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DAY 6 FINAL RESULTS – Overview

dick.lague — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:26:36 +0000

The final moto is done ISDE 2011 comes to a close and all that is left is the Awards ceremony tonight. Team USA Trophy is one the podium with a third place finish behind Finland and Spain.

Kurt Caselli won the E2 class.

The US Junior Trophy Team placed fourth behind France, Sweden, and Great Britain.

In women’s cup the order was France, Finland, Sweden, Australia, and USA.

We will break down the results by group as we get the details.

DAY 4 UPDATE – Caselli tears up special tests!

dick.lague — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:51:59 +0000

Kurt Caselli is tearing up this new day 4 course with overall wins in Special tests 1, 3, and 5. He also placed 2nd in test 6 by .04 seconds behind Juha Salminen!

He was 3rd in test 2 and 8th in test 4. Seems like this course is to his liking.

Overall he is in 4th spot behind the 3 Fins, Remes,Salminen, and Tarkala, but the spread between 4th and 2nd is only one minute.

Kurt Caselli tears up special test.

Final results for the day are not in, but with this performance there is a good chance the US will eat into Spain’s position ahead of them….stay tuned.

DAY 4 ROUTE – new tests

dick.lague — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:42:28 +0000

DAY 4 is a completely new course and this one heads out east towards the Russian border. This is a long one with a total of 340 KM [211 miles] with with 3 special tests. There is a long transit section of 34 KM before the first special test. The riders then will take 2 loops of the course for a total of 6 special tests. The tests are quite sandy.

Day 4 route. click to enlarge

Day 4 Schedule. Click to enlarge

DAY 2 RESULTS

dick.lague — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:43:50 +0000

Even though this was the same course as yesterday, it did not get any easier. Many sections are rocky, muddy, and full of tree roots which make them very treacherous in the rain. The US Trophy team had a good day and even though they did occasionally struggle with the trail conditions they all did well. The big new was that they moved up a spot into 3rd place replacing Australia. Australia slid to eighth spot after losing Kirk Hutton, and Glenn Kearney clocking one hour and 14 minutes.

Here is the detail on the placings for the top 8 Trophy teams.

Top 8 Trophy Team Standings after 2 days. click on image to zoom in

The USA Juniors have moved up to 5th. Sweden is ahead of France by close to a minute. American riders moved up to fifth.

The USA Women’S Cup saw their effort come apart today. Amanda Mastin was the only starter after losing the other 2 team members on day 1. Amanda Mastin dropped out after the third special test of the day. Meanwhile France extended their lead over the Finland by almost 50 minutes.

Fred Hoess is running 3rd in the C1 club team division. Fred is a 15 time ISDE gold medal winner.

For many riders, this is the toughest ISDE they have been in. The mud makes the rocks very slippery in the forest areas.

USA Club Riders Brent Martel and Mike Sanders exit a forest trail. PHOTO:Mark Kariya

DAY 2 – CASELLI STARTS ON FIRST MINUTE

dick.lague — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 03:45:41 +0000

Kurt Caselli will be on the start line at 8:00AM Kotka Finland time on Day 2 [1.5 hours from now] next to Eero Remes and Juha Salminen. ISDE rules stipulate that the start order is arranged by fastest times. This helps with crowding on the trails for the fastest riders. So the three fastest riders from Day 1 will be there side by side on the start ramp tomorrow. They will also run the special tests right after each other.

Remes was the fastest in 6 of the 8 special tests yesterday, and leads Salminen by 52 seconds. Kurt Caselli is 22 seconds behind Salminen.

Juha Salminen raced two seasons of GNCC in the US, so he is no stranger to the USA and he and Kurt are friendly rivals.

Day 2 will be the same course as Day 1 so the riders will know the test fairly well, and have a good idea of the layout and the checkpoints and service areas en-route. At 211 miles this is considered to be a pretty long day and lots of miles. At least the temperature has been cool at 60 degrees and with all the rain dust in not a problem.

