Press Office

Winter Regional Round 3 - 10th December 2006  

Last Sunday the Royston Rockets BMX Racing Club members travelled up the A1 to compete in the third round of the East Anglian Winter Series in Peterborough. The weather was cold and windy with a constant threat of rain, which kept the number of riders from around the region taking part down to just under 70 but in the end the rain held off until just after the racing was finished. 

The youngest class are nominally 7 years and under and are known as Formula 5 and two of Royston’s four riders in the class made the main final with Daniel Blanche taking a fine win, his first at Regional level and Oliver Snelling took 8^th and in the “B” final Ted Dalleywater took the win with the youngest of the four and in his first regional event, Archie York taking 3^rd. In Formula 4 for 8-10 year olds, the Rockets riders had more “A” final success with Aaron Dalleywater in a 4^th just ahead of teammate Ethan Vernon, who was riding up a class) in 5^th and Zak Foreman took the win in the B Final. The Rockets two representative in Formula 3 (11-13 years) were Ben Guttereidge who took the win to qualify for the next class up in the next round of the series and Louis Burton who finished in 5^th. The solo Royston rider, James Handleigh, in the Formula 2 class which was the largest class of the day had more success in the “A” final with a hard won 7^th whilst the last class on the track was Formula 1, which had four Rockets riders taking part with 8^th in the A final going to James Dalleywater and in the B final Darren Foreman finished in 2^nd and Danny Bateman took 7th with after a race long battle with Wayne Gutteridge who finished in 8^th.  

The next round in the series is at Royston on January 21st where the Rockets will again be out in force. 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.