Selwyn Times: November 25, 2020

Selwyn Times Wednesday November 25 2020
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NEWS
Championship decided
in final enduro round
• From page 1
Macdonald was only back in
the country at that time because
of international chaos caused by
Covid-19, but it meant he was
able to race the full Kiwi series for
the first time since 2017.
The Sherco rider’s build-up for
the 2020 world championships
began immediately.
“Once the borders reopened
and racing rescheduled,
I was on a plane and
back to England. The
team had a race bike
in England and I
was straight into the
final British sprint
championship rounds
managing three of the
four outright wins and
taking the E2 British
sprint title,” he said.
“To change things up a
bit and push the fitness, I took on
the big boys Graeme Jarvis and
Billy Bolt in the British extreme
championship round, a bit of fun
and I was happy to jump on the
podium with them.”
The 21-year-old has clearly
followed in the wheel-tracks of
such Kiwi enduro legends as
Stefan Merriman, Chris Birch
and Paul Whibley, packing up his
helmet a boots and headed offshore
to seek fame and fortune
Hamish
Macdonald
for the first time in 2018.
This year was only his third
season in Europe, but he had
already set tongues wagging
on his debut in the youth class
of the FIM Enduro GP World
Championships in 2018.
Finishing no worse that sixth
through his debut season in 2018
and celebrating two wins in Italy,
Macdonald wound up a close
second overall in the
youth series, finishing
behind Chile’s Ruy
Barbosa and ahead of
Britain’s Daniel Mundell,
and last year he was just
as impressive.
He ended his 2019
campaign with an
18-point winning
margin over Italy’s
Matteo Pavoni, with
another Italian, Claudio
Spanu, claiming third overall,
while Frenchman Nathan Bererd
(Husqvarna) and then Spain’s
Sergio Navarro (Husqvarna)
completed the top five for 2019.
This year it was his own Sherco
team-mate, French rider Théo
Espinasse, who threatened
him most, but Macdonald
eventually clinched the 2020
FIM Junior Enduro GP World
Championships title at the final
round.
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DESTROYED: A meeting is being held in Darfield tomorrow to avoid scenes like these
after the Lake Ohau fire last month.
High winds increase fire risk
• From page 1
The meeting at Darfield
Recreation Centre at 7pm will
cover the McHughs Forest Park
fire plan.
The plan was created by the
district council, FENZ police
and other organisations to
protect people in case of a forest
fire.
The meeting will cover
evacuation zones and what to do
if a fire breaks out.
The risk of fire in the forest
is greatly increased during
periods of high wind,
particularly a strong nor’west
that could blow embers from a
fire into Darfield.
Said Malvern Ward district
councilor Jenny Gallagher:
“We’ve got to prepare people
if there is an event and that
plantation goes up in flames,
especially if it’s a nor’west wind,
because there’s a lot of properties
on the east side of that plantation
that would be affected.
“It’s just in my mind, the
council are being very proactive
and preparing people for events
which, hopefully, will never
happen.”
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