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Gate Practice… Due to the fading light conditions (did we have a summer ? ) Thursday 11th of September will be our last evening gate practice session , before switching to Saturday Afternoon gates starting Saturday 20th Sept.
Superb results from Andover riders at the Final round of the 2008 South Summer race series at Bournemouth.
The young guns Aaron Bennett and Ollie Keane were looking quick and mixing it with the top guys. Lewy Ranger won two out of his three Motos and the all Important A final in the 9’s.
Alex Butt got Second in his A final with John Cable looking quick and getting in some Brits Training. Carl Potts was also getting some Brits training by riding both his 20” and Cruiser. Claire Morrison had some great Motos but rolled around in her final having a chat with the other riders! Paul Bennett was getting awesome starts all day long, as he has been all season and had a good final. Matt French was easing himself back into things after a bad injury at Milton Keynes, still managing to finish well. Also in the 30-39 Cruiser Class Chris Mingo used all his experience and skilfully avoided the Carnage in the A final and picked up second place.
Probably the best efforts of the day were from Andover’s Three Newest Novice riders:- Liam Watts had terrific Second in his final, George Warner Won his and Max Howard looked to set to win his final but slipped a pedal and had to settle for Third on the line. Very good effort Guys definitely got the speed to race with the top riders in the region now. All that Thursday night training is paying off !!
Well that’s the end of the successful 2008 South Region summer series. The riders who have competed in five rounds have now earned the right to compete at this years British Championships www.britishbmxchampionships.co.uk which this year are being held at Peterbourough.
After the Brits it’s the the South Champs at Herne Bay on the 28th September. Should be a good race at the New Herne Bay track. After this event the South Region Winter series will be announced so watch this space for Updates.
Thursday Night Racing at Andover…. Thursday Night Racing at Andover
The club is pleased to confirm the dates of our Thursday night club race series:-
Round 1… Thursday 31st July
Round 2… Thursday 7th August
Round 3… Thursday 14th August
These three races are a great way of starting out in the sport and racing against riders of similar age and ability to yourself. Even if you have never raced before you’re more than welcome to come and give it a go. Only £3.00 to enter and we hope to give all novices a medal if funds permit. Don’t forget Helmets are a must ( open face dirt helmets fine ), gloves, long jeans and long sleeve shirt too please. * Kids under 16 will need parents to complete a registration form.
Registration starts at 6.00pm, closes at 6.40, with racing starting at 7.00pm prompt. You will get Three Motos (heat races ), then a final…
We are looking to have a BBQ and some chill out sounds so should be good.
Finally, we would like to thank Eugene for the New Website. Eugene is a top bloke and has a lot of exciting future ideas for the site up his sleeve. If you need a web site designed for business or pleasure we can’t recommend the guy highly enough!! Find Eugene’s info in the Link section.
Back to the rRacing and we’re halfway through the 2008 season. Just got back from the last South regional at Milton Keynes. Top event and well done to MK for making the Andover crew so welcome but next year please don’t pick the Same day as the Silverstone Grand prix! Traffic was a nightmare!
On the Andover front things are looking rosy. We had a great regional event at Andover back in April. The ” Pro-Clean Classic “ and since then the Andover riders have been competing at both Regional and National level with good success.
Myself and Paul Bennett have passed our level 2 British Cycling Coaches course which means we can provide all your Coaching requirements … email us with any questions info@andoverbmx.co.uk
A couple of weeks ago the club attended Andover Active Sports day in Town. The committee really worked hard along with Jim + Lewis Lacey from www.chargebikes.com Lewis brought along his Factory race ” Charge” 4X + ti BMX bikes along with a 2 man practice start gate. This was a big hit with the kids as they all wanted to try this out so hopefully some of then will come along to our Thursday night practice sessions and give it a go.
Big thanks to Alan Ranger for sorting out the fresh new Andover logo and our latest range of Club clothing ( how cool that does that look!). Should have some pictures on here soon showing you the club kit and how you can order.
www.facebook.com www.facebook.com www.facebook.com When you get a chance check out our Andover BMX Raceway page on Facebook. Great Photos and even some old school pics of me BITD! Please feel free to add any Pics or Video you may have and lets try and make it the best BMX page on Facebook.
We should be hearing very soon if we are successful with the various grants and funding we have been busy chasing. We are 99% sure that Test Valley Council have agreed to re-surface the area behind the start gate which is great as this can drag mud on to the start hill.
Paul Bennett has drawn up a new great track design. This is all subject to us getting the funds to do the work and we really want to tarmac the berms at the same time (which costs a fortune!) If we do get a budget any track mods we do this year will have to be minor as we dont want to close the track down.
See you Thursday Night down at the Track!
Chris Mingo
Chairman
South Region BMX Regional Rounds 2008
R.d 1 BADBMX 30th March
R.d 2 Andover 13th April
R.d 3 Herne Bay 11th May
R.d 4 Brixton 1st June
R.d 5 Hayes Inter South/Ea 22nd June
R.d 6 Milton Keynes Inter EA/South 6th July
R.d 7 Inter SW/South 20th July Dagenham
R.d 8 Bournemouth Inter South/SW 3rd August
South Champs: Herne Bay 28th Sept
Qualification for Brits 5 from 8 races.
5 from 8 for trophy and end of series ranking.
Note: novices will be included in the rankings and top 3 in each novice class at end of series will receive a trophy if they have done 5 events from 8