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Category: Off-RoadThe news items published under this category are as follows.
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KTM Makes A Showing Internationally: Hansen Second In Sx Standings And Grider And Blais Race Tunisia
KTM had yet another busy weekend as Josh Hansen placed fourth at the Dallas Supercross and Andy Grider and Chris Blais began the Optic 2000 Tunisia Rally; both finished in the top five! The GNCC was cancelled due to dangerous winds.
AMA THQ Supercross
Dallas, Texas
Josh Hansen started his night off strong in his heat-race, but was taken out by Josh Grant in a corner and both crashed. Hansen managed to get back on the bike and finished sixth. Going into the 125cc main, the young gun battled and passed Steve Boniface on the last lap to come away with a fourth place in the main on his 250 SXF. Josh Hansen now sits in second place in the points lead for the THQ AMA Supercross East series. He is seven points behind Series Leader, Grant Langston.
Red Bull KTM teammate Ryan Mills placed ninth in Dallas. That puts him in eight overall with sixty-four points.
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COALINGA, CA (March 12/13) - Top adult and youth enduro riders experienced beautiful weather and great trail conditions at two major off-road events at a popular federal recreation site. On March 12 and 13, hundreds of participants signed up for Round 1 of the AMA sanctioned 2005 Moose Racing Youth Enduro Series and Round 2 of the Moose Racing Northern California Championship Enduro Series held at the Clear Creek Management Area.
The BlueRibbon Coalition (BRC) and FMF Racing’s Sound Testing Program for OHVs were on hand at both the Wild Piglet Youth Enduro and Wild Boar Enduro to help the Timekeepers Motorcycle Club and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) make sure that riders complied with the 96dBA 20-inch J-1287 sound test and applicable spark arrester and vehicle registration requirements.
According to AMA District 36, KTM riders Billy Russell, Pat Garrahan, and Brian Sperle took the top 3 spots on the podium for the Wild Boar Enduro. Mark Maldonado, also a KTM rider, took top honors at the Wild Piglet Youth Enduro.
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After five grueling eight-mile loops through thick and twisted single track, 21-year-old Kyle Beshaw took his first series overall win at the Arizona Motorcycle Riders Association Desert Scrambles at RockStars Ranch in Superior, Arizona.
Beshaw, an open A rider, took the lead from Travis Schultz after battling through a gnarly section of mud and tough rocky uphills, and ended up winning the overall by less than a minute.
"This race course was killer," Beshaw laughed, "and really tight" tighter than any other race I've done. But I have to say it was a lot of fun. The washes were fun to go through, but up on top of the hills it was really slick "that's where I crashed the most."
Beshaw said he went down on one of the hills and for a minute blocked the trail when Schultz met up with him and pushed him all the way up that section. They battled back and forth for most of that lap.
"Just after beginning the last lap Kyle got by me in the open stream section," Schultz remembered. "I hung with him and was faster until we came to the one mud hole on the track and a lapper was stuck in the main line. Kyle went inside and I went outside and got caught up. That one mistake gave Kyle the lead he needed to hold on until the end."
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LOS ANGELES—Spotlighting the best of SCORE desert racing, official entry forms have been released and the race format and event schedule have been announced for July’s SCORE Las Vegas Terrible’s Cup I. Starting Friday and concluding Monday, May 2 will be the advance entry registration window for the limited-field invitational to be held July 29-30 at the world-class Dirt Track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
With maximum entry fields of 24 vehicles in four of five different groups, racing will begin at 7 p.m. each night at LVMS and both nights will conclude with elaborate Terrible’s Fireworks Shows.
Nearly 90-percent of the 1.5 mile course will be viewable from the grandstands in the 8,026-seat facility. Competing in their own race will be the marquee SCORE Trophy-Trucks and the unlimited SCORE Class 1 open-wheel desert race cars along with special groups for open-wheelers in Class 1-2/1600 and Class 10/SCORE Lite along with the mini-trucks of Class 7/Class 7S/Class 7SX. The event will have a $55,000 cash purse plus contingency postings. SCORE Trophy-Trucks will have no limit on number of entries.
With each paid admission will also come one coupon for the free drawing for the SCORE Terrible’s Fan Appreciation giveaway. A new showroom SUV, donated by Terrible’s, will be given away on Saturday night (July 30) at LVMS.
