Harper does the business at Wildwood
Clinches the inaugural extreme off-road event, featuring a heady cocktail of enduro, trials and motocrossRegular enduro rider Mitch Harper has etched his name into the record books as the first winner of the Wildwood Rock Extreme cross country event, staged just outside Melbourne last Sunday.
After more than three hours of racing – or should that be scrambling? -- around the 13km course, which featured steep, rock-littered hills, rock ledges, log walls and merciless water sections, the KTM-mounted Harper emerged with the $10,000 first prize, ahead of Honda’s Michael Phillips and Yamaha’s pre-event favourite, Stefan Merriman.
After eight laps it was actually Phillips who crossed the line first, but he then received a receiving a penalty for a track infringement, dropping him back to second, one minute and 10 seconds (1:10) behind Harper.
Harper finished fourth overall in the E3 class in the 2010 Yamaha Australian Off-Road Championship, and third in the same class at the Australian Four-Day Enduro.
Merriman, who was fastest in the prologue, finished 1:20 behind the winner, followed by Todd Stephenson (7:37) and Glenn Kearney (10:12), who has just returned home from another year of competition in America.
Trials expert Trevor Campbell and Josh Green, a world junior enduro race winner in Europe this year, saw out the top seven.
Thirty-four riders completed the event, and surprisingly only eight failed to finish.
Click on the following link for full results in the Wildwood Rock Extreme.
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