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Mornin' Pirates!

Mornin' Pirates! The BMX scene has awoken. After a long winter break and a cancelled National Association Championship two weekends ago, we competed in the first race of the Federal League in Erlangen with a new team, last weekend.


Old faces like Jenny, Simon, Melissa and J-J and the new ones, Stefan, Thorsten and Sascha joined us there. Unfortunately, Steffi couldn't participate in this race, but will definitely be in the one in Esselbach.



We arrived Friday in the afternoon, so that they could ride a few practice laps.
The first evaluation rounds took place on Saturday, starting with the 20" division, but first they ran the track training. Der ersten Wertungsläufe starteten am Samstag mit der 20" Klasse, vorab lief aber noch das Bahntraining.There was quite a commotion amongst the riders, because a heavy wind was sweeping across the track. Clearly the big double and the step-double would be the challenges of the day.



After conversations with the riders the consensus was: "Not enough training over the winter and then right into the whole Federal League program".
In the Junior division 20", 33 starters were registered and all of them had one goal; to stand on the podium at the end. Simon and Stefan were amongst them. Simon made it to the semifinal on both days, where he was eliminated in 5th place on Saturday and in 6th place on Sunday.



Stefan did not give away a single place in all of his runs, despite an injury (ski accident) and came in 1st on every run. His intention was to sell himself as well as possible, which he obviously accomplished. No one could mess with him on Sunday either. He won every run ranked number 1.
Melissa (Women's Youth, with 32 starters in the Women's Elite) has to compete with the Women's Elite starting this year, where she has some pretty fierce competition. However, she did a good job and went into the semifinal in third place where she was just barely eliminated in 5th place.
On Sunday the group was mixed a little differently, but she made the semis again. Unfortunately, the final was not in the cards.



Jennifer (Elite Women) was also able to keep up well with the competition and made it to the semifinals too, coming in in 3rd, 4th and 4th, where she reached the end in 6th place on both days.
Thorsten, a climber to the Elite Men surprised everyone with his preliminary runs on both days, which he absolved in 1st place almost every time.
On Saturday he made it beyond the quarter and semifinals into the final, where he came in in a passable 6th place. On Sunday he did similarly well, but here he was forced to admit defeat in the semis.



Jens-Jörg (J-J) was a double starter (20" Elite Men and 24" Cruiser Elite) on both days. In the 20" J-J made it to the final on Saturday, where he left the race in 5th place.
Unfortunately, it was over after the semifinal on Sunday. Starting this year J-J is backed up by Sascha in the 24" Cruiser division.



Wow, what a team!
On Saturday, no actually on both days, nothing was stopping those two.
Luckily, they weren't riding in the same preliminaries and so they were both able to run in some 1st places and points.
On Saturday there was a semifinal and they both of them went on to participate in the final.
J-J flew out first, while Sascha slept through the start, because the stoplight wasn't working correctly. J-J stayed in 1st all the way across the finish line and Sascha made up five places and crossed the finish line in 3rd.



On Sunday they only had preliminaries and a final.
The preliminaries went just as they had on Saturday, but the final was aawwesome.
J-J took off in 1st and Sascha was glued to his bike. The two guys distanced themselves from the rest of the group, which could only watch them disappear, all the way to the end.
1st and 2nd place for PIRATE.
The weekend was a complete success for me.
Greetings to the riders. Keep it up.Viele Grüße an die Fahrer, macht so weiter.
Of course, also greetings to all Pirate fans
from

Jürgen



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