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2006 Inter Regional Round 2 - Milton Keynes June 4th 2006  

Following the cancellation of the previous weekends planned regional race due to a flooded track the members of the Royston Rockets BMX Racing Club were competing in the third round of the East Anglia BMX Summer Series last Sunday on the sun drenched track of the Milton Keynes club. This event was also the second of two Inter-Region Challenges between East Anglia and the South Region and after the first round held at the South Regions Hayes track, East Anglia held a narrow lead in the competition.  Once again the event attracted almost 250 riders from the two regions to make some very competitive and exciting racing.

 The Rockets had riders in many of the classes with the clubs newest member to try his hand at Regional level events, Jake Murley, taking 2^nd place in the Novice 8-10 “B” final whilst the youngest riders being the 6 and Under class where Daniel Blanche finished in 4^th ahead of Oliver Snelling and Ted Dalleywater who the top two places in the “B” final.  In the 7-8 year class Ethan Lewis was unlucky not to make the main final but took 2^nd in the “B” final and in the same class “C” Final, Aaron Dalleywater took the win with Zak Foreman in 4^th and Kieran Archer in 7^th. Moving up to the 9-10 year group two Rockets made the “A” Final with Louis Burton finishing in 6th following a mid race melee which left James Handleigh rolling in the dust to end up in 8^th and in the class “B” Final Kyle Gutteridge raced to 4^th. The 11-12 year class saw Zak Stevens take 3rd in the “A” final just inches ahead of Ben Gutteridge in 4th and in the 13-14 year class “B” final Wayne Gutteridge took 3^rd with Antony Taylor took 4^th. Representing the female gender, Katie Roberts took on the 15-16 years male class where she finished in 5^th in the “B” final. As usual, to give the older riders more experience, the 17+ category was combined with the “Master Class” and the classes split out after the racing, which left Royston’s Laurence Mapp taking the “A” Final win with younger brother Christopher, returning after an football (!!) related injury took 3^rd and Jonathan Roberts who had slid out on the dusty surface in his semi final bounced back to take the win the “B” final.

 The next event on the race calendar is the re-arranged round of the Regional Summer Series at Braintree next weekend where the Rockets riders will again be out in force to gain points towards their ranking. The clubs regular Tuesday night sessions at the clubs track in Burns Road, Royston starting at 6.00pm to enable the riders to have additional coaching. Full details of this and other 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.