For decades Hawkstone has been one of the icons in British motocross and this year, the tenth anniversary of the Hawkstone International and the eighty-first of the Salop Motor Club, again has brought a lot of glamour to the iconic Shropshire location. And Mother Nature has smiled too; the weather is quite the reverse of the year previous: cold, crisp, but sunny. The MX2 class of the event is so oversubscribed that the club runs two MX2 timed qualifying sessions of thirty riders each instead of one for forty riders.