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Winter Regional Round 3 - 20th February 2005

The Royston Rockets BMX Racing Club was host to Round 3 of the East Anglian Winter Series last Sunday. The track became a little sticky after the frost came out and the early morning snow showers looked like putting the event in jeopardy but by the time practice started the weather improved, although still bitterly cold for the 66 riders who had travelled from across the region

In Formula 5 for the youngest riders, Royston’s Ethan Lewis took third overall after a fall in his second race stopped his winning run in the series rankings. In Formula 4 there were no less than four Rockets with Kyle Gutteridge, who had moved up from the F5 class took the win in the B final whilst team mates Nicholas Duncan, Louis Burton and Luke Holbrow respectively filled the top three places in the main final.  Formula 3 had five riders from the home club with Zach Stevens finishing in 8^th and Anthony Taylor, competing in his first Regional level race took an excellent 2nd in the B final and in the A final Ben Gutteridge took 8^th just behind team mate James Handleigh, who was riding up a class, and took 7^th and Wayne Gutteridge who rode to an excellent 2^nd place. With no riders in the Formula 2 class the last two Rockets to race were Shaun Doherty and Richard Townsend in Formula 1, where Richard took 3rd and Shaun took 6^th in the “A” Final. 

The next round of the Regional Winter Series is on February 27^th at Milton Keynes whilst the Royston club is looking forward to a break in the weather to carry out changes to their track in Royston’s Burns Road before the summer season starts in late March. Full details of club and regional events are published on the club web site at www.roystonrockets.co.uk, or ring 01763 260959.