TMX Says: Maxxis gets its feet wet
By Anthony Sutton on 5th Apr 18
So the big news this week was that the UK managed to successfully hold a first albeit the second round of a national motocross championship. Woohoo!
Yep, thats right the RHL Activities team beat all the odds to successfully run round two of the Maxxis ACU British Motocross Championship which despite what the name would have you believe was actually the season opener.
RHL had also planned to get the British Youth Nationals and Premier MX series off the ground too. But the wet weather won that war and after holding silver command meetings the Gareth Hockey-managed crew decided that the Maxxis must take priority...
To be fair I dont feel that that the BYN and Premier MX punters should feel too peeved about it all either.As things turned out Sunday offered a window in the weather to salvage something and had the BYN run as planned then the venue itself probably wouldnt have been fit for the British Championship round.
And while the track may have been prime for Sundays action Im sure it wasnt come kick-off time for the Premier. There were plenty of other MX meetings that got called off over the Easter weekend due to the pesky weather perhaps most surprisingly the opening BSMA Nationals encounter that should have happened at FatCat.
You know the UKs been hit by bad weather when one of the countrys leading sand tracks that even has hard-standing pits alongside cannae handle the ridiculousness of the damp-stuff deluge.
The unkind Easter weather has had a knock-on effect to this weekends Michelin MX Nationals season-opener that relocates to Preston Docks from its original home of Lyng. Given plenty of notice Im not sure anyone can see this as a negative and so long as the River Ribble aint hit by a tsunami or something weirder things have happened in the last week or so then everything should be a-okay. Ive got everything crossed just in case.
Even though Ive been around and seen a lot of stuff, man, I honestly dont recall a start to a season thats been so delayed except 2001 of course when Foot and Mouth put things on hold for around six months.
I wasnt so fussed about it back then as it was in my pre-industry days and I was sidelined with a split femur from a pre-Christmas training accident anyway. Its fairly unlikely this wet spell is gonna last until August so fingers crossed everything can keep on cracking on from this weekend onwards.
The next few weeks offer up a stack of interesting viewing opportunities for us TMX folk as within a 20-mile radius well have the MX Nationals (April 7/8) and BYN series (April 14/15) openers at Preston plus a round of the RT Keedwell British Trials Championship at Tow Tops (also on April 15).
Although Ive been to many a world championship both indoor and outdoor and a stack of local and national trials Ive never actually attended a round of the British Championship before so its gonna be an interesting day out for me and the kiddysprinkles.
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