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National Summer
Series Round 11and 12
The final two
rounds of the National BMX 2010 summer series over the Bank holiday
weekend took place on the south coast track of the Bournemouth BMX
Club. Due to holidays only seven members of the Royston Rockets made
the journey with both success and disappointment in plenty at both
rounds which attracted over 400 riders from across the UK with round
11 of the series was held on Saturday whilst Sunday saw the riders
competing in round 12 to complete the 2010 series. The racing was
very competitive and the weather just about stayed on the good side
to enable the riders to perform to their best.
Highlight of
Saturdays racing came with “Masters” class rider Richard Townsend
who took his first national win in 26 years of BMX racing and
followed this with a 6th on Sunday in a class that the
commentators have claimed is the most competitive of the year. In
the Veteran (40+) class Lee Alexander again showed the pack how to
ride the track with a clear win in Saturdays A final only to get one
jump badly wrong in his Cruiser 40-44yr semi final to end his days
competitive racing although through a quirk of the race points
system de did end up taking 3rd in the Veterans category.
Royston’s
youngest riders at the event were competing in the 10yr class
Royston and the trio had every experience possible with Daniel
Blanche crashing out of practice and not even being able to make the
start gate and in the class semi finals Ethan Vernon took a heavy
fall although still managed to get back on his bike and battle back
to a qualifying position before the pain hit and stopped him taking
any further part in the weekends events leaving just Myles Fisher to
fly the club flag with a 7th place in the A final on
Saturday and one place higher in 6th on the Sunday. In
the 11yr class, Aaron Dalleywater continued the crashing theme on
both days but did leave it until the A finals to have his incidents
so he recorded 8th place on both days. Competing on
Sunday only in the 14’s James Handleigh just missed qualification
for the main final but still went home with 7th place B
final points to add to his seasons tally.
The Rockets are
running their regular Tuesday night sessions from 6.00pm until dark
for a few more weeks as the nights draw in at their track in
Royston’s Burns Road. Full details of forthcoming club and regional
events will be published soon on the club web site at
www.roystonrockets.co.uk, or ring 01763 260959 for more
information on BMX racing.
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