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Winter Regional Round 4 - 22nd January 2006  

Royston Rockets BMX Racing Club travelled to the new BMX track In Norwich for the fourth round of the East Anglian Winter Series last Sunday. For the first time in this winter’s series the track was not frozen or flooded but the sun refused to come out so the temperature was only just above zero but the 80+ riders that took part enjoyed some very competitive racing on the new track which is now one of the longest in the country.

 The youngest class are nominally 7 years and under and are known as Formula 5 and Royston had three riders in the class with Bradan Blanche with taking the win ahead of his cousin Daniel Blanche who finished in 2^nd and Aaron Dalleywater who finished in 4^th. In Formula 4 for 8-10 year olds, the Rockets riders had varying success with Kyle Gutteridge in 5^th in the A final whilst the youngest rider in the class, Ethan Lewis, took 4^th in the B final just behind team-mate Aston Blanche who took 2^nd. Another two Rockets were competing up a class into Formula 3 (11-13 years) with James Handleigh taking 4^th with  Louis Burton in 5^th although both had to follow Ben Gutteridge home as he took a fine 3rd in the A final. All three Royston riders in the large Formula 2 class had a good day with Wayne Gutteridge taking top place in the B final with Anthony Taylor, another Rocket who had qualified to ride up a class took 3^rd whilst Royston’s only female representative on the day, Katie Roberts took an excellent 5^th in the class A final.  The last class on the track was Formula 1 which includes a number of the countries top Elite riders and Royston’s Richard Townsend took 4^th, just headed home by Jonathan Roberts who grabbed 3^rd on the line in the A final. 

The next round of the Winter Series is on February 19th at Braintree. Practice starts at 11-45am and rider registration closes at 12-00 noon with racing starting around 12-45pm – or sooner if the weather is bad!

 Full details of forthcoming club and regional events are published on the club web site at www.roystonrockets.co.uk, or ring 01763 260959 for more information on BMX racing.