Witley MCC Ltd. AGM.

18^th March at the Compton club room.

8.30 pm start. Please make an effort to be there.

It’s your club, make sure it is run the way you want it by voting for the officers and committee who you think will do the best job for you.

If you haven’t voted by post then please make your vote count on the 18^th.

Thank you.

Bernard Jay.

Chairman.

Rob Warner

The South Eastern Enduro Combine Championship got off to an interesting start with Witley MCC hosting the first round at Warren Heath, Near Yateley. This year Witley’s course planners Robert Carey and Arnaud Didey had really enhanced the course by adding two exciting special tests. Special thanks go to Rob Collard & David Bayliss for use of their motorcross track, which emulated the much larger sandpit at Weavers Down.

Just off the pits Witley had erected an impressive pro class start with a long ramp for the contestants to ride along and be timed on the off. Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties with electronic timing equipment, the start was delayed, and from that point on, time became a big issue.

Despite these frustrations, freezing conditions and an initial flurry of snow, riders proved their mettle and flew round the 10 mile course. The going was challenging, a tight woodland course littered with tree roots and several deep bogs over at the far side. Long way back to the pits if you were unlucky enough to get stuck in one of those.

The main interest of the day focused around the two newly added special tests. The motocross test was gravel, the going good and fast where the sprinkling of snow had damped it down, giving riders the opportunity to fly over a series of fast flowing rises and giving good grip around tight corners. A small section still held water from previous wet conditions creating a treacherous quagmire that sucked in several riders. While they were stuck in the mud for ages expert riders found a way round, but others lost time by forming a queue to take turns over firmer ground. Eventually a slight readjustment to the course dispersed the queue and kept the pace fast and exhilarating.