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Aussies confident heading into ISDE
The 2011 event – the 86th -- will be held in the enduro heartland of Finland, as Australia chases its first podium since 1999 in the Senior TrophyMonday, August 8 marks the start of the 86th edition of the International Six Days Enduro (ISDE) in the Kotka-Hamina region of southern Finland, set to produce another true test of endurance and reliability.
After opting out of last year’s event in Mexico because of safety and security issues, Australia returns in 2011 with both Senior and Trophy teams.
In the Senior Trophy, only the irrepressible Toby Price (pictured), Glenn Kearney and Kirk Hutton remain from 2009, and they’ll be joined by Geoff Braico, teen rising star Matthew Phillips and Daniel Milner. The sextet will ride across the three ISDE classes – E1, E2 and E3, with the worst result each day not counted in the team’s overall score.
Price is the reigning Australian enduro and off-road champion.
Australia is chasing its first podium finish since 1999 in the Senior Trophy. However, the Junior Trophy posse has historically been more successful, winning in 1995 and finishing on the podium on three other occasions (1994/1998/2008).
The Junior Trophy team is Ben Burrell, Mitcham Harper, Bright, Josh Ballard, Winmalee and Mitchell Bowen.
France has been the dominant Senior Trophy nation in recent times, but 2011 will see the home nation, Finland, enter the competition as one of the favourites.
This year's Finnish Senior Trophy team boasts a combination of experience and knowledge mixed with motivation and fresh thinking. And it includes Juha Salminen, the 34-year-old with seven enduro world titles to his name – and on track for his eighth in 2011 in the E1 class.
Finland last hosted the ISDE in 1996 when it won both the Senior and Junior Trophies.
Australia will also field a women’s team in 2011 (Jessica Gardiner, Jemma Wilson and Alison Parker), as well as two club-based line-ups.
Originally established in 1913, the ISDE is the longest standing event to feature on the Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) racing calendar and remains a team-based competition in which nations go head to head against each other.
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