Erzbergrodeo Dates For 2011 - Waiting List Only |
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File under Events Racing
Author: Mike Werner
Location: Normandy, France
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World's toughest one day motorcycle enduro, the Erzberg Rodeo  in Austria, is slated to start on the 23rd of June and finish on the 26th at Erzberg, Austria  . Some 1,5000 motorcycles start the race, competing for one of the 500 start slots in the final race.
It's a massive event, with 45,000 visitors and 1,500 riders from 35 countries. 6 helicopters are employed to cover the event from the air, and 400 accredited journalist from 28 countries are there to report the race. There's quite a TV coverage worldwide of this growing event. USA (Fox Sports, Fuel-TV, Versus, Spike-TV and Speed-TV), Europe (Discovery Europe) and many more.
Every year famous motorcycle racers attend the event. David Knight, Cyril Despres, Chris Birch, Tadeusz Blazusiak, Kimi Raikonnen (in a WRC car), Marc Coma and many others.
If you want to race next year, you're out of luck. The race opened for registration, and five hours later, all 1,500 slots were filled!!!!! You can still put yourself on the waiting list, but that one is already over 1,000 riders. Click here for the waiting list .
Click here for more info on the Erzbergrodeo race .
Here's the video of the 2010 edition:
Erzbergrodeo Red Bull Hare Scramble 2010 (2 minutes 5 seconds)
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