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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<strong>RUST</strong> <strong>EnduroGP</strong> Special<br />
Alittle history<br />
CHANGES TO THE class structure is nothing new. Back<br />
in the 1990s for instance, there were six main classes,<br />
which ranged from 80cc all the way up to 500cc (with<br />
sub-dissection allowing for two-strokes and four-strokes).<br />
And for several years in the early noughties the classes<br />
were merely named after the capacity they included: 125,<br />
250, 350 etc. In 2004, as a new series promoter came in<br />
and the championship began being broadcast around the<br />
world, in an effort to make the discipline more accessible<br />
to casual spectators the familiar E1, E2, E3 format was<br />
introduced (which, incidentally, mirrored the new classes<br />
in world motocross: MX1, MX2 and MX3). Three all-new<br />
classes have since been added: EJ (Juniors) in 2005, EY<br />
(Youth) in 2008, and EW (Women) in 2010.
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