28th April - Celtic Cup Race 1 – Rossendale
The first national dry race of the season saw full measures of both pre race tension and hope. How well did we winter? Have we improved? Well the answers were pretty well and oh yes. With Ashley Breese vacating the mini’s podium it was time for others to step up to the mark and our young lads didn’t disappoint with Jordan Fellows claiming a fine win and Nathan Breese following his team mate home to claim an excellent 3rd. Ashley translated his mini form into the children’s category by easing to his first win of the season in Children 1 and 27th overall. Jake Williams claimed 8th in Chi 2 with his partner in crime Ben Cooper finishing 16th. In the girls George Gould showed her sister a clean set of heels by racing to 13th and Charlotte Shrimpton continued the good form of last summer by claiming 7th place in chi 2. Performance of the day however goes to Abby Clifford who claimed a win double by demolishing the field to claim both category and overall victories.
29th April - Celtic Cup Race 2- Rossendale
With this ski racing game being so easy it was no surprise to see similar success in race 2. Well, erm, not exactly. Flushed with the successes of the previous afternoon, and with new coach Mr Blagdon looking on, one by one our racers bought themselves back down to earth with a bit of a thump. Jordan, Charlie, Ben, Jake and Abby all managing to end their productive weekend in the DNF shed. Inevitably the day was saved by the Breese Brothers with Ash doubling up on the previous afternoon’s Chi 1 win and Nathan claiming a fine 4th place in the minis. Congratulations should also go to Ash for securing a top 20 finish overall. Kirran produced a strong couple of runs to claim 6th in the minis, Charlotte Shrimpton claimed 14th in Ch2 girls with George Gould securing sub 250 seed points by following Charlotte into 15th. Both girls also claimied spots in the overall top 25 girls.
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