After much deliberation, we are finally ready to announce our race dates for the 2023 season!

As per previous seasons, we plan to race with Darley Moor and NG Road Racing once again. With a refreshed Kawasaki Supersport machine along with our fantastic Aprilia RS660 Trofeo, we will be racing in a total of five different race classes! And once again we aim to compete in the prestigious "Stars at Darley" event at the close of the season.

2023 Race Dates
Saturday-Sunday 25th-26th March - Darley Moor Test Day & Round 1
Friday-Sunday 21st-23rd April - NG Road Racing Round 2 (Castle Combe)
Friday-Sunday 12th-14th May - NG Road Racing Round 3 (Donington Park)
Sunday 21st May - Darley Moor Round 2
Sunday 18th June - Darley Moor Round 3
Friday-Sunday 23rd-25th June - NG Road Racing Round 4 (Pembrey)
Friday-Sunday 28th-30th July - NG Road Racing Round 5 (Castle Combe)
Sunday 13th August - Darley Moor Round 4
Friday-Sunday 18th-20th August - NG Road Racing ​Round 6 (Anglesey)
Sunday 10th September - Darley Moor Round 5
Saturday 7th-8th October - Darley Moor Rounds 6 & 7 (including "Stars at Darley")

​For the 2023 season, Darley Moor have changed some of their championship classes for the 2023 season - so we will compete in the following classes:

• Formula 600: 600cc class including 675cc triples. (using our Kawasaki Supersport machine)
• Darley Cup: Any machine 501cc to 850cc. No other restrictions. (using our Kawasaki Supersport machine)
• 700cc Twins: Up to 700cc water-cooled 4-stroke twin cylinder and 820cc air-cooled 4-strokes. No over-bores or big bore engines permitted. (using our Aprilia RS660 Trofeo)

At NG Road Racing meetings we will compete in the following classes:

• Supertwins (using our Aprilia RS660 Trofeo)
• Open 600cc (using our Kawasaki Supersport machine)

Race Numbers
Our race numbers for the 2023 season have now also been confirmed. We will use the following numbers at the above events:

• We will run #1 on Aprilia RS660 Trofeo at Darley Moor & NG Road Racing events.
• Will run the #88 on the Kawasaki Supersport machine at Darley Moor events.
• Will run the #188 on the Kawasaki Supersport machine at NG Road Racing events.

Winter Changes
Throughout the winter there have been a number of changes made behind the scenes, so prior to the start of the season we will share a full update - in lots of juicy detail!

Thanks for your support!
Since this website went live at the start of 2013, we are proud to announce that we have received a fantastic 129,231 page views from 49,258 web sessions (by 36,495 unique visitors). The figures for our YouTube channel are just as impressive with 65,700+ video views (covering 138,000+ minutes) for the 393 videos we have uploaded - which is even more impressive considering that since 2015 our Darley Moor onboard race videos have only been accessible directly via our race reports!

And last but not least - we would like to wish you all the best for the 2023 season ahead!
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On Saturday 28th January 2023, the awards presentation evening for the 2022 Darley Moor club championships took place. As usual, the room was packed to the brim with around 300 attendees and it was a fantastic evening that everyone enjoyed.

​A special gift (from Tony Else) was waiting for us on the table when we arrived. Having won the Twins championship and finished championship runner-up in the Formula 600 class in 2022, we were called up twice to collect trophies from 'Stars at Darley' winner Richard Cooper, 'multiple Sidecar World Champions' Tom & Ben Birchall, as well as Don Ryder and Miles Brough.

With celebrations carrying on beyond 2am on the Sunday morning, a bit of recovery time will probably be needed this coming week... :-)
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On Saturday 12th November, the awards presentation evening for the 2022 NG Road Racing club championships took place. The room was packed with 200+ attendees and it was a fantastic evening that everyone enjoyed.

Back in 2014 we won the NG Supertwins championship, so it was nice to be awarded the trophy again "only" 8 years later - which was presented to us by Steve Plater.

