I read in a YAHOO newsgroup that American Kurt Caselli was leading the ISDE after day 1. Anybody know of a good link or other news?
From Cyclenews.com:
The racing aspect of the 82nd Maxxis FIM International Six Days Enduro finally got underway this morning, with the 498 starters embarking on what promises to be six days of riding in sand, rocks and dust.
Those conditions apparently suited Team USA's Kurt Caselli to a T as he sped through the day's six tests on his KTM 300 XC-E to post the fastest accumulated time overall, besting French rider Johnny Aubert and Finland's Juha Salminen, both of them also World Trophy team riders for their respective countries, by just over five seconds.
Asked if he felt comfortable in terrain that most competitors seemed to almost loath, Caselli replied facetiously, "Yeah, it was kind of crazy. I came over a hill and went across Lucerne Valley then I ended up in Barstow," referencing spots in the Southern California desert where he grew up racing and still frequents.
"I made a few mistakes like always," he said. "Tomorrow's going to be pretty rough. I'm going to go walk all [tomorrow's] tests right now - just try to find some smooth lines; I think that's going to be the biggest thing. It's going to get so rough that just finding smooth stuff is going to be, I think, more important than just hammering the big stuff."
However, things did not go so well for others on Team USA. Jordan Brandt's Beta 525 RR expired without warning near the end of the day. Efforts to repair it proved futile, so the U.S. World Trophy team is now down to five riders and can no longer afford a bad day by the ones remaining.
"The pickup on the stator was cooked and we replaced that but still couldn't get any spark and just couldn't figure it out," he said. "It locked up pretty hard [when it quit], and I went over the bars - bent the pipe, bent the subframe. It's done."
In addition, Fred Hoess discovered early in the day that his front wheel bearings of his new Gas Gas 300 were failing - possibly due to not being greased beforehand - and he was unable to get a replacement set during the day. He limped in to finish without both front and rear brakes (the front from the wobbly wheel and the rear from being overworked) but lost time trying to remove the bearing carrier.
In the team competition, unofficially, the U.S. team is in ninth in World Trophy (six riders), even after Caselli's standout day. France leads the category with Finland 11.08 seconds behind and Italy one minute, 23.80 seconds back in third.
In the Junior World Trophy team standings (four riders under 24 years old), Spain leads by 1:29.28 over France with Italy third, 2:14.52 behind. The U.S. quartet is eighth. First-year member David Kamo showed his desert-racing experience by being the best of the Americans with Russell Bobbitt, the only returning member from last year's winning team, second best for the day.
more info at: http://www.ktm.com/6613.0.html?nodeID=102060&cHash=8236ec1777
Ernie P.
Chattanooga, TN
another site: http://www.isde2007.cl/en/index.php
look at upper right couple of inches from top of page and select "click here for more information - online"
Ernie P.
Chattanooga, TN
Kurt Caselli USA in second after Day Two, behind Juha Salminen Finland. Finland moves past France for 1st place in World Trophy.
USA drops from 8th to 10th.
USA Junior Trophy in 8th.
USA Womens World Trophy team still in 1st.
No word yet if the 7.5 earthquake in Chile located 500 miles to the North has affected the event.
Quotequote:Originally posted by Mick Milakovic
Kurt Caselli USA in second after Day Two, behind Juha Salminen Finland. Finland moves past France for 1st place in World Trophy.
USA drops from 8th to 10th.
USA Junior Trophy in 8th.
USA Womens World Trophy team still in 1st.
No word yet if the 7.5 earthquake in Chile located 500 miles to the North has affected the event.
Kurt only 1 second behind 1.place....Wow...
Helmut"Speedy"Clasen
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Quotequote:Originally posted by Mick Milakovic
Kurt Caselli USA in second after Day Two, behind Juha Salminen Finland. Finland moves past France for 1st place in World Trophy.
USA drops from 8th to 10th.
USA Junior Trophy in 8th.
USA Womens World Trophy team still in 1st.
No word yet if the 7.5 earthquake in Chile located 500 miles to the North has affected the event.
Spectators at the race could feel the tremmer,..
Helmut"Speedy"Clasen
Ontario Canada
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2 x Sachs MC-GS 250-7A
1 x Hercules 350-7A 77
2 x Hercules 250-7A 76
2 x Hercules 250-7A 77
Zuendapp 125 GS 72-73
Thanks for the web links, Ernie. I love this stuff (that's like preaching to the choir around here, huh? [8)]). And always have. I still don't think people appreciate the strength of last year's performance by the Junior Trophy team. Well - I take that back...the AMA just awarded Caselli their Sportsman of the Year award. But still..
One of these days we have to talk the guys at OLN into giving us that day by day stuff like they do for the Tour. Wouldn't THAT be a hoot!
Go Kurt! Go USA! :)
Day 3! The short version: Kurt has 30 seconds on Aubert, 59 seconds on Juha. Go Kurt!
1° 150 Caselli Kurt E3 KTM 300 01.20'02.980 16
2° 72 Aubert Johnny E2 Yamaha 450 01.20'32.576 16 29.596 29.596
3° 70 Salminen Juha E2 KTM 450 01.21'01.895 16 58.915 29.319
4° 152 Tarkkala Marko E3 KTM 525 01.22'10.018 16 2'07.038 1'08.123
5° 73 Belometti Alessandro E2 KTM 250 01.22'26.363 16 2'23.383
This info is "live timing" available thru the "more info" window on the link that Mr. Peters posted before.
