The youth riders start at 8am, plenty early for most sane folks on a saturday morning, much less those that will spend the next hour riding as hard as any rider twice their size and age ever will. The unsung hero's in all this are the parents who toil all week, drive all night and worry all morning that their rider will not only due well, but arrive at the checkered flag safe and sound.
And the machinery that these young racers are arriving on are nothing short of spectacular in form and function.