Cipala Wins Brick Mine Motoclimb
Super Series Opener
T
he 2023 AMA IRC Motoclimb
Super Series (MSS) kicked
off at the Express Pros Brick
Mine in Walhalla, North Dakota,
July 1-2. There has been a lot
of conversation during the off
season regarding the new class
structure the MSS is implement-
ing this year. While the Open
class remains unchanged, the
previous 450 Extended class
was split into two classes, the
Pro Stock and Pro Modified. The
Pro Modified class will be a new
Championship and feature bikes
from 450cc-700cc, with no fuel,
length, or tire limits. The Pro
Stock class is stock-length two-
strokes and four-strokes from
250cc-450cc, featuring qualify
-
ing and a main event, which is
formatted in a traditional top-32
tournament bracket. This class
is meant to attract manufac-
turers and athletes from other
disciplines to grow the sport of
Motoclimb, and the Brick Mine
on Saturday provided some merit
to this theory with several new
racers joining the action.
The Eagle Ridge Motorcycle
Club set up the 750-foot-long
Brick Mine hill with some techni
-
cal lines for the Pro Mod and
Open classes and opened the hill
up for the Pro Stock class to give
racers a better shot at cresting
this very steep and technical hill.
This was the first motoclimb
race for Rockstar Husqvarna
Factory Off-Road Team's Ryder
LeBlond, Bonecutter Off-Road's
Thorn Devlin, and HTR GasGas'
Gauge Key.
In the Pro Modified class,
Devlin hopped on a Dakota Cat
Motorsports GasGas MC450F
with swingarm extensions for
the first time and set the fastest
time with a 17.514-second run
in the first round. During the sec
-
WIND
IN THE
P50
Logan Cipala was a
double winner at the AMA
Motoclimb Super Series
opener in North Dakota.
PHOTOS: JACK MAKI
