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Published: 18th March 2010

Dougie Lampkin was once again the star of the show, as Goodwood release their latest promotional video to promote this year's Festival of Speed that will take place on the famous estate during 2nd, 3rd and 4th of July . The nearly six minute long movie was premiered in front of a select audience at private dinner hosted at Goodwood House last night, before being shown to members of the press at the media launch of the 2010 event earlier today.

Published: 17th March 2010

LANCS County MCC staged the third round of the national Normandale ACU Traditional Trials Championship on Saturday at Brookhouse Brickworks, near Lancaster, and were rewarded with a monster entry of 160 riders with many travelling hundreds of miles to take in this event and the following day’s round at Bootle, Cumbria.

Published: 17th March 2010

THE Monster Energy AMA Supercross, and FIM World Championships headed outside the American border for round ten of the series at Toronto. Over 42,000 devoted Canadians piled into the Rogers Centre stadium, possibly hoping to witness Kawasaki’s Chad Reed make his comeback.

Published: 17th March 2010

WITH just about every class oversubscribed and boasting a long list of reserves desperate to get the chance to compete for one of the biggest overall motocross prize funds in Europe, the Wulfsport British Masters is again proving to be the motocross series that everybody wants to be part of.

Published: 17th March 2010

BRIGHT blue skies, giant TV screens, music, kids trying out motocross for the first time at the Suzuki MX Riding Experience, Pirelli’s tyre changing service, plenty of colour and vibrancy and the track in prime condition, made the opening round of the Red Bull Pro Nationals at Foxhill feel like a GP at the weekend.

Published: 17th March 2010

THE popularity of off-road motorsport with women is growing fast. No longer are trials, enduro and motocross perceived as male only sports, but activities where females can compete against men and many organisations holding classes just for women. For example the ACU Ladies Trials Championships and the British Ladies Motocross Championships. In addition many of the Enduro organisations also run a separate class for ladies.

Published: 11th March 2010

As you may have noticed in Trials + Motocross News of late we have been looking for a new Gobstopper Girl to grace the pages of our Classified section each week! So now there is only one last question... who do YOU want to see as the next Gobstopper Girl?

Published: 11th March 2010

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.

Published: 11th March 2010

After an overnight stay in hospital last Sunday night, following his first race crash at the Hawkstone Park International, factory Red Bull KTM rider Shaun Simpson was discharged on Monday morning with bruising to his face and hip, plus a deep cut to his ring finger on his left hand.

Published: 11th March 2010

Reigning champion Toni Bou - Repsol Montesa will be looking to consolidate his five-point lead over countryman and closest rival Albert Cabestany - Sherco in the 2010 SPEA FIM Indoor Trial World Championship as the series heads to Madrid for its penultimate round this weekend.

Published: 11th March 2010

FIRST round winner Len Hutty was edged into third place in the second round of the Normandale Traditional Classic Trials Championship for solos, which was integrated into the Camborne-Redruth club’s Colin Dommett trophy event at Lanner in Cornwall on Sunday, by Cumbrian Carl Batty and local regular award winner Phil Wickett.

Published: 11th March 2010

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.

Published: 11th March 2010

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.

Published: 11th March 2010

FRENCH sand specialist Jerome Bricheux, riding a 450 KTM, gave a master class in beach racing as he romped to an overall win at the QRA’s Margate Beach-cross in Kent. Bricheux claimed four out of his six races and didn’t finish out of the top three all weekend. Meanwhile local rider David Willett just got faster and faster as the weekend went on, taking the Solo class by storm and winning all three of his Sunday’s races.

Published: 11th March 2010

FIFTEEN-year-old German ace Ken Roczen was the star of the Hawkstone International Motocross which was staged at the famous Shropshire circuit in front of a large crowd on Sunday.

Published: 09th March 2010

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.

Published: 07th March 2010

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.

Published: 03rd March 2010

THE 2010 Maxxis British Motocross Championship got under way at the Little Silver circuit amid rumours that a severe weather warning for the South West would put the meeting on hold.

Published: 03rd March 2010

ROCKSTAR Makita Suzuki’s Ryan Dungey re-claimed his grasp on the Monster Energy AMA Supercross and FIM World Championships after he took his third championship win at round eight of the series inside Atlanta’s legendary Georgia Dome. Title contender Ryan Villopoto had a disastrous night with a big crash and could only grab two points after finishing in 19th overall.

Published: 03rd March 2010

TWO names topped the results columns at Bracken Rocks on Sunday at the opening round of the ACU British A and B Youth Trials Championship, Kent’s hot property Chris Short, and MRS Sherco teamster Luke Walker. However, to say they took the opposition apart would be the biggest understatement of the year.