Day 3 Juna Salminen Disqualified (received help on course)
The jury meeting verified what pictures said. Nevertheless, the Finn representative expressed his disagreement with this decision and said to consider it ,according to his opinion,unfair, since the people do not belong to his country. He argued that Italian Mirko Gritti had gone through the same situation some days ago. There are photographs wich show this, but there were no jury present at the moment.
Day 4 after 25 specials: (Kurt 5 seconds back)
1° 72 Aubert Johnny E2 Yamaha 450 --0.0.0
2° 150 Caselli Kurt E3 KTM 300 -- 5.304
3° 152 Tarkkala Marko E3 KTM 525 -- 2'10.648
Ernie P.
Chattanooga, TN
Quotequote:Originally posted by Ernie Phillips
Day 3 Juna Salminen Disqualified (received help on course)
The jury meeting verified what pictures said. Nevertheless, the Finn representative expressed his disagreement with this decision and said to consider it ,according to his opinion,unfair, since the people do not belong to his country. He argued that Italian Mirko Gritti had gone through the same situation some days ago. There are photographs wich show this, but there were no jury present at the moment.
Day 4 after 25 specials: (Kurt 5 seconds back)
1° 72 Aubert Johnny E2 Yamaha 450 --0.0.0
2° 150 Caselli Kurt E3 KTM 300 -- 5.304
3° 152 Tarkkala Marko E3 KTM 525 -- 2'10.648
Ernie P.
Chattanooga, TN
It seems that for the first time ever the 6.day does not have a trail ride but a early final MX.That gives riders and pitcrews more time(daylight) to return the rental bikes and crate theyr own bikes ready for container shipping.
Not a bad idea.
Helmut"Speedy"Clasen
Ontario Canada
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Caselli second overall - first E3, obviously huge. Is this the best individual result for an American in the Six Days? Attaboy, Kurt. I know that Rodney Smith had a very good individual result in the early 90's. Man - even talking about this stuff with some of the veterans that read this message board feels like I have entered hallowed ground. So let me be the first to always offer up this platitude..."I am not worthy". ;)
Having said that - a critical look at the 2007 Junior World Trophy is in order:
181 Kamo David 2'20"96 2'45"98 1'49"50 3'02"19 3'25"39 1'31"52 E3
114 Bobbitt Russell 3'08"01 3'20"22 2'03"76 3'31"32 5'03"43 4'50"70 E2
92 Kirkpatrick Cole 3'23"31 3'47"40 2'39"83 3'28"92 5'37"99 3'04"87 E2
22 Smith Ben 6'20"32 7'16"58 3'33"70 6'15"89 8'09"49 4'41"74 E1
I suspect that a few of you are very close to this scene. Is Ben Smith a relative of Chris Smith? On the Cycle News videos - whose link only appeared after Day 5 or so, but are pretty good/excellent - he says that he has a family tradition to maintain in his interview.
Well Ben, you've got some maintaining to do, pal. I'm assuming this is his first, but the bottom line is that he had some bad days. Kamo had a great overall, gold and 11th overall in E3, and Bobbitt and Cole finished on Silver in 29th and 30th respectively....
Even if Ben had been a little more on his game, the team might have picked up 5th at best. Australia took 4th, but was a solid 10 minutes in front of the Yanks. The home town team - Chili - took 5th.
The Cycle News video links are pretty cool. Check out the "rocky" special test - I think it is one of the last videos. Holy Cow. Big rocks. Lots of rocks. Nothing else but rocks. Between that and the sand special tests, the eastern guys on our teams and clubs must have found this event very...entertaining.
Final note - in the E1 class (125s and 250s), there is an "HVA 125" listed. Anybody know what this bike is? They DO list an occasional Husky 125 and Yamaha YZ125 (one of our 1st place womens team riders was on a small bore YZ) in the E1 results. But I have never heard of an "HVA" marque.
I believe HVA is Husqvarna.
Brian
'72 Six Day (on loan from Ernie P.)
Ben is Drew and Chris Smith's Nephew. HVA is Husqvarna.
Dwight
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I suspect that a few of you are very close to this scene. Is Ben Smith a relative of Chris Smith? On the Cycle News videos - whose link only appeared after Day 5 or so, but are pretty good/excellent - he says that he has a family tradition to maintain in his interview.
Well Ben, you've got some maintaining to do, pal. I'm assuming this is his first, but the bottom line is that he had some bad days. Kamo had a great overall, gold and 11th overall in E3, and Bobbitt and Cole finished on Silver in 29th and 30th respectively....
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Thank you, gentlemen! Some great blood lines then for young Ben Smith...
Quotequote:Originally posted by tooclose racing
Thank you, gentlemen! Some great blood lines then for young Ben Smith...
Gentleman,..
USA Rider and Vinduro Member, Hall of Famer,
Jeff Fredette won again a silver medal in Chile.
And he will not quit here,I bet you money that he is now planing to compete in next years ISDE in Greece,...
I dont think that his record in ISDT-E starts-fnishes and medals will ever be broken.
Helmut"Speedy"Clasen
Ontario Canada
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http://picasaweb.google.com/vindurospeedy
2 x Sachs MC-GS 250-7A
1 x Hercules 350-7A 77
2 x Hercules 250-7A 76
2 x Hercules 250-7A 77
Zuendapp 125 GS 72-73