Arenacross is adding a further attraction to the already brilliant Fan Zone at the opening round of the 2026 Tour in Birmingham, as the full Dirt Store Triumph Racing Team, including Tommy Searle, will all be present to meet fans at the event, which opens from 4pm and is FREE for all ticket holders the BP Pulse LIVE Arena on Saturday, 31st of January!

As part of the new partnership between Dirt Store and Arenacross, Dirt Store’s full Motocross & Enduro race team — Tommy Searle, Ben Watson, Billy Askew and Rich Ely — will join the stars of the Arenacross Tour, including AX riders Dylan Woodcock and Eddie Jay Wade, to meet fans in the Forum Live area of the arena. Autograph hunters and selfie seekers will have the chance to meet some of the biggest off-road names in the country!

The 2023 British Arenacross Champion, Tommy Searle, has been a long-time supporter of the series, and even though he won’t be racing indoors in 2026, he still wanted to find a way to be there and meet the fans. He won the 2025 MX2 British Championship, the fifth such title in his career, becoming the first British Champion on a British bike since 1973! He is a three-time MX2 World Championship silver medallist and winner of 14 Grands Prix, the most successful Motocross rider from the British Isles in the 21st century. He is almost more well known in the UK for his YouTube channel, with his entertaining vlogs regularly attracting more than 100,000 views!

Ben Watson is Britain’s most recent Motocross Grand Prix winner, having won twice in 2020 on his way to fifth in the World Championship that year, reaching a best of fourth in 2019. The 2017 MX2 British Champion won the individual MXGP class in the 2021 Motocross of Nations to help Team GB reach the podium that year, and has campaigned factory machinery in the premier MXGP World Championship class for the last five years. Joining the Dirt Store Triumph Racing team brings him back to the UK after living in Europe for most of the last seven years, so for sure the fans will give him a warm welcome back in Birmingham!

Billy Askew is one of the fastest teenagers in the UK, and after winning multiple youth Championships has been challenging his elder teammate Searle, both with his on-track speed and his increasing popularity off of it! Looking to take that British crown from Searle in 2026, Billy will also be aiming for the podium in the European EMX250 Championship that runs alongside the Grand Prix classes, and we may even see a wildcard appearance at the British GP at Foxhills in July! For now though, younger fans in particular will be delighted to see the blonde bomber at the Arenacross Fan Zone!

Rich Ely is an experience Enduro racer who has won the ACU British Experts title and competed in many disciplines of woods racing. His experience will help to push Triumph forward in the British Enduro Championship for the first time in 2026, and for sure he will have many entertaining stories for fans at the Fan Zone! AX talents Dylan Woodcock and Eddie Jay Wade also have many tales to tell, especially Dylan, who recently competed on the AMA Supercross scene to warm up for Arenacross!

Come and meet them all as part of the Arenacross Fan Zone – all free for ticket holders at the BP Pulse LIVE Arena on Saturday 31st of January – doors open at 4pm, do not be missing out!!