Mosa Charges to Lightning Strikes Victory
R
ound six of the 2026 Ohio
Hard Enduro Championship
Series, presented by Lancaster
Sportcycles, brought the cham-
pionship to Lightning Raceway in
Tippecanoe, Ohio, on September
19-20, for the third running of the
Lightning Strikes Hard Enduro.
Designed by Quinn Wentzel, the
penultimate round blended the
event's flowing, fast character
with familiar technical features,
including "The Wall," the Enduro-
Cross section, and, for the Pro/A
field, the barn jump.
Saturday's amateur race
ran mostly dry, with only a few
muddy areas left behind from
rain earlier in the week. Bentlee
Bredekamp quickly settled into
the conditions and used his
strength in the faster woods to
take the overall Amateur win.
Even a crash on Chicken Hill that
knocked his throttle loose could
not derail his race; without the
proper tool, Bredekamp impro-
vised with a rock and kept going.
Graham Kobak finished sec-
ond after working through arm
pump and a loose triple-clamp
bolt, while Cory Jones completed
the Amateur podium. Jones ran
near the front early before traffic
and a loop-out in a creek cost
him time and energy late in the
three-hour race.
Conditions changed dra-
matically before the Pro/A start.
Unlike the dry, dusty conditions
that defined the 2024 race, rain
fell just before the field left the
line, turning Lightning Raceway's
hard-packed clay slick almost
immediately.
Maverik Thaxton's race
nearly went wrong in the open-
ing corner when he washed the
WIND
IN THE
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Hayden Mosa was the Pro-
class winner at the Lightning
Strikes Hard Enduro in Ohio.
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