MATTHEW Hutt is certainly a chip off the old block. The six-year-old, of Snakey Lane, Feltham, currently tops the UK BMX National Championship tables in the U7 Expert category.
If he stays there for six more rounds over three meetings this summer, he will be a national champion at the first attempt.
Proud dad Mark Hutt, 39, had to wait slightly longer for his moment of glory.
Two weeks ago, after 10 years of trying, he finally won the Mountain Biking National Championships.
Matthew, who attends Echelford Primary School, followed his dad's success with two wins in rounds three and four of the BMX
Nationals in Burnham-on-Sea.
Together with his brace of second places in rounds one and two in Derby, it was enough to take him to the top of the leaders' board.
The next meeting is at Peterborough this weekend.
Mark said: "I've always been into
bikes, so the kids have grown up around them, and Matthew has taken to it like a duck to water."
And there may yet be another Hutt sibling following in Matthew's tyremarks.
Little sister Emily, four, will join him for an age group competition in Peterborough having already won a Midlands regional event in Derby.
