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16 Trail Rider www.TrailRider.com 2024 Enduro Vintage Trophy 2024 Enduro Vintage Trophy Camerino, Italy Camerino, Italy By Suzy Moody By Suzy Moody Photos By Future7Media & SoloEnduro Photos By Future7Media & SoloEnduro In 1974, the ISDT was held in Camerino, Italy. Fi y years later, the FIM Enduro Vintage Trophy race came to Camerino again to celebrate its 50 th Anniversary. Having experienced a devasta ng earthquake in 2016, the s ll- recovering town welcomed interna onal racers and fans with open arms—and thankfully, lots of cappuccino! The Enduro Vintage Trophy is an offshoot of the ISDE but on Vintage bikes, with its own date and a separate venue. Vintage racing in Europe is very popular, as each country has a robust vintage racing series. The Enduro Vintage Trophy is the European version of the Enduro Vintage World Championship—it's a big deal! This year, they had over 400 riders! Twelve riders and crew from the USA traveled to Cam- erino to par cipate in the event, led by the Trophy Team of Fred Hoess, Billy Burns, and Marc Grossman. We had a Silver Vase Team consis ng of Lendon Smith, Chilly White, and Mike Sheetz. The MTS Club Team had Ronnie Smith, George Pennington, and James Lubniews- ki. We also had three individual riders: Robert Johnson, Haim Beressi, and Erik Nijkamp, riding for his home country, the Netherlands. Flying into Rome, we drove up to Camerino, which is located in the middle of Italy but north- east of Rome and only about 50 miles from the Amalfi coast. Upon arrival, we went in search of the paddock and Parc Fermé. Much to our sur- prise, the "paddock" would be located through- out a residen al neighborhood, and Parc Fermé was located up a hill about a quarter mile from the paddock area. Unbelievably, we had to ferry our riders up there and back every day. In all our years of ISDE and Vintage Trophy, we have never seen a paddock situated so poorly. Even our US Team was separated as they originally had our US Trophy Team located way down into the neigh- borhood, in a totally unacceptable area. A er some diploma c nego a ng with the paddock boss, the US Trophy team paddock was moved up much closer to the rest of the US Team and right across from registra on. It actually worked out fine for us, but many teams were put into a difficult situa on. The only reason I could see for this move was wan ng to keep revenue in the city because there were plenty of loca ons in the town and outside of the town that would have worked be er as a staging area. Billy Burns Billy Burns