Race Report: 2025 British BMX Series – Round 1 & 2, Manchester
The 2025 BMX race season got underway during the weekend at the National Indoor BMX Arena in Manchester. The facility at British Cycling headquarters is incredible. A £24 million building which holds the world’s only permanent indoor BMX track and seating for 2,000 spectators. It is brilliant and Scott’s favourite BMX track. It also happens to be the venue where Scott spends a lot of his time training, so coming into this race he was confident about starting his season strong.
The racing started on Saturday with round 1. After signing on and registering his transponder for racing, Scott took to the track for his practice session. Just a couple of laps were needed to get up to speed and he was ready to race.
Scott got off to the best start possible. A perfect gate a super fast lap gave him a win to start his season off. He followed this up with another 2 wins to complete a perfect set of motos and a path to the final with a perfect score.
He chose his preferred gate 1 for the final. The riders were announced and then silence. The gate dropped and the crowd exploded. Scott made a perfect start and took the holeshot into turn 1. Pulling away on every straight it was a phenomenal lap to take the win and the first national win for 2025.
Scott was very happy:
“That was an awesome race. I gave 100% and I’m stoked to take the win. A perfect start and I’ll be looking for the same tomorrow.”
It was then time for food in the Adria motorhome and a relaxing night to regroup ahead of round 2 on Sunday.
Sunday Round 2:
Sunday morning arrived and we were ready to go again. Riders were allowed to do a couple of laps of practice ahead of racing. Scott made it count with a solid lap that looked as strong as his Saturday laps.
Onto racing and Scott was looking strong. His first heat was a great lap to get the day started with a win. In heat 2 he came from gate 4 but didn’t ride a perfect first straight. In turn 1 he tucked into 2nd and chased for the win. Across the finish line it was close but Scott finished 2nd. In the 3rd moto he was able to hustle and took the win again.
In the final he had 2nd pick of the gate and went for gate 2. Again the crowd went quite and the gate fired into life. The gate dropped and Scott was in a drag race to turn 1. He pushed hard and grabbed the holes shot. From turn 1 he pushed as hard as possible and was able to eeeek out a good lead by the finish.
Commenting after the race, Scott said: “I am stoked to take the win again today. That was a tough final but I am super happy to win again and leave here with the overall points lead. I’m looking forward to Cumbernauld in Scotland in 4 weeks.”
So a perfect start to 2025.
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