This Bike just Won a Championship!

Tag along with our Racing Team squad over the course of the Arenacross Championship in the UK.

It has been a blast for us. Coming into this without expectations, for the love of the sport and to lay the foundation to push boundaries. It’s been a journey of many emotions, amazing moments and a dream finish for the entire organization.

Watch along through the lens of our athletes, Jack Brunell, Justin Bogle and Eddie Wade.

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Yeah, coming into Manchester, didn’t really put loads of hours on the bike. The biggest thing for me was going to race against the other manufacturers. When I was out there in practice, I knew there was gonna be some sort of chance we had. In the main event, I felt great on the bike.

Everything was good and was so confident going through the race Yes! That was for my Dad. All I wanted to do was win 2024 is obviously gonna be my year. And I can’t wait to keep pushing because I feel bloody great on the bike. Give it up for Jack Brunell.

That’s cool, isn’t it? The first race you guys are coming to, the first race for me, obviously for you guys, and my first win last year, a podiumed every race. I had a crash, so I was down them point straight away, which obviously messed the championship up.

But this year we started off really, the best I could have started. Welcome to a very cold Belfast for round three and four. The red plate holder, the new championship leader. You have been chasing this first victory down for so long. – I feel good, so this 2024 is gonna be the year

That we might win a championship or we’ll be fighting all the way to the end. So cool to have this gentleman here. And I’d like to introduce you to Justin Bogle. You know, I’m spending my time in Spain during the week. Luckily I’ve had Eddie with me and boys basically Spanish.

Podium’s nice, you know, won a heat race and got on the box tonight. Big improvements, get better as the season goes on. Felt good last night, little puncture, very annoying because I was behind Justin. Felt actually good in the final. Head to head LCQ or straight through? This weekend straight through.

P3 baby, hang on. got the holeshot, just stayed there. Double my way around, stayed there. So Eddie’s podium was honestly one of my favorite moments of the series. I thought it was Justin behind me when I went over the line and thought, oh bloody hell, go on Eddie.

Stayed on two wheels, that’s all that counts. Podium pie baby, nothing like it. What’d you get third? Let’s go. After this morning I did not think I was getting on the podium. What are we up for? P1 on Aberdeen then, yeah? We’ll go step by step, let’s go P2.

We are in Aberdeen, the Granite City. Obviously it’d be good to get on the podium again. That’s what my goal was. So I knew it wasn’t going to be easy, but I’m up for a challenge. One of the guys on the second corner basically just took me out.

As he took me out, he popped my shoulder out. So it was an old injury I knew about which I was protecting the whole season. I did plan on getting surgery after the season was done, but unfortunately I was cut short and I didn’t finish the season. Welcome at Birmingham for round seven

Of the Arenacross Tour. Jack Brunel, you seem to be really calm about all this whole thing. You’ve got that red plate on by just one point. He’s got 73 points and you’ve got this thing rolling. The championship’s there to be won. I believe I’ve still got it in me to win that,

So I’m really looking forward to this weekend. Oh, he’s okay. So I lost control, jumped across out the corner and I hit him and had a big crash. Smashed all the front wheel and stuff, so I couldn’t even, like normally I’d just carry on riding and you still get points.

And he had a pretty tough crash in the heat race. I grabbed him, I was like, “Look, you can do this.” It’s like, and this is the moment when the world decides whether you deserve it or not. We’re good, we’re good. After Jack’s heat race crash, the bike was totaled,

So that’s his bike on the floor. We come back, we had to strip everything off of it, put it onto a new bike, so we could get out on the head-to-head, it was quite a big rush. We quickly swapped everything over onto another bike and then went out racing, head-to-heads.

I see him rolling and I just panicked and just thought, “Oh, I’m going.” But I knew that I had a couple of seconds on in my lap anyway. It was like a different rhythm to what he does, so I was on him straight away and then I know the whoops.

I’m good in the whoops, so I knew I had the under control. He deserved it because he went out and topped it out and ended up with a P4 in the main event and did what he needed to do. Survival that night then, like I said on them,

I feel like on that I probably could have pushed and got a podium, but I didn’t need to. I just wanted the points for the championship. Welcome at Wembley Arena, the OVO Arena, round eight of the tour. I have been consistent. Consistently not winning, though, has been the problem.

So hopefully I can put it up there, at least on the box in the main event. We could make a big history tonight. So for me, obviously for the team and everyone behind, it could be a really exciting night. Very disappointing to end the season with an injury

And not be able to finish out the series with a win or at least another podium, you know? But this is the way things go. This is part of the sport, so. You’ve got to be in it to win it, and I’m still in it. As soon as that first gate dropped,

I knew I was ready to race tonigh Yeah, massive thanks to all the team. We finally won a championship for me and the first person to ever win for Stark which is unbelievable, so yeah.