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YAMAHA SUPPORTS INTERNATIONAL SUPER TRIAL
Yamaha Motor Australia is sponsoring an International Super Trial event to be held at Sedgwick, near Bendigo, in Victoria on 5 and 6 November 2005.
The feet up event uses a world first format that requires riders to complete a section in 90 seconds with the following rider starting the section within 15 seconds. Member of the event management committee Phil Whittle explains: “The unique format means that unlike a traditional trial, the event will be tightly controlled so that the action is fast, continuous and very spectacular. An extreme spectator sport.”
“The participation of ten of the world’s best trials riders, including current and past world champions, will blow the mind of spectators,” predicts Whittle.
Yamaha’s support is aimed at helping the resurgence of trials in Australia in what could be the first of many international events to be staged here. Yamaha is also committed to seeing Australian riders compete at the highest level. To help achieve this Yamaha is sponsoring a junior trials demonstration team at the event. The ‘Yamaha Kids’ will be performing before and after the event and during the event’s lunch break on both days of the Super Trial.
The International Super Trial will feature New Zealand Champion Warren Laugesen who will compete on the Australian Scorpa team. Laugesen will threaten to steal the Aussies’ thunder by being the first Australasian home in the prestigious event.
Laugesen, who is five times New Zealand Champion, has twice taken the Australian Championship back to New Zealand. He joins former Australian Champion Kevin Zarczynski from Sydney on the French-made, Yamaha-powered Scorpas. The pair will make a formidable team as they take on the world’s best trials riders as they fight out for the Trials Manufacturers Trophy.
To help in his fight Laugesen will bring a party of 30 supporters from New Zealand for the event. “I’ll be going into the lions den, so I’ll need all the support I can get,” explains Laugesen.
The riders will be using their vast moto-trials skills to pilot the Yamaha-engined Scorpa’s across huge granite boulders and man made sections that make up the trial. The Yamaha motors are engineered to produce huge amounts of torque from low revs, instant throttle response and progressive clutch release.
Mated with the incredible Scorpa trials chassis they create a formidable opponent.
According to Scorpa’s Australian Importer Paul Arnott, “The reliability and engineering excellence of the Yamaha engine is one of the factors that makes the Scorpa a competitive machine at World Championship level, yet it remains tractable and easy to manage even by a novice rider.”
More information about the event can be obtained from www.supertrial.com.au and information about Scorpa trials bikes from www.scorpaaustralia.com
