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ITP
Tires Grand Slam Presented by QUAD Magazine
Medal Awards & $1,000 Pro ATV Winner
Bonus at each round along with a $1,000
top finishing Pro Points Award |
In order to help out racers who were planning
on racing the WPSA exclusively, the ATV Promoters
Group, Racer Productions, The AMA, and ITP Tires
have come together to introduce the “ITP
Tires Grand Slam 2008” which is basically
a series within the AMA ATV MX National series.
“It’s a four race competition that
will allow racers who were not present for the
first few rounds of Nationals to have a shot at
a championship,” said Tim. The Grand Slam
opportunity is offered to all classes, including
the Pros. “We hope that this will encourage
racers to continue to race, instead of becoming
frustrated and leaving the sport because of the
unfortunate happenings with the WPSA,” concluded
Cotter.
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BRP Can-Am's Del Bohlman |
All though the Grand Slam is a fantastic idea
and provides opportunity for racers, it may
still be of little consolation for major manufacturers
such as Can-Am/BRP who have dedicated a large
part of their annual budgets to their racing
efforts and had teams specifically contracted
to race the series. “We feel fortunate
that we had John Natalie and Cody Miller participate
in the Nationals from the start so they still
have a shot at the points race, however it is
unfortunate that we are losing a venue as far
as the Quad Terrain Challenge goes,” said
Can-Am’s Del Bohlman the Product, Media
Relations, and Racing Manager of Can-Am’s
ATV division.
Even though Can-Am will now have both the Warnert
Race Team and the Epic Racing Team at Nationals,
they still have no plans to cut back their racing
efforts this season. “Can-Am is still
in its learning and growing stages as far as
our race efforts are concerned and we don’t
feel that the cancellation of the WPSA will
have that much of an impact on us in particular.
We do feel however, that it will impact amateur
racers more than anything because many of them
waited specifically for the WPSA series and
now they are the ones that have sadly lost out
on that opportunity,” said Bohlman.
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Racing / Can-Am's Cody Miller & John
Natalie (left) along with the Kawasaki's
Russell Shumaker, Josh Creamer, and Keith
Little (right) were using the first few
rounds of the AMA ATV Motocross Nationals
for training & testing for the WPSA
Series
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