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Camel Classic Trial
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Sunday 9th December 2007 |
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Camel Vale Motor Club Ltd or click here |
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Secretary of the Meeting is Hans Viertel |
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Clerk of the Course Pete Allen |
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Classic Trial for Cars |
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Starting at Roche Victory Hall, Roche, Map Ref 200/988604 Click here for a map |
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First competitor starts at 07.30 |
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Finish at The Brough Arms, Dunmere, Bodmin approx 0.5 miles from Bodmin on the A389 towards Wadebridge Map Ref 200/048674 |
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Classical Gas Rating: Tough = 3, Rough = 2 |
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| A tough event, with steep sections but it's not a rough
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| The Organisers Say:- "Since the early years of Camel Vale the club has run traditional road-going trials. |
One of the main events was the Octo Trial which covered the Bodmin and East Cornwall area. A general decline of these events took place in the late seventies and the Octo fell victim, mainly because no organisers could be found.
In 1983, having recently joined the club committee, two new triallers were keen to see the event revived. The aim was to enter, but both of them rapidly came to the conclusion that unless they actually ran it themselves the event simply would not happen. Furthermore, they would not be missing an event because if they did not run it there was no event to enter anyway!
In their first year they put together a challenging event in the true Camel Vale spirit using many of the Octo's sections plus a few new finds of their own.
The event ran as the Octo Trial for two years before it became the more appropriately named Camel Classic as by then it was not even running in October.
Having first gained status as a round of the Chester Motor Club's Trials Championship it later became both ACTC and ASWMC Championship rounds.
The same core organisers exist in place to this day who continue to provide a full days challenging array of sections.
The flavour of the event remains the same, although rarely are any of the original sections used. This is largely due to the organisers desire to produce at least one new section each year and the need to match the increase in climbing performance of the entries. However, occasionally one or two of the old hills are included in the interest of tradition.
Over the years we have gained the reputation of being a tough trial but we must stress this does not automatically imply that it is rough.Last year we introduced a new scoring system whereby several hills were re-marked before they were attempted by classes 1 to 4. We believe this was successful in producing more even scores throughout the entry. We will be doing the same this year."
