Results confirmed, and 2025 champions revealed
9th Sep 2025
The recent Bank Holiday weekend saw the 2025 Mitas-sponsored BTPA championhip season draw to a close, as the fifth and final round took place at Great Eccleston, hosted by the North West Tractor Pulling Club. The action started on Friday evening, and what a fantastic few days of pulling action we had, interspersed with ETPC Eurocup and PPA action.
The Friday night action for BTPA trophies kicked off with Super Farm tractors, followed by Limited Pro Stocks and BTPA Super Sport trucks - the latter class on a back-to-back session, competing again on Saturday. In the Super Farm class, David Todd steered his Redemption tractor to the win, keeping Jason Walton's Chasing Dreams in second, with Ifan Thomas in third place - it was the same result for the championship title, giving Toddy back-to-back titles for the last two years.
Friday night's Limited Pro Stock class was won by Matt Harpley, with title leader Jamie Humphrey finishing just sixth. Humphrey's commanding lead in the championship though, was more than enough to lift the trophy, beating Harpley to the title by a massive 27 point margin.
Saturday saw the conclusion of the Super Sport trucks, with Stephen Charles' Brutus Thundertruck taking the Saturday win after Duncan Clitheroe marched the Thirsty Turtle to the top spot on Friday night. With Clitheroe starting his season with turbocharger issues in Scorton, the points defecit was enough to help Charles to sneak the season win, with a margin of 19 points.
The 2.5t BTPA Light Modified class was wrapped up in a Eurocup class, with Aftermath Unleashed taking the top spot in the Eurocup class and winning the round, but ultimately losing out to Jim Whitecross's turbine-powered Gator Lynx Edition in the BTPA championship, despite solid performances in the weekend's double-header. The second Eurocup class of the night saw Europcup Super Stock tractors putting on an impressive show, with Red Alert and Just Smoky taking part for BTPA points. Red Alert's early season issues put the Clarke Pulling Team out of contention for the title, with David Jones again taking the title.
Limited Super Stock and 4.5t Super Sport tractors were also competing on Saturday, with Stephen Charles' Brutus Thunderstruck taking the win and the title in Limited Super Stock class, while Ryan Carnegie took his sixth win on Saturday night onboard the Xtreme Force Super Sport tractor, making him untouchable in the championship points race, ahead of the final round on Sunday.
Sunday's Pro Stock class was a two-way fight with Kevin Carnegie's Xtreme Green and Wyn Thomas' Evil Dragon - the two had battled furiously all season-long, with two wins each, but a pesky Dragon had stole two valuable points from the Carnegie team at Scorton, with that early season points haul then hampering the Scotsman's progress as the season drew to a close. This meant that Thomas' snarling Dragon stood to take championship glory by just two points, if he could win on Sunday... And his pull-off distance of 116.36m made sure he did just that.
Thanks to Mark Rouse, Olivia Jones and Andrew Dickson for use of their images taken at the event.
Results from Great Eccleston 2025
2025 BTPA points total after all five rounds
