Alansbmx Racing

Team Report: Hartlepool

The BCF series moved to Hartlepool in the North East for Round 7 of the National BMX Series - and what an outstanding day our Alansbmx/Shimano DXR team had.

Starting out with our 9 year old, Kye Whyte. Kye asked us if he could race 12 & Under Cruiser - and his Supecross iS frame arrived Friday before the race, Alex our shop mechanic put it together and it was delivered to the event Saturday morning - but as he'd never rode that class before he wasn't going to race it, but after his mum couldn't get him off it they decided to give it a go. He won every race on it, check out his inside moves in the video of his final, it's not easy give up three years against 12 year olds. To back it up Kye won his 20" class as well. Way to go Kye!


Next up was Jack Clarke, Jack like Bradley is the younger age in a double age group (11-12) but rode another consistent solid race for the last podium spot.


Bradley Minns, backed up a second in Cruiser with his best place of the year in his 20" - 3rd, again no mean feat as 13-14 is a stacked class, in fact only 2 of the younger riders made the final. Well done Brad.


Charlotte Green made the huge trek up from Cornwall, but made it worthwhile comfortably winning Junior Female, and seems to have fully recovered from her broken tibia sustained only back in April.


Luke Tamblyn, our Junior Male hotshot, well what can you say, just watch the video. He gets in front on the first straight then just pulls away - this is no easy class either, full of 2012 hopefuls, his year is coming together great and we are stoked for him.

Four wins - the maximum you can score with a team and we did it with just five riders. At the end of the day we extended our points lead over second place to 35.5 points. Well done everyone!

Extra thanks go to Jack's parents Lewis & Lisa for taking the van up this weekend. Kye's mum Tracy also asked me to pass her thanks to Jac's mum and dad for the help they give on Sunday with the Peckham gazebo's, and to Charlotte's dad for the side plate for his cruiser.

More images here.

Videos here courtesy of bikevideos.org.uk.

TEAM SPONSORS: Shimano, Thor, Bell, Ultimate Pursuits, Vans, Fenwicks, Supercross, Avent, Bombshell, Tangent, ODI.



All images © British Cycling by Richard Rowbotham

posted by Argent @ 6:22 pm