VOL. 52 ISSUE 25 JUNE 23, 2015 P39
U.S. TRIAL DES
NATIONS TEAM
ANNOUNCED
T
he riders representing the U.S. Men and
Women's squads at this year's Trial des
Nations have been announced.
The U.S. Men's team will consist of Bryan
Roper, Andrew Putt, Logan Bolopue, and
Daniel Blanc-Gonnet. Quinn Wentzel will
serve as the alternate. The women's team
will consist of Rachel Hassler, Madeline
Hoover, and Caroline Allen, with the alter-
nate being Caroline Altman.
This year's TdN will take place in Tarragona,
Spain, September 19-20.
Shan Moore
(Back row, left to right) Caroline Allen, Rachel Hassler
and Maddie Hoover, and (front row, left to right) Bryan
Roper, Andrew Putt, Logan Bolopue and Daniel Blanc-
Gonnet and alternate Quinn Wentzel will make up this
year's men's and women's U.S. Trials des Nations team.
PHOTOGRAPHY
BY
CHRISTINE
MEYERPETER
HAGERSTOWN HALF-MILE RAINED OUT
R
ain dampened the spirits of those who
turned out for the AMA Pro Racing Grand
National Half-Mile at Hagerstown, Maryland,
June 21. Inclement weather capped off by a
thunderstorm forced AMA officials to cancel the
race.
Who was the most disappointed besides the
promoter? Probably Kenny Coolbeth Jr. Cool-
beth was very fast on his Zanotti Racing Harley-
Davidson XR750. He topped the charts in timed
qualifying, stopping the clocks at 24.133-sec-
onds on the banked red-clay oval. Unfortu-
nately, his excellent qualifying run would be for
naught, as the racers got an early head start for
next week's Lima Half-Mile, June 27.
Larry Lawrence
it's good to see firsthand how
the teams run their operations.
I don't think it's any secret that
we're developing a flat track
bike and we're exploring how we
might come back into the sport.
"We also want to see firsthand
the kind of commitment AMA
Pro Racing is putting into the
series and what they're doing to
help the sport grow."
After years of languishing it
appears that AMA Pro flat track
racing has turned a corner in
terms of popularity and gen-
eral awareness. Many pundits
point to MotoGP rider Marc
Marquez and his Superprestigio
as one of the major factors in
the current spike of flat track's
resurgence. Then there was the
entry of former World Super-
bike Champion Troy Bayliss and
the addition of flat track racing
to the X Games and it's easy to
see why Yamaha is considering
coming back.
Yamaha had a rich tradition in
flat track racing in the 1970s, the
manufacturer winning the AMA
Grand National Championship with
Kenny Roberts in 1973 and '74.
Larry Lawrence