As a prelude to the two days of racing, the SCORE Pit Stop at Fremont Street Experience will be held on Thursday, July 28. At the SCORE Pit Stop, starting at 6 p.m., will be a vehicle display and $10,000 SCORE Pit Crew Challenge for SCORE Trophy-Trucks, meet the SCORE racers party for all competing SCORE racers and a concert under the canopy on Fremont Street.
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KTM continues their Off-Road domination in the GNCC series as the Orange Wrecking Krew swept second through sixth place. Finnish rider, Juha Salminen placed second and increased his points lead in the series with former GNCC Champion, Shane Watts taking the third podium spot.
In an unexpected upset, three-time AMA National Motocross Champion, and retired full-time racer, Doug Henry came in first just mere seconds in front of the KTM Freight Train led by Juha "The Fast Finn" Salminen. Together, they handed the young GNCC racers an old-school lesson. Going for the glory, Henry battled with Juha and the rest of the talented field of riders for the entire three hours and Henry was so exhausted at the finish that he required an IV from trackside medics.
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Light rain one Wednesday kept the dust down and the traction high for the annual Alligator Enduro, held near Daytona International Speedway, Thursday, March 10. As always nearly 500 riders came out to have a go of the tight Palmetto-infested woods.
It was KTM’s Mike Lafferty and Yamaha’s Jason Raines leading the way in the first 12-mile section posting, a 7 and a 6, respectively. Raines, however, was caught going in to that section early and docked an additional two points for a burnt check.
A series of other checks would follow that all of the top riders made on time.
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The second round of the AMA FMF Racing National Hare & Hound Series in Ocotillo, California, March 13, came down to the wire with Montclair Yamaha’s Russ Pearson taking the win by only a few seconds over defending champ Destry Abbott.
Team Green Kawasaki’s Abbott, Pearson and team Honda’s Steve Hengeveld all led at one point during the race. Abbott, however, led the most but struggled with the course markings and, more than once, saw his lead disappear after getting lost. Still, Abbott looked to have things under wraps as he headed towards the finish line with a small lead over Pearson, but the two riders lost the course again, and it was a frantic race to find the markings first. When they finally did, it was Pearson coming out on top, taking the checkered flag just a few feet ahead of Abbott.
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He faces rock, sand, dirt and the best riders in the U.S., but KTM Factory off-road sensation Juha Salminen (111) keeps making America’s toughest races look easy. At the Maxxis General GNCC, Juha jumped out to the early lead, and his teammate Mike Lafferty and Am Pro Yamaha’s Barry Hawk tried in vain to keep him in sight. By the finish, Juha had a big lead again, winning the second Suzuki Grand National Cross Country event of his career over 1500 other racers.
“Mike was riding good early, and then I got the pitboard telling me Barry Hawk was coming,” said Juha. “I just try to go the same speed every lap. I went the same speed every lap. You know all the tracks are going to be different, but if you’re going to ride them, you might as well try to win.” Juha might be winning, but it doesn’t even look like he’s trying. The friendly rider from Finland looks to be cruising when he’s out front, looks clean after the race, and even when he’s hanging out in the pits he demonstrates a cool demeanor which belies the determined competitor who has taken America’s largest off-road series by the throat.
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Gilmer, TX – If the first race is any indication, 2005 will be an incredible year for the Suzuki Grand National Cross Country ATV Series. At the season-opening Lone Star GNCC in Texas, Alba’s Chris Borich and Yamaha’s Bill Ballance battled, banged and bumped all the way into the very last corner of the race. In this first round it was the challenger, Borich, coming out on top of the champ.
“It was a great battle out there,” said the Honda TRX450R-mounted Borich. “I was in fourth just watching, and then I made my move. I knew once me and Bill started battling we could pull away. He doesn’t give up too easy.”
“Me and Chris hooked up, and I can’t even tell you how many times we passed each other,” said Ballance. “We battled all the way to the finish line.”
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Gilmer, TX – The Suzuki Grand National Cross Country Series is billed as America’s largest off-road series, but at the 2005 series opener in Texas, two of the world’s best rose to the head of the pack. KTM’s Juha Salminen, the highly-touted ten-time World Champion from Finland, handled a rugged, rocky track with ease to take the win, a strong performance KTM expected and the competition feared.
