The 2025 Arenacross World Tour saw a homecoming of sorts for globe-trotting Scotsman Dean Wilson, who was finally able to race in his home country after a lifetime of competing in the USA and, more recently, finding success Down Under as a double Australian Supercross Champion. A consummate professional who has won fans over with his sense of humour as well as his flamboyant riding style, the man known as “Deano” put together a superb title-winning Tour in 2025, and as he turns 34 just after Christmas, despite stating that his ravaged knees limit his pace somewhat, he is still able to hang it out around an Arenacross circuit faster than most!

Martin Barr, from Ballyclare in Northern Ireland, has recently retired from full-time Motocross as he turned 38 years young, although he is keen to point out that he’s “retiring but not retiring”, in that he won’t disappear completely! Hence the entry into the 2026 AX Tour that takes in two nights in his beloved Belfast SSE Arena, where he delighted his home fans by climbing the podium in 2025 alongside fellow Honda flyers Dean Wilson and Conrad Mewse. A determined rider who will never give up, especially with local support, Barr will be looking to back up his team leader to bring the Armor Vision St Blazey Honda team further glory in the team contest for 2026.

The squad itself has been brought together by two families with deep histories in the off-road world. British Motocross fans will know Mark Chamberlain as the chief of the Team GB Motocross of Nations squad, who broke a 20-year podium drought in that annual contest in 2017, and followed it up for the next three events from there! He is part of the famous Chamberlain family that brought us Moto Vision, with his father Eric at the helm. His teenage years were spent filming top level Motocross, as well as editing and producing the final productions. Followers of the sport from as far back as the early 1990s will already have the theme tune in their head, as the Moto Vision videos were our main source of world class MX action in the days before YouTube, live streaming, and all the joys of 21st century mass-media!

After the FIM finally got around to consistently broadcasting the sport in the late 1990s, the Chamberlains kept involved through their own race team, which helped many leading lights of British Motocross onto the world stage, as well as finishing sixth in the world with Estonian star Tanel Leok. More recently they have founded Armor Vision, specialists of high-performancevisual protection, wherever you may see a pair of goggles in the wide old world.

Mark has been lifelong friends with the Annear family, whose business, St Blazey MX in Cornwall, has a history stretching back over 60 years, the last of which have been ran by brothers Steve, Andy and Justin, who Mark knew from their 1980s schoolboy racing days. The Moto Vision team sourced motorcycles through the massive dealership, which is now an official Honda, Stark, and Beta supplier, when racing at World Championship level, and the partnership continues through their squad for the Arenacross Tour. Wilson was part of Mark’s first podium-scoring Nations team, and when the opportunity came up to take on Arenacross for the first time, there was only one man he wanted to turn to.

Taking Martin Barr onboard for 2026, “just made sense, with two nights in Belfast, we have all known Martin a long time, he’s a really nice guy and the crowd will get behind him. He gels well with Deano and he will add to the great atmosphere in the team for sure.”

As Mark says, “the St Blazey boys do all the grunt work to be fair, Armor Vision is the sponsor and we work together on the team, basically, as a partnership, to get some exposure for both of our companies, and because we love the sport and we all love Arenacross, we just love being involved!” With the combined experience and passion of two of the hardest-working families in the sport, Wilson and Barr will doubtlessly have all of the tools at their disposal in the effort to grab the team Championship, and few would bet against Deano in the final reckoning, despite his occasional dodgy start adding to the entertainment value!

Fans can see The Armor Vision St Blazey Honda Team back in Arenacross action when the 2026 British Arenacross Championship opens in Birmingham on 31 January at the bp pulse LIVE Arena, before heading to Belfast on 13 & 14 February at the SSE Arena. Tickets are on sale now, with limited availability across all nights. For full event information and to secure your seats, visit the official Arenacross website www.axworldtour.com

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