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YFZ450 Wins 6-Hour ATV Enduro
Category: Racing News
Date: 31 May 2007
Time: 20:08:38 -0400Comments
The Texas trio of Cody Miller, Hunter Miller and Thomas Brown won the opening round of the 2007 Maxxis 6 Hours of ATV America series in Greenville, Tex. on Saturday, May 26. The threesome used their home-track advantage to grab the lead early on the muddy course, build up nearly a lap advantage at the halfway point, and then cruise home for the win aboard their Miller Brothers Racing YFZ450s. Even more impressive, the average age of the young pros is just 19 years old! Promoted by the popular Web site ATVscene.com, the event is the first of five sixhour endurance races leading up to a mammoth 12-hour event scheduled for November. With track locations in Texas, Kentucky, Wisconsin, New York and Missouri, nearly every ATV rider from amateur to pro can find an event to race. The seven-mile Texas course combined two miles of motocross track with five miles of cross country for a huge variety of terrain including jumps and berms, stream crossings and hills, woods and wide-open prairie. Event rules now permit each rider to use a different machine, and the Millers each raced three stints on their respective Yamahas while Brown rode two stints aboard his own YFZ to help claim the win. “None of our bikes ever missed a beat,” an elated Cody Miller said afterwards. “The electric start helped me out at the start of the race – it fired right up. Plus the air-box design worked well for all of us in the wet conditions – it didn’t let in any mud or water at all.”