Press Office

Summer National Series Round 10 & 11  Sept.13/14th 2008  

The 10^th and 11^th rounds of the BMX Racing National Summer Season were held last weekend at one of the oldest BMX venues of the Mid Lancs. Club in Coppull. Saturday was overcast but dry conditions and Sundays racing was completed in bright sunshine – a rare treat this year for riders and spectators alike! The track has undergone major rework over the winter and has been extended to around 350m and with a combination of long and short straights and all styles of corners made it very fast in places with riders testing their brakes to the limit as they tried to negotiate the tighter turns. As usual, it was an action packed weekend with almost 300 riders taking part with 9 of them from the Royston BMX Club.

 The Royston Rockets BMX Racing Club riders in the 7 yr class started the points chase although Josh Peters’ weekend was ruined by falls in both days finals relegating him to 8^th and 7^th and in the B finals Ted Dalleywater finished in 4^th and 5^th. Royston’s representative in the 8 yr class, Ethan Vernon, was well up with the leaders all weekend taking 2^nd and 3^rd in the A Finals and Daniel Blanche had a variable weekend with a fine 4^th place on Saturday but went out in the qualifying stages on the Sunday, whilst in the 9yr class, Aaron Dalleywater’s results went the other way as he took 6th on Sunday and a hard earned 2^nd on Sunday. In the 11-12 yr. class James Handleigh finished in 2^nd in Saturdays B final but returned to form with a 6^th in the A final on Sunday. The clubs older riders put up a series of good results with Katie Roberts taking 3^rd on both days in the Junior Female class whilst in the Masters (30+) class, Lee Alexander took 3^rd on Saturday and nailed the win on Sunday after an epic race down the final straight and in the Elite class Laurence Mapp took a 3^rd and 4^th over the two days to keep up the defence of his National title.

 The next event on the calendar is East Anglia Championships which is being hosted by the Ipswich BMX Club on September 21^st. The Rockets will be out in force for this event with the day starting off at 10-00am with rider registration closing at 11-00am and racing from 1-00pm until about 5-30pm.

 The Royston club will be running a series of practice sessions over the winter at the clubs track in Burns Road, Royston – the first one being on September 28^th and full details of 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.