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Will the King Quad Sweep ATV Super Challenge Series?
Dan Tousignant on a Polaris |
For two
years, no ATV could give the Yamaha Grizzly a run in the Mi-TRALE/Y-101
ATV Super Challenge Series. Race after race, from one town to
the next, the Yamaha Grizzly would win the TOP DOG Class. The
Yamaha Grizzly also took the top 3 positions at 7 consecutive
ATV Super Challenges.
That all changed in the 2005 Mi-TRALE/Y-101 ATV Super
Challenge Series. At the first event in June, the Suzuki King
Quad, driven by Michigan's Jeff Walters forced a Nashville,
Tennessee driver, Eli Gustafson, on a Yamaha Grizzly into the
second of a Double Elimination feature. Walters pulled off the
upset and was the first to derail Yamaha's TOP DOG reign of
supremacy.
Then Walters came back to defeat a different Michigan Driver,
Jason Sullivan, on a Grizzly at the second event. Walters and
his King Quad went undefeated at that event.
Now it's the Grand Slam finale, Ewen, Michigan, Saturday,
September 24th. This ATV Super Challenge is a part of the Ewen
Log Jamboree and takes place at the permantly built ATV Super
Challenge track in this Western Upper Peninsula community. It
will be at this event that Tennessee's Gustafson is set out to
put Yamaha back in Victory lane.
Walters plans to win the ATV Super Challenge Grand Slam in
the Top Dog Class, and prove that the Suzuki King Quad can do
all that an ATV Super Challenge requires. That is the ability to
not only run through water and mud, have the power and traction
to make it over the hills, the handling to carve into the tight
corners, the suspension to ride over the bumps and hit the jumps
hard, and at the end, the braking neccessary to stop within the
parameters of the "Stop Box."
Jason Sullivan on a Yamaha |
The ATV Super Challenge series has two drivers racing side by
side. This concept is catching on in different parts of the US.
The Wisconsin ATV Association has already run 2 ATV Super
Challenges, and will have their final race of the season the
week after Michigan's event, September 30th to October 2nd. The
Wisconsin ATV Association ATV Super Challenge finals will take
place in Gillett, Wisconsin.
While Wisconsin and Michigan follow the same rules for an ATV
Super Challenge, the two circuits have different class
breakdowns. The Mi-TRALE/Y-101 ATV Super Challenge series only
has 4 classes. Two are for the 2-Wheel Drive machines, and 2 are
for the 4 Wheel Drive ATV's.
Plans are in progress for the 2 states to combine their ATV
Super Challenge Series into one Regional Series in 2006. For
more information on the Mi-TRALE/Y-101 ATV Super Challenge
Series, contact Skip Schulz at 906-884-9668, e-mail at:
sschulz@jamadots.com
or go too:
www.wupy101.com
For more information on the ATV Super Challenge in Gillett,
Wisconsin, contact Gary Pemrich at 920-604-2040 or go too:
www.atvsuperchallenge.com
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