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RPM Racing Team Introduced
R
PM Racing Team introduced
its off-road team for 2020.
The FMF/RPM/KTM Racing
Team Maxxis will be made up for
five riders: Dante Oliveira, Mateo
Oliveira, Cooper Abbott, Trystan
Hart and Maria Forsberg-Hahn.
This will be Oliveira's third
year with the team and will focus
on the WORCS Pro, WORCS/
Sprint Hero and AMA National
Grand Prix Championships.
Mateo Oliveira is Dante's
younger brother who will com-
pete in the WORCS Pro 2 Lites
Championship, WORCS Sprint
Hero (Open A) and AMA NGPC
(Pro 2) Championship.
Cooper Abbott, son of multi-
time AMA Hare & Hound Cham-
pion Destry Abbott, will compete
in the AMA EnduroCross and
WORCS Sprint Hero (Open
A) Championships, as well as
select WORCS Pro 2 and AMA
Extreme Hard Enduro events.
Trystan Hart will campaign
the AMA EnduroCross and AMA
Extreme Off-Road East/West
Championships.
Forsberg-Hahn will seek the
AMA EnduroCross Women's
Championship, and will also
compete in select AMA West
Hare Scrambles, NMA and
NORCS events on the West
Coast.
"We are looking forward
to racing in 2020," said team
owner Mike Hurlbert. "This is a
great group of riders that can win
multiple races and champion-
ships.
"Thank you to all our spon-
sors, friends, fans, family and
supporters. Special thanks to
all the hardworking race series
promoters, photographers, me-
dia, journalists, course workers
and staff that help with WORCS,
Sprint Hero, AMA EnduroCross,
AMA Extreme Off-Road, AMA
GNCC, AMA National Grand Prix
Series and ISDE. Special thanks
to the NMA and the StumpJump-
ers who put on the Desert 100
in Odessa, Washington where
2500-plus riders show up for a
good time every April." CN
Five riders will make
up the RPM Racing
Team in 2020. Pictured
is team owner Mike
Hulbert and four of the
team's five riders.
