Yep, that’s right. Another win for Harry Kimber. This time at round two of the British Supercross championship last night. That’s two for two now for little H and he’s on a roll. Obviously we hope he can keep that momentum going and sweep the series, especially after coming so close to winning it last year.

This will be Harry’s last championship in the 65cc class before he moves up to the small wheeled class so it would be awesome for him to go out on top. He certainly deserves too with the work he puts into it. Good luck for round three Harry, we’re right behind you as always!

James Harrison put in another solid display too. After an injury wrecked outdoor season Jimmer is definitely finding his confidence again. He finished third in the Clubman Lites final and fourth in the Youth Lites with two solid and consistent rides.

All the lads will be getting their 2012 race bikes soon and then we’ll be headlong into a winter of testing and preparation for what we hope to be a very successful year, both on and off the track.

Jeff

Here is the Kawasaki Press Release from the show…

Recently confirmed as receiving Kawasaki Motors UK support for the coming season, the
Twisted 7 team, managed by Jeff Perrett, also have the massive advantage of support from Monster Energy and Pro-Circuit. The new team look, plus a raft of innovative ideas, are being rolled out this weekend at the Stoneleigh Dirt Bike Show.

Announcing riders for the youth focused squad at the show that runs to 5 November,
Twisted 7 are also sharing details of a series of Monster Energy/Kawasaki Boot Camps and
Monster Energy/Kawasaki Fun Days to be held across 2012.

Ben Tubey Managing Director of Straight 8 Industries, owners of the Twisted 7 brand and
team said; “We are so delighted to be working with Kawasaki again for the second year, and now with the 3 biggest names in Motocross, Monster Energy, Kawasaki and Pro-Circuit we are eager for the new season to start; especially now with new and exciting ideas such as the Fun Days and the Boot Camp concepts throughout 2012”

Jeff Perrett, Team Manager of Twisted 7 Kawasaki added; “Motocross is a serious business
but primarily it’s also about fun. We’ll be giving back a lot to the sport next year and helping loads of kids achieve far more than they ever felt possible. Who knows, with all the fantastic support, we might even discover the next Tommy Searle, you never know!”

Racing Coordinator for Kawasaki Motors UK, Ross Burridge, applauded the team’s desire to nurture and encourage emerging talent saying; ” To have such high profile names on board with an initiative such as this shows just what high regard Twisted 7 are held in. With their track record of achievement with young riders we are sure this project will be a huge success”.

We’re back at that time of the year when it’s getting darker sooner in the evenings and you need to wrap up warm when you go out. That’s right, winter is nearly here in it’s full effect and most of us look to stay inside, so that’s what we’ve decided to do and race the British Supercross.

The first round was at Sheffield this weekend and it was a successful outing for the lads. Harry took the win in the 65cc class and looked really strong. He’s so determined to win it this year after the disappointment of last year where he just missed out with bad luck, so he’s off to great start and is committed to the entire series.

'Little H' tops the box ahead of Alexandra Brown and Jed Etchells

James Harrison is definitely getting his mojo back after an injury wrecked season and he also made the podium coming in third in the Clubman Lites. Jimmer was riding solid and is now keen to improve on that and will now commit himself to the whole series. He’s definitely got that killer instinct back and it’s great to see after the tough year he’s had.

Jim-Bob is definitely on the way back and as always looked stylish

Team Kellett also made the long drive north for their first ever taste at UK Supercross and they too didn’t disappoint. Todd, who was racing in the super mini class got a terrible start in the main event but charged through to fourth. Given another lap it probably would’ve been second! So fair play for that effort at his first ever Supercross race.

Elder brother Ty had raced a supercross way back on a 65cc but not one since. He too didn’t let anyone down, but then he hardly ever does with the effort he always puts in. Ty was racing in the Clubman Open class and bagged fifth place. Of course he feels it could’ve been better, but then he would say that if he had lapped everyone, it’s just the kind of man he is! Still, he left happy like all the team and is looking forward to the hard work ahead this off season.

The next outing for the Twisted 7 team is the Dirt Bike Show at Stoneleigh where we’ll be announcing our team line up for 2012 and some exciting projects coming your way. It’s looking cool for next year but right now we need some heat, well I do at least, so I’m off to light up the woodburner for the night.