JEFF FREDETTE AND THE LOST CLUTCH

dick.lague — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:12:36 +0000

Jeff Fredette’s flight from Chicago to Helsinki was delayed for a day and a half. Then his luggage did not arrive for a couple of days. It arrived Sunday night along with his favored Rekluse clutch. He was able to put in his Rekluse clutch in the 10 minutes before the start.

Jeff Fredette installs Rekluse clutch before start. Big audience including Team USA director Gunny Claypoole far right. Moose Racing supplied the team jackets for the whole USA team.

Unfortunately, he didn’t have all the parts the first time and had to re-do it after starting and discovering the clutch wouldn’t engage. He lost a few minutes, of course, but at least he’s still going en route to what he hopes is a 31st Six Days finish.

Photo and story: Mark Kariya

PHOTO: Steve Berkner

FINNISH TROPHY TEAM OFF TO STRONG START

dick.lague — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:14:06 +0000

The Finnish Trophy Team is off to a very strong start on Day 1 of the 86th International Six Days Enduro in Kotka Finland. Eero Remes and Juha Salminen are in first and second place overall, followed by teammates Marko Tarkkala in 4th and Matti Seistola in 5th. Team USA’s Kurt Caselli is in 3rd place overall.

The Trophy Team standings have not been tabulated at this time. Even without calculations it is obvious the Finland has the lead. The USA is battling things out with Italy, Australia, and Spain.

Russell Bobbitt in his first year on the trophy team is 13th overall, and he finished 11th in the last special test beating Kurt Caselli by one place.

Destry Abbott is in 22nd overall and Cory Buttrick ranks 32.

EARLY RESULTS DAY 1

dick.lague — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:52:23 +0000

Team Finland has shown its strength right from the start. Eero Remes of Finland is showing amazing speed, he has been 1st in 7 of the 8 special tests with Matthew Phillips of Australia sneaking in to take Test 5. Juha Salminen is 50 seconds behind Remes in overall time in second spot. Team USA’s Kurt Caselli is 3rd overall, Russell Bobbitt is in 15 overall.

After 7 specials tests of 8 for the day the overall rankings are:
1. Eero Remes FIN
2. Juha Salminen FIN
3. Kurt Caselli USA
4. Matt Phillips AUS
5. Toby Price AUS
6. Matti Seistola FIN
7. Alex Salvini ITL
8. Marko Tarkala FIN
9. Cris Guerro ESP
10. Joakim Ljunggren SWE
15. Russell Bobbitt USA

The riders are currently in test 8. We should have final overall results and standings for the teams soon

It is appears that Nicole Bradford has crashed and she may be out for the event…..more on that soon.

Weather is damp and wet, but not really raining too much. It rained pretty hard last night so there are lots of big puddles out on the tests, and lots of wet sand as well.

Final Day of ISDE Canceled Due to Violence

Jon Lague — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 16:10:38 +0000

Day-six of the International Six Days Enduro was canceled over security concerns.

In a statement made by FIM Sports Director, Ignacio Verneda, Day-six of the Mexican ISDE, which was being held in Morelia, was called off due to escalating activities between organized crime, drug cartels and Federal, State and local police.

WATCH VIDEO OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT

Verneda said, “Throughout this entire event we have made security our number one priority. With recent activities between area drug cartels and authorities, and an incident that occurred between (local organized crime groups) and police last night here in the city of Morelia, the FIM feels that it is best to cancel Day-six.

“We would like to stress that there has been no threat to anyone involved here with the ISDE competition. It is that the amount of security we requested for the final motocross, which was to be located outside the Morelia area, is no longer available as their priorities are now to concentrate on protecting the city. “

Front page of the local newspaper

The incident that occurred within the city of Morelia was a gunfight that happened between two organized crime groups in the city. Local newspaper reports talked about how two “local mafia groups” that have been having “escalating relations between one another” exploded last night.

The newspaper story went on to say that the “confrontation, which included gun fire from automatic weapons” soon spawned a series of car fires that were intentionally “fire bombed” by one crime group on major roads leading out of the city to stop the other group from leaving Morelia.

