2024 MXON | Wednesday Morning Photos

Here are a few photos to wake up to of Team Canada MXON Wednesday morning in England. Today, everyone tried to get caught up on sleep and get used to the time change. Later this afternoon, we’ll set everyone and everything up to take team and bike photos. We’ll have some photos from that up later today.

We’re staying at Norton Park Hotel and Spa just 20 minutes from Matterley Basin. If you squint your eyes, you may see Roger DeCoster sitting inside. Team USA and Team Austrailia are also staying here and should arrive today or tomorrow.
The riders and team are staying in the Manor House which is just beside the main hotel complex.
Manor House main entrance.
The rear view of the house.
The rental cars and vans.
The shipping containers.
Parker Eales and Austin Jones.
The rain has stopped and the sun has actually come out as I type. The forecast is for decent weather with 55% chance of rain and 17C on Sunday.
There’s a nice little pond beside the Manor House. The bLU cRU Yamaha riders are practicing at a track about an hour from here today.
Team Manager Kourtney Lloyd working on the centre pieces.
Dylan Wright’s mechanic Jeff Ryan working in the “shop.”
2 full bikes for Dylan this year.
Jess Pettis’ mechanic Justin Roney and Parker.
We all relaxed in the Manor House last night while we waited for the riders to get here. That needs an explanation:

Jess Pettis, Kaven Benoit, and Dylan Wright all flew together from Montreal. They arrived later than the rest of us and jumped into their rental van and headed toward Norton Park. As they neared, they hit traffic that ended up being the M3 closed. Apparently, a car had left an overpass and crashed down onto the “motorway” and there were fatalities.

The road was closed and they waited at least 4 hours in the van with their partners. They were then told the road would be closed for another 8 hours!

They started turning vehicles around from the back but Kaven had had enough and spun their van around out of turn and heard it from a constable. He didn’t end up in jail but they were pretty angry with him.

They finally made it to the House sometime after 10. That was a very long day of travel for our team!

I’ll leave you with this shot of me getting ready to go out and see how far across the pond I can make it on Josiah Natzke’s Team New Zealand bike…

More photos and some video later this afternoon. We’re 5 hours ahead of Eastern Time back home.