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Just a year away from celebrating its centenary, the World famous Scottish Six Days Trial is set to return to the Highland town of Fort William for its traditional slot during the first week of May. The 2010 event, again organised by the accomplished Edinburgh and District Motor Club, will kick off on Monday 3rd May, with its two hundred and seventy five competitors from all over the World facing what remains, even in the modern era, one of the greatest challenges in the sport of trials. Typically entries for this ultimate test of man and machine were once again over subscribed, with the elect entrants having already survived the initial hurdle of making it through the recent ballot process. |
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KAWASAKI’S Ryan Villopoto kept his Monster Energy AMA Supercross and FIM World Championship dreams alight with a win at the Daytona International Speedway. Meanwhile in the Supercross Lites, Christophe Pourcel made it a Kawasaki double with a win at round three of the East Coast series. |
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JAMES Dabill, reigning British Trials Champion, dominated the first round of the ACU Events British Solo Trials Championship at Low North Park, Harwood Dale, Scarborough, on Sunday. The 23-year old International rode his JST Gas Gas to a 27 mark advantage over MRS Sherco teamster and good friend Michael Brown. |
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FIRST round winner Len Hutty was edged into third place in the second round of the Normandale Traditional Classic Trials Championship for solos, which was integrated into the Camborne-Redruth club’s Colin Dommett trophy event at Lanner in Cornwall on Sunday, by Cumbrian Carl Batty and local regular award winner Phil Wickett. |
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After an overnight stay in hospital last Sunday night, following his first race crash at the Hawkstone Park International, factory Red Bull KTM rider Shaun Simpson was discharged on Monday morning with bruising to his face and hip, plus a deep cut to his ring finger on his left hand. |
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FRENCH sand specialist Jerome Bricheux, riding a 450 KTM, gave a master class in beach racing as he romped to an overall win at the QRA’s Margate Beach-cross in Kent. Bricheux claimed four out of his six races and didn’t finish out of the top three all weekend. Meanwhile local rider David Willett just got faster and faster as the weekend went on, taking the Solo class by storm and winning all three of his Sunday’s races. |
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FIFTEEN-year-old German ace Ken Roczen was the star of the Hawkstone International Motocross which was staged at the famous Shropshire circuit in front of a large crowd on Sunday. |
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Reigning champion Toni Bou - Repsol Montesa will be looking to consolidate his five-point lead over countryman and closest rival Albert Cabestany - Sherco in the 2010 SPEA FIM Indoor Trial World Championship as the series heads to Madrid for its penultimate round this weekend. |
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A crisp and sunny afternoon in Shropshire, England, saw Suzuki take a double victory at the annual Hawkstone Park International; the third and final major pre-season meeting in Europe. |
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After his emphatic win at the opening meeting of the year in Mantova, Italy - Shaun Simpson's pre-season preparations have not gone to plan for the second outing in a row. Having only recently recovered from the tumble he sustained in France a couple of weeks ago, Simpson was once again in the wars, this time back on home soil at the Hawkstone Park International meeting. |
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THE 2010 Maxxis British Motocross Championship got under way at the Little Silver circuit amid rumours that a severe weather warning for the South West would put the meeting on hold. |
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ROCKSTAR Makita Suzuki’s Ryan Dungey re-claimed his grasp on the Monster Energy AMA Supercross and FIM World Championships after he took his third championship win at round eight of the series inside Atlanta’s legendary Georgia Dome. Title contender Ryan Villopoto had a disastrous night with a big crash and could only grab two points after finishing in 19th overall. |
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TWO names topped the results columns at Bracken Rocks on Sunday at the opening round of the ACU British A and B Youth Trials Championship, Kent’s hot property Chris Short, and MRS Sherco teamster Luke Walker. However, to say they took the opposition apart would be the biggest understatement of the year. |
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JUST one-week after the series opener, the North Berks MCC Wallace Cup Trial, the Stratford-upon Avon MCC’s Colmore Cup Trial attracted an entry of over 100 riders, including 50 Novogar contenders to test their mettle on the slippery banks, roots and streams in the Moreton-in-the-Marsh area of Gloucestershire. |
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WITH near torrential rain covering the South East of England last weekend, the opening round of the Metzeler ACU British Enduro Championship, organised by the Diss MCC, proved to be one of the toughest, and certainly the wettest, BEC season openers in recent memory. |
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Suzuki’s Tom Sagar and Paul Edmondson climbed to the top of their respective podiums yesterday as they won a class each at the opening round of the Metzeler British Enduro Championship at Thetford Forest in Norfolk. |
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The first round of the 2010 Maxxis British championship started in fine style for the entire PAR Honda team at Little Silver in Devon. |
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As you may have noticed in Trials + Motocross News of late we have been looking for a new Gobstopper Girl to grace the pages of our Classified section each week! So now there is only one last question... who do YOU want to see as the next Gobstopper Girl? |
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TONI Cairoli and Ken Roczen were the big winners at Valence on Sunday, but the feverish anticipation of the 2010 GP season, now just six-weeks away, increased yet further as three different marques made the podium in MX1, a fourth won a moto, and the top four slots in MX2 were all taken by different coloured bikes!
After his stunning victory at Mantova a fortnight earlier Shaun Simpson looked on the way to more honours in France as he chased home Marvin Musquin in a KTM 1-2 in the opening race of the day, but a horrific crash soon after the start of race two put the Scot out for the day but fortunately with nothing more serious than a cut elbow.
Report and Pictures: ALEX HODGKINSON |
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ONCE again North Berks MCC was the host for the opening round of the Novogar Trials Championship, although for 2010 there was a slight difference. Love it or hate it, the no-stopping rule had been re-introduced by the ACU, but how would the riders adapt? |
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