Tamsin Jones Dakar 2010...

Tamsin loves a challenge. Twice British Ladies Enduro Champion, twice best girl in the Red Bull Romaniacs, best girl in the Dawn till Dusk, best girl in the El Chott rally of Tunisia, best girl in the Turaeg Rally, and many of you have been well and truly thrashed by her at our own SCEC events! We like all that, so when she told us she was off to have a go at the Dakar, well we always knew it was only a matter of time.

It's a huge undertaking and she's well on her way but there's a long way to go. Take a few minutes to look over her website - and if you want to help her along you can do that there too.

www.tamsinjonesdakar.co.uk

Maze in the Maize results...

Sunday’s SCEC Maze in the Maize event was won by Paul Cowshall on his Future Racing KTM. The superb cross-country circuit incorporated a bit of everything, including several miles of circuit carved through 160 acres of 2 metre high maize crop.
The event was blessed with a full entry and perfect weather, and whilst not technically difficult, was reckoned to be one of the most physically demanding events of the SCEC calendar. Gary Wright and Dave Nuttall chased Paul home for 2nd and 3rd respectively while 4th man home and best Vet was Mik Hill (racing on a trials tyre). Jerry Box rounded out the top 5 to take best Expert.

Full report to follow…

Full results at www.enduro.org.uk.

Last minute Maze in the Maize news...

The course is cut and we're good to go! To put one of these together you need a very understanding farmer, some very careful planning, and a bit of luck. You also need some pretty fancy equipment - to cut the course through the 160 acres of Maize we needed to bring in a huge German built Forager (costing a mind blowing £100,000!) fitted with a special Maize cutter head another (costing another £35,000!). The cut crop, hundreds of tons of chopped maize, then has to be hauled away to storage by a team of tractors & trailers. It's worth the effort though and with the weather looking good too riders and organisers can't wait for tomorrow!

Look forward to seeing you there

Gary & the team

Maze in the Maize (13th September)

Entry Full - Entrants list and Final Instructions on-line now...

Busy September for SCEC...

Final Round of the Rogershill Summer series...

With the summer break nearly over and just a couple of weeks to go before for the final round of this most enjoyable and trend setting series the entries are now starting to flood in. This year the emphasis has been more on cross-country rather than moto-x style races, with the addition of the trademark Rogershill optional ‘extreme’ sections of course (each with it’s own alternative longer but less demanding route).

By popular request the final race will follow in the same pattern (only starting at 3pm on Saturday 5th and running till 5pm) however rather than rush off home riders will be encouraged to stay on and enjoy the early evening with us.

After the race there will be a short break (long enough to load up the van and get cleaned up) before race 2, a 1 hour truly extreme event which will give the normal folk amongst us the opportunity to watch the crazy folk amongst us (including some of the country’s very best riders) tackle the 1 hour Rogershill ‘extreme’ race.

The short course incorporates a fair bit of ridiculous going and could have been designed purely with crazed spectators in mind! (but if you would rather ride it than watch it, no worries - just let us know). The course for this spectacular event is only a short walk from the parking area. It’s hoped the race will provide a highly sociable and enjoyable end to the summer series and a couple of huge barbeques will be available trackside for all to use (bring your own meat and be our guest!).

If you've been to Rogershill recently you can't have missed the diggers and dumpers frantically doing their stuff - Danny and his team have been working hard both to improve the facilities available there and to make the final event of this year’s Rogershill Summer series the best yet – if you’ve not been yet why not come along and see what you’ve been missing!

Results on-line now...

‘Maze in the Maize’ @ Milton Abbas...

Preparations are now well underway for this unique event. The Bramblecombe Farm venue is renowned for it’s combination of superb cross-country going and technical woodland sections and has provided us with some superb racing over the last few years. As the name implies, this year’s event will also feature several miles of ‘maze in the maize’ going which allows us to quite literally carve a course through the maize.

It’s an amazing riding experience, we can utilise the farms plentiful contours to best effect and the course will follow the intended route throughout the entire event (the 2 metre plus high maize stops even the most determined course cutter in his tracks!).

This event is going to be something else - all the pieces are in place to make this one of the best events of the year anywhere - don't miss it!

Entries for both events are on the club website (www.enduro.org.uk/events.html) - just follow the links from the events tab.

Look forward to seeing you out there!

Gary & the team

September 13th Ansty 'Maze in the Maize'

Regs are now available for the unique SCEC 'Maze in the Maize' Hare & Hounds event at Ansty in Dorset on the 13th September.

This immensely enjoyable concept was pioneered by SCEC some years ago and as the name suggests large parts of the course are carved out of the 2 metre high maize crop. When added to the superb and varied cross-country terrain available at the Bramblecombe Farm venue the result is stunning!

Enter online or download a set of postal regs from the usual place - www.enduro.org.uk

2009 ISDE...

Team SCEC/Rogershill Raceway are off to Portugal. The team are proud to have been selected as one of the few club teams to represent the UK and will start training and fund raising with immediate effect. Yee Haa!

September Maze in the Maize date change...

In order to comply with our land owners wishes (and to have a better chance of a 'Maze in the Maize' as opposed to a 'stubble cross') our event scheduled for 20th September is having to be brought forward a week and will now take place on the 13th.

After discussions with TnT it seems that they too have had to change their date in order to comply with their land owners wishes and they too are restricted to running their event on the 13th. Both organisations have tried to find alternative dates but sadly this has not been possible.

We apologise to those riders who were hoping to race both events but regret that on this occasion the clash is unavoidable.

"Your not 'avin our mud" my arse! (we brought tons of the suff back)

While Andy, Mark & Danny messed around with diggers and dumpers at Rogershill (see below) another contingent of SCEC lads headed up to Wales for the Powys. It being Wales it rained, but nobody seemed to notice and everybody had a ball. Three of the lads who had also been planning to go had to stay at home due to various injuries, including broken ribs sustained whilst laying out the Shillingstone course (Ivan), a broken collarbone sustained while racing just a bit too fast around Shillingstone (Paul) and piles which we don't know (or want to know) how rider 'x' sustained!

Rogershill Raceway Summer Series update

Preparations for round 2 of this trend setting series are now well underway. Andy Claxton pulled out his iPhone and snapped this shot of Mark Cornick trying out one of the optional new extreme sections they'd built over the weekend.

The last race was heavily oversubscribed with riders lucky enough to get a ride reporting back that the course was by far the best there yet. The next one will be even better!

You can enter on-line (or download a postal entry form) at www.enduro.org.uk