All new class for for 2008
November 08, 2007
As part of the new look British MMX Championship a new class will be created for 2008. In place of the long standing and very popular fourstroke series will be a new Open class. The British Open Motocross Championship will cater for all machines from 125cc up to 650cc either two or fourstroke.
This decision has led to a number of other changes taking place, mainly the fact that the sidecar fraternity have made the move to run the majority of the British Sidecarcross Championship outside of the MMX series, with the exception of one round at Frome on Easter Monday. Under the new system the Sidecar Motocross Association is positive about the classes’ future and expects to be able to increase the number of championship rounds considerably.
With the sidecar class now not part of the MMX Series registrations for the Open and Under 21 classes will be increased to a maximum of 60. 40 riders will qualify for the main race from timed qualification with the remainder going into a support race. This bold move will hopefully allow the championship to cater for the large number of competitors that are always looking for a registration at the start of the year as well as making the event more financially attractive to organisers. Each organiser will also have the option to fill up the support race with local riders, space permitting.
The British Quadcross Championship will remain as part of the MMX series and will run at most of the events unless there is a date clash with the new European Championships which have increased to nine rounds for 2008. To make up the number of rounds, the quads will have a number of stand alone events including one that will run with the inaugural British Youth Quad Championship.
On the dates when the Quad class is not available it is the intention to include rounds of the British Ladies Motocross Championship that got off to a flying start at Pontrilas his year, it expected that the series will be contested over a minimum of two rounds and will continue as an MX2 class.
The provisional dates for the ACU British MMX Championships are as follows:- These dates and classes may be subject to change . The solo classes will run over 7 rounds with a final decision yet to be made on the March and August dates
2008 MMX Dates
February 24 Solo and Quad
March 24 Solo and Sidecar
April 6 Solo and Quad
May 18 Solo and Ladies
June 1 Quad and Youth Quad
June 29 Solo and Ladies
July 20 Solo and Quad
August 31 Solo and Quad
September 21 Quad
October 12 Solo and Quad
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