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The Winter Olympics are over and with it the last major amateur event of the year. Check out how everyone did in the results below.
Also check out our short stay camps, they're a great way to improve your riding skills and help you move to the top of your class.
MTF NEWS
The date for our 8th annual Military Appreciation Camp will be April 14-15, 2016. Open to any active duty or retired military this free camp is very popular and fills fast.
Motocross is a truly international sport and last week at MTF underscored the point. There were riders from all six major continents, Denmark (Europe), India (Asia), Ecuador (South America) South Africa (Africa) North America and Australia. We're not sure if there are any riders in Antarctica.
Congratulations to Martin Castelo who recently signed a SX only deal with TiLube Storm lake Honda.
One of the great things about motocross is it brings together people from many different countries and backgrounds.
We were delighted recently to host two young riders from India who traveled to MTF to receive training and compete at the Mini-O's, Yuvrajsinh Sandeep KondeDeshmukh age 10, and Sarthak Shrikant Chavan age 8.
Gavin Gracyk instructing Indian riders Yuvraj and Sarthak
India is the world's 7th largest country by area, the 2nd most populated with 1.2 billion people and the largest democracy. It's also a country seemingly in love with motor scooters and motorcycles. All of this would make you think the sport of motocross would be hugely popular. You'd be wrong.......
Thor Winter Olympics Results
With over 1600 riders and 3700 race entries this year's recently completed Winter Olympics (Mini-O's) was one of the biggest, and as it turns out, best events of the year.
November weather in Florida is always variable and a cold Sunday gave way to warm, sunny days and perfect track conditions. Riders who had great weeks included Kawasaki's Austin Forkner in the A class (Dunlop Silver Tire Award) and KTM's Challen Tennant in the B class (Scott Golden Goggle Award).
In the mini-bikes it was MTF's own Matt LeBlanc (KTM) (pictured above) who stole the show. Matt won seven individual titles in the 65cc and 85cc classes (4 SX, 3 MX) winning15 out of 16 motos along the way. He was awarded the Olympiad in both classes, the Fox Bronze Boot, the Pro Circuit Platinum Award and the Illusive Golden Glove Award.
