Team Griffin Racing

Team Griffin Racing

Monday 3 February 2014

A Night at the Races - Arenacross 2014 - LG Arena

Coming from Weston super Mare the yearly beach race became a prominent part of wet autumn weekends and after moving away for university I've not returned in quite some time. After dragging the missus around the country and over to France for the Moto GP I thought I would take her to see something a bit different!

Firstly I'd like to say that it's great to see some big names (Garmin, Monster, Yamaha, Honda & Hyundai) supporting the resurgence of UK supercross, now dubbed Arenacross. The second notable mention was the arena and the track, a great layout accompanied by a freestyle ramp through the middle which had some real thought put into it, performing impeccably all night, showing very little degradation.



The night was split into essentially two parts. The qualifiers and the finals; these were were split up by the rookie, youth and freestyle sections. The action was fast paced and the evening very well run, it never felt like you were trying to fill the time between races with idle chat.

The first race atmosphere is remarkable, I don't think I have ever experienced anything like 10+ bikes hurtling across a dirt filled arena towards a very tight hairpin! What was probably more impressive was the 7-10 year olds on 65SW bike absolutely going for it!




What really topped off the night was the addition of freestyle sections, this was probably what impressed us the most and not really possible to put into words! Instead I will add the link to probably the most impressive sequence of the whole night.



So to round up, if you get the opportunity to go it's a great night out, 3 solid hours of adrenaline packed action for all the family!

3 Rounds remain, don't miss out!




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