RLS4X hosted round 3 of its race series over the bank holiday weekend; thankfully the weather was good to us (for a change!).
We arrived Saturday morning to set up with the help of RLS locals and we ran gate practice all day on and even the Redhill boys showed up for a shred. Then after a hard days riding and track maintenance, ready for the next day, we got the BBQ on the go and chilled out to old biking movie classics.
Woke up Sunday morning freezing our socks off and did the last tweaks before sign on, the attendance wasn't as good as expected but we did manage to round up a few faces including Pink bikes Si Payton and have lots of fun racing.
The early moto's shown a good sign of things to come with lots of competitive 'rubbing' amongst the riders on all parts of the course. Highlights were Alex Metcalfe, his friends and even RLS4X's own Alec the ‘Hitman’ Henderson going huuuuge over the last jump, and the Local RLS riders all doing very well in the moto's.
Then during the lunch time interval we hosted a dad's race and uphill race to keep the crowd amused, the dad's race back for the second time proved to be a huge success as it was just as thrilling as the last round with Steve Robertshaw staying on this time! The uphill race saw Lionel Akram pip Mop Head to the post and it was very, very close.
Then onto the finals, which threw up some interesting racing, and funny moments. In the juvenile category, RLS4X's Josh Bremidge kept the same form in the moto's to take the Juvenile win. In the youth category Nick Miller continued his winning ways, (the lad also won every one of his motos...show off), onto the Juniors RLS4X's Alec Henderson produced a very good 2nd with mechanical problems throughout the moto's Luke Stanley looked super quick out the gate and down the first straight all day. Onto the Seniors which saw Lee the Goose Feery take the win, with RLS4x's Adam Le Heat Nightingale getting podium on his debut race. The Masters category was very competitive with the riders even hosting a mid-race pump off! The overall winner of the category was Nigel Smith. The elites rounded off the day with some very good close racing, and most of the category styling it up over the last jump with big style points of the day going to Alex Metcalfe, Stevie Taylor and Alec Hitman Henderson.
Big thanks goes to RLS4X Club Members who helped out a lot, Albany Cycles, Lizards Cafe, Shakespeare Marquees, DfourB, Descent-Gear, Mr C, JC, Adam Le Heat, Matthew Sideways Sills for the snaps, Si Payton and Descentgear, The Lock family, Cooper man for commentary, Buildbase for supplying the tools for the redevelopment of the track... and Billy Cheetham for making it all possible.
We all hope to see you again at our next round on the 19th* & 20th** September
* Gate Practice all day
** Race Day
Results
BMX - 1st Grant Van Der Linde
Juvenile - 1st Josh Bremridge
Youth - 1st Nick Miller, 2nd Matt Caldwell, 3rd Luke Clarke
Junior - 1st Alex Metcalfe, 2nd Alec Henderson, 3rd Luke Stanley
Master - 1st Nigel Smith, 2nd Superfly Si Paton, 3rd Pete Osborne
Senior - 1st Lee 'Goose' Feery, 2nd Lionel Akram, 3rd Adam Nightingale
Elite - 1st Stevie Taylor 2nd Alistair Keen 3rd Gareth Parr
Other results...
Crash of the day - Max the rocket
Dads race - 1st Lee Gordard 2nd Paddy Bakers 3rd Steve Robertshaw
Uphill race - 1st Lionel Akram 2nd Mop Head 3rd Superfly Si Paton
Nipper time trial 1st Tyler Gordard
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