WHO IS THAT? | Bikesportnz

The BikesportNZ.com photo archive is a treasure trove of classic old snaps.

We have decided that each week we are going to run an archive photo or two – a bit of a guessing game for you. See if you can answer the questions about BOTH photos.

We’ll offer you a few clues, but we also want to keep you guessing.

Check back and we’ll give you the answers next week, along with our next “Who’s that?” feature photos.

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Plus, we have a sponsor for the feature. Thanks to Crown Kiwi, EVS, Alpinestars and 100% apparel and accessories, we can offer a small prize each week – a tee-shirt or a cap – to the first respondent with the correct answers.

Nobody came up with the correct answers this week.

Clues for photo above:

This photo shows a trio of riders heading into the S-bend at Manfeild in 1993. Can you name all three individuals?

We do also need you to answer the question about the photo below.

Clues for photo below:

This photo shows a Kiwi international, competing internationally. This is an easy one so we want three questions answered please.

Who is it? What year was it? What was the international event?

Last week’s characters revealed:

The riders featured in the main photo last week were a couple of young men crashing at the Rotorua circuit during the motocross nationals in 2011. They are Callum Moore and Jacob Kneebone.

The second photo featured last week was of a Kiwi international, competing internationally.

It was, of course, Cody Cooper, racing at the Motocross of Nations at Donington Park in England in 2008.

He famously won his open class qualifying race that weekend with a start-to-finish victory on the Saturday.

And he backed that up with a solid result in Sunday’s combined MX2-open race.

Cooper holeshot the race in wet conditions and, totally against the odds, he held out American Ryan Villopoto for a lap.

He then found himself in a battle with French GP star Anthony Boissiere (MX2 KTM) before dealing to him.

Cooper was then locked in a titanic struggle with two-time former world champion Steve Ramon, the unstylish but deceptively fast Belgian on the move up from sixth on lap one.

Cooper only lost out to the factory Suzuki star when fatigue finally got the better of him with three of 16 laps to go.

He eventually finished fourth, behind the highly-hyped Villopoto, Ramon and a rampaging Tommy Searle, the Brit urged on by the screaming, flag-waving, horn-blaring 60,000-strong home crowd.

New Zealand’s gallant trio of riders – Cooper, Yamaha’s Josh Coppins and Suzuki’s Scott Columb – combined to finish eighth overall that year.

Email your answers to this week’s quiz to contest@bikesportnz.com

Note: Be careful to answer the questions being asked. We may ask for a time, a place, an event or ask for one or several of the individuals in the two photos to be identified.

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