Yellow Mountain Cross Country in Condobolin, New South Wales | Sporting event

Yellow Mountain Cross Country

Locality: Condobolin, New South Wales

Address: Tottenham 2873 Condobolin, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.yellowmountaincrosscountry.com.au

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24.01.2022 EVENT CANCELLED Due to the imposed gathering ban it is with great sadness the we announce the cancellation of the 2020 Condo 750. We have a responsibility to o...ur community, competitors, committee, officials, volunteers and spectators to ensure that we as an event don’t add to this already increasing crisis. A full refund will be offered to all paid entries, please give us time to contact you and arrange this. We thank you for your support of our 2020 event and hope to see you all for our 2021 event. See more

24.01.2022 Due to licencing issues and the ongoing change to Covid 19 restrictions, it is with great regret Tottenham Motorcycle Club and Condo Auto Sports have decided to cancel the upcoming double header Enduro. We look forward running our Enduros and Yellow Mountain Cross Country in 2021.

24.01.2022 We have been a little quiet lately but that just means the track is shaping up to be another gooden. Entries are open and the committee is hard at work sorting out the finer details. Who else is on the count down for 2020 Condo 750?

23.01.2022 2020 Rally Flyer, please share.

19.01.2022 Great trailer up for sale $4000 with 12 months rego!

17.01.2022 PODCAST WITH TODD & JACOB SMITH Who’s into listening to podcasts? If you haven’t given it a go yet be sure to get your ears around this! The boys from Dirt Bike Burrito Podcast came out last week to interview Todd Smith and Jacob Smith. Give their page a follow for all the latest interviews, they are based in Orange and want to support our events as much as they can. https://podcasts.apple.com//the-dirt-bike-bu/id1483369561

16.01.2022 Best of luck to Rodney Faggotter who will be competing in the 2020 Dakar Rally. Rod races in the Condo 750 event most years. We will be cheering you on all the way

13.01.2022 JACOB LOOKING TO GO ONE BETTER The 2020 Tatts Finke Desert Race may have been cancelled, but that hasn’t stopped Condobolin’s Jacob Smith preparing to conquer t...he challenging course in 2021. A journeyman of the sport, Jacob finished on the podium last year in second position after consecutive DNF’s in 2018 and 2017, and he will be looking to go one better next time around. The Tatts Finke Desert Race is an off road, multi terrain two-day race for bikes, cars, buggies and quads through desert country from Alice Springs to the small Aputula (Finke) community and back again. The race is held each year on the Queen’s Birthday long weekend in June and is one of the biggest annual sporting events in the Northern Territory and has the reputation of being one of the most difficult off road courses in one of the most remote places in the world. Jacob has never won the Tatts Finke Desert Race, but has ambitions to hold aloft the winner’s tophy. I want to win one before I hang up my racing boots. That is my ultimate goal, he said. There is a lot of prestige and history associated with the Finke Desert Race. It is just one of those races. Obviously I have done 10 in a row and I haven’t won one yet, so I really want to win one. The track is really rough, but that is one of the things that makes you want to succeed and conquer it. The route is part of the challenge. To be able to win that race would be unbelievable - to be King of the Desert would be the top of my career. It’s hard to explain how the race makes me feel, but I just love the atmosphere and the comraderie of the event. You get to go away for pre training, and spend time in the desert with no mobile phones, just riding your bike. All of that aspect is what is so good about the race. It is definitely becoming a world renowned race. Everyone from around the world who has a dirt bike knows about it, and has aspirations to conquer the course. It is definitely prestigious and something I want to add to my list of achievements. Todd, my brother, won the race in 2013. We actually came first and second in that race. We were the first brothers to come first and second in the race. I also came second in 2019. So I have been on the podium a few times, but I just really want to get a win before I retire, so Todd and I are even. Jacob has competed in the event for the past 10 years in a row. However, COVID-19 meant that the Tatts Finke Desert Race and many others competitive contests were cancelled in 2020. While the circumstances have made it difficult to train, Jacob has persevered during difficult times. I was preparing as I per normally would every season and then when COVID-19 struck it was a bit up in the air on what was going to happen, he explained. Events got cancelled quite quickly in the grand scheme of things. They pulled the pin on Finke quite early, so I knew that was not going to happen but I didn’t think everything else would get shut down straight away. So I kept training as I was going to be racing. It was only, I guess, a couple of weeks later I got a call from Husqvarna and they said pretty much everything for the year was done basically. So my contract was pretty much voided, but everything that I had been given up until that point as per my contract was still above board, but after that, that was it. It has been quite hard to stay motivated, if I am totally honest. To know there would be no racing, and Finke was my major event for the year and basically my contract had been voided it was tough to stay motivated, keep fit and be interested in racing. I sort of lost interest for three or four weeks. I haven’t done much riding to be honest as there is not much happening this year. Jacob admits there have been times when it was challenging to keep motivated when he hasn’t been racing. I have still been training with Logan Thorpe Fitness. It was also tricky when the gyms faced strict guidelines during the COVID-19 restrictions, he stated. I had to work out a plan to do it on my own and Logan helped with Zoom training lessons. Then when they eased a bit I could work with Logan at the park and that type of thing. I have tried to keep active because that is what I like to do. It was quite hard to stay motivated. It is funny because this is the longest stint I have ever had off the bike or nor racing competition when I have been healthy. Normally when I have a break from racing I am injured or something has gone wrong, so it has been a little taste of what retirement may look like for me. I am getting closer to retirement, that what I was a couple of years ago, so that is something I have started to think about the line. I don’t want to retire yet, but in two or three years time I might have to look at stepping away from racing professionally. This time has given me a bit of insight into what life will be like without having racing or competition. It’s not that fun to be honest. Jacob has hopes he will be able to return to his normal racing schedule next year. **Images Contributed. See more

11.01.2022 FOR SALE!! sad to say it’s time for our #smithbrothersracing race truck to be sold. We would love to see it back at the races. DM me for details.

09.01.2022 Unfortunately the committee have decided to cancel the 2020 Yellow Mountain Cross Country event due to the COVID-19 restrictions. However we are hoping to run a Double Header Enduro on the same weekend, 1st and 2nd August which would run on two seperate tracks between Condo and Tottenham. We will keep you informed over the coming weeks.

07.01.2022 DATES CONFIRMED FOR D’AQUINO’S CONDO 750 The confirmed dates for the 2020 Condo 750 will be Easter weekend, 10-12 April. Prologue will be held on the Friday and... racing on Saturday and Sunday. Entries will open on 1 February. Organisers will be using RallySafe for this event. More information will be provided as the event gets closer. See more

06.01.2022 Get your bikes ready and swags packed for an awesome weekend of racing

03.01.2022 Dakar is just around the corner..... so is the 2020 Condo 750 and Sunraysia Safari Rally. Check out the latest ADB for some tips on setting up a rally bike with the little wizard Jacob Smith