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2025 Season Race Dates

5/3/2025

After much deliberation, we are finally ready to announce our race dates for the 2025 season!

As per previous seasons we plan to race with Darley Moor once again, as well as revisiting the picturesque Aberdare Park Road Races. Unfortunately we will not be racing with Aintree this season due to date clashes and the Wirral 100 club is taking a break in 2025.

Our planned season is more relaxed than in 2024 and our approach will be too, mainly due to the decision to not actively compete for any championships this season. Throughout the year we may decide to compete on both machines, or maybe just on one of them. What is important to us this year is that we enjoy our time on track and "keep our eye in" for whatever future plans may arise...

2025 Race Dates
Saturday-Sunday 12th-13th April - Darley Moor Test Day & Round 1
Sunday 11th May - Darley Moor Round 2
Sunday 15th June - Darley Moor Round 3
Saturday-Sunday 12th-13th July - Aberdare Park Road Races
Sunday 3rd August - Darley Moor Round 4
Saturday-Sunday 6th-7th October - Darley Moor Rounds 5 & 6 (including "Stars at Darley")

Darley Moor have changed some of their championship classes for the 2025 season - so we will be competing in the following classes:

Open 600: 401-600cc class including 675cc triples and Kawasaki 636. (using our Kawasaki Supersport machine)
Super Twins: Two cylinder up to 700cc 4 stroke including Aprilia 660cc, Yamaha R7 700cc, BMW F900R, Kramer 660 Single, Triumph 660 Triples. No over-bores or big bore engines permitted. (using our Aprilia RS660 Trofeo)
Darley Cup: Two cylinder up to 700cc, Mini Twins, GP 250cc machines and Golden Supersport Machines (up to 600cc 4 stroke manufactured before 31st December 2004). (using our Aprilia RS660 Trofeo)

At Aberdare Park we will race in as many categories as we can. If the classes remain the same as in 2024 then this would include the Sound of Thunder, 600cc Park Challenge and Welsh Open classes.

We plan to run #88 at all events, if possible.

Thank you for continuing to follow us on this journey and we look forward to sharing details of our adventures during the 2025 season!

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Wirral 100 - 2024 Awards Presentation

16/2/2025

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On Saturday 15th February 2025, the awards presentation evening for the 2024 Wirral 100 club championships took place at the lovely Pryors Hayes Golf Club venue.

The 2024 Championship Awards Winners

The room was tightly packed and each table was named after a corner from the Oulton Park circuit. We were assigned to the "Lodge" table and shared the table with Club Supersport (Pre) championship winner Tom Harrison and Darley-regular Dean Ephgrave, which made for a fun and entertaining evening.

The "Lodge" table

Having finished 3rd in the 820cc Twins Championship and 2nd in the Club Supersport (Pre) Championship, we were called up twice to collect trophies from Isle of Man TT legend Ian "Hutchy" Hutchinson.

Receiving the 820cc Twins trophy

The Top 3 in the Club Supersport (Pre) championship

Our trophies from the evening

Now that the 2024 celebrations are complete, we will start looking forward to the 2025 season. Preparations have already begun and we will release further news in due course, but for now you can find further photos of the Wirral 100 evening on our Facebook Page.

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Darley Moor - 2024 Awards Presentation

27/1/2025

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On Saturday 25th January 2025, the awards presentation evening for the 2024 Darley Moor club championships took place. As usual, the room was packed to the brim with 250+ attendees and it was a fantastic evening that everyone enjoyed.

The team and trophies

Having won the Darley Cup and 700cc Twins championships in 2024, we were called up twice to collect trophies from Isle of Man TT legend John McGuinness, 'Stars at Darley' winner Charlie Nesbitt and ex-Darley regular (and now extremely accomplished road racer) Rob Hodson. We walked away with 4 trophies in total.

It was the first time that our kids had joined us to an awards evening and I was surprised when Lucy asked if she could join me when collecting my awards. As Lucy is quite shy - and can sometimes lack confidence - I was happy that she could join me in the celebrations!

Collecting the 700cc Twins trophies

Collecting the Darley Cup trophies

Our name now features an impressive six times on the 700cc Twins trophy (for 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2024).

