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Winter Regional Round 4 - 21st January 2007  

Last Sunday the Royston Rockets BMX Racing Club members were host to the fourth round of the East Anglian Winter Series at their home track in Royston’s Burns Road . The weather was cold and windy but the sun shone and only the smallest threat of rain enticed riders from around the region and beyond to take part and just under 90 signed up for a full afternoons racing. 

 The youngest class in the Winter Series, Formula 5, are nominally 7 years and under and five of Royston’s riders in the class made the B final with Oliver Snelling taking the win, Ted Dalleywater took 3^rd, Alex Sedgwick, in his first regional event took 4th with the youngest of the five and in only his second regional event, Archie York finishing in 6^th and James King, another new rider was unable to start his final and was awarded 8^th place whilst in the C final, the youngest rider of all those competing was Loui Foreman who took 2^nd after a real struggle against the wind. In Formula 4 for 8-10 year olds, the Rockets riders had “A” final success with Zak Foreman taking 6^th just ahead of teammate Ethan Vernon in 7^th and Aaron Dalleywater had to settle for 8^th place after a mid race incident slowed to to a standstill, and in the B Final 2^nd place went to Ethan Lewis who just headed Aaron Threader over the line into 3^rd and Daniel Blanche took 5th. The Rockets sole representative in Formula 3 (11-13 years) was Louis Burton who took a fine win to qualify for the next class up at the fifth round of the series in Braintree in February. Royston had another good turn out in the Formula 2 class with Katie Roberts, who is one of the UK’s leading female riders, battling with the boys to take 4^th in the “A” final only inches ahead of James Handleigh, whilst in the “B” final the Rockets had more success with Anthony Taylor taking 2^nd with Ben Gutteridge in a hard won 3rd whilst in the “C” final two new club members battled hard all day with Luke Cochrane taking 2^nd and Valentin Robertson taking 5^th. The last class on the track was Formula 1, which was the largest and fastest class of the day which had another six Rockets riders taking part with Richard Townsend finishing in 2^nd and Lee Alexander in 4^th in the A final and in the B final Darren Foreman finished in 2^nd, Jack Graham took 4^th just ahead of Wayne Gutteridge in 5^th and James Dalleywater who finished in 8^th after trying to claim the crash of the day award!

 The next round in the series is at Braintree on February 18th 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.