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Anwar Sidi Motorsport Bulletin Issue No:98

Stage being set for 2015 FIM AFRICA Cross Country of African Nations

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PHOTOGRAPHY: ANWAR SIDI

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF FIM AFRICA

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t is indeed a great pleasure to write this welcoming address for the first time in my role as President of FIM AFRICA. To stage a Continental Championship event take a huge effort, which is normally undertaken by a small team of dedicated enthusiasts and I am sure that the same is true of this event.

In that respect I extend my sincere thanks to KMSF and those who have given their time and effort to make this event possible.

If past events are any measure, then I am sure that6once again Kenya will host an event worthy of Continental Championship status.

Even though the number of visiting riders is not as hoped for, due mainly to budget restrictions, to those who have made the effort to travel to Kenya, we thank you for your commitment, which I am sure will be rewarded with an enjoyable event.

On that note, on behalf of FIM AFRICA I wish you all the very best for a safe, enjoyable and competitive event.

RAY WILSON President – FIM AFRICA

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MESSAGE FROM KMSF MOTOR CYCLE COMMISSION CHAIRMAN

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n behalf of Kenya Motor Sports Federation Motor Cycle Commission, we bid everybody a big welcome to all competitors who have travelled a long way to Timau for this prestigious gathering of FIM Africa Cross Country Championship.

A special vote of appreciation and congratulations is also extended to each and every member of the Organizing Committee for their hard work, dedication and commitment to ensure the event will be a tremendous success.

Finally this message would not be complete without a message to the sponsors.

Such events cannot be hosted without the support of the Sponsors from the Business Community and on behalf of the Organizers, our sincere thanks to all of those companies and the County of Meru.

Wishing each one of you a great and safe weekend racing.

Maina Muturi Chair KMSF Motor Cycle Commission

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PHOTOGRAPHY: ANWAR SIDI

Stage being set for 2015 FIM AFRICA Cross Country of African Nations

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nce again, having held two previous successful events, Kenya has been awarded the hosting of the 2015 Cross Country of African Nations by FIM AFRICA. This event will be held on June 19th and 20th 2015. The venue is Kisima Farm, Timau and the route covers the foothills of the iconic Mount Kenya. This event is a one of the most prestigious in the African Continent and riders are expected from countries such as South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, as well as our neighbors from Uganda

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and Tanzania.

The Organisers are well into preparations for this event, and the course is being designed by one of our top Enduro competitors, Shaun Miller, who along with Kenya team mates Anthony Nielsen, Ross Field and Alan De Boer , were successful in winning their class in the event held last year in Zambia.

Shaun has designed a route of approximately 40 km which will be run in laps or around 5 hours riding. The route is mixed and quite challenging, containing extreme river sections,

technical river sections, rocky sections, forest sections and steep hill sections. There will be about three spectator points, the main one being the start/finish area where competitors will have to complete a series of ten obstacles adding to the excitement.

The Kenya squad for the event, both bikes and quads, containing such riders as Shivam Vinayak, Ian Duncan, Tutu Maina, Ben Spinks, Shazar Anwar to name but a few, is being prepared by Team Captain, Ross Field. Countries may enter 5 riders per class as a Team, and

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other riders as individuals. The top two riders in each class will score points for their Team, and the Team with the most points is declared the winner.

Friday 19th June will start with scrutineering and documentation, followed by a sighting lap for all competitors.

Saturday 20th June sees the Race proper start at 09:00 and expected to finish around 14:00 hours. Prize giving will be held in the evening at the venue.

An exciting addition to this year’s competition is the Dakar prize. This event is being added as one of the criteria towards awarding a rider from Africa an entry into the world famous Dakar Rally. There are a few Kenyan riders who will be challenging for that prize.

So preparations are racing ahead in what promises to be a very exciting event for Kenya.

We look forward to welcoming everybody in June, up in Timau.

Chairman EAMSC: Chris Wahome Kenya Team Captain: Ross Field

Shaun has designed a route of approximately 40 km which will be run in laps or around 5 hours riding. The route is mixed and quite challenging, containing extreme river sections, technical river sections, rocky sections, forest sections and steep hill sections.

