New UTV Desert Racing Series in Southern California

[UTVUGJake]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
AMA DISTRICT 38 NAMES COYNE POWERSPORTS GROUP TITLE SPONSOR OF
EXCITING NEW UTV RACING SERIES!

El Centro, Calif., (January 9, 2015) – AMA District 38 is proud to announce that they have officially inked a deal with Coyne
Powersports for them to be named the official Title Sponsor of their All New D38 UTV Racing Series. This exciting new series willbring (7) UTV Off Road Racing events to the Imperial Valley’s famed Superstition Mountain OHV area.
AMA D38 President, Rob Niemela, had this to say about the new UTV series, “Everyone at D38 is extremely excited to bring UTV OffRoad Racing into our series.” He continued, “As the old saying goes, with age comes a cage, so this new series will offer a chancefor a retired D38 rider or a beginner into our sport of Off Road Desert Racing to experience the adrenaline and excitement this typeof racing provides in an overall safer package”.

For 2015, All UTV racers will compete on the same weekend as the D38 Motorcycle and ATV events but will start in a completelyseparate time slot from the others. The UTV series will run on the same fun and always challenging courses that D38 is known for,featuring everything from fast trails and rocky canyons to sand dunes. Affordable $150 entry fees, 20 to 30 mile loops, Prize Money for top 3 finishers in each division, and D38’s experienced race officials and safety team is what UTV competitors will have to lookforward to.

“This has been a long time coming” said a smiling Wayne Matlock, UTV Steward for the new Series. “With the volume of sport UTVsin the market, the goal for the series was to offer an entry level, grass roots competitor base to introduce people into the sport of UTV Desert Racing. We truly believe this will be a huge success with large entries and competitive racing within all 3 of our sanctioned classes Pro Production, Pro Stock, and Unlimited.”

President of the Coyne Powersports Group, Marty Coyne had this to say about the new relationship, “With myself being an
avid off road enthusiast, we stay involved in the sport of Off Road Racing on many levels. The UTV market is on fire right
now and with this new series starting in my backyard, I knew we just had to get involved.” Coyne continued, “We are
currently working on a comprehensive sponsorship and contingency packages for the racers that we will be releasing soon.”

Official 2015 AMA D38 UTV Series Presented by Coyne Powersports Schedule

Feb 7th & 8th Valentine’s Day Massacre Feb 21st & 22nd The King of the Dez
Mar 14th & 15th Full Throttle 100 Apr 25th & 26Th Speed Limit 100
Oct 10th & 11th Rattle Snake Chase Oct 24th & 25th Desert Cross
Dec 12th & 13th Christmas Classic

For the latest news and updates plus detailed information on rules and class specifications announcements, please
visit amad38.com and look for our new UTV section on our Message Board.
About the Coyne Powersports Group (CPG): Based in southern California, CPG is a Regional Powersports Powerhouse that
owns and operates 3 leading franchised Powersports dealerships in sunny southern California. We carry full line ups from Polaris,Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Seadoo, KTM, Can-Am, Beta, Slingshot, and Arctic Cat (CPGrider.com) *not all locations have all brands Imperial Valley Cycle Center: Located 20 minutes from world famous dune riding destination, Glamis. IVCC serves the entire Imperial Valley, Calexico, Yuma Arizona, and the bustling border town of Mexicali Mexico. (ivcycle.com)
Beaumont Powersports: Located near some of the best natural terrain riding there is to offer as well as some of the top
motocross tracks in country. Serving the needs of Riverside County including Beaumont, San Bernardino, and Hemet motorcycle
enthusiasts for over 10 years. (beaumontpowersports.com)
Coyne Powersports – Banning: Our newest location conveniently located of the interstate 10 Freeway, proudly serves the cities
of Palm Springs, Indio and the entire Riverside County. (coynepowersports.com)
For more information on Coyne Powersports visit:
coynepowersportsgroup.com

 

[calstyl2]

If D-37 could do this you would have some epic racing.

 

[NIKAL]

This is awesome news! I will totally go down & watch and who knows maybe even volunteer to help at a race or two.

Several years ago when MDR was alive in Plaster City, not only did I help them behind the scenes with the drawing partys, brings some sponsors to thecsreies and I promoted the 5/1600 Shootout, but a few times I got a group of friends and we would volunteer to man a checkpoint. The night races were awesome to do.

