The winter is over and the 2009 race season has started, the start of a busy 2009 season was started with a Midlands regional race at local track Harwoth.
The track had recently been resurfaced and was riding amazingly fast and the weather was rather good.
The majority of the DBMX crew arrived, Brad was otherwise occupied, and Ginner was on holiday again.
Once everybody had arrived and eventually woke up, we all sessioned the gate to see if we still had the snap and we did, Grant Hill's winter training seems to of worked that kid was flying arch rival Dom from rotherham seemed to be his only threat haha. Adam Carr was up to his normal routine of pulling silly tricks over the jumps even with his quick release front wheel.Tommy Lee was around and made an appearence every hour not sure how his races went. Mr Dixon who had been doing some winter training was hard to spot in his new white racegear, people was use to seeing him in the good old blue and orange.
Racing was started after all 155 riders where entered into the computer system which took sometime. Jonny was put in Adams race group although Jonny would race under the junior category. Throughout the motos it was mainly Mr Carr taking the wins in the 19+ category, Jonny and Vinyard where busy battling throughout the motos. Adam took the 19+ final and overall points and Jonny took the overall points in junior men.
Grant Hill was on fire in the motos, mainly battling against Kelvin Bateys apprentice Dom from rotherham. It made for some good cheering from the DBMX camp. Grant did well and won the final without much trouble after Dom became trapped in the group shortly after the gate.
Carl was in a highly competative cruiser class with the majority of the MTB crew having bought cruisers over the winter this would. Ryan vinyard was also racing in this category so the cruiser class was sent down shortly after the novices had finished. The racing was fast and relitivley close, not sure how Carl did in his motos 3rds 4ths and 5ths I think finishing 5th overall in the points.
The MTB category was revived this season which was good news for me, the usual MTB crew turned up. Me, Kriss Brown, Callam Baines and 3 others. After a winter of riding DH I was feeling confident about finishing the race in one piece. All of my races followed the same pattern me getting the snap and powering down to the 3rd double into the berm only to be jumped over by Mr brown, really need to get that jump done. With 2nds throughout all my races I was happy.
Overall A good days racing for DBMX
Next race Derby this weekend
