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Daniel Milner & Lyndon Snodgrass reflect on 2017 ISDE

Trev by Trev
September 6, 2017
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Fire still burns bright for Daniel Milner after stunning ISDE performance in France

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Back in Australia, a jet-lagged KTM Factory Enduro Racing Team rider Daniel Milner has had time to process the goings-on of last week’s FIM International Six Day Enduro (ISDE) in Brive, France, and admitted the fire of unfinished business still burns brightly.

Daniel Milner
Daniel Milner

The Australian Off-Road Champion and fellow KTM men; Red Bull KTM Factory Racing rider Daniel Sanders and Milner’s Aussie factory teammate Lyndon Snodgrass flew the flag brilliantly in France.

Milner and Sanders helped the Australian World Trophy team to second in the premier international teams competition, behind host nation France – which made good every home ground advantage – and ahead of third-placed Finland.

Daniel Sanders

The Aussie trophy team comprised Milner, Sanders, multiple World Champion Matt Phillips, and Josh Green, and won days five and six of the event, but finished just over six minutes in arrears of the French.

KTM’s Milner was the Aussies’ heaviest hitter. As he puts it he and his KTM 450 EXC-F ‘only’ topped the world in one special test, but he finished top-ten outright in 22 of the 26 tests across the event, muscling his way to second in the hotbed of talent that is the E2 category.

Daniel Milner
Daniel Milner

Milner finished the event in outright fourth place, but after finishing runner-up twice, the man who went undefeated in Australia’s premier off-road racing series in 2017 is determined to win an ISDE outright.

Enduro GP racer Sanders carried the residual effects of an existing shoulder injury sustained at the recent AORC finale, and aggravated the condition in a crash on day four.

Daniel Sanders

Back in the green and gold for the remaining two days, however, he gritted his teeth and piloted his KTM 300 EXC home in 16th place outright, even raising enough spirit to lift himself onto the E3 podium in the final motocross.

KTM Australia’s newly-crowned AORC E3 Champion Lyndon Snodgrass was armed with the brand’s revolutionary new KTM 300 EXC TPI for the occasion of his very first ISDE, and if the teenager was over-awed at the start …you couldn’t pick it.

Lyndon Snodgrass

Snodgrass shocked the world by throttling the new KTM to outright victory in the opening special test, after just one day of shakedown prior to the event!

His excitement was short-lived, however, as the Junior team suffered the disqualification of two of its riders – Michael Driscoll and Wil Ruprecht – on the first day.

Lyndon Snodgrass

The Aussie junior team was out of the event on day 2, but Snodgrass’ individual rookie ISDE effort was a sparkling 10th in the E3 category and 29th outright.

The Australian Women’s team of Tayla Jones, Jemma Wilson and Jessica Gardiner claimed a record-breaking fifth-straight ISDE World Champions title.

Tayla Jones, Jessica Gardiner, Jemma Wilson
Tayla Jones, Jessica Gardiner, Jemma Wilson

The 2018 International Six Day Enduro will be held in Chile.

Daniel Milner

“It’s something that I’ve always wanted to win and been so close to doing in the past, so it was a bit of a bummer to fall as short as I did, but I’ve got to give it up to the other guys, they were absolutely hammering. And I’ve still got a few more years in me yet… Pretty much every day was solid, but on day one I had a big cartwheel in the second enduro test and lost a lot of time. Other than that, we got it happening. It was pretty tight the majority of the time. Throughout the whole six days there was some really close battling, that’s for sure. And to come runner up to France at home where the tracks were really set up for them, is kind of a win to us. My bike didn’t miss a beat in the whole six days and was pretty much unstoppable, that’s for sure. Even when I cartwheeled it pretty hard, I was surprised that I’d only bent a few levers. The vibe that comes from being in the Australian Team just makes you want to do our country proud. And all the people on social media telling us how proud they are of us, it’s not just another race where doing your best is okay – you’re proud to be there, knowing that you’ve got so much support over here, and the team riders are all behind each other. It was a bummer that some people got lost because it was a real solid junior team and they were winning at the time. But once we got over that it was all fun and it made for a good week. It’s renewed my motivation. I’m real hungry to win the thing outright, but as a team we want to win it and not have to barge up onto the podium like we did in 2015. We’ll look forward to Chile and see what happens.”

Daniel Milner
Daniel Milner

Lyndon Snodgrass

“My first ISDE was awesome. It was hard. Your body gets pretty sore by the end of it, but it’s fun. It was cool to be working as a team, and all the trails up in the hills were pretty awesome. It was amazing to get out to some of the tests in the middle of nowhere and hear loud music and a heap of spectators and people revving chainsaws! It was pretty cool to be over there and doing it for our country. To see how everyone back home is so interested in how we’re doing, it was awesome. It affects everyone involved with Team Australia. I was shocked to find out that I’d won that first test on Day 1. It was ten minutes into the day, but then in the next one I ended up catching someone in the dust and having a crash, then I caught them again and they cut me off. I was pretty angry about it. I was riding the 300 TPI bike, and it was awesome! I hadn’t ridden one until I got over there, so to like it as much as I did – I think everyone’s going to love them. They have really smooth power, just run super clean, and get better fuel economy than the carby bike too. I’m a little bit disappointed about my overall result, but there were some positives and some negatives along the way, so I’m not too mad about it. I’m pretty keen for next year’s one when we come around to it.”

Lyndon Snodgrass
Results – FIM International Six Days Enduro 2017
World Trophy Team
  1. France – 12:59:38.23 – Christophe Nambotin (KTM), Christophe Charlier (Husqvarna), Loïc Larrieu (Yamaha), Jeremy Tarroux (Sherco)
  2. Australia – 13:05:52.26 – Daniel Sanders (KTM), Daniel Milner (KTM), Matthew Phillips (Sherco), Josh Green (Yamaha)
  3. Finland – 13:08:50.34 – Matti Seistola (KTM), Antti Hellsten (Husqvarna), Eero Remes (TM), Henric Stigell (Husqvarna)
Enduro 1
  1. Josep Garcia (KTM), 3:12:23.99
  2. Ryan Sipes (Husqvarna) 3:13:27.64
  3. Davide Guarneri (Honda) 3:13:35.82
  4. Jeremy Tarroux (Sherco) 3:14:11.28
  5. Eero Remes (TM) 3:14:11.49
Enduro 2
  1. Loïc Larrieu (Yamaha) 3:11:45.68
  2. Daniel Milner (KTM) 3:13:17.54
  3. Alex Salvini (Beta) 3:14:40.39
  4. Albin Elowson (Husqvarna) 3:14:51.84
  5. Christophe Charlier (Husqvarna) 3:15:11.64
Enduro 3
  1. Taylor Robert (KTM) 3:13:05.64
  2. Jaume Betriu (KTM) 3:14:52.78
  3. Daniel Sanders (KTM) 3:17:15.55
  4. Matti Seistola (KTM) 3:17:27.80
  5. Matthew Phillips (Sherco) 3:17:41.94
    ….10. Lyndon Snodgrass (KTM) 3:19:29.29
Enduro Women
  1. Laia Sanz (KTM) 3:28:52.18
  2. Tayla Jones (Husqvarna) 3:30:26.50
  3. Brandy Richards (KTM) 3:35:21.68
  4. Jessica Gardiner (Yamaha) 3:37:37.51
  5. Kacy Martinez (KTM) 3:41:49.13
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