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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS RELEASED
FOR ITP DANIEL BOONE ATV CHAMPIONSHIP
AS WPSA POWERSPORTS ATV TOUR READIES FOR 2006
SEASON OPENER
 WHITE
BEAR LAKE, Minn. (May 10, 2006) — The schedule
of events for the ITP Daniel Boone ATV
Championship has been released and can be
downloaded at
www.powersportstour.com. The event, which is
the season opener for the WPSA PowerSports ATV
Championship Tour, is scheduled for May 20-21 at
Daniel Boone MX in London, Ky.
The double championship race weekend features
full cards of ATV competition on both Saturday
and Sunday for the Tour’s top Pro Classes:
SuperQuad Pro 450 in QuadMX, and QuadTerrain Pro
Stock in QuadTerrain Challenge. Pro finals are
scheduled for both days at 1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Professional riders wishing to compete in just
the Sunday event can register for just that race
and registration hours have been extended to
Sunday morning, from 6 a.m. – 7:30 a.m. to serve
those riders. Pre-registration is open now and
forms can be downloaded at
www.powersportstour.com.
Pro Am, Amateurs and Youth Classes will run
qualifying on Saturday, with finals scheduled
for Sunday. A practice session is scheduled from
1 p.m. – 6 p.m. on Friday, May 19.
“This schedule represents the best of both
worlds for all of our riders,” said PowerSports
ATV Championship Tour Director Tes Sewell. “All
of our racers will be the stars of the show,
with the Pros running full races on Saturday and
Sunday, while the Pro Am, Amateur and Youth
riders will have the opportunity to have plenty
of track time in front of a large audience.
“We’re tremendously pleased with the feedback
we’ve received from the ATV community thus far,”
added Sewell. “We think this schedule goes a
long way toward our delivering on the promise of
being North America’s premier ATV racing
series.”
The Tour will run a heat-final race format,
representing a departure from the system that
has traditionally been used in ATV racing.
“We wanted to be able to showcase the best of
the best in ATV racing to our fans—at the track
and on television—while keeping the competition
strong,” said PowerSports Entertainment CEO Rick
Murphy. “We have run a similar race format for
years in the PowerSports Snowmobile Tour with
quite a bit of success. We think it will work
perfectly on the ATV side, making for exciting
racing in every class.”
The double championship weekend will feature
both of the Tour’s racing series: the “QuadMX
Series” and the “QuadTerrain Challenge.” QuadMX
consists of professional and pro-am sport MX
racing on pro-style, big-air MX tracks. The
QuadTerrain Challenge comprises professional and
pro-am sport utility racing on purpose-built
all-terrain racing courses.
The Tour recently released its 2006 rulebook
and supplementary regulations, as well as its
purse structure. Among the many changes in the
rulebook are the addition of Manufacturers’ and
Rookie of Year Championships in the Tour’s Pro
classes. The Tour will also award a Riders’
Championship in all of its classes. The $22,500
purse will pay to 20th place in the Pro classes
in QuadMX and to 15th place in QuadTerrain
Challenge Pro classes.
About the PowerSports ATV Tour
The PowerSports ATV Tour is North America’s
newest ATV racing tour and features the greatest
show on dirt. The Tour is North America’s
premier form of ATV racing, with its jumps,
gyrations and dirt-slinging racing action. The
Tour is sanctioned by the World PowerSports
Association, North America’s largest and most
respected snowmobile sanctioning body, and
promoter of ATV and snowmobile racing on both
the regional and national level.
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