After eight unsuccessful attempts to win the annual Namibian Motocross Inter-Series, Ross Branch from Botswana finally grabbed the coveted Jägermeister-Trophy last Saturday in style as well as the prize-money of N$ 25.000. All this in front of his parents who travelled all the way to Namibia. After the glorious victory the previous week in Swakopmund, it was the Team-Manager from Honda-South Africa who also decided to become a witness of Ross’ eternal victory in Namibia. Ross Branch won this event with a maximum number of 150 points, never achieved before in the 13 year long history of the Namibian Inter-Series.

This coming Saturday the 2nd leg of the 2009 Inter-Series will get staged at Gallina Motocross Park under the official name "Jägermeister - MX Dash for Cash". The famous Gallina Motocross Park is situated 15 Kilometres outside of Windhoek, on the road towards Okahandja.

This was a picture-book event, everything was just the way it’s supposed to be; excellent organisation by the host Namib Off-Road Club, a good number of spectators, first-class riders, and a maximum victory for the representative of the Bike & Quad Clinic Team from Botswana: Ross Branch.

Messrs Kingsley, internationally operating company and major player in the field of beverages and flavored soft-drinks has become main-sponsor of the 1st event of the Inter-Series to be held in Swakopmund on 7th November. A representative of Kingsley watched the last race in Swakopmund in October and was so impressed with the exciting motocross sport that in an ad-hoc descission sponsorship was offered. The Namib Off-Road Club is very grateful for this generous sponsorship.

Five sportsmen from Angola applied to partake in the 2009 Namibian Inter-Series. One of them Jose Teixeira, better known as ZE COMANDO. Jose Teixeira is at the same time the owner of Honda Muxima Racing, the official racing-team representing Pupkewitz Honda on national and international level in Motocross racing. This team exists since 2 years and is professionally run and extremly successful.

Waldschmidt Eggs will traditionally be the patron for the team from South Africa. It is always a major problem to obtain rider-profiles from these chaps, from south of the Orange-river! But for one exception and that is the living legend Geoff Den

The Namibian distributors of the German herbal liqueur „Jägermeister“ brand are engaged in mx-racing for the past 6 years already. At Gallina Moto Cross Park the afterrace-party is traditionally known as the Jägermeister-Party amongst the Windhoek Youths…the hottest party with the coldest shots, as they say.

The first leg of the 2009 Inter-Series, to be held in Swakopmund on 7th November will see mx-riders from 8 different nations which are the UK, Scotland, Germany, Moldova, Botswana, South Africa, Angola and host Namibia.This event will also incorporate the SAC (Southern African Challenge) Quad-Championship.

The writer of these lines has seen plenty of rider-profiles during the course of his long engagement in signing riders, but never before such an interesting list of accomplishments as supplied by one of the riders from Scotland, Richard Reid. This man has tried everything on two offroad-wheels possible. The list is much too long to be published, I will just pick the most interesting points. Let him tell you his story:

Bike & Quad Clinic, Namibia’s biggst motorcycle Accessory stockists have taken the visiting Team Botswana under its wing. Not only will proprietor Paul Loots sponsor the youngsters from Botswana, but at the same time he is sponsoring the visiting Quad-Team from South Africa. Very commendable!

Hennie Visser, proprietor of Messrs H.J. Electrical (Electrical Contractor) is an ardent supporter of Namibian Motocross. Not only did he renew the compete electrical wiring at Gallina Motocross Park, he also took over patronage of the two young riders from the Republik of Moldova.