After the date announcement back in September that the second Airborne Gunner Summer Supercross series till take place on August ninth, rider entries are now open.
Riders will receive an email with a link to enter the Supercross, which will again run the day before the increasingly popular āRock it til Sundown Summer MX Classicā, helping to generate a festival feel. Both events will again be held at the immaculate prepared Cusses Gorse MX circuit, near Salisbury. Entries on any available remaining spaces will open up to everyone on Friday tenth of December.
Once again thereāll be classes catering for everyone from auto riders up to the pros and the āRevvi Cupā electric bike races, which were a huge hit with the fans, will be back for the toddlers to get their first taste of racing in front of a crowd. On top of that, the Steel Hawk MCC team will also be laying on Supercross only training and ride days for those who enter the āAirborne Gunner Summer Supercrossā so racers can improve their skill set and prepare for the event.
āLike anything you try for the first time, youāre never completely sure how itās going to turn out. Our first running of āAirborne Gunnerā went really well all things considered and weāre confident we can build on it. We had a lot of people come out to watch, the racing was entertaining and looking around the place there were a lot of smiling, happy people, so it really felt like we were doing something positive for the sport.” explained Jeff Perrett.
“The Revvi Cup races were awesome and personally gave me a buzz seeing the whippersnappers getting into the sport, so Iām pleased to say they will be back and weāll look to do more Revvi races throughout the year, starting in February with the āFarmboy Bashā down in Devon. The āFox Cool Whipā competition to wrap up the evening show was a lot of fun too so that will be back.”
“We had incredible support from Lenny Woodcock and Ben Mahoney atĀ www.stuntflying.co.ukĀ stepping up as title sponsors and without them, we wouldnāt have been able to get it off the ground, along with Jake and Guy Nicholls atĀ www.tru7.comĀ and Jack Brunell who put up some money and that awesome memorial trophy in memory of his dad Melvyn. All those guys believed in us and we want to repay their faith by establishing the event and growing it.”
āWeād love to do more than one Supercross event and weāve thought long and hard about it and how weād do it, but for now just doing a one off event alongside āRock it til Sundownā works for us, unless a major sponsor comes out of the woodwork to support a āAirborne Gunnerā Supercross series weāll put that idea on ice for 2022.”
What we can and are willing to do however is have a few Supercross ride days for the riders that enter the event and offer up some training from some of the U.Kās top pro riders like the defending champ Jack Brunell, Dylan Woodcock and Adam Chatfield. Supercross is a different discipline than Motocross and if weāre going to grow a scene here in the U.K we need to get people learning the techniques and getting more comfortable with it.”
“We share a vision with Justin Barclay at Cusses Gorse and it feels like weāve laid a foundation by building the track and staging a successful event, so weāre going to continue to work hard and do all we can to get more people into it. Iām excited for it, Iām excited about all the events we lay on and getting stuck into them for 2022. Paul, Julie and myself are passionate about laying on different events to the norm here in the UK, if we werenāt then Steel Hawk Motorcycle Club wouldnāt exist, so weāre extremely motivated.ā
Entries for the 2022 āAirborne Gunner Summer Supercrossā are now open for riders who rode in 2021 and will receive an email with details how to enter. If you donāt receive an email please let us know viaĀ paul@steelhawkmc.cc.