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The 3rd round of the www.koontzadventureseries.com rolled into the West Virginia Off-Road Park & Campground, located just south of Charleston WV. This new facility will soon have a Motocross track, Harescrambles courses and a AMA sanctioned Hillclimb. Also, full RV hook ups are being installed in time for upcoming events.
Being that the race was held over the Easter Holiday weekend, race promoter Paul Koontz had plenty of Easter surprises for the children who follow this series.
400 easter eggs were scattered about the facility with prizes ranging from candy, giant easter baskets and 2 brand new bicycles!
70cc rider Micheal Mussi was in attendance aboard his freshly built Arctic cat. Micheal is looking to really step up his racing this season and the Koontz series is just the place for a young rider to gain the expierence needed to compete in the GNCC series!
The 50cc class was showing only 1 rider. The holiday weekend had attendence numbers extremely low for a Koontz Youth Race.
Ryan Hill took full advantage of this and grabbed himself a win:p
The 70cc - 90cc classes would run an extended course. At 2 1/2 miles this course would indeed test the ability of the young riders.
On the line just minutes before the start, riders gather themselves and take last minute instructions from thier parents.
Rider 776, Cody Hill patiently awaits the start of the race, and this picture caught him staring at the first obstacle of the race, a very long climb to the top of the surrounding mountain!
A surprise change to a dead engine start provided the GNCC riders some much needed expierence. The electric start quads pull the pull start quads off the line.
Brandon Boso, Canaan Summerfield and Micheal Mussi all jumped to an early lead as the riders raced for the first turn.
The long pull up the mountain on these small machines is something to watch. The mix of thumper grunt and the sound of 2 stroke's filled the mountain as every parent watched as thier young racer entered into the mountains.
Parents became very nervous as the riders crossed the top of the hillclimb. One young rider commented after the race that the view from up there was "awesome"!:D