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NORDIC TRAILERS ENDURO CHAMPIONSHIP Pos Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1

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Anthony Nielsen Shivam Vinayak Andrew Pleasance Ben Spinks Ross Field Shaun Miller Karan Sehmi Ian Duncan Robbie calder Franco Checchini David Lawrence Brown Kyle Ray Andy Forrester Al de Boer Tutu Maina Othman Raddadi David Francombe John Bisley Gerald Taylor Toby Francombe Clubman Class Alan Wickham Milan Shah Adam Miller Jorgen Nielsen Ralph Spinks Lloyd Destro Wieber Berkhout Malcom Destro Zane Young Ian Chesterman Quads Shazar Anwar

KITENGELA 1 20 17 15 11 13 9 7 6 10

SUSWA 2 20 15 13 17 11 6 8 9 1 10

8 7 5 5 4 1

3 4

3 2 2 20 9 15 17

13 20 11 17 15

13 11 10 8 20

Total 40 32 28 28 24 15 15 15 11 10 8 7 5 5 4 4 4 3 2 2 33 29 26 17 17 15 13 11 10 8 0 20

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Class B1 SHIVAM VINAYAK TUTU MAINA KARAN SEHMI LORIAN DOUGLAS DUFRESNE Class A1 LLOYD DESTRO Class B2 ALAN DE BOER BEN SPINKS SHAUN MILLER ANDREW PLEASANCE ROSS FIELD Class B3 VINCENT BOLANGER SHAZAR ANWAR ZANE YOUNG Class B8 DANIELLE SPINKS Class B9 CHANTAL YOUNG INDIVIDUALS FRANCO CHECCHINI ROBBIE CALDER MARK GLEN IAN DUNCAN DAVID LAWRENCE BROWN DANILO PUCCI WANGAI KIMERIA GERALD TAYLOR MILAN SHAH OTHMAN RADDADI

111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509

26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45

MARKUS TAKKUNEN RALPH SPINKS CALEB SWART CALEB SIMONSON PER BJERRE ALPHA MALINDA HANSI BRUINS ALEX VAN DER VOOR PIETER VAN IPEREN AART KOSTER LANE SIMONSON NATE HINTON JORGEN NIELSEN ALAN WICKHAM TOM TAYLOR MALCOLM DESTRO VINCENT CROSBIE TED BARBIER ASHI YOUNG EDUAN BESTER

46 47 48 49 50 51 52

NATIONAL ENDURO WIEBE BERKHOUT ADAM MILLER JOOST HOEDJES JOOST ZUURBIER BEN PONTIER GAVIN MOURITZEN GURRAJ SINGH

510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525

TZ TZ TZ TZ TZ TZ TZ TZ TZ TZ

BOTS SA UG SA

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PHOTOGRAPHY: ANWAR SIDI

FIM AFRICA XCOAN 2015 EVENT VENUE: This event will be held in Kenya at Kisima Farm, Timau, Kenya. Approximately 250km North of Nairobi.

GPS co-ordinates: N 00 06.510 E 037 25.340 Altitude: 7500 feet / 2286m DIRECTIONS TO VENUE: Leave Nairobi on the A2 Dual Carriage way towards Thika - 30 km to Thika.

Dual carriage way ends after Thika.

Continue on A2 to Sagana - 50 km Thika to Sagana.

Continue on A2 towards through Karatina town and down escarpment, you must turn off right at 40 km from Sagana towards Kiganjo – Nanyuki (Kiganjo/ Nanyuki road).

Continue on A2 past the turn off for Kiganjo, and a large Flour Mill on your right - Maisha, towards Nanyuki - 55 km from your turn off.

Before you reach Nanyuki town you will pass large airstrip on your left. Drive through Nanyuki town. You must drive another 45 Km to Kisima Farm.

From Nanyuki, you must go through Timau town, it is a constant climb from

Nanyuki, and you will eventually pass a flower farm on left hand side towards the end of your climb called Uhuru Flowers. 5 minutes from here you will reach the top of the ascent with an Agri Information and Farm shop on your right.

Continue straight ahead, you begin an 8 km descent pass the Kisima Farm airstrip on your left, from the Agri Information Centre.

The entrance to Kisima Farm is the 6th gate on your left with a sign to the camp.

Follow the signs. Depending on where in Nairobi you are leaving from it is 250km and 4.5 hours.

