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nity to compete with the 32 pre- qualified pro riders that included ten of the HEWC riders. Also on Saturday, Joe Bird raced an Electric Motion to beat JoJo Toole to win the inaugural ECR eMoto electric motorcycle class. Other Saturday class winners among nearly 500 participants included Riley Bender in Amateur B, Nicholas Trailer in Amateur, Stephen Thaxton in 45+ Vet and Seth Steiner in Youth Lites 12-15. Sunday's format consisted of four rounds of racing for the 61 riders that earned a spot and it started with the hot lap on a 1.6- mile "short course." Hart set the fastest time of 7:41.30 seconds. Lettenbichler was second with a time of 7:45.47 and Roman round- ed out the top three with a time of 7:49.04. Poland's Taddy Blazusiak was fourth the Factory GasGas and American Ryder LeBlond put in the fifth-fastest time. Round two included all 61 riders competing on an 11-mile "long-course" in the order of the hot-lap results and only the In addition to the pro racing, the Red Bull Tennessee Knock- out crowned amateur cham- pions. Saturday included two rounds of amateur racing with race two serving as the cham- pionship-deciding race. During that second race, Tennessee's Drew Kirby earned the number- one spot with a winning time of 58 minutes and five seconds on his KTM. Rodrigo Lopes finished four minutes and six seconds behind and Tyler Soriano rounded out the top three. Sixteen-year-old Chase Land- ers won the morning race and finished fourth in the champion- ship-deciding race. The top 30 riders also earned the opportu- ROUND 6 / AUGUST 12-14, 2022 TRIALS TRAINING CENTRE / SEQUATCHIE, TENNESSEE P82 OFF-ROAD I FIM HARD ENDURO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP (Above) Manuel Lettenbichler finished second to Hart despite an injured foot. The German moved to within one point of the championship points lead. (Right) Sherco's Mario Roman got on the podium in third. He still holds the lead in the championship with two rounds remaining.