Venue: Weavers down, Hampshire

Result 5th pro

On my new bike for this race, Yamaha YZ250 2009, and was looking forward to racing the two days. I was fairly steady on Saturday with consistant test times but just off the pace, I was running the standard suspension as mine was waiting to be serviced and after a chat with Kurt we decided to make a few tweaks on sunday morning. This seemed to make all the difference and i managed to take nearly 25 seconds out of a 4 minute test which was much more competative. It was a great race to finish the british championship. Ash Wood and Ollie had a great battle on both days and it was a lot closer than the report suggested. Thanks to rich, rob and daisy in the pits all weekend again and running to and from the tests.

Venue: Midlands

Result DNF

Very wet again, lucky to have a race at all, the corn had still not been cut so it was a much shorter course than paul and steve had planned, got a good startand was running about 10th in a strong field of pros when i came in for fuel with my new quick fill can, i gave the bike a kick to go and the kick start would not engage so richie jumped into action and pushed me out the pits to bump start the bike, not really giving it another thought i carried on riding untill i dropped the bike in a deep corner and stopped and realised i had no chance of bump starting it on my own with all the mud,  I stayed there untill chris hockey’s honda broke down next to me and we bumped started my bike. I rode back to the pits a retired. The track got cut up real bad so fair play to those who finished. Thanks to Flatout Racing for the quickfill can, it works a treat, nothing will quicker than that.

Venue: Lane End, Marlow

Result: 1st Overall

The track looked very muddy when we turned up so we were prepared for the worse and actually although the fields were extremely wet, the woods were quite dry in places, This was the first ride after the 12 hour race earlier this month so four hours was going to be walk in the park. Rode very steady all day and won by about 8 minutes in the morning session and 5 minutes in the afternoon, not much of a challenge really but a good work out and a few hours on the bike before the GBXC and British champs in the next few weeks.