The 3rd installment of the Rocky Mountain ATV/MC WORCS Series at E Street MX in Marysville, California featured thrilling races. Dare Demartile and Mason Semmens took home wins in the Pro races, while Jackson Glathar reclaimed the top spot in Pro-Am. The event also showcased exciting battles in other classes, with impressive performances and unexpected turns.
Racing is back at the famous Glen Helen Raceway for the 2nd installment of the Rocky Mountain ATV/MC WORCS Series. Weather played a significant role in this weekend’s race schedule, with persistent high winds throughout and preceding rainfall presenting numerous challenges. Beau Baron found himself back on top of the box in round two, with Wyatt Rock winning in Pro-Am and Torey Matajcich bringing home another victory in women’s Pro.
On Saturday, Women’s pro lined up with the class growing again this weekend as east coast GNCC Racer Hannah Hunter came out to battle with the best in the west. As the green flag dropped, Julyssa Pesqueira and Matajcich came into the Talladega side-by-side for the holeshot. Still, Matajcich came out on top after the dust settled as she pushed to create a gap between herself and her competitors. As the race progressed, Matajcich and Layne Fryar battled for the lead each lap; she cut the lead down to under ten seconds but could not reel her in by the finish. Behind the leaders in the back off-road section of the course, the riders faced a logjam, causing them to fall back, with some being stuck for as long as 5 minutes in the muddy chaos. After getting through the section, Hunter, riding on a machine loaned by Beau Baron, settled into third place, where she finished on the podium in her West Coast adventures. Pesqueira and Bailey Baron rounded out the top five in the Women’s Pro class.
With Non-stop wind and gusts reaching the 30-40 mph range, Glen Helen had to make the hard decision to close the ridges for safety reasons, causing the WORCS crew to do some quick thinking to create some new parts of the course for the Pro and Pro-Am races on Sunday. The excitement began right from the start when, on the first lap, a barrier led to Braxton Grosse and Travis Damon crashing. Grosse could not complete the race due to the damage sustained, but fortunately, he’s alright and eagerly anticipates returning to compete in round 3. Baron narrowly avoided it and continued, but the chaos caused the rest of the Pro line to cut the course on the first lap, causing some confusion early on. Baron was on a tear throughout the race, watching him get faster and faster each lap, putting down the fastest lap of the day on his final lap with a time of 9:38. Damon and Baron made their way through the field, passing everyone again on the way to finish with Damon finishing just 19 seconds behind Baron pushing him into the lead with points after his one-two start of the season. All the way from Washington, Cody, and Kenny Sanford showed some brotherly love as they battled for the majority of the race. Cody passed him during lap six and made it stick to land on the podium in third, with Kenny landing in 4th place. Logan Huff was right behind them to finish in the top 5.
In one of the largest classes of the year, Pro-AM, with 16 riders lining up at the gate, we had some great racing! Justin Semas, our round one victor, started with remarkable intensity, establishing a 15-second lead over his rivals in the initial lap. Behind him, Eduardo Rojas and Wyatt Rock went to battle as they were just seconds apart for more than half the race. Semas held the lead until the second to last lap when the rookie Wyatt Rock made the pass and put down his hottest lap of the weekend with a time of 10:19 and won his first Pro-Am race of his career. Semas finished in 2nd, keeping him on the points with another great race. Rojas, who flies to every round from Mexico to compete in the WORCS championship, finished in the third spot just ahead of Mason Del Gatto.
The 2024 Rocky Mountain ATV/MC season’s second round took place at Glen Helen Raceway. Beau Judge and Sebastian Marquez emerged victorious in the Pro Production and Pro Stock categories, respectively. Notable moments included Beau Baron’s impressive race and Marquez’s dramatic last-lap triumph, showcasing the rising talents of rookies like Paxton Schendel and Karsen Sandberg.
The Rocky Mountain ATV/MC WORCS race at Glen Helen Raceway featured intense battles in every class, with SLR Honda riders Tyler Lynn and Mikayla Nielsen dominating. Colton Aeck triumphed in the 250 Pro Class, while Dustyn Davis showcased his hometown advantage in the Pro-Am Class. Justin Hoeft led the 450 Pro Class until running out of gas on the final lap, allowing Tyler Lynn to secure his first win of the season. In the 250 Pro Class, Colton Aeck emerged victorious, and Hometown Hero Dustyn Davis claimed first place in the Pro-Am Class.
The first round of Rocky Mountain ATV/MC at Honolulu Hills Raceway in Taft, California saw optimal weather and intense racing. Beau Judge secured a 3rd consecutive win and Cruz Worley triumphed in the Pro Stock class. Notable performances included Karsen Sandberg’s rise to 4th place and Sebastian Marquez’s comeback to secure 4th position.
