Beta Weltweit

Das Edmondson Racing Beta Team hat die erste Runde der GPXC Meisterschaft beherrscht. Hier der Originalreport der Engländer:

The Edmondson Racing Beta Team’s 2014 cross country challenge got off to the perfect start over the weekend of March 15-16th. At the opening round of the high-profile national GBXC Championship, the team took the top three positions making a clean sweep of the podium on Sunday’s main race solely for Pro, Expert and Clubman riders. Winner Lee Edmondson got a terrific start and was never challenged throughout the 2-hour race, taking an impressive Pro class win against the opposition. His 250 RR Factory edition BETA was customised with a highcapacity tank with quick “Dump” fill fuel system which enabled him to complete the whole race with a single sub ten second fuel stop. Step two on the rostrum went to James Jackman who followed Lee home to an impressive 2nd overall while the teams’ youngster Antoine Criq topped off a perfect 1, 2 and 3 for the team’s 2014 GBXC debut. The result of a first corner crash for Antoine saw him taken down by another rider rendering him in last position as the rest of the field headed off in to the distance. Racing in the Expert class, he soon made terrific progress and at one point passed Jackman during JJ’s fuel stop on the 350RR. Jackman’s considerable racing experience at GBXC style events paid dividends and Criq eventually settled for a highly respectable third place overall together with an unchallenged individual Expert class win. Saturday’s GBXC Sprint series opener also saw the team perform exceptionally well. Still on a steep learning curve, young Antoine rode impressively to win the Expert class by quite a considerable margin and his time would have been good enough to have placed him 5th in the Pro class. Lee Edmondson and James Jackman Competed in a tough and quality Pro class field with Lee narrowly missing out on third. His eventual 4th was well earned and so too was the 8th place for James respectively. The Team’s BETA bikes performed well and with the reliable and instant electric start systems, all team riders were able to gain great race positions the moment the flag dropped. The ‘Sprint’ format allowed time for Suspension tweaks following Saturday’s racing and saw all three riders completely at ease with their machines come Sunday’s main race around a long fast course which was littered with tough technical sections.