BABOONS 24h Endurance Day from Mai 9th to Mai 11th 2008
at Tropical Island close to Berlin:
Off-road all around the German Carribean Seas!
Survival training in Germany 2008. 1000 rider against the
clock, the tiredness, the technology and against themselves.
On a 10-km-long, bottomless sandy piste, across disused airplane
bunkers and destroyed runways private drivers and factory
or importer racing teams compete for honour, victory and some
even for survival at the biggest marathon off-road event in
Europe. The mission is: 12 hours non-stop off-road for ATVs
and quads and afterwards 24 hours full speed off-road for
motorbikes. An unique challenge for the participants and at
the same time a spectacular event for the media.
While the majority of the jockeys compete in the so-called
sports class, i.e. in teams composed of four riders on four
bikes, the prestige class (four drivers with only one bike)
is almost exclusively manned by factory or importer teams.
Beyond there exists an ironman class for solo motorbike riders,
too! The ATVs and quads start alternatively with two, three
or four pilots.
At the 24h Endurance Day not only the performance of the
drivers on the circuit plays an important role, but also the
attending crew in the pitstop. This area is also booked as
an exposition area for the participant factory teams and sponsors
and is completely illuminated during the night. As well as
in the formula-racing sport the prestige-class teams will
stand in a “pit lane”. Refuelling, technical check
and the ride goes on. Each second is decisive and the spectators
and media are present in the middle of the event via infield-sluices.
The spectacular general conditions (the area is situated
on the formerly biggest Soviet air force base outside the
erstwhile USSR) turn the BABOONS Endurance Day into an off-road
event of the superlative. All around the so-called „Cargolifter
hall “, the current Tropical Island, a total of about
10.000 rounds are turned by the pilots. With it are, above
all, the private drivers - no matter whether quad, ATV or
motorbike - the real heroes of the event and can realise their
dream with the participation in a professional marathon-race
in the middle of Germany.
Three days of live motor sport and party, virtually in the
middle of the German South Seas. With attractive and very
inexpensive spectator's or fan parcels (incl. entry into the
Tropical Island and event shirt) the Endurance Day is the
Whitsun event for motor sport fans as well as a great opportunity
for a trip to Berlin.
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