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National Summer Series Round 9 and 10

Regional Summer Series 2010 Round 8

The Rockets have been competing at National and Regional BMX 2010 Summer Series events in the last two weeks with a trip to the new south coast track of the Gosport BMX Club last weekend for rounds 9 and 10 of the national series and this weekend to the rescheduled Regional series event hosted by the Ipswich BMX Club but actually run on the Braintree club’s track  The Royston members had success at all the events which attracted almost 500 riders from across the UK for the national the series held on the Saturday and Sunday whilst the regional event had almost 120 riders competing in the penultimate round of the series.

The national racing was close, fast and very competitive on the Gosport track which is unusual in shape as it has two more straights and corners than the majority of venues and Royston’s youngest rider in the 9 year, Ted Dalleywater was able to move out of the qualifying races to the semi finals and ended up taking 7^th in the B final on the Saturday but was unable to repeat the feat on Sunday. In the 10yr class Royston had two riders with Ethan Vernon taking a 2^nd place on both Saturday and Sunday whilst Myles Fisher took his racing up a notch with 5^th place in the A finals on Saturday but fell whilst trying to take 4^th place in Sundays A final, eventually coming in a dusty 8^th., Aaron Dalleywater, in the 11yr class had a poor day by his standards on Saturday but managed to take the win in the B final but was back to form on Sunday with a hard earned 2^nd in the A final. The 15yr class saw Royston’s Jordan Godfrey trying his skills at national level although he was unable to move out of the qualification rounds on either day following a fall whilst Andrew Brooker, competing in the 16 yr class was unable to qualify for the semi finals on Saturday but retuned to form with 4^th place in the class B final on Sunday. In the “Masters” class, Richard Townsend took a clear win in Saturdays B final and followed that with a 6^th in Sundays A final.

 Royston Rockets had nineteen riders taking part across all age classes in the Regional series event on Sunday 15^th Aug) starting with the 7 and Under novices where Royston’s Callum Barrow took the first place with Brendan Salmon finishing in 3^rd whilst in the 8yr Expert category Alfie Salmon finished in 3^rd which was the same positioned achieved by Ted Dalleywater in the 9 year class who was just behind James King who took 2^nd with team mates Benjamin Mansfield in 8^th and Marmaduke Birt taking the B final win. The 10 year class saw the Rockets lead the pack all day with Miles Fisher taking a third consecutive win just ahead of team mate Daniel Blanche who took 3^rd overall and in the 11 year class Aaron Dalleywater came home in second. The 12 year category saw Matthew Harris claim 6^th overall and in the girls classes Royston’s Faye Godfrey took 3^rd in the 11-12 year group and Helen Nicholl took 2^nd in the 25+ Ladies cruiser class. In the 17 -14 category Alex Shore-Nye took 2^nd in the B final and David Thompson in the 25-29 category took the class win and in the Vets (40+) class the win went to Royston’s Lee Alexander, who also took another win in the Cruiser 40-44 class, with Darren Foreman in 2^nd and in the cruiser classes Matt Salmon took 4^th in the 35-39 class whilst Carl Birt took another win for the club in the 45+ class.

 The Rockets are running their regular Tuesday night sessions from 6.00pm until dark at their track in Royston at 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.