ROUND 1 / JANUARY 23, 2022
ANDERSON DRY LAKE / LUCERNE VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
P68
OFF-ROAD I AMA HARE & HOUND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES, PRESENTED BY FMF
Taylor Robert
fended off a
late challenge
from defending
series champ Joe
Wasson to take
the Winter Classic
victory, repeating
his result at this
race in 2018.
WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY
BY MARK KARIYA
A
fter concentrating on other series when he
won all three hare and hound rounds he en-
tered in 2018, FMF KTM Factory Racing Off-
Road Team star Taylor Robert is back to the desert
in 2022 in a bid to capture the AMA Hare & Hound
National Championship Series, Presented by FMF.
The Desert Motorcycle Club's 55th Annual
Winter Classic served as the opening round of
the series and saw Robert scramble to edge 2021
series champ Joe Wasson after a late-race tumble
snapped the clutch perch off Robert's Red Bull/
Motorex/Thor-backed 450 XC-F.
TAYLOR ROBERT RETURNS
TO THE DESERT AND WINS,
BUT IT WAS CLOSE
ROBERT
WINS