The story said that fire fighters and police were dispatched to the vehicle fires and that their presence would impede anyone exiting the city via the main roads.

According to a person from Morelia, who volunteered to translate stories covering the gun fight and the vehicle fires from two local Spanish language written newspapers, that once authorities figured out the two events where related, the gun fight and the fires, Federal, State and local authorities put up their own road block on the main roads of the city not allowing any traffic in or out of the without being stopped and searched.

Luis Otero, President of the 2010 ISDE Organizing Committee, said, “There was also another event that recently happened about 200 kilometers where a leader of a drug cartel was killed by authorities and that there are concerns now that some type of retaliation may happen against police.

“This, as well as the incident last night, has made the (Mexican) organizers and the FIM concerned about the safety of the people attending the event. We apologize for this decision but we feel that it is the best decision. This type of decision is made with our heads not (necessarily) with our hearts as we all love the sport of enduro. We also feel that at the end of Day-five a majority of the finish orders have already been decided and that the final placements can be determined fairly from those results.”

Team USA jury representative to the FIM, Gunny Claypoole said of the decision, “The FIM feels that because of the recent incidents concerning (authorities, local crime organizations and drug cartels) it’s just not worth taking a chance continuing with the event.

Kurt Caselli talks with Randy Mastin

Team USA World Trophy Team rider Kurt Caselli said, “People need to know that this decision to cancel Day-six and the final moto has nothing to do with the race. They’ve really done a great job putting on this event and given the situation it was the right decision. It does kind of sucks though as everybody that rode hard all week and made it to the final day isn’t going to get a chance to finish what they came here to do and that’s to ride for six days.

“People also need to know that Mexico was a great place to put on a Six Days. I personally never felt in danger at any time but because of situations, which is beyond anybody control who is related to Six Days, the final day of the event has to be canceled.”

Women's Trophy Podium

With Day-five’s final standings deciding the outcome of this year’s ISDE, Team USA Women’s World Trophy Team, made up of Nicole Bradford, Amanda Mastin and Kerrie Swartz, finished second to France. Third place in the women’s division went to Sweden.

Bradford finished fourth overall in the women’s standings where Mastin finished seventh. Swartz retired on Day-four when she houred out.

The US Junior Trophy Team finished third to first place finishing Spain and second place finishing Sweden. Riders on the US junior team were Taylor Robert, Ian Blyth, Nick Fahringer and Cory Buttrick.

Junior Trophy Podium

Robert’s performance at his first Six Days was good enough for 10th overall in the E2 class. Blythe who also rode in his first ISDE finished 7th overall in the E1 class. Fahringer, riding in his second ISDE, finished 24th in the E2 class. Buttrick retired at the end of Day-one with crash related injuries.

Team USA World Trophy Team, made up of Caselli, Mike Brown, Destry Abbott, Jimmy Jarrett, Timmy Weigand and Nathan Woods, finished 4th. Notable performances for the US trophy team were from Caselli and Brown, who finished fourth and sixth respectively in the E1 class.

World Trophy Podium

The three-rider US club team of Fred Hoess, Andrew Delong and Wally Palmer, Tony Agonis Memorial Team, finished fourth. Palmer would have been unable to start Day-six before it was cancelled due to blood clots that had formed in his right leg, but because the final day was cancelled the decision for Palmer not to start didn’t affect the team’s final score.

The other top ten finishing US club team was GoFasters.com, made up of riders Brian Sperle, Nolan Irwin and Jordan Brandt.

Thirty-four American riders started the event with 31 US riders officially finishing. The US had a total of eight three-rider club teams. Most of the riders and their support crews are scheduled to return home to the US sunday morning.

Story and Photos by: Steve Berkner, gofasters.com

Day 4 Video: Nathan Woods

jefflague — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:24:50 +0000

Our cameras hitch a ride with Nathan Woods as he is headed to the parc ferme for the start of Day 4. Its a cold morning and hard to get the body warmed in time for the first special test of the day.

Click here to view the embedded video.