Hope to see plenty of you at the Dirt Bike Show. All the best.

Jeff

Here’s a little vid of Toddy relaxing… sort of.

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Well, that’s it! The Red Bull Elite Youth cup is over for another year and the series went out in style at Culham Park, alongside the river Thames and Twisted 7 Kawasaki went out with another strong display. Todd, David and Harry all finished in the top six with some pretty strong rides and Ty did the mammoth task of racing the rookie and 125cc classes. Unfortunately James and Lewis didn’t end on such a high.

Lewis really struggled after weeks off the bike with a virus and made several mistakes. The crashes cost him and by the end of each moto he was feeling fatigued and making mistakes. With one round of the Maxxis British championship to go next weekend he pulled out of each moto and it’s back to the drawing board in preperation for that. It’s been a real opener for Lewis in his first year in the pro ranks and he knows there’s a load of work to be done in the winter if he’s going to turn it around, find his feet and becoming a regular points scorer and pushing towards the top 10.

The same goes for James in his first year in the Rookie class. Coming in he was the Big Wheeled champion but the wrist injury has definitely taken it’s toll and his confidence has taken a bit of a knock. He’s being too hard on himself but we’ll work on that in the winter and hopefully he won’t pick up an injury at the start of next season and get the ball rolling, which didn’t really happen this year. We all know he’s good enough to win because he’s proved that already in the big wheels and only the week before at the BYMX taking a race win from the new Red Bull Elite Youth Cup Rookie champ Nathan Watson. This weekend it just wasn’t clicking for him, poor starts cost him and he found it difficult to come through – the result – 15th overall.

Ty went two better and ended the weekend 13th overall in the Rookie class which was pretty damn good considering he decided to race the Fuchs-Silkolene 125cc British Championship too! He literally had to jump straight from his KXF250 to his KX125 as the races were back to back and to his credit and fitness, as always didn’t let anyone down on that commitment. At the end of a gruelling day and weekend he finished 6th overall in the 125′s!

Younger brother Todd rode awesome to bring it home in 6th overall in the big wheeled class. He really has been getting stronger and stronger and his performances were another glimspe of what’s to come from him in the class next year. He’s proving that the big wheeled class just isn’t all about Honda 150CRF’s and KTM’s put it that way.

David Keet also proved that the green team are competitive with some lightening starts and found himself leading several laps which was great to see. Unfortunately for David and the team he didn’t stay there to the flag but it was still a strong performance and his best of the year in the Red Bull Elite Youth Cup, so it was good to end on a strong positive note.

Harry bagged another podium finish in a sea of orange bikes with third overall. It could’ve been one more step on the box too if it wasn’t for a spill in the fourth moto but this weekend he had no real response to Alexandra Brown’s speed, just like everyone else. Harry will now be getting ready for the Weston Beach race as reigning champion and then the British Supercross series which he was so unlucky not to win last year.

Next up is Lewis racing the final Maxxis British championship at Hawkstone this coming weekend. Then we have Ty, Todd and Harry racing the Weston Beach race and that’s it, we’re done on the racing front for the year but not the constant work in going forward. In fact, after Weston, the real hard work starts getting ready for 2012.

Thanks for all of your support.

Jeff

It’s all been a bit chicken oriental mental lately with us, well more with me really. Been doing a lot of travelling about, been to America and Canada and then was non stop to the MXDN in France to cover the event for Dirt Bike Rider and also test some factory bikes the day after. Tiring stuff and all good but now I’m cream crackered.Well, I’m not getting any younger and don’t my body know it!

Now, it’s the big push over the line for the end of the season for us at Twisted 7. It’s the final Red Bull Pro National/ Elite Youth Cup this weekend and we want to go out in style if we can. All the lads are present and correct and fighting fit. There’s no major injuries of note, just the usual little niggling ones but that’s MX.

