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(Now that's a pocket rocket!)
12 years ago
Sunday 25 July 2010
New BMC machine unveiled...
Mike has been busy building Leon a new bike. It's a radical move for Mike as it comes complete with cow horn bars, tan leather seat and car tyres. I look forward to seeing Leon break yet another lap record on it the first time he rides it...
(Now that's a pocket rocket!)
(Now that's a pocket rocket!)
Sunday 11 July 2010
EMRA Rd4 - 'Super Si'!
Last weekend Si Edmondson flew the flag for the BMC Racing team at round four of the EMRA championships. Going in to the day, Si was leading the Formula 400 championship ahead of Richie Welsh. The weather was good, apart from the strong wind that is! But the sun was out and it was to be a dry day.
Qualifying went well for Si as he recorded a lap time of 59.294 to put himself second on the grid. Talking of which, the grid was a mixture of F400, F125 and GP 125 machines. So it was going to be busy out there! For race one I watched from the inside of the exit of Gerrards...Si came round in third place just behind the leaders. It wasn't long before he had moved up in to second position though, and giving chase to Richie Welsh out in front. Si pushed hard and was starting to close the gap just after the midway point in the race. But, unfortunately for Si, the leading F125 rider was gaining on him, and made his move going in to Edwina's. This caused Si to momentarily lift the bike, and seemed to disrupt his concentration a little. He quickly got his head back down and pushed hard right to end of the race where he finished an excellent second place in class.
Race two was a very similar affair. Si got a little bogged down at the start and had a fight on his hands as he went in to Gerrards in about fifth place. However, by the end of lap two he had fought his way through to second place and was keeping in touch with Richie Welsh up ahead. Si got his head down again and chased hard, but again the leading F125 rider came through to disrupt proceedings. The end of the race came too quickly though, and Si brought home another second place in class. Another great ride from Si which now leaves him second in the championship, but not by much, so it's all to play for in the last two rounds of the championship.
(Si even has his own logo!)
(Very nice use of the number '3'.)
(Mike, Rod and Si discussing tactics.)
(Si looking relaxed between races.)
(Leon was there with his heavily plastered arm.)
(Some action shots of Si.)
(Not a bad day's racing!)
Qualifying went well for Si as he recorded a lap time of 59.294 to put himself second on the grid. Talking of which, the grid was a mixture of F400, F125 and GP 125 machines. So it was going to be busy out there! For race one I watched from the inside of the exit of Gerrards...Si came round in third place just behind the leaders. It wasn't long before he had moved up in to second position though, and giving chase to Richie Welsh out in front. Si pushed hard and was starting to close the gap just after the midway point in the race. But, unfortunately for Si, the leading F125 rider was gaining on him, and made his move going in to Edwina's. This caused Si to momentarily lift the bike, and seemed to disrupt his concentration a little. He quickly got his head back down and pushed hard right to end of the race where he finished an excellent second place in class.
Race two was a very similar affair. Si got a little bogged down at the start and had a fight on his hands as he went in to Gerrards in about fifth place. However, by the end of lap two he had fought his way through to second place and was keeping in touch with Richie Welsh up ahead. Si got his head down again and chased hard, but again the leading F125 rider came through to disrupt proceedings. The end of the race came too quickly though, and Si brought home another second place in class. Another great ride from Si which now leaves him second in the championship, but not by much, so it's all to play for in the last two rounds of the championship.
(Si even has his own logo!)
(Very nice use of the number '3'.)
(Mike, Rod and Si discussing tactics.)
(Si looking relaxed between races.)
(Leon was there with his heavily plastered arm.)
(Some action shots of Si.)
(Not a bad day's racing!)
Saturday 3 July 2010
A good mention in BSN...
The latest edition of BikeSportNews has a write-up of the NG Road Racing event at Snetterton. And Leon gets a pretty good mention about his lap record. Here's what it says:
'Leon Jeacock (BMC Honda), the 19-year-old 2009 EMRA Formula 400 champion, chopped a whopping 2.6 seconds off Chris Beverley's old lap record in the A&R Racing F400 class.
Jeacock had it all his own way, apart from an early race challenge on both days from Alan Percival on the Rich-Bearcroft-tuned Kawasaki.
All this was even more impressive bearing in mind that Jeacock is riding with the broken scaphoid that he sustained at Pembrey recently.'
All very good, but didn't Mike win last years Formula 400 championship? And Leon won pretty much everything else?
Come on BSN, get your facts right!
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