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| Sherco
dominates and wins the 2003 Scottish Six Days Trial |
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| Joan Pons, is the overall
winner in this years SSDT and Gary MacDonald finishes third, completing
an excellent week for Sherco. Sherco also won the Manufacturers Trophy with the team of Joan Pons, Gary MacDonald and Joe Baker. This is the second overall victory for Sherco since Graham Jarvis won in 1999 which was the first year that Sherco produced a bike. |
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| The
Scottish Six Days Trial, organized by The Edinburgh & Motor District
Ltd Club., in 1909 is the oldest motorcycle trials event in the world.
Conceived from its beginnings as a true test of "reliability",
for the men and their machines, that concept, continues today, as
one of the hardest tests on the world-wide calendar. In effect, the SSDT is a test of six days where they ride 80 to 140 miles daily in the Highlands, with an average of 30 to 35 non-stop sections. A true test of physical conditioning and mechanical performance for the rider and the motorcycle. A large number of the 280 accepted riders annually (they are more than 600 applicants), ride with the objective to only finish the race, being few who escape the penalties of time and mechanical failures. Sherco counted with 65 of his machines in the paddock, being the second manufacturer in participants. The 2003 SSDT has been one of the hardest editions in the last 20 years, it rained, hailed, and snowed, and the wet terrain created a significant disadvantage during the moor crossing. All of this plus the swellings in the rivers which caused much damage, thus increasing considerably the difficulty of the zones. The race developed with great efficiency on the part of the Sherco riders. From the first day, we saw that the young 19 year old Scottish rider, Gary MacDonald, was riding surprisingly well, he took the overall lead on the fourth day. On the other hand, Joan Pons, the veteran Sherco rider, he had never before participated in the SSDT, which one would think to be handicap, called upon his many years of experience and rode very consistently all week. On Thursday, Gary MacDonald moved in to the overall lead, it seemed that the young Sherco Academy Rider was determined to take the victory, but Friday, in the last section of the day, in Pipers Burn, he succumbed to the pressure of leading the trial and committed an error that relegated to him to the second spot. In the final day, Joan Pons had an excellent ride being penalized only 8 points: just a fiasco committed in the section of Tramway and three one point dabs dropped in the groups of Sleubhaich, Lower Mamore and Ben Nevis. It gave him the very well deserved final victory, in front of Ben Hemingway (Beta) and Gary MacDonald (Sherco) Sherco also won the manufacturers trophy, with the team of Joan Pons, Gary MacDonald and Joe Baker. Final results: |
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