We also have a guest rider for this weekend and the Weston Beach race in young South African rider Marcus Phelps. He is riding in the Small Wheeled class on stock KX85 and it will be his first major race in the UK. He rode a regional last weekend and won that so it’ll be interesting to see how he does against our British boys. Here’s a little feature on the him from the Red Bull Pro Nationals website. Take a ganders if you’ve got time. Ahh… time, that life long nemesis! Must go, work to do – Jeff

Read about Marcus here

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Twisted 7 recently went to the British GP to put the all new 2012 450KXF on display for Kawasaki along with the new Monster Energy/ Pro Circuit KX85. There we were parked right between the factory Kawasaki and CLS teams and we loved it! A good weekend was had by the whole team. Especially Ty Kellett, because when Ty isn’t wringing the neck off his race bikes he’s busy becoming a videographer of some note and he took the opportunity to shoot some of the action from the weekend. Check it out.

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Okay, okay so we haven’t been to hell. We’ve been racing and there’s far worse things to do than that on a weekend but as far racing MX goes, we’ve certainly had better ones. I’ve been on this spinning stone long enough to know that life flows with it’s peaks and troughs no matter how hard you try to direct the flow and right now we’re in a bit of trough.

It was just Lewis and Harry racing this weekend and they both travelled far from home for a completely crappy weekend! Little H was off to his first international event, the junior World Championship at Cingoli, Italy. On paper it looked promising, a hard pack track with big jumps, right up Harry’s street, unfortunately it didn’t turn out that way and that street was more of a cul-de-sac. He slid off whilst comfortably in a qualifying position in his heat race. That meant he had to go to the last chance race and that was over for him after he went down with a group of riders on the first lap. I feel gutted for H because I know he has the talent to be in the mix in a race like that and certainly on a track like that. The positive is he’s tasted the big time and he knows he wants more and another shot at it, so we’ll all use that as motivation to be back there next year for a bit of redemption.

Meanwhile at Duns, Scotland Lew was going through a bit of a personal hell at the Maxxis British Championship. On a very technical, rutted track, you know, like motocross used to be like! , he once again suffered with arm pump in qualifying and it set the tone for the weekend. Although he got brilliant starts from the outside of the gate he just rode tense and stiff all weekend and couldn’t seem to relax and ride like he, I and the rest of the team knows he can. The first moto he dropped back from a good start with his arms continuing to pump up to finish just outside the points in 22nd and it got worse from there. The next moto he got another great start and was in the mix but threw it away in a flowing rutted corner (which you may well see on Mikey Neale’s Moto video later this week!) and then he just couldn’t get the bike started. The final moto was….. well, virtually identical to the previous one, certainly the same result. Another DNF.

We had a 8 hours to kill on the long drive home so we had a good chat and set to work on getting Lewis’ head around professional racing. It was quite an intense, deep conversation, almost like he should be lying down on a couch but it was a conversation that was definitely required. There’s no question he has the talent, you’ve only got to watch the DC video on this website to see that, we’ve just got to find out how to make him relax at the races. It’s his first year as a pro and I’m sure he’ll take so much from it and get his head round what he has to do on race day. We have a few races left so we’re hoping it starts to click into place and he finished on a positive note before we go away to work hard in the off season with him knowing what to expect for 2012.

Next up for the whole team is the Red Bull Pro Nationals and Elite Youth Cup at Hawkstone where we’ll be joined by the Kawasaki GP stars in a big ‘Team Green’ village, so we’re looking forward to that. Before then we’re off to the British GP to put the team bikes on display and hang out with Tommy, Max and the rest of the Kawasaki family. It’ll be great, especially for the lads to see what it’s all about up close and personal. After all it’s our aim to set them on that path and give them the foundation to be out there just like Searle and Anstie one day.

Thanks to you all for supporting us, through good and bad times!

Jeff

The weekend just gone at the Red Bull Pro Nationals and Elite Youth Cup was a car crash for Twisted 7 Kawasaki, with enough damage to call it a write off! I should’ve known really as the Twisted 7 rig pulled into Fleet services to pick up the stranded Kellett boys a solitary Magpie flew and landed in the road in front then seemed to deliberately flaunt it right up to the point where we nearly ran it over. I wish we had. I’m not superstitious at all but this weekend made me think they may be some truth in it.

