This final round was special – with the Veterans joining the MXY2, MX2 and MX1 classes, qualifying started slightly later than normal, but Bryan got his bike onto the track to qualify in eighth. The subsequent super-pole moved him up another two places for a sixth. Lee went out next and mixed it up with a group of riders he’d never ridden with before, on a bike he only just acquainted himself with a week prior to qualifying in thirty-third.

Bryan’s first race got off to a great start. Up front just behind leader Matiss Karro, he fought off the duo of Mel Pocock and Ben Watson for several laps, before he was forced to concede his position. After twenty-five minutes, he finished a commendable fourth. The second race looked to be as good a run, but a small mistake in the second lap having a slip off the bike dropped Bryan back to seventh before he clawed his way forward again. With just a few laps to go, he was back in fourth, and soon after, at the chequered flag, he was right on the heels of third.

The final race was somewhat of a kick in the teeth. Back in second again after an excellent start, Bryan had to see his chances disappear with a waved red flag, signalling a restart. The restarted race saw Bryan back in seventh on the first lap, from where he pushed hard to finally make a pass into sixth with three laps to go. With a fifth overall on the day, Bryan finishes the championship in fifth too.

Lee had his hands full in the MXY2 class too. After a start in the back of the pack, he made some progress towards the top twenty-five, only to slip off and lose all his positions again. With no further progress possible, he finished in twenty-ninth. The second race improved somewhat. Again caught out in the back, Lee carefully picked his way forward again to end in twenty-fifth.

Lee Perfect: “This weekend was a sort-of learning process for me. I wasn’t really expecting much coming into this weekend, this was only the second race I’ve ever done on the big bike. In qualifying I was only getting used to the track and the bike, and I qualified in thirty-third. In the race I got a not-bad start, was in the top twenty and trying to filter through but avoid taking some roost, which is pretty sore from the back wheel of the bigger bikes. I finished twenty-ninth. In the second race I got a reasonable start again, kept pushing on and kept riding as hard as I could and finished twenty-fifth, which was pretty good for the second race. It was a good weekend and now I have a taste of what to expect for next year and I hope that everything goes well through the winter to prepare for that.”

Bryan Mackenzie: “I actually always look forward to coming to Foxhill, on a normal day I would be anyway, but mid-week this week I managed to pull my shoulder out whilst practicing, the same shoulder I injured badly in the last moto at Preston Docks two weeks ago, so I’ve not been able to do anything for the last couple of weeks. I tried to ride on Wednesday and it came out again, so Sunday was a case of suck it and see, and I was hoping that a good day would maybe land me third in the championship but it was a long shot; I gave it everything. Two solid motos and the last moto was going pretty good, I had a good start and was running second and had broke away which would of been awesome for my overall on the day and the championship, but then after four or five laps we got the red flag. On the restart I missed a gear coming out of the gate, so it was just my luck that I ended up at the back in the first turn. I managed to slug it out and got two fourths and a sixth, and got fifth in the championship. Hats off to all the boys, it’s been an intense old year and I was glad I could be in the thick of it. Now we have just one more race to go before we put a full stop on this season.”

Mark Perfect: “If luck cost ten pounds, we’d be the only team that had ten pounds and a penny that couldn’t afford it. It’s been an unfair day for us, we had a goal and targets to meet and we set off and the objectives were in sight. The race that got stopped didn’t help us whatsoever; that would have taken us up the standings and the overall, and we could’ve been on the podium today, which would’ve ended the season on a high. The race stop was just completely against us; we’d met every single one of our objectives up until that point. Other than that, it was a reasonably successful weekend for us. We had Lee out in the MXY2 class, moving up from the 85’s, and for him it was just a learning experience. He had a good day, he finished safely and that’s what we were asking. To sum up the season, luck was against us more than anything, and the results didn’t really show the extent of the racing we’ve done and how hard things were. It’s been a really tough season, and the boys coming through really did well. All credit to everyone else who were racing in the championship and done really good.”