A motocross championship is decided on who is best over the year, but it doesn’t just have to be for the riders so we thought we’d open it up to up affiliated clubs to see who’s best.  The MC Federation Elite Youth League is about to launch into its first season in 2010. The idea behind the League is to develop an incentive for riders to become more involved with their local club and move Motocross on from being an individual sport. It would also give club riders the chance to race for a nationally recognised title, even if they were unable to compete in the Elite Youth Cup at national level. The Elite Youth League will cater for riders in all of the recognised classes from Auto up to Rookie and at the request of clubs will also include a class for AMX.

The basis of the League is that selected riders at nominated club events will score points towards that clubs League total and ultimately their League position at the end of the season. The Elite Youth League is a championship dedicated to the clubs and clubs riders.

So how will it work?

With many clubs organising their events in different ways, running different length races, different numbers of blocks, heats and qualifiers and different numbers of events each year some may wonder how the League can be run fairly for everybody, well a great deal of thought has been put into the system that will level the playing field for everybody.

For starters each MCF club participating in the League will nominate ten of their events that will count as League events at the beginning of the season. With the electronic entry management system developed by the MCF, 42 riders per event will be randomly selected and nominated as League points scorers for the event. Points will be allocated to the riders’ dependent upon their overall position; this will eliminate the problem of clubs running different numbers of races.

The MCF office will manage the League table that will be published on a regular basis both here on the results pages a the dedicated League page of the MCF’s newsletter  ‘Dirty Rag’

So what’s up for grabs?

As a final twist, extra points will be scored by each individual clubs riders that compete at the MCF Grand Slam Final event at the end of the season. These points will be added to the clubs total and the final League standings calculated at the event. The winning clubs will then be part of the presentation at the end of the Grand Slam event.

Apart from the prestige of being the Elite Youth League Champions, the winning club will not have to pay any insurance costs for the ten events that they nominate for the following years League.

This is a great opportunity for clubs to pull together and develop as a team of people that will hopefully be able to see the benefit in the growth of their clubs membership.