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What Is The Elite Youth League?

The MCF’s innovative Elite Youth League is designed to allow clubs to compete against each other over a season of racing. Clubs nominate 8 of their events whereby randomly selected riders score points towards their League total. 7 riders are selected in each class form auto up to adult and the prerequisite is that they must be a fully paid up member of the club for which they are riding and the holder of an MCF annual licence. Although the selection process, made using the clubs MCF online event management system, is random, it is designed to give all of the clubs members the opportunity of racing for League points during the season.

To make things fair the points are awarded on the riders overall position, overcoming the differences in the number of races riders get at an event. To further level the playing field there is a sliding scale points system that changes dependant of the number of total entrants in to the class.

So what’s up for grabs?

As a final twist, extra points are scored by each individual clubs riders that compete at the MCF Grand Slam Final event at the end of the season. These points get 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 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

The 2011 Season Update

With two clubs now reaching the halfway stage in running their events towards the 2011 MCFederation Elite Youth League South Somerset MXC and The Vale MXC sit atop the table with SSMXC on 4009 points and the Vale on 3448. The Isle of Wights Vectis club head up the three clubs that have run two events with Jorvik MXC having only posted one set of points.

To help get an aspect of how each club is doing we have added an average event points column, giving a clearer indication of each clubs projected position.

All of this will culminate in the final points scoring event on 18th September at the MCFederation's Grand Slam individual team rider event.

	MCF ELITE YOUTH LEAGUE STANDINGS AS AT 16th MAY 2011

Position	Club	Total	Events Run	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Grand Slam	Event Average
1	South Somerset	4060	4	964	1109	954	1033						1015
2	Vale MXC	3448	4	840	865	914	829						862
3	Vectis	1711	2	886	825								855.5
4	Newton Le Willows	1565	2	775	790								782.5
5	90 Racing	1556	2	829	727								778
6	Jorvik MXC	659	1	659									659
7	MX27	0	0

What Happened in 2010?

With 2010 being the first year for the League it was uncertain how things would pan out, with clubs as diverse as the South Somerset Motocross Club, a strong family based club with riders from Auto through to AMX and adult open, MX27, a new club for 2010 run by Mark Arnold using tracks spread across the country and Vectis Motocross Club on the Isle of Wight with a limited access to riders due to its location.

With the sliding scale points system clubs were never at a disadvantage with the number of riders that turn up to their events and the initial points scoring went up and down as the clubs completed their events and the points were added to the total with each club scoring between 888 and 946 points at the first events of the season.

South Somerset started to turn up the wick managing to get their points score in to the thousands at their next two events a feat matched by MX27 at thier next event. South Somerset managed to remain strong throughout the year and despite having to reschedule some events worked hard to carry on posting high scores. MX27 were struggling with rain affected events and lost second place coming in to the Grand Slam event at Foxhill Moto Park in early September.

With a good club base of riders the South Somerset entered the final at the MCF Grand Slam event with an almost unassailable lead and duly went on to outscore everybody else to secure the title of MC Federation Elite Youth League Champions 2010 and club chairman Mike Smith stepped up on to the podium to be the first to take charge of the impressive rose bowl trophy. Although MX27 made a last ditch charge for points the Vectis Motocorss Club held on to second spot by a meagre 18 points.

Image: The MCF's Craig Elwell and Jeff Perrett hand over the EYL trophy to South Somerset's Mike Smith

How can you be a part of the Elite Youth League?

If you would like to be a part of the Elite Youth League as a rider, all you need to do is to ride with an MCFederation member club, as long as you hold an MCF licence and are a member of the club you will be selected to ride for League points at some time during the season and should you be positioned at the front end of the clubs championship you will get the opportunity to ride at the Grand Slam final to score the important last points.