CRMC Round 6 Sept 2025 Brands Hatch

The CRMC season wrapped up at Brands Hatch Indy circuit, where the RAF Classic Racing Team closed the year in typically varied style. The weekend carried all the hallmarks of late-September racing: damp starts, bursts of autumn sunshine, and on Sunday, rain that eventually reduced races and cancelled the final outings.

Saturday sunshine
After overnight rain, Saturday’s practice and races ran in dry conditions. By evening the paddock was glowing under warm sun, capped off by awards presentations where Dorian, Gavin, and Joe collected trophies for their opening races.

Dorian – Formula 750 Champion
For Dorian, the weekend was full of significance: “I’m back at Brands after a long layoff after a crash here 16 months ago… the curse of the Triumph at Brands continues.” Despite nerves and a tense qualifying, he put in a storming performance. A win in the opening race came after the leader fell at Paddock Hill, and although he was edged to second in his next outing by less than half a second, the points tally was enough to keep the championship lead. Mechanical misfortune returned in race three when the Triumph faltered, leaving him a spectator in the rain-soaked fourth. Still, the hard work across the season paid off—Dorian was crowned Formula 750 Champion by a 25-point margin.

Dorian -PJ Motorsports Photography

Tubs – Ups and downs on the 400 and 125
Toby “Tubs” Welford had a mixed weekend. His 400 caused constant headaches: “Throttle sticking open, thought we’d fixed it… just got worse,” eventually traced to loose carb clamps. The 125, however, came alive—despite “two horrendous starts,” he carved through the field with strong pace. Sunday saw steadier rides: the 400 was fixed but confidence remained low after witnessing a crash, though safe finishes secured 3rd in the championship. On the 125, more poor starts gave way to good results, and in the damp finale, he sensibly kept things upright, not wanting to “smash up Jerry’s bike.”

Tubs -PJ Motorsports Photography

Joe – Winning form
Joe Woodward was again in winning form, even if not everything went to plan. A broken frame sidelined his Molnar Manx on Saturday, but Sunday brought two commanding victories on it. On the VFR750 he dominated, taking three wins and lowering his own lap record from 2022 by half a second. In the Supermono class, Saturday delivered 4th and 3rd, but Sunday turned around with a pair of strong 2nd places.

Joe -PJ Motorsports Photography

Murf – Steady progress
Ben “Murf” Murfin enjoyed the weekend with solid battles in class. With the weather curtailing the last race, he reflected on the season: “The bike made it to every meeting and almost every race bar the ‘incident,’ so can’t complain at all! Onto the next one.”

John Hannaford chasing Murf -PJ Motorsports Photography

Heggs – Chasing the bigger bikes
Having enjoyed Darley on the VFR, Gavin Heggs gave it one more run at Brands. The track proved tougher than remembered: “I was way down on pace but had a goal—to beat the guy in front.” He spent the weekend chasing the bigger GSXR1100, finally getting clear in race three for his best laps of the weekend. When the rain came for the finale, he opted, without a set of wet tyres, to stay out of the way for this one.

Gavin and Maritn Brailsford trading places -PJ Motorsports Photography

Final thoughts
None of this could have been done without the support of our friends, family and partners who came to help on this weekend. Bondy, Ady & Owely Boots (more commonly knows as Tubs' Dad) had their own dependents to look after but managed to chip in when things got "exciting" in the pit. Even Sy made the odd appearance, despite being very under the weather, to change a tyre or encouragingly chew Joe's ear off.

The Brands Hatch finale summed up the team’s year—victories, setbacks, and a lot of determination. With Joe’s wins, Dorian’s hard-earned championship, Tubs’ battling rides, Murf’s consistency, and Heggs’ persistence, the RAF Classic Racing Team finished the CRMC season on a high note, already looking forward to 2026.

Don't miss out on some more fantastic photographs from PJ Motorsports photography at the end of this post.

The Royal Air Force MotorSport Association supports tens of disciplines both two and four wheeled. More information on the RAFMSA can be found on Facebook, the Sports federation home page, Twitter and can be found with a quick search on MODNet.

The RAF Classic racing team race in the Classic Racing Motorcycle Club (CRMC) offer live timing and have race results going back years, you can find more the team on Facebook Twitter Blogger and YouTube.

There is a strong contingent of the RAFMSA MCRR in No Limits Racing, they can be found on Instagram with some fantastic video shared by competitor James on his YouTube channel and many others can be found on there too. There is also an interservice race held at all NLR rounds for which the RAFMSA NLR team are the defending champions.

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This blog post was written and edited by Gavin Heggs.

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