Duel
We arrived on the Friday via the
discounted Wight link ferry and made our way to the camp site on top of a
windy hill above the quarry that is the center point for all events. It
was a nice spot with lovely views of the island and long wet grass so the
idiots could stay up all night hand braking their cars, tits.
Racing
started on Saturday for us with Duel practice, the course was a lot of
fun, obviously a lot of effort went into it, I heard that it was flooded
right up until the day before and only come good at the last minute after
lots of drainage ditches had been dug. The race offs started at about 11,
with 4 seeding runs, the faster riders then getting the choice of starting
position left or right, the right being the better.
The racing was fast and furious, the general opinion of the spectators
was that it was excellent to watch as there were so many crashes, they
could see all of the course from a large mound behind burm 1 enabling them
to see the start then turn 180 to see the finish.
After being eliminated
myself I watched the final and it was brilliant. Craig came in a hard
fought second. In the pic to the right some the
spectators sat on the cliff and thought it would be fun to throw rocks
onto the track between races which caused at least one crash, "thanks for your support kids".
Duel
The Quad was as much fun if not more than the Duel, run on
the same course but with 4 instead of 2 riders. All the categories raced
together to make the prize fund bigger, you may think this is unfair to
the younger riders, you didn’t have to race them. The racing was physical
and fast as hell, no mercy shown and none taken.
With race offs up as far as eighth place you were guaranted at least 3
races + your 4 seeding runs. I came seventh and received a cheque for £25
+ goodies videos etc to the value of well over £100, fantastic. DMR rider
Luke Smith took overall winner in the Quad claiming a nice duel frame and
a substantial cheque.
June 2000
