Bringing riders together from across Europe and from as far away as Canada and the United States, the 2023 edition of the FIM Enduro Vintage Trophy (EVT) will begin later this week. Two hundred and fifty competitors will take to the start for a four-day festival of classic enduro racing. With riders from eleven different countries descending on the historical region of La Cerdanya in the eastern Pyrenees, close to Andorra, the event will once again celebrate iconic machinery from the early 1970s through to the early 1990s, while commemorating many enduro greats from decades past.
As organisers of the 2023 FIM Enduro Vintage Trophy, the Moto Club Cerdanya has painstakingly prepared the 2023 event to perfectly suit the bikes of past decades, in what will be a truly memorable setting. The event will revisit some of the locations used in the 1985 FIM International Six Days of Enduro (ISDE).
Following administrative and technical controls, on Wednesday, competitors will complete a short twenty-six kilometre stage, followed by an acceleration test which will kick off the competition. Once a regular opening procedure at the ISDE, riders will ride as fast as they can in order to highlight the top-speed of their classic bikes.
On Thursday, competitors will face two laps of a sixty three-kilometre course that features both an enduro and cross special test. Working its way through spectacular mountain terrain, all riders will enjoy both the winding Spanish trails and incredible scenery as they rise to close to two thousand meters above sea level.
Friday will be another full day of riding for all with two laps of a forty eight-kilometre course that again includes an enduro and a cross test. With the two full days of competition then complete, riders will compete in the fourth and final day motocross races.
Building on the success of the 2022 FIM Vintage Enduro Trophy that took place in Santiago do Cacem, Portugal, the 2023 event is set to welcome the largest ever number of competitors yet to the FIM EVT. Initially run as part of the FIM International Six Days of Enduro in Spain in 2016, since becoming a stand-alone event in 2021 the competition has welcomed a growing number of riders.
Last year Team Italy topped the Vintage Veterans Trophy Team with Enrico Tortoli, Giorgio Grasso and Tulio Pellegrinelli, placing ahead of Team Germany with host nation Portugal third. In the Vintage Silver Vase Club Team competition, it was again Italy that took the win with Maurizio Bettini, Luigi Mazzoni and Mario Graziani. Topping the Individual class was American Fred Hoess, finishing ahead of Giorgio Volpi and Adriano Micozzi.
The FIM Enduro Vintage Trophy features three classes – the Vintage Veterans Trophy for national teams of three riders all above the age of fifty, and the Vintage Silver Vase Club category for three riders all above the age of forty, plus the Women’s Club Team Award which will be contested for the first time by an all female Spanish team this year. Individual participants are also permitted. Motorcycles competing in the FIM Enduro Vintage Trophy are split into five main categories – Classic 75, Classic 79, Classic 83, Open 1986, and Open 1991.
CATEGORIES
- CATEGORY A: Classic 75 (Manufactured until 1975) - A0: up to 75 cc; A1: up to 125 cc; A2: up to 175 cc; A3 over 175 cc
- CATEGORY B: Classic 79 (Manufactured until 1979) - B0: up to 75cc; B1: up to 125cc; B2: up to 175cc; B3: up to 250cc; B4: Sup. 250cc
- CATEGORY C: Classic 83 (Manufactured until 1983) - C0: 80cc; C1: up to 125cc; C2. up to 250cc; C3: over 250cc
- CATEGORY Open X-1 (Manufactured until 1986) - X1: up to 125cc; X2: over 125cc
- Open 91 (Manufactured until 1991) - No capacity distinction
EVENT TIME SCHEDULE
- 17/10 (Tuesday)- Administrative/Technical Control and Opening Ceremony
- 18/10 (Wednesday) -1 lap of 26 km and Acceleration Test
- 19/10 (Thursday) - 2 laps of 63 km (2 x special tests per lap)
- 20/10 (Friday) - 2 laps of 48.5 km (2 special tests per lap)
- 21/10 (Saturday) - Final MX (Sant Marc) and Prize Giving Ceremony
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