Shillingstone Forest Hare & Hounds (aka Bluebell Enduro) 28th June

The beautiful forest in the heart of Dorset provides enduro riders with a taste of the good life. Meandering paths, fast fire-roads, winding nadgery trails, and huge hills. It's all there and with a good 8 mile loop there's enough of it to go round. Carl Tiley justified the trip down and took the overall win ahead of local hotshot Mark Cornick. Tyson Maytom-Jones took the Expert win and with it the 'Lee Wheatley Memorial Trophy'. The racing in the Vets class was nail biting stuff with Craig Beattie and Martin Brown arriving at the scanning point for the final time together - they were awarded joint first with local lad Glen Axon within spitting distance. Andy Claxton fought his way through following a poor start to take the Clubman E2 class while Jet Ski wizz kid and newcomer to the sport Jake Forward dominated the E1 class. The Ladies class was won by Dakar hopeful Tamsin Jones, but it took her till the last lap to get by Clare Taylor. Full report to follow....

Results

Photos

Rogershill Raceway Summer evening series

Rnd 1 Results

The first (and still the best!) summer evening Hare & Hounds series, this years will have a twist in that the final round will take place on a Saturday afternoon and will be run as a Moto-Duro event. Much time, effort and money has been invested in the Rogershill complex since our last visit - this years series should be a real cracker!

The classes this year will be:

• Enduro Championship/Expert
• Enduro Vets
• Enduro Clubman/Ladies
• Enduro Sportsman/Novice
• Moto-X

All three rounds will count and points will be awarded as per the S.C.O.R.E. series (1 point for 1st, 2 for 2nd etc. with the winner being the rider with the least points at the end of the series)

Round 1 is set for the Wednesday 3^rd June, round 2 Wednesday 15^th July and round 3 Saturday 5^th September

Entry fees have been pegged at just £35.00 and if you enter all 3 rounds together you will save yourself £15.00 - that's three great races for just £90.00!

Regs are available for download here or if you prefer to enter online you will be able to do so next week.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Somerley Park

Click here for results...

What an awesome day! A HUGE thank you to everybody that helped make the event possible.

Loads more superb photos at http://www.photoboxgallery.com/nickguppy

Next event in the SCEC calender will be the first of our Summer evening series at Rogershill Raceway. Regs available Wednesday - see you there!

Somerley Park final instructions...

Entry Full

Final instructions and entrants list (as of 24/04) are on-line. Please pay special attention to tyre, noise regulations and background colours - these regulations are non-negotiable (see "General Information" tab at www.enduro.org.uk for details)

Entries for 3rd May...

Just a little reminder that as from today entries are open to non-members for the next event on 3rd May at Somerley Park.

If you're joined up for '09 and are planning to ride and race under your membership number you need to confirm your entry asap (there are only so many numbers in each class!)

Non-members competing in the AMCA Championship series are also requested to confirm their entries asap. Up till this point all contenders for the series have been guaranteed a place but from now on in entries are accepted on a 'first come first served' basis and once it's full it's full!

1973 'Cross Country' video

'Hare' Racing is not a new sport. When we started running events nearly a decade and a half ago we just copied what we'd seen in France, Belgium and the States. Even those early events were heavily oversubscribed with 450 plus entries being the norm for the 120 to 240 available places depending on the venue and some were even featured on mainstream TV. But if we thought we'd found something new, not a chance! - events like the Sunbeam 'Point to Point' races of the fifties had long before introduced 'Hare Scramble' style events to the masses with amazing racing and superb 'video' coverage even then.
So what's all this about? Well we came across this video recently from 1973, take a look you'll see what we mean - nothing's new (not even auto-clutches, look out for the belt slipping on the 'Rokon' automatic after the stream crossing). Enjoy the video, Enjoy their ride!

Somerley Park 3rd May

Postal and on-line entry forms are now available for the next SCEC event at the superb Somerley Park venue near Verwood. The mostly fast and flowing cross-country circuit is a 7 mile blast around the sandy woodland paths, tracks and trails of this awesome private estate.

The event is not only the second in the exciting 2009 SCEC "S.C.O.R.E." series, it is also round 2 of the 2009 AMCA "Rock Oil" Championship series.

For info on the S.C.O.R.E series go to www.enduro.org.uk

For info on the Rock Oil AMCA series go to www.cotswoldenduro.co.uk

Rogershill Summer Series...

We are delighted to be able to confirm some dates for this year's popular Rogershill summer series. The races feature a different 5 mile circuit for each event around the superb Rogershill Raceway complex and the circuits include both motocross tracks, open farmland, woodland and the highly prized enduro training circuit.

• Wednesday 3rd June (6 till 8pm)

• Wednesday 15th July (6 till 8pm)

• Saturday 5th September (3 till 5pm)
  

This is the original (and best!) summer evening Hare & Hounds series and is one of the best ways to enjoying racing in the heat of the summer - what's more this year you'll even be able to save a few quid if you sign up for the whole series!

For info on Rogershill Raceway's superb practice tracks and coaching facilities go to www.rogershill.co.uk

Rogershill Raceway/SCEC 2009 ISDE...

Team co-ordinator (and driving force behind the team) Rogershill Raceway's Danny Hall is currently finalising the details of the team he will put forward to the ACU selection committee to represent Rogershill & SCEC in this year's International Six Day Enduro (ISDE) at Figueira da Foz in Portugal from 12-17 October.

The main team has been selected and consists of Danny, Brad King and Stan Watt.

The position of reserve rider is not yet finalised so if you feel you have what it takes to compete in one of the toughest events in the world and have recent BEC experience at Expert or Championship level Danny would be delighted to hear from you.

If that's you please email a brief résumé of your riding career to date to Danny@enduro.org.uk

Inside Park Results

Follow this link for results from todays fanastic Inside Park event... http://www.enduro.org.uk/docs09/march/results.htm