By simon, 4 October, 2004

ThumperX, Australian Junior Motocross Titles and Plaster

From Taylor Potter - The good news first.

I had another win in the Victorian ThumperX series on my ACS Racing BBR150 4 stroke at Avalon on Sunday 26 September 2004. The track was really fast and flowing. The weather was sunny for an hour then it was wet then it was sunny again. Weird weather but I had a cool time and won 3 races outright from 3 starts.

On the Saturday before the ThumperX I had coaching from Cameron Taylor (CDR Yamaha) and that was really good. Cameron worked on my braking and corner speed and I learnt a lot and he helped me out a lot. Thanks Cameron.

Now the bad news.

By RedBull, 4 October, 2004

Norwegian National enduro championship

The time has come to write my first ever ride report, and that is from the national enduro championship in Norway held a few weeks ago.

I had to arrive at the start a day before, because everyone had to go through the technical inspection and put the bike in a "parc-farme" over the night. The bike could be taken out no earlier than 15 minutes before my start-time, so the bike was prepared for the 220 KM's race. The rest of the night I had to ask other more experienced rider about the different "rules" in this enduro. The track was 110 KM's long, and we should two laps. Each lap had three special stages (SS) where they take your time from start to finish. The rest is actually transportation stages (TS) only to get to the next SS. They held a drivers meeting the morning after explaining what we could expect during the track. As it was my first ever time to ride this type of event, I was really excited. I got my start time, and all the time control (TC) "times".