As always we try and deliver two themes in these reports; interesting pictures that hopefully will inspire you to get to the track and take a few shots of your own, and to give you a few facts about the sport so you are informed, which can help when shooting an automotive sport you are not familiar with. 

Supermoto is a relatively new motorsport, first conceived in the USA back in the 1970s. It was originally a made for a TV show that pitted the best riders of the three different major motorcycle disciplines, road racing, motocross and flat track in one competition to find the best overall rider.

As a TV show it aired on the American ABC network until 1985. It was cut in that year and the sport disappeared from our colonial cousins' screens and the American race calendar. 

This is when I first started to be aware of Supermoto or Supermotard as our friends from over the channel call it. It wasn’t the racing that interested me as there wasn’t much of that going on in the UK. 

My motorcycling ownership has been sports bike followed by moto crossers followed by sports bikes, so it’s a style that I like. I loved the speed and agility of a sport bike but hated the impracticality and pain that follows a ride, wrists, back and neck. 

I would suffer for a few years then swap out my sport bike for a crosser. Small two strokes to large single cylinder four stroke motocross bikes all appeared in the garage. 

This attraction of the dual sport bike is strong with a lot of motorcyclists. I can’t think of one top circuit or road racer that doesn't keep fit by riding a motocross bike, especially during the winter. 

These guys and girls are easy to spot as they are more prone to the knee down style when cornering, opposed to the foot forward of the dirt track or motocross rider. 

Storm has been competing in the British Super Bike support races, namely the National Superstock 600 Championship. This year he was third in that very competitive championship and carried on his winning ways with 3 wins in the Supermoto over the weekend from 5 starts, coming third overall. 

Local rider #22 Kier Armstrong, originally from Boston, and #P4 Zak Shelton who was still sporting his talent cup leathers but now takes part in the British Junior Supersport Championship were out on the Mini Bikes. 

The Mini Bikes were originally "pit bikes" used to ferry the riders around the paddock. Now heavily modified, they are ideal entry level machines for progressing to the supermoto classes.   

There are a number of different classes and a load of sub classes which is the norm for club racing motorsport these days. I won't go too deep into the sub classes as it’s the usual Experienced, Novice, Young, Older rider kind of thing. 

The other major class that stood out was the Superlites. These are buggies that are powered by motorcycle engines. Two sub classes here, 600cc and the open class running 900cc Honda Fireblade engines, both of which were a little frisky in the wet conditions. 

As I watched the Superlites slide round Hall Bends I noticed a painted white line on the grass running about three feet back from the spectator fence line to the cafe. I have a feeling the spectator area is going to be pushed back probably because of the Luke Mossey crash during the British Super Bike Testing. 

The second best place to watch the racing at Cadwell has to be from the Grandstands at the top of the mountain. There are two of them. The one closest to the café can give you some great wheelie shots, and if the riders have the machinery and the guts to launch it, they can get some air under their tyres. 

I will close this report with a fine example of a shot from the top of the mountain. Jamie Duncan was crowned the British Supermoto Champion of 2019 taking it in an exciting final race of the final round.

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