​We collected a raft of trophies from the event. For the next year we will get to look after the perpetual trophy (which now features our name twice!), along with a glass championship trophy that we'll get to keep. We also received a special trophy thanks to series-sponsor Colin Hill from Hairy Beast Pix, which is truly awesome to admire!

​With celebrations carrying on beyond 2am on the Sunday morning, a bit of recovery time was required - which is why this update is later than it probably should have been...  ;-)

​Preparations have already started for the 2023 season - as on the way home from the event we went helmet shopping! This week, the Kawasaki Supersport machine was also delivered to MSS Performance to have an engine refresh. Things are moving along nicely!  :-)
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Now that the season has come to a close, we have been able to take a look back at 2022 and to summarise the achievements that have been made - in our most successful season ever!

​We will start by highlighting the final championship results, which were:

• NG Road Racing 'Supertwin' club champions
• Darley Moor '700cc Twins' club champions
• Darley Moor 'Formula 600' - 2nd in championship
• NG Road Racing 'Open 600cc' - 7th in championship

These fantastic achievements mean that we have now earned 25 "end of year" trophies (which includes 14 club championship trophies) from five different organisations:

• 20 from Darley Moor (9 Championships & 11 Runner-up)
• 2 from NG Road Racing
• 1 from Wirral 100
• 1 from Auto 66
• 1 from Junior Roadracing Association (JRA)

Further details regarding these achievements can be found on the updated Team & Rider Overview webpage.

​During the year we added to our tally of race wins, adding another 28 wins to reach a new total of 139 club race wins throughout our entire career!

Drilling down into the statistics a bit further - during 2022 we:

• Started 73 races
• Won 28 races (38.4% win rate)
• Podium'd in 46 races (63.0% podium rate)
• Finished 72 races (98.6% finishing rate)
• Mechanical DNF'd in 1 race (1.4% Mechanical DNF rate)
• Crash DNF'd in 0 races (0.0% crash rate)
• Claimed a total of 38 event trophies (including 2x 'Rider of the Round' trophies)

​Throughout the season we also managed to break some Darley Moor race records (as well as our own personal records - more on those later!):

• The 8-lap Darley Moor 700cc Twins race record was broken at the opening round and currently stands at 8:14.34
• The 10-lap Darley Moor Allcomers race records was broken by us 3 times during the season and currently stands at 10:20.44
• We also managed to become the first-ever racer on a Supertwin-type machine to lap Darley Moor in under 1-minute

These race records are displayed in both the race programs and on the Darley Moor website.

Other interesting stats/highlights:

• We finished 10th overall in the prestigious 'Stars at Darley' race, which is our personal best finish
• We won every Darley Moor '700cc Twins' points race that that we finished
• We never used wet tyres on circuit at any point during the 2022 season
• We managed to complete another season with zero crashes - a stat that is now 8 consecutive seasons old!

Bonus Stat: Whilst we were putting together these stats, we finally managed to tally the lifetime number of British Championship points we scored - which came to 91 points (3 in 1996, 7 in 1997, 42 in 1998 and 39 in 1999). As we have no plans to revisit the British Championship paddock, this stat is likely to remain static!

Taking a look back to our pre-season goals, where we advised that "the stopwatch will be the gauge of our success" - this is how we have performed:

• Darley Moor lap times. As mentioned previously, we were the first rider to ever break the 1-minute barrier on a Supertwin-type machine. There was a lot of quick competition in the class this season, so the "Unofficial Twin Lap Times" leaderboard has been updated and now looks as follows...

We have had a fantastic time this season (both on and off track) so if possible, we would like to compete in both the NG Road Racing and Darley Moor championships once again in the 2023 season!

And last but not least I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of my supporters (if you're reading this - then that's you!), Dave Carson Snr, Steph Carson, Lorna Carson & I would particularly like to thank Pomerol Partners, Rock Oil, Sam Pointon and Jason Sedgwick for their support.
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Here are some photos from the final rounds of the Darley Moor championships, taken by official Darley photographer Tony Else...