Regards,
GA STATE TEAM  

  Report back on SQ 2 at Peachtree City on May 21st

Well, it was a glorious summer day with temperatures hitting the 90s, and the quality of the riding to match. A special thank you to all the volunteers of Peachtree City BMX for their hard work in putting this together. Peachtree City paid host to round 2 of the GA State Qualifiers and with a lot of races going on around our state, 143 riders arrived to test their skills in the race for the number one spot in their class. A special thank you to Tim Huff who arrived to claim his chair and announce the race for us !


The expert classes continue to amaze with their skills and their speed around the track. 16/17/18 expert with a 17/18 Challenger thrown in the mix was the crowd pleaser for the day. Ty, Nathan and Mike duked it out in the motos with Nathan pulling off the win in the main. Anthony Wade so close to a perfect but wrecked in the main giving Alan Farmer the win for 35-40 expert class, no slouches this group! Grant Green from Alabama kept his perfect for 10 expert and Arthur Gore doing double duty on his cruiser and class took home the win in a mixed age group class.

Challenger class is growing very nicely and we will be having some great experts moving through the ranks in the not so distant future. Christopher Mitchell perfects for the day, Doug Potter perfects for  the day and Aaron Franklin too. Full classes made passing a challenge for these riders and all the finishes were tight to the end.
 
Rookies had a great day. A first for GA State were two 4 and under rookie riders Henry and Myles smiles all around the track and proved to everyone that size is not a consideration. I do not know who was more excited the 5/u rookies racing or the parents. I think I will have to get their parents into racing too. It was anybody’s race but Cannon Joyner from Augusta took home the win in the main followed by Nicholas Ruotolo from Peachtree City and William Van Arker from Atlanta. All of this class are new to racing in the past 5 months. Our 7, 8 and 9 rookie classes are packed with some great riders. Joshua Rhyne perfected, Robert Julian perfected, Cory Gill perfected, as well as Nicholas Kantorczyk, Jeff Smith and Tanner Henke. Watch out for more action packed riding in Augusta next month! 

    Team racing continues to be nail biting to the end. Congratulations to Bizzarro for a fine first place finish and Black Crown 2nd with Potter Plates pulling off as 3rd. It is still anyone’s game moving forward.

Looking forward to see you all in Augusta June 18th 2011 Thank you for supporting GA State BMX.

Regards,
Shayne.    Points updated on 15th June

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  Report back on SQ 1 at Albany on March 26th

We certainly danced with the weather gods on this Saturday afternoon. It started out warm, balmy, humid and sunny, then alternated between rain, storms, sunshine and dark skies! The good news is that we accomplished the impossible and completed 32 motos and 31 mains before the hail hit. Thank you to all the volunteers and Tommy and Lisa for having everything in order so the race ran smoothly.

This was definitely home advantage for the Albany riders as Cole Acord swept home the wins for Team Chehaw in the 12 expert class, the Daw family dominated in their class with Toby, Tyler and Kailee finishing first for team Chehaw. It was exciting racing between Sam Walters from Marietta and Hunter Janes , one year younger, from Leesburg. These pocket rockets duked it out in the straights , their legs peddling everything they could , dived into corners, and even the last straight gave it their all with Sam taking home the win, but Hunter close behind. We need to watch these two in the next qualifiers. Always a joy to watch the older experts race the track and RJ Livesay, Nathan Grant, Ty Robinson, Nic Connelly all got firsts fro their team Factory Black Crown.

Challenger Class is seeing some new talent. Christopher Mitchell racing for Bizzarro performed well, Toby Daw and Kyle Hitlon went back and forth all day with the wins. Eli Turner set the tone for some super fast 7 challenger racing.

Cruisers and the girls classes are growing very nicely. Congratulations to Alexis Willis on her perfects, Cheyenne Grant on her wins and loved seeing the Beynon family back supporting our State series. Welcome to new new rookie girls who made their debut, watch out guys for Audrey Sugden and Emma Padovano.

Talking about Rookies, the wins for 6 year old rookie class were precious, well done Matthew Land. Our only 4/u rookie Parker Smith kept up with big boys all day. Austin Johnson raced hard for his firsts and Devin Harris and Cameron Potter competed fiercely for first place honors going to Devin. I believe we will have some strong competition moving forward here.

Cruiser men are still having fun out there. Rob McAllister took home perfects, Anthony and Mike show you are never too old to be competitive, Victor Palmeri enjoyed his wins going for number #1 plate.

Thank you to all the team managers who brought their teams to this race. Ga State has added an additional $200 to each State Qualifier and $1000 to the State Championship final results. Everywhere I looked there was a team rider. This is how it all ended, but the score does not truly indicate how tough it was out there.

Black Crown
Chehaw Parks
Potter Plates
Peachtree City BMX
Bizzarro
Evolution.

Lots of tie breakers in there too. Looking forward to a rematch for State Qualifier #2 at Peachtree City BMX May 21st. See you there.

  from SQ1 at Albany (Updated 29 March)

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  Report back from 2010 President's Cup in Ohio

Wow! This will be short and sweet. A small but mighty GA State Team arrived in Columbus Ohio to race against our competition on December 27th. It turned out to be a very long 270 motos, run 3 times, with 1/8s, 1/4s, 1/2s and then the mains. The only scores that counted were those in the main and boy oh boy did our Ga riders pull through for us. When all was said and done GA came out in 4th place with a $1300 check. As per our agreement this money will be wisely spent on the riders who participated in the event. Ms Shayne loves to shop for you ‘all.