On September 16th – 18th Sleepy Hollow MX Park in Frederickburg, PA held the 1st annual North American Two Stroke Championships.
The weekend started for TSM upon arrival late Thursday night. After setting up camp, we decided on a track walk. What did we find?
Sleepy Hollow MX
My new favorite track! Great soil. Great layout. Great people, and some nice signature sections and jumps.
The weekend offered Two Stroke and MX fans in general a great time, and some great racing!
Practice was held on Friday for those willing to skip work and/or school for the event. As the day progressed the track started looking even better than when we arrived.
How were the races? The best I’ve seen in a while! Some fast guys showed up, including our own Jeremy Wendelken.
The A classes were stacked. Some of them include Ty Newcome, Broc Schmelyun, Cody Lunceford, Kyle Sidle, Casey Clarke and Sean Hackley Jr.
Ty Newcome
I have posted a link below for full race results, but lets talk A class podiums.
On Saturday in 125A, Ty Newcome took 1st overall with a 2-1 on a Suzuki RM 125. Dana Krause took 2nd on a Yamaha with a 3-2. Sean Hackley finished 3rd overall with a 1st and DNF.
250A was very exciting to watch. Fast guys, on some fast smokers!
Broc Scmelyun took 1st overall with a solid 1-1 on his #111 YZ 250. Cody Lunceford claimed 2nd with a 4-3 on his #46 YZ 250. Jeremy Wendelken on his #72 YZ 250 rounded it out with a solid 3-4 for 3rd overall.
Sunday was full of racing, modern and vintage. One of the most exciting races was one of vintage. These guys were riding like they had way more than 4-8″ of suspension travel, it was an awesome sight!
Sundays A classes were amazing as well.
For the 125A class Gregory Pamart took 1st with a 1-1. Addison Kramer took 2nd and C C Aughinbaugh took 3rd. All three on Yamaha’s.
250A was held down by Sean Hackley Jr with a 1-1 on his #18 KTM 250SX. Casey Clark took 2nd with a 2-2 for the day. Our own Jeremy Wendelken takes 3rd on his YZ 250.
Highlight and downfall of the day, Ty Newcome and his YZ 250 went in the pond during 250A moto1. Ty and his YZ are fine.
Smoker to watch?
Brennen Weindel
Brennen threw a leg over his father’s RM and burned up the 250B class. 1st places all weekend. Keep an eye on him, we are!
TSM is proud to be a sponsor of NATSC and look foreward to helping it grow each year.
Thanks to everyone who helped support the event, and to Jere Swarr, Todd Weindel and the Sleepy Hollow girls for hosting this great event!
NATSC is already in planning for 2012! September 21-23rd. Mark your calender now!
Below is a gallery of the event, stay tuned to TSM for more pics and video’s from the weekend.
Be sure to check out the Vintage display bike pics below. A super clean Ossa, and some very nice Huskys!
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- Ty Newcome
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- Brennen Weindel
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Now we just need to have one over here in Washington!
Wish we at Revanche2strokes.com could have been there, but the article and pic’s were awesome but, just made it harder. The hardest part for me was seeing the pic’s of that beautiful Ossa Phantom. Wow did that bring back memories, my days of racing the 250 pro class on my Pursang against the VR 250′s and on and on and on.
How awesome back in the day, the CZs, Huskys, Monarks, DKWs, early YZ’z and Elsinores to name a few, wow, miss those days more than I realized…..
This gets me all worked up. I would love to see this event expand into a true North American Championship that has stops in Canada, and Mexico along with a few events out west. They already have the world two-stroke event at Glen Helen. We may have to wait until the economy recovers a bit more. In light of travel restraints, It may be to costly for individuals to race the whole series. IF that is what is holding back a national series, we can all return to a “roots” type sport that is local. That seems to be the way it all started back in the late sixties, to the early seventies.
What confuses me and one of my “rubs” is why aren’t the big companies who have a ton of money and fame to gain not getting together with other large pro 2 stroke related companies and doing an entire series. They could call the shots, re=gain millions of fans and be looked upon as heroes.
This would force the big 4 who killed the 2 stroke, under the guise of being green ( but did it ONLY for money ) to rethink their decisions. And if they didn’t jump back on board, so be it. Us strokers would have a series to pull for, it would envigorate the sport, the economy and give us our passion back.
I only wish our company was a big enough player to do this, we would however, throw money and support to this series, procure tracks, help with any/everything as needed. Where are these companies, the guys who talk the talk and walk it?????
It was a great day for BRRRAP!!! The sound of two strokes on the track again was the best!! From the low growl of my CR500 to the shrill scream of the 125s it was like motocross should be!! The track was the best I’ve ever seen it and my first time at Sleepy was 1985. Thank You to everyone who made it possible and hope it returns for many years.
We thought so too! We are looking forward to supporting the event for years to come. It was great!
Three generations of reitz’s on 2 strokes that day
I remember once as a kid riding a friend’s Ossa GP3 Phantom.The thing was fast and really peaky.
right on Ren… I also hope that there is more of an early ad campaign to get this cool East Coast event out there… seemed like there was lack of “promotion” thru some of the bigger websites, etc… Maybe a word or two in the mags would be good too… seemed like a Yamaha ride day with the results, so hopefully more Euro bikes will show up next year. Awesome event.