18/09/2026
🏆 2026 SF PARTS – AUSTIN JACOBS THUNDERBIKE 500 HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION – MAX MacRAE 🏆
Well, apparently you can’t have one MacRae brother winning a championship without the other getting involved too… 😂
After congratulating Luke MacRae on securing the Thunderbike 500 Middleweight title, it’s now the turn of brother Max MacRae, who has wrapped up the 2026 Thunderbike 500 Heavyweight Championship with a round still to go. 👏
Clearly nobody told the MacRae household that one championship trophy between them would have been enough. 🏆🏆
For anyone unfamiliar with the category, the Heavyweight class is for riders weighing 105kg+ fully kitted — or, as Max himself rather more delicately puts it… . 😂🍰🍺
But have a look at the season he’s put together:
🏆 652 Championship points
🥇 25 class wins
🥈 0 second places
🥉 1 third place
5️⃣ 1 fifth place
🔥 25 victories from 27 points-scoring finishes
📈 142-point advantage with Brands Hatch still to come
That is some seriously dominant form over a full season.
Max has been racing amongst some historically quick — and considerably lighter — CB500 riders, but has more than held his own in the outright races as well.
As he put it himself, it’s the close, elbow-to-elbow racing that makes these bikes so much fun.
50bhp. Big grids. Tiny margins. Proper racing.
And there’s still unfinished business.
Max heads to the Brands Hatch Finale with the Heavyweight Championship already secured, but still with plenty to fight for in the overall ACU Thunderbike 500 Championship.
For now though, another MacRae gets his moment…
🏆 2026 SF Parts – Austin Jacobs Thunderbike 500 Heavyweight Champion – Max MacRae
Congratulations Max — a fantastic season and thoroughly deserved.
And congratulations to the MacRae family, who may now need to start measuring up for a slightly bigger trophy cabinet. 😂👏
