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British BMX champion Iris Hajda may only be 10 years old but she is wise beyond her years and knows bike racing like a veteran of the sport.<\/b><\/p>\n
“You can get pipped at the line if you don’t go fast enough,” she tells BBC South Today.<\/p>\n
“The finish isn’t after the last jump so you have to pedal quickly to get to the white line after that final one.<\/p>\n
“At my age your finish times are between 37 and 50 seconds, depending on what track you’re racing on.”<\/p>\n
Hajda, from Reading, has competed at the World Championships in Glasgow – four weeks after suffering a broken collarbone – and the European Championships in France.<\/p>\n
The youngster recently raced to victory at the British BMX Championships in Derby in August, to be crowned British girls supercross champion.<\/p>\n
“It was really good,” she added. “I was competing against girls of a similar age and next year I will race the boys too.<\/p>\n
“Next year I will be going to the World Championships in America.<\/p>\n
“It’s probably my favourite race because you can make lots of new friends and sometimes you swap jerseys with other racers too, it is a lot of fun.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n