AMA Press Release:
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 [email protected]
or call Ken and Sue at 585-297-2742, you can also get more details at
www.amanationalharescrambles.org .