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Summer National
Series Round
7 - June 28/29th 2008
The seventh round of the BMX Racing National Summer
Season was held last weekend at a new venue in Hartlepool. Practice
on Saturday was held in overcast but warm conditions and Sundays
racing was completed just as the rain started! The track is one of
the longest in the country at 420m and with 6 straights on a slope
it is very fast in places with riders testing their brakes to the
limit as they tried to negotiate the dusty corners. As usual, it was
an action packed weekend with almost 250 riders taking part with 8
of them from the Royston BMX Club.
The highlight of the weekends racing was the Elite
class with the first UK rider home winning a place at the Great
Britain Olympic trials to be held next weekend at the headquarters
of the sports governing body in Switzerland. Roystons big hope for
the place was Laurence Mapp who started the day with three difficult
qualifying races during which he fell in the first round, took
second in the second round and in the final round he slipped his
pedals at the start to put him to the back of the pack although he
fought back to take fifth. In the three round finals it all came
together and after three almost faultless riders took the overall
win – and that coveted trip to Switzerland.
The Royston Rockets BMX Racing Club youngest member,
Kele Newall, in the 6 & Under class took a good 2nd in
the B final whilst in the 7 yr class Josh Peters took 3rd in the A
final and Super Ted Dalleywater finished in 6th. Royston’s
representative in the 8 yr class, Ethan Vernon, was unbeaten all day
to keep up his challenge for the number 1 plate at the end of the
season, whilst in the 9yr class, Aaron Dalleywater took 3rd in the
class A final and in the 11-12 yr. class James Handleigh finished in
5th whilst in the 13-14 male class Aston Blanche found
the fast downhill track did not suite his style and he was another
of many riders who did not make it through from the qualifying
races.
The next event on the calendar is an Inter – Regional
race between the South Region and East Anglia which is being hosted
by the Milton Keynes BMX Club on July 6th. 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 4-30pm.
The clubs own Summer Race Series started this week
after a delay due to rain in previous weeks with their regular
Tuesday night sessions at the clubs track in Burns Road, Royston.
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.
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