Adria team up with Beaumont Racing for 2024
It’s an exciting time as Adria team up with multiple Race Championship title winner Scott Beaumont as supplier of his support vehicle, a Matrix Supreme 670SL. We hope you enjoy the stories that we will be bringing you over the next 8 months.
My name is Scott Beaumont and I am a Pro Mountain Bike Rider. My self-named Mountain Bike team is Beaumont Racing. It is a family team where everyone has a role towards me reaching my ultimate goals. My mum, June, is the team manager at races, my dad, Mike, is my mechanic and travels to all events with me. My fiancé Holly and my 7 year old daughter Astrid are then at every race as my support crew! It’s a great set up and I love racing with my loved ones trackside.
So how did it all begin? It’s hard to know where to start with this one.
The story starts back in 1978 when I was born in Northallerton, a small town in North Yorkshire. Of course, mum was there, but dad. Well dad was in Germany racing motorbikes! As one of the best grass track, Speedway and Long Track motorcycle racers of the 70’s and 80’s weekends were all about racing! So I was born into a race family and by the age of 2 months, there I was in the back of a transit van driving through France on our way to the next race.
So, I’ll fast forward my Mountain Bike career to give you a quick highlights review. I have been National Champion 11 times, National Series Champion 12 times, European Series Champion twice and ranked in the top 3 in the World for the last 6 years. I was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 2015 and we are focused on trying to be the first male rider to win both BMX and Mountain Bike World Championship titles. It is a career that I am extremely proud of.
So, what has this got to do with Adria? Well as you will recall. I started racing at 4 years old and between 4 and 18, I believe we only stayed in a hotel for 2 races. Every other race we camped. In a tent, then in a tiny fiat camper van, followed by a converted Toyota Hi Ace and then onto a Fiat Ducato with awning. Initially it was just me and my mum as Dad was racing at his events. Then it was the three of us. We raced and camped all over the UK and Europe. We won, we lost, we met people and we had adventures. It was ace and gave me the kind of upbringing that Holly and myself will be looking to do with our daughter Astrid.
For 2024, Adria have become a partner of my team and I will be blogging on our travels throughout the UK and Europe.
So how did Adria and myself bump into each other? Well, our races take place at ski resorts during the summer throughout Europe or in remote Forestry Commission areas in the UK. Hotels are normally a fair drive away and are sometimes closed for the summer season. So most pro Mountain Bike riders have a motorhome for their travels and to give a great base on site.
After talking to Adria at the NEC Motorhome & Caravan Show in October 2023, we all agreed that there were huge benefits to both of us to form a partnership for 2023/24. The Adria Matrix Supreme 670SL serves as a great support vehicle offering 4 berths, a huge garage and is such a versatile and flexible vehicle for what we need on the road.
Adria vehicles are well known for being robust and Adria have many years of experience in supplying vehicles for sports events and athletes. The Adria Matrix is designed for living and built to perform so it can offer everything required for a resting place at the end of each day to refresh and relax ready for the next adventure.
Scott has a number of races lined up for 2024
BMX National Series:
Round 1 and 2: National Cycling Centre, Manchester – 23, 24 March
Round 3 and 4: Cyclopark, Gravesend – 20, 21 April
Round 5 and 6: Cumbernauld Centurions BMX Club – 8, 9 June
Round 7 and 8: Platt Fields Park, Manchester – 22, 23 June
Round 9 and 10: Perry Park BMX Track, Birmingham – 6, 7 July
BMX World Championships:
May 16th - South Carolina, USA
Dual Slalom National Championships:
August 23 - Malverns
4X National Championships:
August 25 - Malverns
4X ProTour:
June 14th - Val Di Sole, Italy
July 13th - JBC, Czech Republic
August 3rd - Dobrany, Czech Republic
September 7th - Szczawno Zdroj, Poland
European 4X Championships:
September 21st - Leibstadt, Switzerland