team rider Steve Mason finished 64th, Friend of the shop Graham Mays finished 178th, Brad Tomlin had a problem with his kill switch and took 45 minutes to sort it out but managed to still race on and end up with a 205th place finish. Perry Miller finished 217th.