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

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!