RUST magazine: EnduroGP 2017 Guide
RUST magazine: EnduroGP 2017 Guide It’s a whole new enduro world championship season starting this Saturday, with a new name (EnduroGP – okay, nearly new), new classes and new event formats. To give you the low down, or is it the heads up (?), RUST’s world enduro reporter Georgia Wells has dug into the rule book and into the entry lists, not to mention the event schedule, so as to give you a complete overview of what could be one of the most interesting seasons yet. And by heck, what a start to the season it will be! With a two-day rally, not an enduro, with so many tests – none seen beforehand – and of course ridden in snow in Finland. Yeah, we’ll be watching the FIM live timing for sure…! We hope you enjoy the guide. Here’s looking forward to a great year of racing. Jon Bentman Editor, RUST
RUST magazine: EnduroGP 2017 Guide
It’s a whole new enduro world championship season starting this Saturday, with a new name (EnduroGP – okay, nearly new), new classes and new event formats. To give you the low down, or is it the heads up (?), RUST’s world enduro reporter Georgia Wells has dug into the rule book and into the entry lists, not to mention the event schedule, so as to give you a complete overview of what could be one of the most interesting seasons yet.
And by heck, what a start to the season it will be! With a two-day rally, not an enduro, with so many tests – none seen beforehand – and of course ridden in snow in Finland. Yeah, we’ll be watching the FIM live timing for sure…!
We hope you enjoy the guide. Here’s looking forward to a great year of racing.
Jon Bentman
Editor, RUST
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A Snow rally?<br />
THE RALLY ROUND in the likely snows of Finland<br />
will certainly create some fun and games. Certainly,<br />
the relentless rally format of the race has caused<br />
headaches for everyone. The run around Southern<br />
Finland’s legendary Lake Paijanne will see the riders<br />
tackle 15-20 tests in one day, in temperatures as<br />
low as -14ºC (anything below -15ºC will see the<br />
cancellation of the race). The long, unseen, tests and<br />
the lengthy and tricky liaisons will make keeping up<br />
with the race almost impossible for teams, followers,<br />
and fans. Riders will need to change their spiked tyres<br />
often – and will need to change their clothes between<br />
every test or risk hypothermia on the road sections.<br />
As well, the race begins in one town and ends 140km<br />
away in the nation’s capital.<br />
The budgets the teams have had to put forward for<br />
additional training programmes, winter riding gear,<br />
specialist foods and drink, and extra staff to keep up<br />
with the riders on the route (which spans several<br />
hundred kilometres) has made the opening round of<br />
the season very controversial indeed.
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