We are the only name on the Darley Cup trophy, having won it twice but on different machinery - using the Kawasaki ZX6R in 2023, then following a rule change using the Aprilia RS660 in 2024.

Along with the recent Aintree Awards Presentation, we also have the Wirral 100 awards presentation to attend on Saturday 15th February 2025. Whilst waiting for that you can find further photos of the Darley Moor evening on our Facebook Page.

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Aintree - 2024 Awards Presentation

19/1/2025

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On Saturday 18th January 2025, the awards presentation evening for the 2024 Aintree club championships took place. The sold-out event was packed with attendees and it was a fantastic evening that everyone enjoyed.

The 2024 Aintree Champions

Having won the 750cc Twins and 700cc Supertwin championships in 2024, we were called up twice to collect trophies from former 500GP racer and multiple Isle of Man TT winner Charlie Williams. We walked away with 4 trophies in total.

Collecting the 750cc Twins trophies from Charlie Williams

David and Lorna holding the 700cc Supertwins trophies

The Aintree awards was the first of three evenings that we will be attending. Next weekend will be the Darley Moor awards evening, but for now you can find further photos of the Aintree evening on our Facebook Page.

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2024 Season Summary

21/10/2024

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Now that the season has come to a close, we have been able to take a look back at the 2024 season and to summarise the achievements that have been made in our most successful season ever!

2024 Aintree Double Champions

2024 Darley Double Champions

The 'Two Daves Racing' team members

It was a very busy year as we competed in eight championship classes across three different organisations. We will start by highlighting the final championship results, which were:

Aintree '750cc Twins' champions
Aintree '700cc Supertwins' champions
Darley Moor '700cc Twins' champions
Darley Moor 'Darley Cup' champions
Wirral 100 'Pre-2011 Supersport' - 2nd in championship
Wirral 100 '820cc Twins' - 3rd in championship
Darley Moor 'Open 600' - 3rd in championship
Aintree 'Supersport 600' - 6th in championship

These fantastic achievements mean that we have now won 20 championships (and 35 "end of year" trophies) from six different organisations:

25 from Darley Moor (13 Championships & 12 Runner-up)
3 from NG Road Racing (2 Championships & 1 3rd-place)
3 from Wirral 100 (1 Championship, 1 2nd-place & 1 3rd-place)
2 from Aintree
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.

Our career achievements...

During the year we added to our tally of race wins, adding another 22 wins to reach a new total of 183 race wins throughout our entire career!

Drilling down into the statistics a bit further - during 2024 we:

Entered 84 races
- Started 76 races
- DNS'd in 5 races
- 3 races were cancelled by the organisers (ignoring the cancelled Aintree meeting!)
Won 22 of the races we started (28.95% win rate)
Podium'd in 47 of the races we started (61.84% podium rate)
Finished 75 of the races we started (98.68% finishing rate)
Crash DNF'd in 0 races (0.0% crash rate - note: our only crash was in a qualifying session)
Mechanical DNF'd in 0 races (0.0% Mechanical DNF rate)
Claimed a total of 27 event trophies

This season we won races with three different clubs in the same season, which was a first for us!

Our stash of 2024 event trophies

Throughout the season we also managed to break a lap record (as well as our personal records - more on those later!):

The Aintree '700cc Twins' lap record was broken at Round 1 and currently stands at 1:00.107

This lap record is displayed in both the race programs and on the Aintree website.

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

Darley Moor lap times. We were the first (and are the only) rider to ever break the 1-minute barrier on a Supertwin-type machine. There was some quick competition this season, so the "Unofficial Twin Lap Times" leaderboard now looks as follows...

As we have ventured to other circuits around the UK this season, we have also tracked our progress at each circuit. As you can see, further improvements have been made this season...

Thanks for your support!
We have had a fantastic time this season (both on and off track) and are looking forward to seeing what the future holds!

Since this website went live at the start of 2013, we are proud to announce that we have received a fantastic 140,000+ page views from 40,000+ unique visitors. The figures for our YouTube channel are just as impressive with 89,000+ video views (covering 174,000+ minutes) for the 512 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 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, Peraison and Rock Oil for their support.

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