71st International Six Days Enduro
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In the Junior World division, for riders 23 years of age and under, Finland
again took the win over Sweden, Italy,
France and the Czech Republic. The U.S.
team - made up of Brian Storrie, William
Hamilton, Don Knapp and Mike Lafferty - struggled to a seventh-place finish.
A broken foot that knocked Hamilton
out of the event on day two, and a
snapped chain on Storrie's bike that
would cost him 40 minutes on the last
day, didn't help their cause any.
Not only was finishing third in the
Trophy class reason for celebration in
the U.S. camp but so was winning the
Club team division. For the first time
ever, a team from the United States took
top honors thanks to gold-medal performances turned in by Guy Cooper, Fred
'Hoess and John Nielsen of the Daytona
Dirt Riders. The trio beat out 42 other
teams.
This year's event featured very little
in the way of trail variety, as days one,
two, four and five had the riders traverse the same course twice each day.
Day three featured a new course made
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sections, while day six, the final
day, saw a short 3O-mile ride to the final
MX special test that was constructed on
a soccer field. The riders faced anywhere from five to six special tests a day
(except the last day), and some of the
. tests were used over and over again.
Each of the tests were given names
relating to the area where they were laid
out: one test was built on a "ski resort,"
another ne.ar a man-made "ski jump"
that was built for the Winter Olympics;
while another was based in a "sand pit"
located in a dense wood section out in
the country. There also was a test built
in a "potato patch," and another on very
sandy ground that the American riders
dubbed the "Southwick" test, referring
to the famous National MX track in
Massachusetts. And another test was
. named the "railroad" test due to its
close proximity to train tracks. Most of
the tests were used twice each day,
excepffor the Southwick and railroad
tests that were only used on day three.
