Leigh Mots Racing Team

Race Report: Oliver’s Mount Gold Cup🏆🏁
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What a roller-coaster weekend at Scarborough for the Gold Cup! We faced high speed, unpredictable road conditions, and some serious drama on track—but walked away wrapping up the year on top.
​Race Day 1: Dominance and Drama
The Supertwins proved to be a tough challenge. After bringing the bike home in 7th place in the first race, bad luck struck in the second. Coming through Farm Bends, the bike went out from under me, leading to a frustrating DNF. Fortunately, we walked away to fight another day, and the team got straight to work preparing for Sunday.
We kicked off on a flying note with absolute perfection in the Lightweight 400 class, dominating the field and bringing home 1st place in both Lightweight races.
​Race Day 2: Consolidating the Championship
With the crew working their magic overnight, we bounced back on Sunday. In the first Supertwin race, we put in a solid effort to cross the line in 6th place. Knowing what was at stake in the Lightweight championship, we made the strategic call to sit out the second Supertwin race to focus entirely on the main goal.
​That decision paid dividends immediately. We fired straight back to the top step by winning the first Lightweight race of the day. In the final race of the weekend, we pushed hard to bag a strong 2nd place, bringing a stellar event to a close.
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Back-to-Back Champions!
​The hard work has paid off—we leave Scarborough officially crowned the Lightweight 400 Champion for a 2nd year!!🏆🏍
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A massive thank you to the team, supporters, sponsors, marshals and everyone who keeps us rolling. We couldn't do this without you. Time to celebrate!
Leigh Mots Racing Team
R-Design Camperz
CD Piling Clive Macdonald
Hapn HQ
Gorton Top 50 Club

Photo Credit📷
BJB.Photos

Friday Qualifying🏁

Front row start for the Lightweights and right on the heels of the front-runners in Supertwins—Scarborough, we’re ready for you! 🏁🔥
​Qualifying is in the books at the Oliver's Mount 80th Anniversary Gold Cup, and the bikes are hooked up:
• ​Lightweights: P2
• ​Supertwins: P5
​Massive credit to the team for prepping two lethal setups for the mount's legendary twists and jumps. The hard work is done; now we race🏍💨

Photo Credit📷
Mark Huckerby

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The wait is finally over! 🏁
​We’re all set up, fully scrutineered, and officially cleared for action at the iconic Oliver’s Mount for the 80th Anniversary Gold Cup weekend! 🏆✨
​The bikes are prepped, the paddock vibes are buzzing, and we can’t wait to get out on England’s only road racing circuit for 3 full days of action🏍💨
Massive thank you to our sponsors, crew, and everyone helping behind the scenes to get us to the start line.
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Rdesign Campers
CD Piling Clive Macdonald
Hapn hq
Gorton Top 50 Club

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What a week of sheer grit, high speed, and pure Mountain Course drama. We are leaving the Isle of Man with immense pride, a raft of fantastic results, and standard island race-day stories of incredible highs mixed with frustrating mechanical heartbreak.
​Here is how our Manx GP and Classic TT campaign played out on the tarmac:
• ​Sportbike Manx GP: 10th Place — A cracking result in a incredibly competitive field. The bike ran like a dream, the pace was sharp from the grid, and securing a top-10 finish on the Mountain Course is something the whole team is buzzing about.
• ​Junior Manx GP: 8th Place — Doubling down on top-10 glory! Another relentless performance secured 8th spot, capping off a stellar week for our modern-class efforts.
• ​Junior 600 Classic TT:11th Place — Just agonizingly close to the top 10 in a tough, noisy field of classic iron. The 600 sang all the way around, bringing the bike home safely with a brilliant finish.
• ​Ultralightweight Classic: DNF — Racing on the island is never easy on the machinery. Gremlins caught up with the 400 mid-race, forcing an early retirement despite a fantastic effort from the crew in the paddock.
• ​Senior Classic TT: Qualified / DNF — Reaching qualification for the Senior Classic TT was a massive tick off the bucket list, and the bike felt great out on the lap. Sadly, mechanical ill-fortune struck again during the race, cutting our run short before the chequered flag.
​To take away three strong finishes—highlighted by two top-10s—against world-class road racing talent is a testament to the endless hours put in by the rider, mechanics, and supporters.
​Huge thanks to our sponsors, pit crew, organizers, and marshals who make this madness possible. We’ll lick our wounds on the DNFs, celebrate the silver replicas and top-10s, and start prepping for the next one!

Race day 1🏍🏁

Race day 1 is complete finishing 10th place with a pb of 114.5🏍💨 could of possibly been a better result just rode tence for the first lap we go again monday

Qualifying on the Junior 600 coming through with a speed of 112.346🏁

Photo Credit📷
Mark Huckerby
Markspics

Day 4 of qualifying🏁

Last day of qualifying in the books we've still managed to improve on our times considering we were on 1 week old tyres moving us up to 4th fastest setting a 112.187🏍💨
Time to put a fresh set on ready for our first race tomorrow

Thanks to all the team for putting a hard graft in making sure the bikes are ready💪

Day 3 of qualifying is in the books, and we’re keeping the momentum rolling! ⏱️🔥
​Pushed hard yesterday in the afternoon session and brought home some solid results:

⏱️ Supertwin: 6th fastest- 111.051
⏱️ Junior 600: 4th fastest- 112.735
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The bikes feel dialed and the pace is right where we need it to be. Huge thanks to the team for all the hard work behind the scenes—ready to keep digging! 🏁⚡

Unfortunately no evening qualifying due to rain on the course
We go again this morning🏁🏍

Photo Credit📷
RCphotos
Martyns Fotos

Day 4 Manx GP/ Classic TT
Day 2 qualifying🇮🇲🏁

Solid day out on the roads for Manx GP and Classic TT qualifying! We kept it smooth, went steady, and brought it home comfortably inside the top 10 for both classes.

• ​Supertwin: 10th fastest
• ​Junior 600: 10th fastest

​Gaining momentum and feeling great on the bikes. Big thanks to the whole team and everyone supporting us—time to build on it! 🏁💨

Photo Credit📷
Traceys pictures
Nick wheeler photography

Update Manx GP🇮🇲🏁

Sunday practice:

We got off to a good start in the first practice session, we decided to take this one easy with it being the first time back since last year and the course having a few Damp patches but we still didn't do to bad getting 9th fastest with a speed of 105.736!
Unfortunately second session was red flagged due to an accident a greeba bridge well wishes to the rider🏍

Unfortunately no practice today due to bad weather.

Thanks again to all our sponsors
CD Piling Clive Macdonald
R-Design Camperz
Hapn HQ
Gorton Top 50 Club
The team, family and all supporters

Photo credit 📷
Baylon McCaughey