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The dust has finally settled after the final round of the 2021 Freetech UK Endurance Championship. And despite the Factory Racing Suzuki by 44Teeth Team showing some decent pace throughout the year, we?ve had to relinquish the number one plate. We might not have won the Championship in 2021, but we?ll surely go down in history as being the team that took the inaugural British Championship, in 2020.

In all honesty, I?m not actually sure where we finished in the final standings. After a DNF and a few missed events, I can?t imagine it would have been very high up. But we had some laughs along the way. In fact, I think most people did. Because it?s a thoroughly enjoyable way to go racing.

But unfortunately, the Freetech UK Endurance Championship has become a bit of a victim of it?s own success. Because it?s so much fun, and you can do it on a relative shoestring budget, every Dick and their dog wants a piece of it. Which is great, until you try and do a Le Mans style start with 120-odd bikes at Mallory.
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With the benefit of hindsight, it was always going to be a bit dangerous, and it would have been a miracle if everyone got to the first corner unscathed. As it happens, nobody got to the first corner. There wasn?t just a big pile-up, there was about three separate ones. It was utter carnage. There was even a bike doing that thing where the throttle sticks open and it spins round like a Catherin wheel, wiping everything...