Enduro News

South Eastern Enduro Combine

Daryl flies in to win South Eastern Centre Combine Enduro!
Report by Ed Davies
Photos by www.teamsnapper.co.uk

Round 6 of the SEEC combine Enduro series was hosted by the RAF Motorsports Association at Slab Common in Hampshire at the weekend.

RAFMA has been active for nearly 50 years and this experience shone through even if the weather didn't. A flowing course at this sandy MOD land with trademark Hard and Easy sections, 2 special tests timed by similar technology to that used at British Championships, a minimum of 4 hours in the saddle for everyone along with the presence of former European champion Daryl Bolter gave the feeling of a national event not just a centre combine round.

Daryl was riding getting some valuable sand training in the lead up to the Natterjack enduro next month, along with BEC regulars Arron Poolman, Tyson Maytom-Jones and Dan Beaven the top class was not short of talent.
RAFMA have a successful tried and tested formula with setting decent length timed special tests early in the day, which each lap treated as a time check with the lap times getting tighter and tighter as the day carries on, only the true Enduro riders manage success by the end of the day.

Nearly 90 riders were lucky enough to get entries, but with the tough format set by Paul Hearn and the RAFMA team less than 70% would reach the finish line.
At the front of the field the Championship class were set 12 laps setting off at 10am, with a finish time approaching 3pm, through to the Sportsman at the back of the field having 6 laps to achieve.

Daryl wasted no time in showing his calibre as he set the fastest two tests by over 20 seconds, and with the final check of the day a 15 minute dash, both Daryl and Arron came in with time to spare and Tyson snuck in with about 20 seconds to spare yet Dan Beaven had tired with the demanding 12 lap schedule and the fast pace being set by the front runners and came in 2 minutes down.
The story was the same in the other classes with only 9 riders in total staying clean on time all day. Two of those were Expert riders Jack Turner and Wayne Player but after more than 8 minutes of special tests Jack took the win by a 40 second margin.

The veteran class is probably the most hotly contested in the centre, this was proved when the the top 4 all lost 2 minutes on time and it was down the two tests earlier in the day. Ian Mitchell took the win by less than 3 seconds from Nick Dyer with Joe Beard 3rd and Colin Cowley 4th.

The Clubman class was equally close with the top 3 clean on time, and less than 6 seconds separating them with Gareth Hughes coming out on top with Greg Hodge 2nd and Daniel Warner 3rd.

Finally the Sportsman class Macies Berdysz took the win from Alan Taylor and Michael Wright in 3rd.

Results

Well done to all the effort made by the organising club, the next round of the combine championship visits Canada Heights next month where the Sidcup club will play hosts.