Hart Wins Battle of the Goats
T
rystan Hart won his first U.S.
Hard Enduro Series race of
the season at the Battle of the
Goats, presented by the Leaky
Mushroom Moto Ranch, in North
Carolina, April 27-28. Hosted
by Tyler Mull at the Brushy
Mountain Motorsports Park in
North Carolina, the course was
designed for both amateurs and
the best pros in the USA and was
substantially tougher than the
previous ones. This was the third
round of the Bulletproof Designs
U.S. Hard Enduro Championship,
and the opening round of the
AMA East Hard Enduro series,
presented by IRC Tire.
The format of this race con
-
sisted of two prologue qualifiers
on Saturday that set row posi-
tion, and the race was decided
by Sunday's six-hour main race
that consisted of two full 16-mile
laps, and a smaller third lap.
The prologue was the same
course for the Pros and Ama
-
teurs in two separate races, and
in the Pro race, FMF KTM Fac-
tory Racing's Trystan Hart was
swapping lead positions with
FactoryOne Sherco's Cody Webb.
Rockstar Energy Husqvarna's
Ryder LeBlond and GasGas Fac
-
tory's Will Riordan were also in
the lead pack, all battling within
30 seconds of each other. Hart
ended up winning the prologue,
with Webb finishing in second
place, only 14 seconds behind.
LeBlond, Riordan and Beta USA's
Danny Lewis rounded out the top
five.
For Sunday's main race, the
230-plus racers started in rows
of five based on Saturday's pro
-
logue results. This course fea-
tured incredibly slick waterfalls,
off-camber trails, rock gardens
and very steep hills that tra-
versed up and down the Brushy
Mountain Motorsports Park.
Wentzel's Waterslide, Chicken
Fight and Little Romania were
WIND
IN THE
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Trystan Hart topped
the Battle of the Goats
Hard Enduro in North
Carolina.
PHOTOS:
RYAN MCCASLAND