RACE PROGRAMME: Day Programme Time Friday 19th June 2015 Documentation 10:00 – 18:00 Friday 19th June 2015 Technical Control 10:00 – 18:00 Friday 19th June 2015 Sighting Lap – Motorcycles 14:00 – 15:30 Friday 19th June 2015 Sighting Lap – Quads 15:00 – 16:30 Friday 19th June 2015 Meeting with Organisers 17:00 Saturday 20th June 2015 Documentation & Technical 07:00 – 07:45 Saturday 20th June 2015 First Jury Meeting 08:00 Saturday 20th June 2015 Parc Ferme closes 08:15 Saturday 20th June 2015 Riders Briefing – All Competitors – Start Line 08:30 Saturday 20th June 2015 Start of First Machine 09:00 Saturday 20th June 2015 Cut Off time 14:00 Saturday 20th June 2015 Time Bar 15:00 Saturday 20th June 2015 Posting of results ( provisional) 16:00 Saturday 20th June 2015 Second Jury Meeting 16:30 Saturday 20th June 2015 Prize Giving 17:00 The above programme may be amended in the Final Instructions, which will be posted on the Official Notice Board.

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RIDING NUMBERS COUNTRY: COLOUR OF BIBS NUMBER Previous Year’s winners 1-5 Namibia Yellow 11-35 Zimbabwe Cyan/Royal Blue 36-60 South Africa Green 61-85 Zambia Light Blue 86-110 Kenya Black 111 – 135 Morocco Red 136 – 160 Tunisia Light Green 161 – 185 Algeria Brown 186 – 210 Mauritius Dark Grey 211 – 235 Angola Royal Purple 236 – 260 Mozambique Orange 261 – 285 Uganda Light Purple 286 – 310 Ivory Coast Ivory 311 – 335 Tanzania TBC 336 – 360 Botswana Light Brown 361 - 385 Individual Riders White 500 upwards

EVENT OFFICIALS: Position Clerk of Course Deputy C of C Jury President Foreign Jury Member FMNR Jury Member Technical Steward Environmental Steward Event Secretary Jury Secretary Chief Medical Officer Chief Scorer/ Timekeeper Chief Marshal Scrutineers Service/Pits manager

Name Federation Renzo Bernardi KMSF Anthony Nielsen KMSF Anne Troughton KMSF Gillian Dykes MSA Chris Wahome KMSF Mbabu Muturi KMSF Sari Sherman KMSF Anita Eden /Lindsay Takkunen KMSF Anita Nielsen KMSF Dr Ben Ochieng Chris Eden / Raju Chaggar KMSF Rolf Davey Maina Muturi/ Rolf Davey Jenny Davey

General Information: Nearest Hospital: Nanyuki Cottage Hospital Emergency Contact: 0722 457173 Head Doctor: Dr. Butt.

We also have a Nurse on the Farm who can be available during the race: Emma: 0713889587 Eplus ambulances will be in attendance and AMREF Flying Doctors on standby. The farm has its own airstrip.

Nanyuki Town: Approximately 45km from venue: Bank, Chemist, Supermarket, Fuel, Hotels, Cafes all available.

Each rider and Team is responsible for booking their own accommodation and paying directly for the same.

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Kenya National Motocross Championship 2014 MX50-Jet Takkunen MX65-Maina Wanjigi MX85-Elias Sherman MX125-Samir Anwar MX2- Apollo Mbuki MX1-Ivan Guya.

Veterans & Masters -Tim Jessop Kenya National Enduro Championship 2014 Enduro Quad Class -Shazar Anwar Enduro Overall -Shivam Vinayak Enduro 125-Shivam Vinayak Autocross 2WD Turbo - Hardeep Rehsi 2WD Non-Turbo-Tejas Hirani Quads -Charles Mugo Bambino -Ryan Bailey Kenya National Rally Raid Championship: 2014 Car Class- Driver: Gray Cullen Car Class- Navigator:: Jon Bovard Motorcycle: Shivam Vinayak Quad: Shazar Anwar Buggy- Tejas Hirani/Rohit Bhudia New Overall Champion: Wangai Kimeria Most Improved Motorcycle rider: Zenni Mokaya

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Angela Mwirigi of KCB presents Trophy to Motocross girl rider Maxine Wahome who took the Ladies Rose Bowl for the most meritorious female rider

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