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KTM's Tim Farr
Earns 2nd at Erzberg
Tim Farr earns 2nd at Erzberg |
KTM/FRE rider Tim Farr tallied a historic
second-place overall finish riding a KTM 525 XC
ATV at the Erzberg Iron Road Prologue in Austria
over the weekend in front of 15,000 race-crazed
European spectators.
Farr, a 13-time ATV Pro National Champion,
competed against a world renowned field of 1,500
dirt bike and ATV riders on the “Iron Giant”, an
intimidating iron ore mountain that has been
created from 100 years of mining operations.
Farr’s historic finish at Iron Mountain, a
treacherous race that closely resembles Pikes
Peak, was 60 places better than any previous ATV
competitor had recorded in the 14 year history
of the event. Farr was on the starting line with
many distinguished KTM factory dirt bike riders
including: multi-time Enduro World Champion Juha
Salminen, Dakar winner Cyril Despres and
two-time winner of Erzberg’s notorious Red Bull
Hare Scramble, Taddy Blazusiak.
It was Farr’s first appearance at the Erzberg
Rodeo, an event he said he had been following
with interest for several years. “I’ve always
wanted to come here and compete. I was
pleasantly surprised to run with the front
runners and I definitely want to come back to
Erzberg again,” Farr said at the post race press
conference.
The Erzberg Iron Road Prologue consists of
two days of time trials on 11.2 miles of high
speed mining road that climbs 2,300 feet in
elevation with 100-foot cliffs on each side of
the road. Day one of qualifying narrows the
1,500-rider field down to 500 competitors for
the second day of time trials. Farr’s first day
success on the KTM 525 XC ATV set him up nicely
for a historic second place overall finish of
9:12.41, just 10 seconds off the pace of the
overall winner.
Now Farr shifts his focus back to the U.S.
and his KTM/FRE ATV GNCC race team consisting of
riders Adam McGill and Taylor Kiser. The team
heads to Sparta, Ky., this weekend with KTM’s
McGill leading the XC-1 Pro class standings
ahead of his teammate Kiser, who sits in a
respectable sixth place as the series nears its
mid-point at Round 7 this Saturday.
Iron Road Prologue Results
1. Antoine Letellier, France,
Aprilia, 09:02.655
2. Tim Farr, USA, KTM ATV, 09:12.41
3. Rudi Poeschl, Austria, KTM, 09:16.
4. Juha Salminen, Finland, KTM, 09:18.33
5. Cyril Despres, France, KTM, 09:22.5
6. Taddy Blazusiak, Poland, KTM, 09:23.79
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