2005 6 Hours of ATV America - Rausch Creek MX

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Tremont, PA - 6 Hours of ATV America Series began its 2005 journey around the USA back in February at Caddo Point in Greenville, TX, and after visiting Georgia, Missouri, and Wisconsin, the series headed to the Pennsylvania Mountains. Unlike the prior four races, the race at Rausch Creek MX Park won’t start till 5PM, so it will be well past dark once the race is over, which will make headlights a necessity.

With the 12 Hours of ATV America also scheduled to be held at Rausch Creek in October, the 6 Hour event at night would provide the perfect testing ground to prepare teams the 12 hour event.

The turnout for the event was only slight up from last year with 46 team entries compared to 42 teams last year, but surprisingly the opening round in Texas remained the largest turnout for any 6 Hour Event with 49 entries.

The track layout was also very similar to last year’s event with a mixture of motocross and woods with the track just over 5 miles in length, which is the normal length for a 6 hour event

Dust was not going to be an issue for sure because the area received heavy rain overnight and past couple days from showers spawned from the remnants of Hurricane Dennis which had the ground saturated with water and more rain forecasted throughout the day.

Teams began arriving on Friday to find the best pit spots and get a chance to walk the track before the race on Saturday.

Teams began arriving on Friday to find the best pit spots and get a chance to walk the track before the race on Saturday and make some final preparations to their machines before the muddy race.

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The pits were split into three sections with around 15 teams per section.

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ATVriders.com had two teams representing us at the event this year with Jason Hughes, Mark Carman, and Dan Ketterer competing in the the 30+ Class and Ralph Johnson, Bruce Wyland, and Steven Straka signing up for the A Class.

Over the past two weeks, I have been scrambling to get graphic kits produced for the teams, and www.goforitgraphics.com got the call. The kits arrived just two days before the event, and they went on easy and looked awesome once installed.

Currently, ATVriders.com doesn't have its own custom layout kit available, but it is in development and should be available within a few weeks. The awesome thing is that if you have a different theme in mind than what we come up with as the official layout, you can still get the ATVriders.com logo on any of their already existing kits in any color combination that you like for a special ATVriders.com discounted price below the normal $99.00, which is already a very fair price for a graphics kit.

All the details haven’t been worked out yet, but an announcement will made shortly on the discounted pricing and ordering details.

Here is an example of the YFZ450 Kit that the 30+ team installed for the race

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The YFZ kit also comes with a nose piece and they can include your number plate in any color number and background combination with several different border selections available as well.

Since the kit was installed on Jason’s YFZ450, I also included his company name, Powerline ATV, in the number plate.

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Ralph Johnson's TRX450R Kit worked perfectly to blend his red tank with his black plastic, which is the great thing about being able to select your own color combination.

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30+ Class Teams - 7 Entries
Team Big Daddy
RAB Offroad / C&D Racing
Dirt First
Team Advanced
Quad Zone
ATVriders.com
Cardio Stack Vet

My EXriders.com/C&D Racing teammates (Ron Dernoski & Chad Kirby) from last year formed themselves a new team this year with the addition of Randy Brandt and won 30+ Class at the 6 Hour event in Georgia, and they were back again this year looking for a repeat win under the name RAB Offroad/C&D Racing.

Ron applied the final detail (ATVriders.com stickers) to his Cannondale before the start of the race.

Unfortunately, I wouldn't be racing the event this year even though I was invited by several teams to join them because I am still banged up from my dismount at the Wisp , but if everything goes as planned, I will be racing the 12 Hours of ATV America.

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Pro Class Teams - 7 Entries
3 Amigos
Team Honda
Hertz Racing
Dirt First / Duncan Racing
Ram-Rod
Double XL
Polaris

The biggest surprise was that Chris Borich would be competing with John Natalie Jr for Team Honda. After only three weeks of recovery from his wreck at the Wisp, Borich rode several hours the prior week and felt fine, so he wasn't going to give up the opportunity to race with Natalie.

Matt Smiley has teamed up with Borich since the first 6 and 12 Hour events, but with factory involvement, this winning combination was split up with Chris going to Honda and Matt signing with Polaris, which is just awesome when you think about it.

This year Matt teamed up with Chris Jenks for the 6 Hour event and Bryan Baker will be joining the pair for the 12 Hour event this fall aboard the Polaris Predator.

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Team Ram-Rod (Adam McGill, James Wahl, and Jeremy Rice) was a potent combination with three top 20 GNCC riders.

James Wahl supervised Jeremy Rice installing a fresh skid plate before the start of the race

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Dirt First/Duncan Racing(Andy Lagzdins & Todd Knippenberg) were ready and waiting for the start of the race with Tony along to help in the pits.

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Double XL(Josh Creamer, Justin Hoffler, and Vincent Mofford) had there Walsh/Hiper machine all taped up and ready to go as well.