The final round of the 2009 Supercross cup took place last sunday in a windy Corcaigh Park in Dublin today. From the start it was set to be the biggest cross race in Irish history with top riders Robin Seymour, Conner McConvey and Roger Aiken going head to head for the first time.

Newry Wheelers had Peter Mc Conville,Ivan Mc Conville and Philip Mc Govern competing in this the final round of the supercross.

From the gun the pace was incredible but the testing course in Corcaigh was going to separate the men from the boys. After the first lap a trio had formed at the front with McConvey and Seymour joined by Joe McCall setting the pace and throwing it down to the rest of the field. McConvey was the man to beat from the start with numerous attacks over the opening laps until he finally got away. His lead on lap three was 11 seconds stretching to 15 seconds on the 4th and 25 seconds on the fifth. Behind, Seymour and McCall were chasing hard but loosing valuable seconds on each lap. Ryan Sherlock and Roger Aiken were battling for 4th place with the next trio of Evan Ryan, Neil Delahaye and Lewis Ferguson fighting for sixth place.

McConvey crossed the line the clear winner after just over one hour and six minutes of racing with multiple Irish Cross champion Robin Seymour one minute thirty two seconds back. There was exciting stuff back in third place with Sherlock catching and overtaking McCall on the final tarmac section but a mechanical on Sherlock's bike let McCall back into third in the final section giving him the final spot on the podium. With Sherlock in 4th last weeks winner Roger Aiken rolled in to take 5th place. Team-WORC rider Evan ryan managed a strong finish to hold off a charging Neil Delahaye who took seventh place.

Peter Mc Conville rode a brillant race, battling for a top ten spot for the whole race against Aidan Mc Donald and Gareth Gormely. Pete who is getting better in each round took an excellent 9th ahead of Mc Donald and Gormely.

Ivan and Philip both rode well in the middle of the field and took 43rd and 46th place respectively.

Overall it was Roger Aiken taking the title of 2009 Supercross Cup champion with two wins and a second securing him the league title. First overall in the Vets category was our own Peter McConville with Francine Meehan taking the womens's title and young XMTB rider William Boyd taking the Junior title.

With the National Championship in January Pete is looking good to take home a National Medal in the Vets race