BRAINTREE BULLETS BMX club fielded 39 entries at rounds two and three of the National BMX racing series at the new venue Cyclopark in Gravesend.
The venue is a purpose-built, multi-discipline cycling venue aimed to bring cycling to the forefront in the South East.
The racing got underway with the cruiser classes and Jake Coombs was the first Bullet on track (9-12years) taking consistent finishes across the weekend's racing to finish third on day one and second on day two.
Shane Redgewell (13-14 years) took two second place finishes while Charlie Giles had his first outing in the cruiser racing and adapted well to the bigger wheels, with two seventh place finishes (15-16 years).
In the 17-29 age group, Oli Cutmore started where he left off after round one with another win when he overcame clubmate Chris Potter (fourth).
On day two, Potter came out the better of the two with third to Cutmore's fifth. Lana Redgewell rode in the equivalent girls class and had some great races to finish fifth in round two, but a crash in round three saw her slip back to sixth.
Another rider in her first attempt at national racing was Jen Cannons in the 30-plus ladies class, who narrowly missed out on the finals.
Lastly in the cruisers was club coach Julian Allen, returning to national racing after injury, and who rode to seventh on Saturday.
The racing progressed to the Challenge classes and in the U7 boys, Henry Rowe made the B final both days and finished seventh and eighth.
In the nines, Seb Pantlin had to settle for the B finals. On day two he took second place. Tyler Carter in the tens, worked his way to third in the Sunday racing.
Tom Stokes in the 11's wound up in the B finals both days taking a fifth and a fourth.
The Bullets had five riders in the 12's, with Ollie Rowe finishing second on day one. Shane Redgewell and George Moret, in the 14's, took fourth and fifth in the B final.
In the 15's, Ryan Hutchinson competed in his first season of nationals and took fourth place in the A finals on day one and third the next day.
Lee Golder crashed on day two but still managed to win the B final. Josh Butson settled for third in the B final, but gained second place in the A final of day two.
In the 15-16 girls, Kelsey Dixon took fifth in the B final, while Isabel Potter missed the finals on day one, but dug deep on day two to seventh in the B final.
Oli Cutmore was the sole representative in the 17-29's class and he finished sixth in the A final.
In the championship/elite classes , Taylor Andrews and Potter Potter came in sixth in the B final on Sunday. In the equivalent girls' class, Redgewell made her way to the top 16 on both days.
