Pour les anciens qui ont connu cette fameuse marque (pardon c'est en anglais). La première victoire en championnat anglais, depuis des décennies, est bien réelle !

Buildbase CCM Racing and Stephen Sword were celebrating their first British Championship race win for 2010 at the Maxxis British MX1 Motocross Championship round at Foxhills on Sunday. It was 33 years ago since the last time a CCM won a British Championship race and this event marks a line in the sand for the Buildbase CCM Racing team.
Evgeny Bobrychev took the holeshot in race one with Stephen Sword in second followed by the rest of the pack. Bobrychev set the early pace opening a 5 second gap over Sword until the half way stage when Stephen got the bit between his teeth and slowly reeled in the Russian Championship leader. Half way round the last lap Steve had closed the gap to one bikes length and made a massive leap down one of the fearsome Foxhill downhills to carry enough speed to make a pass at the next corner. The Buildbase CCM Racing rider put in a blinding lap to cross the line in first place. After the race Steve said, “I felt comfortable throughout the race and was able to keep Bobrychev in sight at all times. I knew there were some places on the track where I was quicker than him so I left it until the end of the race to make my move. It’s great to be back at full strength.”

The second race turned out to be a disaster for Steve as a cart-wheeling bike hit him from behind in turn one and knocked him off the bikeas he was about to exit the corner in third place, two further crashes on lap one meant Steve had to race from dead last to 9th place at the flag. Buildbase CCM Racings’ Tom Church got a flying start and exited turn 1 in second place. After lap one TC found himself in 4th place which he kept until the last turn of the race when Parker managed to sneak past to give him a 5th place finish.

Race three and the Buildbase CCM team got a dream start with Steve leading Tom out of turn one with the rest of the pack chasing close behind. Steve managed to pull a 5 second gap over Bobrychev who had by now passed Tom for 2nd, closing the gap within 5 laps, Bobrychev made his pass on Steve. Knowing he had the speed, Steve pressured Bobrychev into a mistake a lap later and made the pass to take the lead once again. Two laps later and Bobrychev took the lead to pull out a 4 second gap over Steve. Not content with second, Steve closed the gap to a bikes length but just didn’t have enough time to pass for a win and was forced to settle for second. Tom put in a solid performance to take fourth place at the finish.

Buildbase CCM’s sporting Director Dave Thorpe commented, “it’s great to see both riders putting in massive efforts today. It was only a matter of time before Steve took his first win of the season and it wont be his last. Tom has shown also that he isn’t far off either. The next target is to take the overall at the next round and start pulling back the points gap. It will be very difficult to beat Bobrychev this year but not impossible. I will be working with our riders intensely over the next few weeks to prepare for the next round at Farleigh Castle, another place where CCM has a lot of history and I know it would mean a lot for the Buildbase CCM Racing team to take a win there.”

CCM’s Austin Clews commented, “ All of us at CCM, in particular CCM Founder Alan Clews, are very proud to see Steve win the first race in such an exciting fashion, it’s great to see Steve take a win, he has worked so hard this year to get himself back on track and he deserves it. I have a lot of respect for both our riders, Tom has done very well to bounce back with two top 5 places today and he also is getting stronger each week.”