Motocross Mania

Just a year away from celebrating its centenary, the World famous Scottish Six Days Trial is set to return to the Highland town of Fort William for its traditional slot during the first week of May. The 2010 event, again organised by the accomplished Edinburgh and District Motor Club, will kick off on Monday 3rd May, with its two hundred and seventy five competitors from all over the World facing what remains, even in the modern era, one of the greatest challenges in the sport of trials. Typically entries for this ultimate test of man and machine were once again over subscribed, with the elect entrants having already survived the initial hurdle of making it through the recent ballot process.

JAMES Dabill, reigning British Trials Champion, dominated the first round of the ACU Events British Solo Trials Championship at Low North Park, Harwood Dale, Scarborough, on Sunday. The 23-year old International rode his JST Gas Gas to a 27 mark advantage over MRS Sherco teamster and good friend Michael Brown.

KAWASAKI’S Ryan Villopoto kept his Monster Energy AMA Supercross and FIM World Championship dreams alight with a win at the Daytona International Speedway. Meanwhile in the Supercross Lites, Christophe Pourcel made it a Kawasaki double with a win at round three of the East Coast series.

A crisp and sunny afternoon in Shropshire, England, saw Suzuki take a double victory at the annual Hawkstone Park International; the third and final major pre-season meeting in Europe.

After his emphatic win at the opening meeting of the year in Mantova, Italy – Shaun Simpson’s pre-season preparations have not gone to plan for the second outing in a row. Having only recently recovered from the tumble he sustained in France a couple of weeks ago, Simpson was once again in the wars, this time back on home soil at the Hawkstone Park International meeting.