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Beaumont & Curd Take 4-Cross Opener
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A loose, dusty Leamington track put riders to the test in the opening round of the Schwalbe British 4X series. The Campion Hills track had been refurbished during the winter months, with three new corners and a proline straight, making for a course that was ideal for close racing and burning muscles.
The morning session was track and gate practice with the day's racing starting at 12.30. Ten catagories are contested catering for newbies through to pro-elite level, working through Motos(qualifying) to Quarter finals. In this, the opening round of the series, because of numbers only the seniors raced in quarter finals,semi-finals, before the day's finals for each catagory.
Rocky Mountain's Scott Beaumont took the honours in the Pro-Elite race. The Kidderminster based rider kept out of trouble in the final to take his first British 4X win of the season after Martin Ogden and Kieron McAvoy crashed into a falling Nathan Parsons in the final run. McAvoy was the first to recover from the carnage to take the runner up spot and Ogden third, Parsons rolling in fourth.
Katy Curd (Rose) took a well deserved victory in the Women's final: the 2010 British 4X and British downhill series winner rode strongly all afternoon and made light work in the final keeping Naked Racing's Nichola Anderson in runner up spot, whilst Jessica Greaves took the third step of the podium.
More Andy Whitehouse Images
Scott Beaumont (above) and Katy Curd (below) took the top category wins
It was a day of dramatic racing and equally dramatic skies!
Scott Beaumont tops the elite men's podium
British Cycling would like to thank the organising team, officials and everyone else who helped promote this event. Our sport could not exist without the hundreds of people, many of them unpaid volunteers, who put in many hours of hard work running events, activities and clubs.