The first weekend of the new year brought thrilling racing at the Rocky Mountain ATV/MC WORCS Series at Honolulu Hills. Travis Damon claimed his first win in the Pro ATV Class, while Torey Matajcich defended her title in Women’s Pro. In the Pro Class, a fierce battle ensued, with Damon clinching victory by a small margin. Exciting races are ahead at Glen Helen on January 26th-28th.
Rocky Mountain ATV/MC WORCS returned to Honolulu Hills for the first round, with Dare Demartile winning the 450 Pro race and MX Phenom Brock Bennett dominating in 250 Pro. FMF partnered with WORCS Racing for the 2024 season, offering a $1000 cash purse for the Pro 125 class winner. Kaitlyn Jacobs secured the Women’s Pro title, while Jackson Glathar impressed in the Pro-AM class.
Racing has wrapped up for the 2023 Rocky Mountain ATV/MC Season, and all the championships have been tied up after the final round at Honolulu Hills in Taft, California. A race track filled with rolling hills and big jumps wraps up the series with quite a bang for the season. Beau Baron capped his season with a dominating performance, and Cole Fryar brought home the win in Pro-Am; lastly, Torey Matajcich finished with a perfect season in Women’s Pro.
With the Women’s Pro championship locked up for Torey Matajcich, she could have taken it easy at the last round, but she wanted to complete the perfect season. She finished 1:30 over Layne Fryar, who also finished second in the championship. Heidi Colman was in third place but had a big get-off in the offroad section, and we wish her a speedy recovery! Donna Espensen finished in third, which put her in a tie for third place in the championship with Dakota Hibler.
The trio of Baron, Travis Damon, and Braxton Grosse headed into the final round, battling for their spots in the championship. Baron and Grosse fly up the start straight side by side, with Grosse just barely edging out Baron for the holeshot, but the battle was set early on. For the first few laps, Grosse was able to hold off the charges from Baron before he made a quick move and was able to find his way around him.
Damon was next as he made the pass stick on Grosse just a few laps later, but the battle grew as the race went on with him. East Coast Pro Max Lindquist made his presence shown, shortening the gap between Damon each lap as they finished just over a second from each other. Baron clinched another Pro ATV Championship with the win, furthering his fantastic career as the winningest racer in WORCS History. Damon finishes the season in second, and Grosse finishes third in his rookie season.
Cole Fryar and Gage Leaver battled all season long as they both have won multiple rounds coming into this final round. Leaver is leading into the final round, just needing to finish to clinch his first Pro-Am Championship. Fryar was on fire all weekend as he led wire to wire in Taft. He laid down the fastest lap with a 9:41, which is almost ten seconds faster than anyone else racing in the Pro-Am class. Leaver finished in 2nd just under a minute behind Fryar but was enough to give him his first pro-am championship. The brother-sister Duo of Cole and Layne Fryar finish the season with a 2nd and 3rd in the championship.
The Rocky Mountain ATV/MC WORCS series had the final round of racing in Taft, California, at Honolulu Hills Raceway. Beau Judge wrapped up the championship for the second season, but his son Braden Judge is right behind him as racing is only getting better between them. In Pro Stock, It was a winner-take-all fight between Sebastian Marquez and Casey Sims, as whoever won between the two would come out on top in this year’s championship.
The day’s final race on Saturday was quite the spectacle as Marquez and Sims lined up side by side with the championship on the line. As the green flag dropped, they came into the first turn with Marquez sliding into the lead, running on two wheels around the first turn. They ran hard into the first off-road section of the course, but Marquez made a slight mistake, causing him to roll over in a corner, fending off Sims for the lead. With Marquez behind, Sims could back it off a little, keeping his car on the track on his way to finish in third place. Marquez fought back to finish in 4th and caused them to finish tied at 199 points in the championship.
Because of Sims’s five wins to Marquez’s three wins, Sims locks up the championship in the 2023 season. In his first Pro Stock race, Cruz Worley, stepping up from his spot in the 1000 class, showed his speed leading into the 2024 season as he started from the second line and finished first on corrected time and first physically. He put the fastest lap down at 8:22 as he goes into the next season with a win. Another racer with her first pro stock race of the season at WORCS but no stranger to racing, Shelby Leaverton, comes in second as she battled with Worley and Sims and, with corrected time, landed herself in the second place position on the podium.
