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British Cross Country Championship, Round 1
Second place honours for Ollie Moyce in the Champ class, victory for Tyson Maytom-Jones in the Expert class!
The 1st round of the 2010 ACU British XC Championship was held at Chavenage on the 16th May, the skies were grey with a threat of the rain but the bright yellow fields of oil seed rape shone like sun and the 7 mile course was in excellent condition.
The Main 2.5hr race started at 1.00pm and Lewis Belfield took the holeshot closely followed by Midwest Husaberg UK rider Ollie Moyce and by the time he had disappeared through the hedge he had a good 50 yards lead. From the start the riders looped around a cambered field and then ran along the hedgerows to the first of 4 wooded sections and included an interesting addition to the dammed stream - a fallen tree. At the halfway point Daryl Bolter took the lead on his KORR KTM. The rain came & went in short sharp showers but it did little to cool the heat of the battle for 2nd between Ollie Moyce and Ashley Wood. The lead changed and then changed back again and as the event continued the stream crossing got deeper and the marshals had to remove a couple of sandbags to lower the level of the water. At 3.15pm - with 15 minutes to go - the heavens opened. The course greased up and the riders slowed down. Daryl held the lead from Ollie Moyce with Ashley Wood in 3rd and Jon Hinam in 4th all managing to complete 11 laps. Jamie Paget finished in 8th position on his Midwest Husaberg FE 570.
Midwest Husaberg's Tyson Maytom-Jones took the holeshot in the Experts ahead of Seb Dexter. Tyson never looked back and topped the Experts by over a minute despite picking up some rope in the rear wheel with James Burroughs in second and Seb Dexter third.
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