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Summer Regional Series Round 4- June 15th 2008

Last Sunday saw the fourth round of the East Anglia BMX Summer Series held at the recently upgraded track Peterborough. The event was also the return round of the challenge between East Anglia and the Midlands. Again the weather was dry but black clouds around the track threatened to turn nasty all day. The event attracted over 200 riders from around the country, many of whom had made the trip to get practice on the Peterborough track which is hosting the British Championships over the August Bank Holiday weekend. During the afternoon the spectators were entertained with some very competitive racing in all the classes and at the end of the day the Midlands maintained their lead in the Challenge although East Anglia closed the gap and almost took the title as the last few races took to the track.

 The Royston Rockets BMX Racing Club had 20 riders competing with the club’s youngest members getting the racing under way. Kelly Newall, competing in the Under 6 yr class where he finished in 2nd place in the B final and in the 7yr class A final Royston had 4 riders with Josh Peters taking the win, Ted Dalleywater taking 4^th and James King in 6^th just ahead of Marmaduke Birt in 7th. The 8yr class saw Ethan Vernon putting all his training to good effect to take first place with Daniel Blanche in 4^th and Oliver Snelling in 6^th and in the 9yr class Aaron Dalleywater took 3rd in the A final with Bradan Blanche taking the win in the B final. The 10yr category saw Matthew Harris making the class A final where he finished in 8^th just behind team mate Ethan Lewis who finished in 7^th and in the 12yr class Louis Burton finished in 6^th. More success came in the 13yr class with Aston Blanche taking a fine 2^nd place and earning a “Rider of the Day” award and in the 14’s Ben Gutteridge took 6^th. The 16yr class saw Wayne Gutteridge fighting hard to take 2^nd overall just ahead of Royston’s only female representative on the day, Katie Roberts, who took a well deserved 3^rd place. In the combined Superclass and 17+ class, Royston’s Lee Alexander took 3^rd in the B final as he eased himself back into racing after injury and the final two classes saw Danny Ancell making his return to the sport after almost 20 years where he took 5^th in the Cruiser 30-39yr B final and Phillip Burton taking 3^rd in the Cruiser 40+ class.

 The next event on the race calendar is the fifth round of the Regional Summer Series which is also the first round of another inter regional challenge, this time with the South Region at Hayes on June 22nd where the Rockets will again be out in force to chase points for their ranking positions. The next major event at the Royston clubs track in Burns Road is the clubs round of the regional series on July 13th.

 The clubs own Summer Series has started 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.