Name:                            Saya Sakakibara
Age:                               10 (I will turn 11 tomorrow)
Date:                             22nd August 2010
Venue:                          Macarthur BMX Club
Race:                            Macarthur Open
Class:                          11 Girls
Result:                         1st
Weather:                    It was cold in the morning but it got sunny. It wasn’t very hot.
Course condition:    It was great! The last corner was concreted!

Sponsors
Redline, Skins, Blackman Bicycles, Precision BMX, Time, Champion System

Race summary
Today it was another round of the Dynamite Series and the day before my birthday! But Kai couldn’t race because his arm was in a sling. Instead, he helped commentate.

Moto one: I had lane three and I had a great start. By the time I got to the first corner, I was just about one bike length in front. On the fourth straight, I jumped the double and into the triple. It was really fun in the air and hearing the commentator saying I am on fire! The track wasn’t as tiring as I thought it would be so the first moto went really well. I came first.

Moto two: I had lane seven and I didn’t have the best start. But I got in front. When I jumped the end of the first straight, I went a bit sketchy so I went so around the corner because I thought I was going to slid out on the 90°corner. I jumped into the triple and pedalled along the corner it was strange how I didn’t feel the tiredness in my legs that I did on Thursday when I came here for practice. I jumped the fourth straight and landed OK but it wasn’t perfect. I pedalled around the corner and then I finished first.

Moto three: I had lane four and I had a great start. I came out in front and I jumped the end of the first straight it was fun. I did the second straight and I pedalled around the third corner. I didn’t feel that I had enough speed to jump the fourth straight, so I just manualed them. It was still good. At the end when I finished first, I heard my brother start to commentate the next race and I thought to myself ‘Why can’t he do mine?!’ Anyway I came first.        

Extra moto: On the extra moto, I had lane one. I was surprised that I got lane one! There weren’t many interesting things that happened on that race, it was the same as the third moto.

It was good racing with the girls and now I have to look forward to my BIRTHDAY!!!!!