The British champs

Last weekend saw the British champs take place at Broadway house Cheddar. There was a handfull of Redditch riders taking part. The club had some great results and managed to finish 22nd out of 51 clubs taking part. Hopefully next year with new riders and riders who not out injured should see Redditch move up to be one of the top clubs.

Saturday saw the cruiser riders racing with 3 Redditch riders taking part. Tim Drew was in the highly competetive 35-39 class and got through to quarter finals. In the 9 - 12 class Harley Taylor took part and the newly crowned world number 4 got through to another final and got a great 3rd place. The other rider was Michael Gough who was competing in the 40-44 class which is a very tough class. He had a great day and finished a brilliant 2nd place, giving him a hugh smile on his face for rest of the weekend.

On the sunday it was the turn of the 20" racers with Sean Bowditch and Darcie Taylor joining in the racing. Sean was racing his first national event and managed to get through to quarter finals. Michael Gough was racing for second day running and got through to semi finals before crashing out trying to get the 4th place needed to get to his second final of weekend. Darcie and Harley both got through to the finals in there classes. Harley got 4th place out of 34 riders so well done to him. In the 7-8 girls Darcie led her final out of the gate right up to last straight. She was passed on last straight and then the 2 riders crashed into each other about 10 metres from end, then all the riders behind also piled into them seeing a lot of carnage. After everyone picked themselves up Harley ended up coming in 7th, such a shame after being in front for most of race.

A great weekend was had by all and hopefully next year will see Premiers coming on stronger.