Although having retired at the end of last season, Ryan Dixon can’t resist the lure of the racetrack, and he was back on a bike and back on the box just a few weeks ago.

He headed to Scarborough for the Barry Sheene festival and was once again on the podium in two out of the three races. He brings us up to date with his race weekend below:

A couple of weeks ago we made the long trip to Scarborough for the second meeting of the year at Oliver’s Mount. Unfortunately, the Supertwin was still playing up, solved one issue but another started so that was parked up after one lap of race 1.

We took the Trickbits Racing moto2 as the 675 Daytona had an engine issue when testing which there wasn’t time to get around. Had a pretty good weekend once we got a few small issues sorted. Qualified 5th which was there or thereabouts.

Race 1 – a good start and brave round the outside manoeuvre at turn 1 saw me lead the race for the first three and 3/4 laps. I ran wide at the final hairpin which allowed Mr Weeden through, but I held on to second until the flag.

Race 2 – another good start saw me second out of turn one. I couldn’t get close enough to Jonny Stewart out front to attempt a move and then Tom Weeden snuck by again. I seemed to lose my rhythm a bit and then started fighting the bike and ended up getting a bit of arm pump, eventually dropping back to fifth.

Race 3 – a good start and I led the pack again out of turn one. I led for two laps before Tom passed me yet again at the start of lap three. I held second until the last corner on the penultimate lap where I went in too hot and ran wide, meaning my run onto the start finish was very slow and allowed Jonny Stewart past again. I didn’t have a chance to have a go back on the final lap and came home third.

My results were good enough for 3rd overall for the weekend. Had I not made the mistake at the end of the final race, I would have got second overall but there we go. Tom Weeden was in a league of his own this weekend so fair play to him!

Thank you to Trickbits racing for providing me the bikes to ride and everything that goes with that and thanks to phase one transport for their support this season.

Next up is Oliver’s Mount again on 18th/19th July for the cock ‘o the north meeting…

Images courtesy of Mark Huckerby and David Garrison