Girls, Girls, Girls

10th June – Wycombe Club National

What a complex! A six lane athletics track, squash courts, tennis courts, a gym, a physiotherapy, an olympic sized cycling track and a rather smart and steep dry ski slope. You don’t get this on a council estate in Wednesbury. Add in 180 of the best UK dry slope racers out there and you’ll find that that despite the sun being in skin burning form all of the real scorching was being done on the matting.

With the Breese brothers absent it was left to Jordan to fly solo in a hotly contested minis race, eventually claiming a decent 2nd place finish after a his morning was compromised with a 1st run dnf.

Apart from that it was girls, girls, girls as Charlotte Shrimpton again proved a model of consistency in claiming 9th place in a really competitive Chi 2. Claire Brown edged in front of Charlotte squeezing into 9th place posting identical times in runs 1 & 3. Sister Becky matched her feat with an impressive 8th in Junior 1 on debut and Ellen went sub 250 points in claiming 10th place in Children 1.

The Gould Girls suffered triple disappointment however as an injury from the Stoke race 24 hours earlier forced the withdrawl of Squeak and Bird threw away a fantastic opportunity to take her seed points into double figures with a third run 360, after absolutely nailing the tricky hairpin. The pair then had to watch in horror as mum Jane turned all florescent and officious with a spot of third round gate judging. Fair play to Charlotte however. With mum patrolling the bottom two gates like Admiral Lord Nelson marshalling the fleet at Waterloo, Bird had the good sense to cross the finish line as far away from mum as possible, therefore limiting the possibility of receiving a hefty whack around the back of the head from a low flying clip board. By God, she’s power mad that woman.