UCI World Championship

Perth, Australia- BMXpros.com. race week report.

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Race Day 5- Stumpfhauser, Leveque, and Bootes all make the elite Pro men's final.

The riders get ready for the Pro Mens Elite Main Event

At one of the toughest UCI Worlds competition in years, Randy Stumpfhauser, Christophe Leveque, and Wade Bootes all made it through the moto's, 1/8 th, 1/4's, 1/2's, into the Elite Men's Finial. When the gate slammed down, it looked as if Stumpy was going to take home another World title, but Kyle Bennit was just a bit stronger and took over the lead spot. Christophe was looking good as well, but was off just a bit going into the first turn, where he held onto a 5th for the day. Wade just was able to get around the mess in the first turn as well, but didn't fair as well as the rest, putting him in 7th for the day. Overall, it was a great race, a solid main event, and an awesome finish to a weeks worth of practice and hype.

Randy is the new UCI World Ranked #1 Rider in BMX

The 2nd place finish gave Randy Stumpfhauser enough points to take home the World Ranking of #1 for 2003, to go along with his UCI World Cruiser title. This is an year overall title that the UCI gives to a rider, and is compiled by points won at certain UCI and NBL races through out the year.

UCI Elite Men's Worlds Main event

1st- Kyle Bennit 2nd- Randy Stumpfhauser 3rd- Robert De Wilde

4th- Jason Richardson 5th- Christophe Leveque

6th- Brandon Meadows 7th- Wade Bootes 8th- Thomas Allier

Race day 4 - Stumpy wins the UCI Worlds in Cruiser!

This is the main event, In the 2nd turn, where Randy destroyed the Elite Cruiser main after an explosive first strait away pull. The first strait was tight, but Randy popped out ahead of all of the other riders, just into the first turn.

Stumpy makes it 2 in a row with the titles, and looks to add one more come Sunday. Stumpy was flying all day, with a slight scare in the semi, as he spun his tire on the staring gate, putting him in 5th for the first part of the race. Randy, cool and calm, made his way back up to top 3 by the end of the next strait on his way to the main event.

In other race news, Christophe Leveque was looking fast, winning all his moto's, but a bad gate in the 1/4 cost him a spot in the main. Jason Richardson was looking good as well, but a crash in the first turn in the semi ended his night. We got to see Jamie Staff, but it was on the sports channel here, with the UCI track world cup on tv. Jamie Won the match sprint race at the Mexico World Cup, and we were stoked to see it on here.

Elite Cruiser Main riders

1st-Randy Stumpfhauser 2nd Michal Prokop 3rd Luke Madill- the rest of the riders were Javier Colombo, Roger Rinderknecht, Lukas Tamme, Jamie Gray, and Deivlim Baltazar.

Race Day 3 - Wednesday night Pro race and Jumping contest.

Things are a lot better here, as the track is riding super well and the organizers have worked out a lot of the kinks, keeping the racing a bit slow. Today was practice by country and then for the Elite riders. After a few hours of practice, there was a special race, for the top 4 riders in the 4 selected UCI contents - USA, Australia, Europe, and South America. 16 riders rode 4 at a time in the first 2 rounds, then 3 in a moto, then 2 in a race, winding down to the top 4 riders. Wade Bootes and Randy Stumpfhauser were both in the finials, as Wade placed 4th for the night in the A Final and Randy placed 6th in the B Final. The racing was awesome, and Kyle Bennit of the USA won the event, with Robert De Wilde taking 2nd, and Mehdi Remili 3rd.

Next was a King of Dirt jumping contest, where Andre Ellison of the USA riding for Hyundai/GT looked to be the top pick as the winner, where he was the top qualifier. Once the contest started, it was a different story, as Andre threw in a dead sailor in his first run, and crashing a backflip tail whip, throwing him back to 9th for the night overall. This was bar far a great night of competition here, and we cant wait till Friday for the 24" race in Elite and Sunday for the 20" race.

Day 1 & 2

After a disappointing day at the race site, I didn't take one race picture. This weekends before pre race was all about making money. First off, you had to pay $17.50 to get in to watch the race, and that is just for the first day, where in 8 hours of racing, they only ran the first 2 moto's only. All 185 of them. Talk about slow. Next, it is a hassle to get into the arena with your bike, as it is a special air chamber controlled roof, and you cant have an open doorway, as too much air pressure will get out and the roof will deflate. Get it? I don't either. dumb idea.

After finally getting in, they run the practice almost as slow as the race, with one gate on the track at a time, really making it a long wait. After dealing with all that, at the least, this has to be the best Worlds track in a long time. as it is very technical. Finally On Sunday night, they ran the Pro finals, where Thomas Allier took the hole shot and won, with Randy Stumpfhauser placing 4th for the night.

As an after race calibration, Randy and his wife went to the Zoo and Randy picked up a few new fans.

I did get a few shots of Andre Ellison taking some time off his race bike and on his dirt jumping bike, getting ready for the jumping contest on Wednesday night by pulling of some impressive wall rides in downtown Perth.

So it looks like things will be a lot better starting on Wednesday, once the UCI will be running the races. We will have a report on the Wednesday night events, consisting of the King of Dirt competition and the Redbull Championship race.