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The sun shone brightly on the Bernard Racing Yamaha Team in the central Hauraki Plains town at the Yamaha "Battle of the Streets" meeting on the streets of Paeroa.
The Team was very successful at round one in Wanganui on Boxing Day, however the Team’s luck was to run out at round two, today.
Christchurch’s Dominic Jones, warming Scott Charlton’s R6 seat, had a coming together, firstly with another rider and then with a hay bale. The final result was a broken collarbone.
"It was my first street meeting and you could say I now hate hay bales, but really that’s just racing," said Jones in the pits after the accident.
Meanwhile teammate Australian Chris Seaton started his day with a third in the first Formula Two race on his Yamaha R6, then went on to take the win in the first Formula One race on his R1. Both races saw him battling with the Suzuki pairing of Andrew Stroud and Craig Shirriffs.
Seaton then set his sights on winning the Robert Holden Memorial race, but it wasn’t to be, early in the race he had some technical problems, which ended with him going over the hay bales behind the Post Office.
With his machine repaired Seaton went on to two further thirds in the second Formula Two and Formula One races.
" Next weekend is the fourth round of the National, so we need to be looking at that," said Seaton in the pits after racing.
