The AMA and ATVA East National Hare Scramble series will be making a stop in Covington NY for the inaugural SUNY (State University New York) Canton and Saint Lawrence Radiology Pro-Am Challenge on July 2nd and 3rd 2011. This will be a bike, youth and quad event, with the peewee's, C bike and C quad riders having their own separate races on courses friendly to them. The race is being held at the Pavilion Motocross Park 1260 Taylor Rd, Covington, NY, the course will include the MX track so spectating will be awesome.
The over $30,000 purse and prizes for this event would be enough to make this a phenomenal event by itself. Pro's will be competing for $3,000 to $400 payback depending on their finish, with $1,500 purses for the Women's bike and quad classes. You could end up getting paid to race, this should help ease the cost of fuel for getting there. Separate reserved track side parking in the pits for the Pro riders, and a first the Women A/B riders too (you can see the Women riders are finally getting some well deserved recognition).
Since this event will be on the holiday weekend a professional fireworks display will top off the evening on Saturday courtesy of Saint Lawrence Radiology. As mentioned earlier SUNY Canton is going to involved with this event, I believe this the first time I have heard of a state university being involved with a motorcycle race. Well there is more to this story, they have a power sports program and the students from the program are working this event for college credit (where was this when I was in school?). Be sure to stop by their display and say hi, get some information on their programs or get some help with your bike or quad.
The event is being held near the Darien Lakes water and theme park (only 25 miles away), with discount coupon for $16.99 admission instead of $42.95 being given out to the first 1,000 people attending the race. You can make this a family vacation weekend. Steve Hatch www.stevehatchracing.com is holding one of his famous riding schools on July 4th after the race, with free Darien Lakes admission for those attending his school and plenty of Steve's attention to your riding a deal any way you look at it. Red Bull will be here handing out samples and have remote toys for the kids to play with. Online pre-entry and rider number reservation are available, there is plenty of free swag for the first 500 racers registering for this event.
Onsite parts and food available in case you get hungry or forgot/broke something on your bike/quad. A $10.00 gate fee will get admission to the whole weekend of racing and activities, the gates open on Friday at noon and close on Monday July 4th. With over 70 acres of dry level parking and free primitive camping no one should stay home from this event. A special invitation is out to our Canadian friends, this event is only 55 miles from their border. For more details email fullactioncycles@yahoo.com or call Ken and Sue at 585-297-2742, you can also get more details at www.amanationalharescrambles.org .
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