Hart Takes Second Silver Kings Crown
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MF Factory Racing KTM's
Trystan Hart took the Silver
Kings Crown at the 2024 Silver
Kings Hard Enduro in Kellogg,
Idaho, June 28-29. The Canadian
took the $10,000 top prize after
two days of cumulative racing
(after a fast prologue) in the
rugged Northern Idaho terrain.
Rockstar Husqvarna's Ryder
LeBlond and GasGas Factory
Racing's Will Riordan made it a
factory-team-dominated podium
in second and third, respectively.
Hart, LeBlond, and Riordan were
the only three finishers of the
race's most difficult Gold course
during Saturday's main event.
"Being the Silver King for
back-to-back years now feels
good," Hart said on Saturday. "I
had a good day one, taking the
win by 10 minutes, and it was
easy. Today was supposed to be
a hard day, and it turned out to
be moderately hard but long and
grueling with some used tracks
from yesterday, so it was rough
and beat the crap out of me.
And the bottlenecks were bad
all week. We had over 250 Silver
course racers out there racing
basically the same course as
us, and it made for some gnarly
bottlenecks and big maneuvers
to get around them."
The 2024 Silver Kings event
was not on the sanctioned U.S.
Hard Enduro schedule this year,
so the factory team appearances
were somewhat of a surprise.
But the Silver Mountain's epic
hard-enduro terrain is an attrac
-
tive lure to any trail-riding and
hard-enduro enthusiast, includ-
ing the top racers in the world.
"It's one of the sickest ven-
ues we have, so it's always my
favorite event," Hart said. "It's just
four hours from my house, too, so
I told the boys at KTM, 'We got to
go,' and we made it happen."
With more than 550 entries
for the weekend and around
WIND
IN THE
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Trystan Hart was the
overall winner at the Silver
Kings Hard Enduro in
Northern Idaho.
PHOTOS:
RYAN MCCASLAND
