Day four today saw Chris's dream of winning Red Bull Romaniacs come true!

After 4 years of racing at this hard event, all of his hard work has definitely paid off and he has won Red Bull Romaniacs 2010

From the website:

Chris Birch arrives only a few minutes behind of Jarvis - and wins the Red Bull Romaniacs for the first time in his career!

The blazingly fast New Zealander didn't go for safety on this last stage - in fact, Birch even rode 6 minutes faster than Graham Jarvis on the last 126 km of this years Romaniacs and secured his first ever win at the world's toughest Enduro Rallye. "I'm extremely happy today, because regarding all my technical problems, I didn't even think that I would finish the race.", says an all smiling Chris Birch.

Great work Chris, we have all been cheering for you, well done we are all so proud!!

By Monica (proudest wife in the world)

Day 3 (from Monica)

Firstly, is anyone else going nuts watching the live tracking!! More intense than a game of soccer with blind refs ...

Today Chris was doing well for more than first half, then electrics on the bike went wrong. He said that in all his years of riding KTM he has never ever ever had a problem with electics (and I agree - so much so that when I heard that, I thought 'but there isn't any electrics...'). Luckily when it happened today he was able to be reached by service crew and got up and running again.

Then it was Africa speed all over again as he tried to catch up time on Andreas. When I spoke to him he didn't realise that (according to reports) he was still in the lead overall, so he was quite pleased. He says he wishes he can just ride at race pace all day!

So though there are no official results, from reports online and my basic maths, we think he is still 20 something minutes ahead overall heading into the last day.

Fingers are crossed!! He is enjoying it I think, apart from the issues with electrics ...

Day 2 (from Monica)

Chris had to catch and pass Jarvis by 40 minutes today. Weather was a lot better, some more open fast tracks too.

Letti caught Chris on a hill and passed him. Chris had some bike probs but managed to fix them after quite some time lost and a bit of help.

Letti was the one who won today, next was Paul Bolton. Chris ended up 5th for day 2.

Jarivs had some bike problems and I don't see him in unofficial results so he may have dropped out?

But on unofficial results Chris is leading Letti by 50 minutes. His bike is getting lots of love so it should be ready to race for day 3.

He says it was another hard day - two more to go yet boy!

Day 2 (from Monica)

Chris had to catch and pass Jarvis by 40 minutes today. Weather was a lot better, some more open fast tracks too.

Letti caught Chris on a hill and passed him. Chris had some bike probs but managed to fix them after quite some time lost and a bit of help.

Letti was the one who won today, next was Paul Bolton. Chris ended up 5th for day 2.

Jarivs had some bike problems and I don't see him in unofficial results so he may have dropped out?

But on unofficial results Chris is leading Letti by 50 minutes. His bike is getting lots of love so it should be ready to race for day 3.

He says it was another hard day - two more to go yet boy!