2011 Hetrick
Racing Announces Joel Hetrick is "Going Pro"
2011 AMA Pro ATV Motocross
Racing Series
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18 Year Old
Joel Hetrick Announces he is going to
race in the ATV Pro Class in the AMA ATV
Motocross National Race Series
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Oil City, PA (1/25/2011)
- When you search for a single word to
describe this eighteen year old from Oil City, Pennsylvania,
you will have to dig deep into a dictionary, flip
pages until you get to the latter quarter of the
book. It's under the letter 'U'. It's called...unique...and
means highly unusual, extraordinary, rare.
Joel Hetrick began his extraordinary climb in
the world of ATV racing at the tender age of four
when his father, Rich Hetrick of Hetrick Racing,
would push him across the shop floor on a mini
ATV and teach him how to use the brakes. Fourteen
years later, after multiple national youth motocross
championships and a national Pro/Am motocross
championship, Joel Hetrick is..."Goin' Pro".
During the 2010 AMA-ATV Motocross Championship,
Hetrick laid down some rather impressive numbers.
In the Pro/Am Unlimited and Pro/Am Production
classes, if you combine his podium runs in both
classes, he netted a total of 16 podium appearances.
Out of these podium finishes, Hetrick put down
8 event wins in the Pro/Am Unlimited class and
4 event wins in the Pro/Am Production class. He
won the Pro/Am Unlimited championship. To add
some tasty icing to this ATV racing cake, in 10
out of the series' 11 events, he set the fastest
qualifying lap times in the divisions. With these
same times he would have qualified top 5 in the
Pro class over 90% of the time. More than once,
he turned the fastest lap of the entire event...Pros
included.
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#88 Joel
Hetrick - Kawasaki KFX450 ATV
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Unique ATV talent attracts unique sponsors. For
the 2011 season, David Eller of Makson Plumbing
& Construction, a highly respected, multiple
state, general contractor operating out of Salisbury,
NC, has come onboard with Hetrick Racing as a
major sponsor of Joel's endeavors in the ATV racing
world. Eller, a former racer himself and a long
time sponsor of Arenacross racers, sees a rare
talent in Hetrick that he feels will pay dividends
in the future. When you attract a sponsor such
as Makson Plumbing & Construction, you've
got talent that turns heads...outside the industry.
Not only does Makson Plumbing & Construction
see an extraordinary sponsorship opportunity in
getting behind Hetrick but numerous other sponsors
see his same bright future as well. Hetrick Racing,
JB Racing, Maximum RPM, Fly Racing, Elka Suspension,
Walsh Race Craft, MotoWorks, Easton, Maxxis, Lone
Star Racing, Tiger Racing, Pro Graph-X, Quad Tech,
Rage ATV, Rath Racing, Luke Nixon Racing, Precision
Racing Products, DWT, Oury ATV Grips, DP Brakes,
Fuel Customs, PowerMadd, Outerwears, Rebel Gears,
Kal-Gard, Intense Fabrication & Design, and
Hinson Clutches...all see Hetrick's potential.
Training in Texas prior to the opening round
of the 2011 AMA-ATV Motocross
Championship opener in Washington, Georgia at
Aonia Pass on February 26th,
Hetrick is setting realistic goals for his rookie
Pro season. His father,
Rich, stated in an interview that they were hoping
to finish in the top
five overall, win a few motos and, possibly, make
it up on the podium a
time or two. As for the week before the season
opener, Hetrick will take
some time off, stay away from his quad for a few
days, then, come the
season opener, harass the 2011 MX National Pro
class with his highly
unusual, extraordinary...rare ATV racing talents.
www.hetrickracing.com
186 Oakwood Road
Oil City, PA 16301
814.676-0477 |
