30/04/2026
Cookstown 100 race report.
James Walsh / Jbwracing 87
Official Cookstown 100 Group
A few days on after the 1st road race of the year,
1st one back after the Manx misshap last year it was great to get back to the circuit.
The weather was absolutely incredible with sunshine for the weekend. I don't remember a nice weekend like that in Cookstown in a long time 😂
Well done to the Cookstown club on organising and getting a great event running. Well done 🙏👏
I was out in support classes, Senior Support, Junior support and Supertwins on my next gen Triumph 765 and Aprilia RS660.
I was out on new machinery with little to no track time on them so was abit of an unknown set up wise, especially with the newly built Aprilia.
I want to say thank you to anyone who jumped in to give me a hand getting bikes and gear to the grid and helping out with that.
Very much appreciated as its tough going by yourself to do 🙈😅
Qualifying:
P1. Sen support
P2 Junior support
P16. Supertwins A
Races:
P2 Sen support
P5 Jun support
P18 twins
The weekend started off strong. I managed to get myself 1st Pole position on the roads with P1 in Senior Support which was incredible.
Junior was equally strong with P2 which I was not expecting tbh as the bike was horrendous to ride set up and handling wise, but still managed to push it.
Supertwins I tried to make changes to make the bike feel better but still way off.
Managed p16 in the A Supertwins and went quicker than earlier so that was good.
SATURDAY RACES.
1st up that morning was Senior Support A.
Starting on pole, I made what I felt was a decent start, considering I had never launched the 765 before.
Coming down to turn 1 i was outdriven by Brandon. From there it was a battle from P2 to try regain the lead and get the win, but unfortunately a throttle issue meant I was losing time out of road ends on power to get back to Brandon who was riding the socks off his 750. Also lack of bike fitness and flairing up of injuries meant it was a sore race.
Great race in the end and getting on the podium for the 1st run back was amazing.
Congratulations to Brandon on his 1st win. Absolutely flying it lad. ill get ya back next time I hope 🤞
Next was Supertwins.
Tbh this was a run out just to get info on the bike and set up for Junior support.
The Aprilia was terrible off the line and handling wasn't much better. Still p18 in the end.
Junior support was last up.
Starting p2, again got a sh*te start as only the Aprilia can give. By turn 1 I was back of first wave.
Managed to gain some places back at the end but not great p5.
Still overall it was a fantastic weekend back on the roads.
Alot of work to do to get the bikes set up now and go again but im excited for the season ahead.
Cheers RST for a fantastic set if airbag leathers that fit like a glove 👌 if you have a spare set going i could do with them as the last ones saved my ass as the Manxgp 🙏😅
If anyone is interested and would like to jump onboard with help and sponsorship it would be very much appreciated.
Thank you to the fantastic photography ♥️
📸 Rod Neill (bike sport photos)
📸 images
📸 Kidzinski photography
📸 images (Antony Barker)
📸 Derek Wilson
📸 Tanya Chambers TCtopcat Photos
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📸 Baylon McCaughey