“It is great to start off with a win but I really did not know what to expect,” said the 28-year-old. “I have not ridden against these riders. The track was rough. I tried a few times to pull away but I would make a mistake. Finally one time I was able to pull away. I was just a little nervous early on, but I am happy now.”
Second place went to FMF Suzuki’s newest recruit, young Australian Enduro Champion Glenn Kearney. “This is even more than I expected,” said Kearney. “I have such great support from this team and I’m glad to be racing here. We went a little fast early on today, and I did get fatigued with two laps to go, but I just never gave up.”
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The following is a press release from The Familie, Travis Pastrana's management company:
Travis Pastrana will compete in seven events of the 2005 Rally America National Championship in a 2005 Subaru WRX STi prepared by Vermont SportsCar. The 21-year-old motorcross star has a passion for rally racing which pits drivers in a race against the clock on hundreds of miles of closed public and private roads that are usually unpaved and unforgiving. Pastrana impressed rally insiders last year by finishing third in class and fourth overall in his first race behind the wheel of a Subaru WRX STi.
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Hell’s Gate extreme enduro:
Il Ciocco tourist complex, North Tuscan Apennines, Italy
KTM Racing team rider David Knight claimed a convincing win at the second running of the Hell’s Gate extreme enduro, the Fabio Fasola organized event in Il Ciocco, Italy on Saturday February 5. After topping the ’04 event, Knighter again showed exactly why he is world’s best extreme enduro rider by topping the event’s morning qualifying enduro before going on to lead the main Hell’s Gate race from start to finish and claim the 8’000 Euro first prize.
Topping the four-lap, preliminary event from which only 30 riders passed into the main Hell’s Gate event, David managed not only to finish the race as the sole rider to finish without time penalties but as the winner of the three timed special tests as well. Managing to negotiate his way around the rock and ice covered course better than any other, Knighter then took to the start of the Hell’s Gate race as clear favorite.
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Here's a bunch from day 2 of the Hollister National Hare Scramble: Album and Slideshow
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January 24, 2005
David Knight has won the Genoa Indoor Enduro. The KTM factory rider showed all his indoor skills, and added to his win in the 2003 Barcelona Indoor victory.
Main event
1. David Knight (KTM-GBR)
2. Paul Edmonson (Honda-GBR)
3. Alessandro Botturi (KTM-ITA)
4. Ivan Cervantes (KTM-SPA)
5. Mika Ahola (Husqvarna-FIN)
6. Simone Albergoni (Honda-ITA)
7. Alessio Paoli (TM-ITA)
8. Maurizio Micheluz (Yamaha-ITA)
9. Petri Pohjamo (TM-FIN)
10. Arnau Vilanova (Honda-SPA)
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Location: Baja, Mexico
Riders: Brad, Bryce, Jay & Paul
Guides: Richard & HowardPre-Trip Planning…
This was not our ordinary Baja trip. We’d gone
before, but this was different. Usually, we’d find someplace to stay and then spend
several days riding in that general vicinity. This time the plan was different. We planned
to abandon the trucks for the week. We had the idea that we’d just ride until we
needed to sleep. Wherever we stopped, we’d spend the night. We planned this trip for
months. After much fiasco over selecting dates that we could all take off, we finally
settled on one. Well, I thought we had settled on a date. As it turns out, we had settled
on different dates. We ended up getting that worked out. I’ll save you the details.
Suffice it to say, all future dates will be documented on paper and conformed via
registered mail.
Anyway, I had a brand new bike, and it was time to concentrate on
planning. We decided to start in Tecate and ride to Mike’s Sky Ranch. After spending
the night at Mike’s, we’d ride over to the coast and spend the night, then head
back to Tecate. I thought we could follow the SCORE Baja 500 route, from last year. I
contacted SCORE to try to get maps. They informed me that this year’s course would be
laid out by then and suggested that we pre-run this year's course. Cool!
We made reservations at Mike’s. Brad and Bryce had met
Howard at Mike’s the year before and he had offered to be our guide for this
year’s trip. As it turned out Howard couldn’t get out of work in the middle of
the week. However, he suggested we call Richard, a friend of his, to see if he was
available. Sure enough, he was. Well I had reservations, I really didn’t think we
needed a guide. Hell, we had maps. With water on two sides of us, how lost could we get?
Well, everyone else was counting on a guide, so what the heck. Richard suggested that we
meet at Rancho Santa Veronica (just south of Tecate), so we made reservations for the
first and last nights there.
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