Press Release | April 1, 2023
Donner Hard Enduro Rescheduled for September
Due to the record snowpack in the Sierra Nevadas this winter, the Donner Hard Enduro, originally scheduled for June 17-18, is postponed to September 16-17. It will still be part of the AMA West Hard Enduro Series, presented by Beta USA, and will determine the class Championships for 2023.
UPDATE from November 2022
The 2023 AMA U.S. Hard Enduro Series schedule has been announced, and it includes 10 hard enduro races stretching across the United States, from Hawaii to Pennsylvania.
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In addition to the schedule announcement, USHE has adjusted the series format by including a Premier Championship that will focus on the Pro and Pro Women classes, while the existing AMA West and East Regional Championships remain. Six out of the 10 AMA Regional rounds will carry points for the USHE Premier Championship, which determines the overall Pro and Pro Women Champions. There will be one drop round for the AMA West Regional, and no drop rounds for the AMA East Regional and USHE Premier Championship. This new format will create separation between both AMA Regional Championships, which remain AMA Tennessee Knockout Qualifiers, while giving the Pro and Pro Women a separate overall Championship to be featured in.
The USHE Premier Championship and AMA West Regional Championship will kick off at the King of the Motos in Johnson Valley, California. This high-profile race will again be part of the King of the Hammers festivities, and remain a challenging GPS-based desert race. The first new AMA West Regional event of the year will be IRC Endurofest-Hawaii on the North Shore of Oahu. Hawaii is not only a hard-enduro paradise, but there are at least a couple hundred racers in the Hawaii Motorsports Association who don’t get the chance to race on the mainland or qualify for TKO. This event will give Hawaiians that opportunity.
A couple weeks later, the Grinding Stone Hard Enduro will again send racers up and down the gnarly sandstone mesas in Page, Arizona, and host both Championships. Another new face to the series will be the Snake Bite Hard Enduro in Lubbock, Texas, which has no shortage of steep hills, rocks, and gnarly terrain.
The USHE will then head east to the Battle of the Goats in North Carolina, which last ran in 2021 and was missed by many during the 2022 season. This will be the third round of the Premier Championship and first AMA East Regional round. The second AMA East Regional will be the Fallen Timbers Hard Enduro in southeast Ohio, known for it’s impossibly slick mud and having the closest Pro battle of the 2022 season between Trystan Hart and Ryder LeBlond.
On Memorial Day Weekend, two Pennsylvania races partnered up for a three-day mega-event, both serving as USHE Premier Championship and AMA East Regional rounds. Tough Like RORR is widely known to only get a handful of finishers and paid out a whopping $35,000 at the 2022 race. RORR will run their race on Saturday and Sunday. The Shotgun Hard Enduro debuted in 2022, but became very popular with all the racers as it was compared to a never-ending rock garden. The Shotgun Hard Enduro is only 45 minutes from RORR and will be held on Monday. Racing both events will be incentivized and an overall weekend purse will be built up for the top Pros of the weekend.
The Championships will then head back West to race at the ski resorts. The Donner Hard Enduro near Truckee, California is always a spectator favorite on the granite slabs. It will return on Father’s Day weekend as an AMA West Regional round and feature a full weekend of festivities. The final round of both the Premier Championship and AMA West Regional will take place at the Silver Kings Hard Enduro in Kellogg, Idaho on the final weekend of June. This event will feature everything a big mountain hard-enduro race should, and more.
The new schedule includes some brand-new hard enduro races, the return of some big events, and races that have been running for years. The terrain will vary from harsh deserts, slick East Coast forests, big-mountain ski resorts, to a tropical island. With the help of a solid crew, great sponsors, and thousands of passionate enthusiasts, the USHE is excited to see the continued growth of hard enduro in the USA.
For updates on the 2023 US Hard Enduro season, follow the Facebook and Instagram pages (@ushardenduro), along with subscribing to the series website (www.ushardenduro.com).