All the action from the Ontario round of this season’s AMA Endurocross Championship. With sold out stadiums for each round of the series so far, it’s clear that Endurocross is developing into a sport of it’s own with a following also of it’s own. The indoor stadium tracks are really developing the rider’s skill levels for hitting logs at speed. Just check out how fast some of these guys are capable at wheeling them… Oh and what’s harder than Endurocross?? Try Endurocross in the dark… Crazy just stepped up another notch!

AMA Endurocross Ontario, CA 9/17/11 from Beau Cottington on Vimeo.

It's 4 wins in a row for Taddy

What started with a gold medal in this year’s inaugural Endurocross event at the X-Games has now evolved into a clean score card for all events held so far this season with Taddy right on track for yet another title. This and his five consecutive wins in the notorious Red Bull Hare Scramble at the Erzberg Rodeo have marked Taddy as the rider to beat in this type of extreme Enduro competition.

Right from qualifying, Taddy laid down the challenge, putting in the fastest hot lap in on his KTM 350 SX-F by two seconds. FMF/KTM rider, Mike Brown, and fellow KTM support rider Colton Haaker were second and third fastest qualifiers setting the stage of a great faceoff in the heats and main event.

Cody Webb got 3rd

Taddy led from start to finish in the opening heat, Mike Brown won heat two and heat three went to rival Geoff Aaron with Haaker close behind. But it seemed like Taddy was just saving himself for the main and it was him who stayed on the gas and took the lead for KTM in the first corner. Underlining that even for the best exponents of the sport, Endurocross is never straightforward, Taddy then made a bobble and allowed Haaker in second place to close in. Haaker then tailed Blazusiak for about a lap and a half before Taddy got a second wind and broke free. He went on to dominate the rest of the race, finishing 10 seconds ahead of the competition. Haaker came in second for his best finish of the season and Brown went on to finish eighth.

Taddy Blazusiak: “I am really excited to get another win tonight but it wasn’t easy. I got held up in the matrix a couple times and that allowed Haaker to catch me for about a lap and a half. But then I was able to regroup and charge out front. Once I realized I had about a 10 second lead at the end of the race, I was able to relax and cruise to the finish. I’m really happy with this season so far and am really looking forward to the next event.”

GEICO AMA EnduroCross, Presented by Lucas Oil Ontario, California Expert Main Event Results

1. Taddy Blazusiak
2. Colton Haaker
3. Cody Webb
4. Kyle Redmond
5. Geoff Aaron
6. Justin Soule
7. Gary Sutherlin
8. Mike Brown
9. Keith Sweeten
10. Destry Abbott
11. Rory Sullivan

The next round will be in Denver, Colorado on October 1, 2011

Things are getting crazy this weekend as the fourth round of the AMA Endurocross heads to Ontario, California. First the rumour mill was rife with speculation but now the entry list confirms it: Justin Barcia, the current AMA West Coast Lites Supercross champion will line up against Taddy and the boys in Ontario…

This weekend’s GEICO EnduroCross round in Ontario, California just got even more interesting. Fresh off of a podium finish at the final round of the Lucas Oil AMA Motocross Championship in the premier 450 class, Justin Barcia’s GEICO team announced that he will give EnduroCross a shot and see how he stacks up against some of the best off road racers in the world on the extremely technical course.

Barcia: “The team and I have been training just up the road. We decided that since we were in town we’d come check out the races and cheer our teammates on. I just said hey, ‘I want to give this a try,’ so our guys made a few calls and I’m going to race Saturday.”

“I’ve seen these races on TV before and the tracks are pretty gnarly,” Barcia said. “I will definitely be talking with the rest of the GEICO Honda guys to get some tips. I really expect to have a lot of fun racing against the best guys in EnduroCross.”

Johnny Campbell (Photo: JCR Honda)

Johnny Campbell, the Baja racing legend will take his first crack at competing in an EnduroCross this coming Saturday, September 17^th. The GEICO AMA EnduroCross series, presented by Lucas Oil, will make a first time appearance inside the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California and Campbell will be competing in the Vet class. The top two finishers in the Vet class earn a spot in the EnduroCross Grand Championship, which is a winner take all AMA Amateur Championship and will take place during the EnduroCross finals in Las Vegas on November 19 ^th.

Campbell, who is now 40 years old owns and manages the JCR Honda off road racing program, which continues to be a dominant force in Baja with Quinn Cody, Colton Udall, David Kamo and Kendal Norman, who is also the current AMA Hare & Hound Champion and a regular EnduroCross competitor.

With Jonny Campbell and now Justin Barcia adding their names to start list we’re set for some explosive action but who’s in the hunt? One not to be counted out is Ricky Dietrich. The 2008 EnduroCross champion has added his name to the stacked field of riders that will tackle the extremely difficult obstacles that create some of the most exciting action you will ever witness. KTM’s Taddy Blazusiak is the dominant EnduroCross rider but Mike Brown has been challenging for wins and currently sits in second place in the points. He is a bulldog on a motorcycle and wants to take his first EnduroCross win. Then you have Geoff Aaron, the very smooth multi time Trials champion that has managed to beat Blazusiak twice over the past two seasons. Add in Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Justin Soule and his teammate Taylor Robert along with Beta’s Cody Webb, another former Trials champion and you can expect some great racing.

Will Barcia be the cat among the pigeons?

Geoff Aaron, who is in the thick of the series championship hunt, said he needs to start stepping up his game to keep pace with points leader Taddy Blazusiak.

“You want to do well at every race,” Aaron said. “So far we’ve just been OK. Hopefully we can step up. I hope the track is a technical one and suits my driving style.”

The Citizens Business Bank Arena is a new venue for the GEICO AMA Endurocross Series, which Aaron said increases the degree of difficulty heading into Saturday’s event.

“Everybody’s got to ride a course that none of us have ever seen,” Aaron said. “You kind of take it one step at a time. You go in there and see what the dirt’s like and see what kind of obstacles the track coordinators have built and see how it rides. We have a couple of practice sessions, a hot lap and then some heat races to figure it out. It all boils down to who learns the track the fastest.”

Check out the video !:

[EDIT: Look for a white KTM number 4 - Guy's name is Geoff Aaron and that is an all wheel drive bike! He finished 3rd in that race and 4th in the overall championship!]

http://promoto.tv/exfinals.html

Check out this video from the first round in the AMA Endurocross on July 5th 2008.

How about that battle between Nr 10 on the Kawa and Nr 55 on the Honda just before the finish line? Literally made me laugh out loud.

Watch the video here:

http://promoto.tv/endurocross.html