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2008 Maxxis 22nd Annual
Pont de Vaux 12 Hour ATV Race
Pont de Vaux, France
August 22-24, 2008

Photos : Stephane Galliez / Sportimage.fr

Maxxis Pont de Vaux 12 Hour ATV Race

Yamaha's Romain Couprie Takes Win over Tim Farr's KTM Team


Pont de Vaux, France (8/24/2008) – The 22nd Annual Maxxis 12 Hours of Ponte de Vaux in France is in the history books, and French Dron’On/Moto Team of Romain Couprie & Jay Clement on their Yamaha YFZ450 claimed the win over the American’s KTM FRE Team of Tim Farr, Adam McGill, and Taylor Kiser after an intense battle for the lead from start to finish with Julien Valentin, Jean Baptiste Richard, and Vincent Raimondi rounding out the Podium on their Suzuki LTR-450.

Maxxis 12 Hours of Pont de Vaux ATV Racing
The racing action began Saturday morning with 2 hours of timed practice, and the FRE KTM ATV race team immediately made a statement as they recorded the fastest lap-time of 2:53.619, which was over 2 seconds faster than Romain Couprie’s DRAG'ON/MOTO Team, and Tim Farr’s KTM Team average speed was recorded at 48 mph.

With the starting positions set for the first of three race sessions, it was French Yamaha’s Romain Couprie grabbing the Holeshot followed by Tim Farr’s FRE KTM Team, and the pair lead the field followed by Yamaha’s JB Homes Michael & Sean Mcaneney.

Maxxis 12 Hours of Pont de Vaux ATV Racing
Due to transponder scoring issues in the first session race scoring was shortened to just 1.5 hours, and at the end Romain Couprie’s team was out front followed by FRE KTM Team and Yamaha’s JB Homes all on the lead lap. The American Polaris Outlaw Race Team lead by multi-time Ponte de Vaux Champion, Doug Eichner with teammates Dana Creech & Travis Spader finished in the 6th spot with 27 laps completed. Also, American Yamaha Racer’s Tim Dietrich & Justin Noss completed 27 laps as well and finished in 16th place. Finally, Motoworks /Can-Am’s Josh Frederick, S Gillis, and Brandon Smith completed 26 laps on their DS450, and were ranked 36th place in a field of 112 racers.

Maxxis 12 Hours of Pont de Vaux ATV Racing

At 8:00PM, the sun was beginning to set and the start of session 2 were released for another 5 hours of racing into the darkness with the racing action wrapping up a 1:00AM, and the KTM Team’s Taylor Kiser grabbed the Holeshot and KTM team of Tim Farr, Adam McGill, and Taylor Kiser would hold onto the lead to claim the Session 2 Win with over 3 minutes to spare on the Yamaha’s Romain Coprie & Jay Clement as the pair both finished on the lead lap with 89 laps each. The 3rd place spot was held by Honda’s Cozzi Extremetech Team with 87 laps and two laps behind the leaders.

Maxxis 12 Hours of Pont de Vaux ATV Racing
Unfortunately for the Polaris Team lead by Doug Eichner, they were forced to swap engines during Session 2, which dropped them 18 laps behind the leaders and down to a 68th place finish. Also, apparently the Yamaha’s Tim Dietrich & Justin Noss ran into issues on the final lap of the session after completing 85 laps, which would have had them scored atleast in the top 10 overall, but the official scoring has them ranked as 97th place. Finally, the Motoworks /Can-Am Team also just missed finishing the 5 hour long session by 17 minutes and completed 66 laps.

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