For the final race of the 2023 season, Pro Production lined up, and it was the father-son boxing match we had hoped to watch all year. Beau and Braden Judge came up the start together, with Braden grabbing his 1st holeshot over the champ and his dad as he led for the first lap while his dad kept him close and in reach. After the first turn, Beau gave his son a bit of a love tap, getting him out of the way before the doubles in the motocross portion of the course. Braden said, “I wanted to wait till we got to the top so I could show everyone I let my dad around me, but he got around me pretty early after a quick move.” Once Beau made the pass, they both got into a groove, putting almost identical times up throughout their race. I’m sure this will be a battle for many more years to come, and when Beau is ready to pass down the torch, it will be in great hands.
This position also locked Braden into the #2 position for the year in championship points. Jeremiah Wagner settled into the third-place role and rode his Polaris to a third-place finish in the books. It fell just short, allowing him to slide into the third point in the championship, but that award goes to Larry Heidler.
The Rocky Mountain ATV/MC WORCs Series wrapped up racing this past weekend at Honolulu Hills Raceway in Taft, California. Lap times hovered around the 10-minute range as riders followed the rolling hills with a pro section through a virgin piece of the race course. Justin Hoeft put an exclamation on his season by not only winning the race but also clinching the 450 Pro Championship; Jack Simpson also won in 250 Pro, with Hayden Florez taking home the win in Pro-AM.
On Saturday, Tristun Alvarez and Travis Damon had a close battle for the 125 Pro Championship, and it was quite the race to watch. Alvarez came out flying as he led the charge up the long start straight, pulling the holeshot and setting sail early in the race. Some Mechanical issues caused him to fall back throughout the race, as he needed to conserve the bike to bring it to the finish for the championship. Damon came across the line first, and as he celebrated his win, he noticed Alvarez pushing his bike towards the finish.
In a great act of sportsmanship, Damon ran back out and helped Alvarez move the bike up the finish, pushing him through the finish line and keeping him in second over Quentin Pahi. By his second-place finish, Alvarez clinched his first pro title at 16 by just one point over Damon in what I’m sure will be an excellent battle for years. Also, Brandy Richards won the Women’s Pro class aboard her KTM USA machine on Saturday.
Justin Hoeft came into the final round needing a ninth-place finish or better to lock up his first WORCS Championship and second of the year for the Purvines Racing Team. Zach Bell and Tyler Lynn’s PC Kawasaki Race team teammates led early as they separated from the back during the first hour of riding.
Lynn pulled off midway through the race as he had some pain in his hand and did not want to push it anymore as he was out of the championship hunt. Hoeft kept his calm as he settled into third, which was more than enough to clinch the title, but that was not enough as he put his head putting the fastest time on the track during his ninth lap at 9:02. One of the areas that he exceeded in was the pro section finding a different line allowed him to shave time off his lap every time through.
He closed a 40-second gap on Bell as he made a pass with two laps to go for the win to cap off an excellent season for the Purvines Racing Team. Dare Demartile had a rough start going down hard during the first lap, washing out the front end in a slick turn. That wasn’t the ending for Demartile as he pushed that Beta Racing bike to the limits, making passes as he moved up throughout the race, landing himself on the podium in the season finale.
In 250 Pro, Jack Simpson showcased the exact speed and presence that gave him the championship this year as he set sail early on in this one. He wanted to end the season with a bang as he will be bumping up to the premier class in 2024 for the Purvines Team. He capped the season with an over three-minute lead on Wyatt Matson, who came in second, a position better than his 3rd place debut last round at Mesquite. Thomas Dunn came from the back of the pack, passing a few different people, including his teammate Clayton Hengeveld, for the final spot on the podium as the checkered flag flew. Dunn had some of the best style over the big step-up on this track, with another rider from the Purvines tent, Trevor Stewart, the only one to throw it bigger over the iconic Honolulu Hills step-up.
Hayden Florez came into Taft only two points ahead of Mason Decunzo for the Pro-AM championship as the heated battle started early, with Decunzo coming out of the start on top and leading early on. The battle reached a tipping point in the third lap as they traded the lead a few separate times, with him keeping the lead in the outdoor section on the third lap. Once in the clear air of Decunzo, Florez took off, setting the fastest lap time in the Pro-AM class at 9:54 in just the next lap. Behind him, David Fry and Matt Canepa battled it until the last turn as they both got around Decunzo, where he finished in 4th. They fought hard with each other, spending less than 3 seconds apart as they finished with Fry in second and Canepa in third. Overall, it was a year to remember for the Purvines as they lock up two out of three championships and having consistent riders finish on the podium in three of the pro classes is an awesome way to finish this year.
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