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Aussie Pro ATV racer, Luke Beechey, heads to the USA to compete at Unadilla and Loretta Lynn’s

Luke BeecheyAustralia(July 28, 2005) - With several pro class championships under his belt on home soil, Australian Yamaha ATV racer, Luke Beechey, 23, is now getting set to head across the pacific and join his American peers when he attends rounds eleven and twelve of the USA Grand National ATV MX Championships.

Whilst switching from motorcycles to four wheelers only just over twelve months ago Beechey has racked up some impressive results. Three different State Championships in his first year and for 2005 he leads the Victorian Championships by a healthy margin. He travels to the famed Unadilla circuit in New York on July 30th-31st followed by a visit to the also famous, Loretta Lynn’s ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee on August 13th-14th.

Whilst competing he will of course be aboard a trusty Yamaha YFZ450 that will be supplied courtesy of Yamaha USA. He will also have support from Kenda tyres, Elka suspension and Houser Racing products so he’ll be in familiar territory as far as machine set-up goes.

“I can’t wait to get over there now, said Beechey. It will be awesome to see over 800 quads at a race meet, the meets are so big over there, practise is held on Fridays so we’ll be sure to be there for that. To see the factories involvement in ATV racing at the highest level will be a real eye opener”, he added.

Luke’s father, Yamaha’s ATV race team manager and Quad Riders Club Victorian ATV race coordinator, Mark Beechey, will join his son at Loretta’s for the last round of the series. “I went over in 2002 to Loretta’s and met some great people, it will be a real thrill to catch up again and this time assist Luke with his racing. We will have some great support over there as all of our sponsors here will be helping us out in some way or another. The scene there is so big that I’m sure we’ll all learn a lot and this will only help us to keep our sport growing back home. We have some exciting plans for Australian ATV racing next year,” he said.

Again we’d like to thank all our supporters, Yamaha have been fantastic to arrange a YFZ for us over there, it will be great to only have to take over a small amount of parts so Luke should feel right at home at the controls of his YFZ, added Beechey senior


Luke Beechey
2004 Queensland ATV MX Champion
2004 Victorian ATV MX Champion
2004 Victorian ATV Thumpercross Champion

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