ATV Sport Magazine Announces
People’s Choice Awards
Utility ATV Racer of the Year - William Yokley
Maple Grove, MN (1/5/2007) -
ATV Sport magazine readers and www.atvsport.com Web
site visitors selected William Yokley as the winner
of the 2006 ATV Sport People’s Choice Award for
Utility Racer of the Year. The Kentucky native is the
first recipient to earn an ATV Sport People’s
Choice award in the utility quad racing discipline.
William Yokley - Utility ATV Racer of the
Year
Yokley, 29, competed in the Quad Terrain Challenge Pro
Stock class on a Suzuki King Quad 700 EFI in the inaugural
season of the WPSA ATV Tour series. He earned third overall
in the class, by winning three overalls and finishing
on the QTC Pro Stock class podium six times. Yokley has
made a name for himself competing annually in the Grand
National Cross Country series, where he finished fourth
overall in the Pro class in 2006. Yokley has joined the
2007 Kawasaki Team Green ATV Race Team for this season
and will compete on the all-new Kawasaki KFX450 in the
GNCC series. First runner-up: Daryl Rath, Hutchinson,
Minn.; Second runner-up: Scott Kilby, Waynesville, N.C.
“William Yokley is no slouch when it comes to
racing, as he’s done well racing in the woods,
desert, on MX tracks and now on a utility quad,”
explained ATV Sport Editor Jerrod Kelley. “He
was in the running for WPSA Utility Quad Terrain championship,
but came up short at the finale in 2006. Regardless,
his skill and fun-loving attitude are hard to beat.”
ATV Sport has attended the Grand National Championship
MX/TT (ATVA) postseason awards banquet since its inception,
in 1997. A new publication in 1998, ATV Sport gladly
took over the awards portion of the program from banquet
organizer Byron Goggin, per his request. Goggin created
the banquet awards to reward riders for their successful
season and further recognize this growing sport. As
Goggin intended, the awards were voted on by the people,
hence the name. ATV Sport maintained Goggin’s
vision and continued to award the “eagles”
at the postseason banquet through 2005.
In their eighth year, the ATV Sport People’s
Choice Awards were altered to better accommodate various
racing disciplines. For the first time, awards were
created for motocross, utility, flat track and cross-country
racing. The awards were also taken online to coincide
with our magazine redesign as well as to allow both
online visitors and magazine readers the opportunity
to vote for their favorite racers. The 2006 People’s
Choice Awards had the most number of votes cast in their
eight-year history.
About ATV Sport
ATV Sport magazine is published 10
times a year – March, April, May, June, July/August,
September, October, November, December and Buyer’s
Guide – by Ehlert Publishing Group Inc., 6420
Sycamore Lane, Suite 100, Maple Grove, MN 55369. ATV
Sport is the No. 1 sport quad magazine that captures
the pulse of the industry, racing scene and everything
sport-quad related. For more information, contact Editor
Jerrod Kelley at jkelley@ehlertpublishing.com, or Managing
Editor Chris Vogtman at cvogtman@ehlertpublishing.com.
For subscription inquiries or other concerns call 1-800-848-6247
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