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Offline jerry

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NAMUR BELGIUM
« on: July 13, 2012, 09:33:13 pm »
Watching the Tour De France the other night and I was interested to see there was a stage in Belgium. I then realised they were going to go through Namur. Whats the chances they might climb up to "The Citadel" I thought. Well bugger me thats exactly what they did including running through the flat area wherer the start of the MX races were. Got me thinking when was the last 500 cc race run there and do they use it for MX anymore or did the Greens put a stop to it. Jerry
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« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2012, 09:51:11 pm »
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Re: NAMUR BELGIUM
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2012, 10:04:42 pm »
They where using Namur untill a few years ago I think.
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Re: NAMUR BELGIUM
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2012, 10:09:27 pm »
2007 was the last mx GP at Namur.
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Re: NAMUR BELGIUM
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2012, 10:30:16 pm »
yer 2007 was the last. 2006 Stefan Everts won his 10th world title there ,1990 Eric Geboers won his 5th.
Greenie on the city council are blamed but if you dig a bit deeper its not the only reason. The series promoter had some influence it seems.
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Re: NAMUR BELGIUM
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2012, 11:10:10 pm »
mmmm whats that saying  "all good things must come to an end"  :-X
Anyway a shite load of good footage and mx memories made on that piece of realestate  :P
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« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2012, 08:21:11 am »
I was there in Namur 2006 helping a mate race in the veteren cup, we walked the track early morning and its an amazing circuit,,big drop offs and a huge climb back up the hill. I chatted with Stefen Everts and was also lucky enough to get in with Team Suzuki and meet Sylvain, Eric and Joel, the Kid Kevin Strijbos gave me his race shirt on the day...It was an unforgetable weekend.

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Re: NAMUR BELGIUM
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2012, 08:35:05 am »
Quote from: Toolboy on July 14, 2012, 08:21:11 am
I was there in Namur 2006 helping a mate race in the veteren cup, we walked the track early morning and its an amazing circuit,,big drop offs and a huge climb back up the hill. I chatted with Stefen Everts and was also lucky enough to get in with Team Suzuki and meet Sylvain, Eric and Joel, the Kid Kevin Strijbos gave me his race shirt on the day...It was an unforgetable weekend.

Tim
That's cool.. Who was the mate that raced the vets cup? Pretty tough class..
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« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2012, 09:33:13 am »
Geoff Den from South Africa,,,he raced and managed Team Suzuki SA so was good mates with Sylvain who supplied him factory spare race bikes, one of which i got to ride at Lommel on a test day...that was fun.

Good to have mates in the know !!!!!

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Re: NAMUR BELGIUM
« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2012, 03:44:21 am »
never say never with namur!! 
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Re: NAMUR BELGIUM
« Reply #10 on: July 16, 2012, 07:50:27 am »
Quote from: dave king on July 15, 2012, 03:44:21 am
never say never with namur!! 
Would have to be the "ultimate" place to have a Veterans cup or once a year challenge for twin shocks or the 50 years of Suzuki in motocross.
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Re: NAMUR BELGIUM
« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2012, 08:24:42 pm »
Quote from: Toolboy on July 14, 2012, 08:21:11 am
I was there in Namur 2006 helping a mate race in the veteren cup, we walked the track early morning and its an amazing circuit,,big drop offs and a huge climb back up the hill. I chatted with Stefen Everts and was also lucky enough to get in with Team Suzuki and meet Sylvain, Eric and Joel, the Kid Kevin Strijbos gave me his race shirt on the day...It was an unforgetable weekend.

Tim

I was there spectating ,great weekend .The Vets field was stacked with ex GP riders .
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