Leatt 4 Hour
THE NEXT 4-HOUR ENDURANCE RACE - 25 - 26 AUGUST 2012
DESCRIPTION
The Leatt 4 hour is a motorcycle endurance race located just 15 minutes from Taupo. The pine forest/pumice soil track is around 25km long and will feature the berms, hills and fantastic 'flow' that Epic Events is known for. Riders can enter as individuals or two person teams. There are heaps of prizes up for grabs. The event is really social with a great prizegiving and party at the Shed bar on Saturday night. Bring your party clothes! New for 2011 will be the addition of the MOTOMUCK Junior 90(minute) race.
2011 RESULTS
MOTOMUCK Junior 90 CLASS RESULTS
MOTOMUCK Junior 90 OVERALL RESULTS
Leatt Four Hour OVERALL RESULTS
View results of MOTOMUCK Junior on my laps website http://www.mylaps.com/results/showrun.jsp?id=1933846
View results of LEATT Four Hour on my laps website http://www.mylaps.com/results/showrun.jsp?id=1933847
Leatt Four Hour Report
21 June 2011
Set it off
Motomuck Junior 90.
The scaled down version of the Leatt Four hour gave young riders the opportunity to take part in a real endurance race with most of the same event elements as the big race.
Blasting off at 8:30 into the rain soaked track the 40 odd riders got away cleanly. Juniors competed on a 13km track (around half the distance of the Seniors which meant that Parents could keep a good eye on the youngsters. In the end Cameron Vaughan won over Hadleigh Knight in 2nd with Anthony Parker rounding out the top 3. Sean Clarke’s son Jesse took out 4th to put Dad in a good mood for his race later in the day.
The event will now build upon this first trial and there should be twice the amount of riders on the Motomuck Junior 90 start line in 2012.
And now to the big race.
Leatt Four Hour
The start is always a huge spectacle as over 200 dirt bikes are fired into action. The start was clean with most riders making it around the first 2km of grass track rubber side down. After 22km of forest riding Adrian Smith appeared on his Yamaha and must have had about a 30 second lead on 2nd.
With the lap time taking around 30 minutes even for the fastest riders, it meant a fuel stop was required for most riders every lap. So the art of a quick (but legal) pit stop was critical.
The Yamaha lead was stolen by the blistering pace of team Honda who produced the fastest lap of the day of 29 min and 15 seconds. The combined speed of Peter Broxholme and Karl Power was too much for the rest of the field and they guided their CRF250 home for the win.
Top 3 results.
- Peter Broxholme and Karl Power
- Adrian Smith and Callan May
- Cameron Negus and Barry Morris
Of interest is that the top 4 placings were taken up by small bore bikes so obviously huge horsepower was not an advantage on the day.
Great to see the legendary Sean Clarke taking out First Ironman, First Veteran and 7th overall.
Another fantastic result was Greg DeLatour and Jono Hill taking out 8th overall and First Junior team. (Greg, your Dad will be proud).
Track conditions were described as amazingly dry considering the rain, but very, very bumpy which left most riders pretty drained after 4 hours. So well done to all those individuals who took on the Ironman option.
2010 RESULTS
View results in web based format by clicking on this link:
www.mylaps.com/results/showevent.jsp?id=581767
Or check the following results in PDF format
PHOTOS
Our man Adam Wallis from event image capture was on site to well obviously capture all the action. Click here to view over 800 photos that are available to purchase.
2009 RESULTS
The results are loaded on to www.mylaps.com This is probably the best place to view the results beause the report includes total times. Or you can click on the links below to view overall and class results. The 'ALL LAP TIMES' is interesting to read.WWW.MYLAPS.COM