After two action packed events already this year, July sees a glut of Supermoto action with no less than three rounds of this year’s series within four weeks. To kick off an exciting ‘Summer of Sliding’, next weekend, 30th June / 1st July sees competitors making their way to the famous Lydden Hill Circuit near Canterbury in Kent, for round 3 of the British and Round 4 of the National Championships respectively. Teesside Autodrome then follows on the 14th/15th July and the busy Summer period finishes at Three Sisters on the 28th/29th July with a short break before events continue in August.
The 28 riders in the British Championship will again be joined by a few selected wildcard riders this weekend including; ex-World Motocross Championship rider Jochen Jasinski from Germany aboard his 650 Husaberg, young Australian sensation Joe Harvey aboard a Halsion Lincoln Aprilia SXV550 and 10 times British Motocross Champion Rob Herring, who will also ride a Halsion Lincoln Aprilia SXV, albeit a 450cc version.
As both 450 & Open British Championship classes actually run at the same time within the same race, the riders, teams and spectators get to enjoy superb entertainment all the way through the field.
After three breathtaking races at the last round at Lydd, each with a different winner, Christian Iddon (Factory Aprilia SXV550 and Lee Jones (SMRacing Rocket Centre Aprilia SXV450) lead the British Championship Open and 450 classes respectively, but with three races at each meeting and a points system that is unforgiving of errors, literally anybody in the field could have replaced them by next Sunday evening! Current championship positions for all classes in both series, can be found on the series website -
www.motogb.net.
Providing fantastic support to the British Championship once again this weekend, is the NORA Sport National Supermoto Championship featuring Solos, Quads and the superbly entertaining Superlites. If you haven’t seen a Superlite race yet, Lydden Hill is an excellent venue to break your duck and witness the wildly entertaining spectacle provided by these amazing, all terrain Drakart machines.
Lydden Hill has a noise restriction similar to that of Oulton Park with no Sunday morning motorised action, so a heavily modified timetable has been introduced to ensure all the action is packed into a day and a half’s running.
You can download the Lydden Hill weekend timetable from the series website or access it directly via this
link.
Lydden Hill Circuit is located just off the main A2, approx half way between Canterbury & Dover.
The post code for Satellite Navigation users is CT4 6RX, the circuit telephone number is 01304 830 557 and the circuit website is
www.lyddenracecircuit.co.uk.
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