This is going to be a long report so buckle up, but if you can’t be bothered to read on, I’ll give you the short version in one sentence. No podiums, just pain and distress as Lady Luck jumped two footed on our groin in her best, long heeled stilettos when we were hoping she was wearing them to do the loving slow dance with us.

We were picking up Todd and Ty because the brake disc on their motorhome had broken off, that turned out just to be the start of our troublesome weekend. So we had to get ‘Cinderella’ – Toddy, to the ball. Ty will be out for some time with a shoulder injury that, while was being diagnosed they also found an injury from his infamous Weston Beach race crash that was never picked up first time around!

Qualifying was a mixed bag but then the wheels really started to fall off, a little like the Kellett motorhome! First up was James Harrison in the Rookie class. Seconds before the start of his first race he had a problem with the throttle that seemed to come from nowhere and he had to bail off the startline. He rushed back on the track but missed the ‘official’ start and although he got through half the pack by the finish he was classed with a no start result.

Next up was Todd Kellett, who was in a lot of pain after twisting his knee in qualifying. The incident meant he qualified way down in 34th after failing to get in a quick lap. Todd’s character comes to life when his back is against the wall though and he toughed it out for a solid 9th place from his terrible starting position way out on the right of the start.

Harry Kimber was next up and after qualifying third he too got an awful start, romped up to fourth but pushing too hard to get to the front took a dirt digger and found himself back out of the top ten. He got back on and up to 8th in that moto. He rode smart in the next two motos after more poor starts to bag a couple of thirds but that was as good as it got. H had a nightmare two motos on Sunday. Another awful start saw him buried midpack on the opening lap of moto #4 and then unsighted by another rider he hit a huge braking bump, flew through the air and buried himself in the ground like an Ostrich right in front of the Twisted 7 team. He was knocked silly and after the pack went through I jumped out on the track to help him. Once he got his senses back and stopped staggering around like a punch drunk boxer in the final rounds he got back on his KX65 but he couldn’t get it started, so yours truly kicked it into life and set him on his way almost a lap down. He pushed on in pain and got into the latter points but to no avail because he was disqualified for outside assistance from moi! A fair cop, rules are rules I guess, although I do think these kids needs help like that sometimes and I would do the same for any other rider in that position. He wouldn’t have been in the points if I hadn’t of started his bike anyway, so we’ll take it on the chin and learn from that. It then got worse after that though. The final moto of the day Harry was still a bit sore and sheepish but wanted to salvage some points but the tough, fast Canada Heights track bit him again and he bailed out hard and whacked his head. Game over for the weekend.

By this time, Todd had a chain split pin break on his way to the startline for his second moto and he too had a no start!! Naturally, it’s such a common accurance! He rode awesome and through pain in the next two motos as he knee continued to balloon up and bagged another 9th and an 8th before picking up a front wheel puncture right on the take off of the big drop down and losing the front end in the final moto. It was a huge off and like Harry, that was it – game over. The only luck there is that somehow he didn’t get landed on by the riders behind as they launched off the blind summit.

James’ weekend didn’t get any better either. He still has no feeling in his fingers at all following his bad wrist break and it appears to have shattered his confidence. So we’re going to give it a bit more time in the hope he can come back feeling it – literally!

If there was a ray of sunshine for Twisted 7 Kawasaki this weekend it was Lewis Trickett in the MX2 Pro class. He qualified with much more of the verve that we saw from him in the Rookie class last year. Then rode, in his own words “bloody rubbish” – okay, not exactly his own words, but ones we can put down here at least. He then went off and had a quiet moment to himself and came out swinging in moto #2 to post a 11-9 score for 9th overall. His first top 10 overall as a pro racer. So we’ll cling to that and take it as the main positive from the weekend.

David Keet was racing elsewhere at the GT Cup as he’s running top three in that championship and wants to push on and go for the championship win. He nailed down 5th and lost points in the title chase but he still sits in third. So an okay weekend for him if not a spectacular one.

This weekend is definitely a ‘scratcher’ – one to cross off the list, forget and move on from. Everyone gets them and I hope this was our worst weekend of the year. It certainly required a nice glass of red for me to reflect on it when I got home from Canada Heights that’s for sure. Anyway I hope everyone has a better week than we had a weekend.

Catch up soon,

Jeff