 

[baja specialist]

This is going to be a lot of fun. Cheap entry fee's, easy local to get to and a good family friendly environment. And for those of us that want to, we can race a dirt bike or ATV (pre running) as well as the SXS.

 

[dkiewicz]

If D-37 could do this you would have some epic racing.

Rob,

I spoke with Roger Hurd (Romic Mfg. and D-37 board member) 2 years ago about this. He said D-37 was considering it. I have no idea what happened after that. I would like to see it because it's a hell of a lot closer for me. Traveling and fuel costs are killing me. I basically didn't do anything last year because of it. It's better now, but I'm betting it goes back up real soon.

D-37 is a great group and I think this could be a good competitive venue between the groups too. An annual GP to determine the UTV crown would be great.

Maybe I'll post on their forum and see what happened.

 

[dkiewicz]

And here was their response:

"AMA District 37 Dan, At this point in time it's not something that is on our venue but certainly something we should discuss"

So it's not dead and there's still interest.

 

[baja specialist]

Rob,

I spoke with Roger Hurd (Romic Mfg. and D-37 board member) 2 years ago about this. He said D-37 was considering it. I have no idea what happened after that. I would like to see it because it's a hell of a lot closer for me. Traveling and fuel costs are killing me. I basically didn't do anything last year because of it. It's better now, but I'm betting it goes back up real soon.

D-37 is a great group and I think this could be a good competitive venue between the groups too. An annual GP to determine the UTV crown would be great.

Maybe I'll post on their forum and see what happened.

D37 is a great place to race, I did the Nationals up there for a couple of years. They have some good stuff but it is a bit rocky and tends to tear your stuff up a little bit. But it's not like desert racing is easy on equipment.

A race to crown the the best would be awesome. But not a GP our series is strictly desert. But I like your thinking.

 

[NIKAL]

Wayne I have a question? I was talking to some this morning about this new UTV class as part of D38. It was mentioned that 1 class is a pure stock class. My question was will this pure stock class be allowed to run a stock UTV cage? Or will thier be some requirements to have a fully welded cage that only has bolt on connections where the cage mounts to the chassis?

I ask as this as I'm not a big supporter of stock cages and as much as I'm excited to here a new form of grass roots affordable car racing is coming back to Plaster City, I also know how the BLM permit and insurance goes for racing out there. I would hate to see someone with a stock cage crash, get hurt, but also possibly hurt the reputation of D38 and the potential loss of more racing in Plaster City.

I'm all for some sort of stock class, but hope things like properly welded cages, doors with a positive locking mechinism, window nets or arm restraints & 5 point harnesses will be required. Yes these items will add to the cost to race, but these items are a 1 time buy and even with grass roots low cost racing we still need to remember safety is #1. And we can afford an accident that could jeopardize racing in Plaster City.

I bet more of these stock class guys will have more money wrapped up in shocks & springs then what it would cost to get a .095 welded cage for there cars. I would even be willing to make some calls to some UTV cage fab shops to see if they would offer some sort of "Racer" discount to D38 members that are going to race the 2015 season. I know both CageWerx & Toys for Big Boys sell knock down "weld yourself" kits that are good quality for very reasonable prices. I think CageWerx was selling a kit for around $700. Then I get my friend at Powder1 to hook up D38 racers with a deal on some powder coating and your done!

Let me know, we can make this happen and make racing safer for all including D38 who have the most to lose.

 

[calstyl2]

Honestly I doubt that D-37 will move in this direction, it is pretty stale and set in its ways, SoCal tried to run a UTV race at its GP at "The Ranch" got about a dozen cars but the "Big 6" group wasnt thrilled about it. SoCal just brought back the Adelanto GP and would of been a good UTV course, but Im not optimistic for it to happen.
I sent the info up to D-37 Board members also.
Both Spangler and Johnson Valley have some great un-tapped UTV routes.

 

[calstyl2]

OEM cages have no business in racing IMO, we had a folded RZR at last years KOH with a stock cage from a double roll over in the dunes

 

[baja specialist]

Our first race is this Sunday at Plaster City East. The race starts @ 1:30 and it will be three times around a 28 mile loop. $150 entree fee with pro pay back in all three classes.
For those that are interested the Bikes and quad race starts at 9:00 AM. I hope to see some new faces down there racing.