Tuggeranong BMX club in Canberra was the host of round 4 of the BMX UCI World Ranking series and the ACT State Championships. Day one had some bad weather but the track held up very well in the rain and Day 2 was a perfect sunny day. The track was super fast and quite long with 6 fun straight aways. The starting hill was huge and made for a quick top end speed by the first jump which made us all fly into the first corner. Racing is getting more and more competitive in Australia within the Junior and Senior Elite Categories as the National Championships are just around the corner. This weekend also seen the National New Zealand and Chinese team competing for those most important UCI Oceania points for 2005.

The UCI World Ranking series round went down like this. 2004 Junior Elite World Champion Mike Fenwick (now Senior Elite) got off to the early lead with Wade Bootes in tow. Fenwick looked to pull away while Bootes seemed to lose some ground after over jumping the second jump into the first corner, while Robinson went around the top and Johnstone went underneath. By the second corner Bootes worked his way back to third relegating Johnstone with Madill close behind. Robinson went for a last ditched effort to swoop under Fenwick on the last corner and nearly pulled it off but Fenwick was too strong. It looked like Bootes had passed Robinson on the line but the judges saw it another way. Madill finished in fourth then Willers, Johnstone, Wilcock and Ryan J in eight.

The ACT Championships seen some fast and exciting racing as there were 43 AA pro riders signed up. Bootes cruised through the motos and semi finals to meet up with a world class final. With all the top heavy hitters all line up side by side made for some contact racing down the first straight. Robinson went down hard with Johnstone, which tangled with Fenwich and Bootes. Madill had a clean shot to the first corner from lane 1 which left all the racing action behind him. Bootes worked his way back up to mid pack behind Willers and Fenwich in 4th. Going into the last corner Fenwich was setting up Willers while Bootes was trying to set both riders up for a super high low in the last corner. Fenwich lost control in the last few jumps in the rhythm section just before the corner which allowed Bootes to just squeeze by the outside and still able to make the high low move on Willers to come back to solid and an outstanding 2nd place.

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