Midwest Husaberg UK Team

2011 Season

Oct 9, 2011

Double Podium Finish for Rockwell

Category: 2011

Posted by: Jack Stringer

British Enduro Championship Rounds 10 & 11

Natterjack 24th/25th September 2011

After not competing since the ISDE over month ago because of a broken hand Alex Rockwell bounced back to form with a double podium finish at the last British Enduro Championship event held at the Natterjack course. The special tests were a sandy motocross test with jumps and the enduro featured a brick wall to climb, a wet boggy section set amongst forestry. Unsure to his fitness conditioning due to his lack of riding, Rockwell had to use all his fitness to power the awesome Husaberg FE390 around the deep strength sapping sand. On the motocross test some of Rockwell's test times were within 1 second of World and British champion, David Knight and this gave Alex a well deserved 3rd overall on day 1. Team mate Si Wakely was unable to attend the event due to a broken thumb sustained at the previous British Enduro championship round a few weeks ago where he continued the event to finish in 8th and 9th places with his injury and he did not have an x-ray until the Monday after the event!

Day 2 saw Alex continue in excellent form liking the tough sandy conditions as it is similar terrain to his homeland of the Isle of Man and again set fast times on the mx test which resulted in another excellent 3rd overall on the day. This resulted in his best ever weekend of positions and to match this achievement was the outstanding performance of his Midwest prepared Husaberg FE390 which has 100% reliability record for the 2011 season and resulted in Alex's best ever season in the British Enduro Championship finishing 7th overall.

Alex and the Midwest team now head to the World Enduro Championship in France next weekend where he has been invited by the Husaberg Factory to compete at the event in the Junior Under 23 class.

Fellow Midwest Husaberg team riders all had a successful weekend of riding with the following results: