Press Office

Winter Regional Round 3 - January 20th 2008  

Last Sunday the Royston Rockets BMX Racing Club members made the short trip up the A1 to Peterborough for the third round of the East Anglian Winter Series at the track of the Peterborough Phantoms. The forecast rains kept away and although wet and sticky in places the track held up well for the riders who had travelled from across  the country to have the chance of a good days racing.

 The youngest riders take part in a class known as Formula 5 and are nominally 7 years and under and Royston’s Marmaduke Birt finished well with in 4^th in the A final and Loui Foreman took the win in the class B Final. Royston had no less than 6 riders in Formula 4 which is a class based on 8-10 year olds with Zak Foreman taking 4^th and Daniel Blanche in 8^th in the A final whilst in the B final Matthew Harris took the win in his first “away” race with Josh Peters in 4^th just ahead of team mate James King in 5^th and Ted Dalleywater in 7^th, all of whom were riding up a class due to their successes in earlier rounds of the series. Ethan Vernon took the win in Formula 3 (11-13years) which means at the next round he will be riding up two classes whilst in Formula 2 for 14-16 year old riders James Handleigh took 6^th place in the slippery conditions with Louis Burton taking 4^th in the B Final – again both Royston riders were riding up one class from their normal category. The final class on the track was Formula 1 for rider over 17 years old, which was the largest and fastest class of the day with James Dalleywater taking 7^th in the class A final and Darren Foreman finishing in 6^th in the B final.

 This was the third round of the series which is running throughout the winter months, the next round being at Braintree on February 17^th. The Rockets are holding practice sessions at their track in Burns Road where visitors can try their hand at riding round the track as well as having a chat to club members about the sport. 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.