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Round 1 of the 2011 South West Enduro Championship, sponsored by Thor motorcycles took place on Sunday 23rd January at the Halvanna Plantation nr Bolventor. Missing from the calendar since 2008 but Camel Vale mcc took the brave decision to return to what's known locally as Hellvanna because of the 7 mile lap of black peat which disappears to expose tree roots, lumps of granite and deep holes. In the weeks before the event there had been torrential rain but fortunately on the weekend it remained dry although cold but things would soon hot up as amongst the championship class was Chris Dustow from Par who has held the title for the last 2 years, six times winner Jason Fraser from Stithians making a welcomed return and Nick Life from Totnes. From the start Fraser took the lead on his Husaberg but by the end of the lap it was KTM mounted Dustow from Life on his Suzuki who then continued to swap places until the 2 hour mark when Dustow managed to pull ahead of Life and finish with a 3 minute lead, both on 9 laps. Making his first appearance in the championship class Shaun Martin finished fourth on 7 while Fraser held 3rd on 8 laps.
Clear winner in E1 was Gareth Marshall on 7 laps with Ben Floyd 2nd on 6 laps and closely followed by Ollie Hicks. Making it a family affair the winner in E2 was Charlie Richard's son Daniel making his first appearance and finished on 7 laps with Darrel Clemo and Daniel Hutchings on 6 laps. Things were much closer in E3 with Martin Froggatt on 6 laps but only two minutes ahead of Scott Medlyn and Jonathan Hewitt 3rd on 5 laps.
The first three in the sportsman class all finished on 4 laps, Luke Anstice
1st with Toby Smith 2nd and Stuart Cooper 3rd. Amped's Chris Doney and Chris Dustow recently went head to head in an epic battle of mountain bike vs motorbike. Who's your money on? Video
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Dustow
and Life battle hell for leather.
In
the Experts Ian Martin from Redruth on his Gasgas held the lead all day and
finished on 7 laps and three minutes in front of KTM mounted Chris Honeywill
from Newton Abbott with Gary McCoy on his KTM a further 3 minutes behind in
3rd and Colin Eddy on his Gasgas fourth. New for this year was the Expert over
35 class, Justin Gibb held the lead early on but despite having to come from
back in the pack Charlie Richards from Chard ran out the eventual winner with
Chris Doidge 2nd and Jon Hinckley 3rd, all on 7 laps.
In
the Clubman over 40 class Tim Edwards from Bodmin lead convincingly from the
start completing 6 laps and finishing 11 minutes in front of Hannes Tanzer
also from Bodmin, in third was Mark Sweet from Saltash who only just missed
out on an extra lap by seconds and finished on 5 with Colin George in fourth.