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T
rystan Hart earned the nickname "The
Robot" due to his relentless and methodical
domination of the AMA U.S. Hard Enduro
Championship over the past three years. He
has won nearly every U.S. Hard Enduro race he
has entered during that time, and in 2023, he
also competed in the FIM Hard Enduro World
Championship in addition to the six-round AMA
EnduroCross Championship. This led to a glo
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betrotting travel schedule that is not ideal for an
athlete competing in demanding endurance race
events that are up to six hours long and, in some
cases, cover multiple days. Despite all of that, the
26-year-old Canadian took his third consecutive
AMA Hard Enduro Championship, his first AMA
EnduroCross Championship and finished third in
the FIM Hard Enduro Championship in 2023.
Hart's amazing success in hard enduro and
EnduroCross has one notable difference in
background from all the other top riders in his
discipline: he was not a trials rider who tran
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sitioned to hard enduro. Mani Lettenbichler,
Cody Webb, Billy Bolt, Colton Haaker, Jonny
Walker, Taddy Blazusiak, Graham Jarvis, and
most of the other top hard enduro racers were
top trials competitors before they took on hard
enduro or EnduroCross. Perhaps more surpris
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ingly, Hart was not a top motocross or off-road
racer before he and his older brother decided
to travel to the U.S. to race some EnduroCross
events. But somehow, natural talent, deter-
mination, and a lot of riding tough terrain in
Canada provided the base for Hart to become
one of the top hard enduro and EnduroCross
racers in the world.
We caught up with Hart right after he took his
first AMA EnduroCross Championship, which
he said was "about 10 years in the making," to
discuss his multi-championship season and the
background that led to that success.
THE BEST HARD ENDURO RACER FROM NORTH AMERICA,
TRYSTAN HART, TALKS ABOUT GETTING HIS FIRST ENDUROCROSS
CHAMPIONSHIP, TRAINING FOR HARD ENDURO, AND TAKING ON
THE FIM HARD ENDURO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
BY SEAN FINLEY • PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRANDON KRAUSE, RYAN McCASLAND, FUTURE7MEDIA, RED BULL CONTENT POOL
