A few final words from the promoter
The race went fantastic until the last few hours when protests and near fights caused my lack of attention toward details that were badly needing my attention. By giving away all the profits to the riders, the event is sometimes short on sufficient staff. This led to my lack of getting our special awards and purse money completely finished in time for the race’s end. With this, it was necessary to mail several teams their share of the purse along with their custom made award plaques (each team gets their own photo on their plaque). Rest assured all awards and purse money have been paid in full. A few teams would not accept getting awards and purse money in the mail and barged into the living quarters of my trailer demanding their winnings on the spot. It’s a shame a few people can be so critical of our short comings and not see all the possitive things we’ve worked hard to make available. Instead they find it necessary to lose their cool at the event and are determined to try to tarnish our reputation in the industry on several internet forums. The evil they demonstrated and continue to generate toward me, this website and the event will not be forgotten and it goes without saying a few people wont be welcome at next year’s event.
To all the appreciative teams that also spend a lot of time and money to take their part in this unique event, on behalf of Maxxis Tires, the entire Miller family and all the volunteers that make the event possible I sincerely thank you for your support.
As for the future, I’ll be happy to give up all potential profit to a worthy non profit organization if this is what it will take to take the event to a higher level. In this I would think the event could look forward to a sufficient amount of volunteers and could more than likely collect additional outside the industry sponsorship funding. This will also put far less stress and financial drain on myself – making the event fun again for everyone, including myself. If you’re reading this and you have a connection to a worthy non profit organization that is serious enough to meet to discuss this opportunity immediately please contact me at jpellan@atvscene.com.
Fast-Trak Promo Fast Facts
- The 6 and 12 Hours of ATV America was derived from Fast-Trak Promo’s all-Ohio BUCCS “Buddy Up Cross Country Series” (co promoted by John Pellan and John Johnson). It was ATV racing’s first-ever team harescramble series.
- With high gas prices, sponsor conflicts and several other events throughout the country the 12 Hrs of America’s rider turn out has fluctuated over the past six years. Here’s the attendance at a glance:
2002 Fort Dodge, IA 54 Teams 2003 Fort Dodge, IA 68 Teams 2004 Fort Dodge, IA 100 Teams 2005 Valley View, PA 70 Teams 2006 Greenville, TX 36 Teams 2007 Greenville, TX 61 Teams
- The Maxxis 6 Hours of ATV America is the only team ATV series in the country.
- Along with freelance editor legend, Bill “WBGO” Lanphear, Fast-Trak’s George Davis and John Pellan were the first to report about ATV racing on the Internet.
- Since 1998 Fast-Trak Promo has given ATV racers almost a quarter of a million dollars ($226,000) in total purse money.
- This year’s 12 Hrs track featured cross country, motocross, long straight stretches as well as a few unique man-made obstacles such as the Bleacher Climb, Tire Field and Hay Maze.
- The first-ever Maxxis 12 hours of ATV America was held and Jim and Sue Ricke’s Midwest Motorsports facility in Fort Dodge, IA. Bob Fleege, Bryan Shipley, Bruce Bresser and many other Iowa volunteers and riders made the event a big success. The event was moved to PA after the track was converted into a dirt track car racing facility in 2003.
- Fast-Trak Promo with help from Isoaxis.com and American Suzuki gave away a Doug Gust replica Suzuki LT-R450 with the continuation of ATV Scene.com’s 2001 Fantasy ATV Racing Contest.
- Fast-Trak Promo introduced the first event to ever feature and respect the legends of ATV racing. It was called Legends 2000 and took place in Ashtabula, Ohio in 2000. Legends 2010 is already in the works.
- The 12 Hrs of America event has received pre and post event media attention from 14 different print and online magazines.
- Fast-Trak Promo was the first to introduce an organized ATV Freestyle Competition. It was the Division Four Freestyle Showdown held in 1999 at the Orrville, Ohio GNC.
- The 12 Hrs of America event has been featured on four different television programs.
- Fast-Trak Promo’s mission to take ATV racing to a higher level led to the making of ATV Scene.com in 1999.
- Fast-Trak Promo hired Matt The Kangaroo Kid Coulter to attempt a world record ATV jump. It was seen Tuesday Night at 8pm on prime time Fox television world wide! Fast-Trak also wrote it in the contract with Fox to show at least 6 seconds of ATV racing during the prime time spot. They did indeed honor this making Fast-Trak Promo responsible for showcasing ATV racing to more people than any promotional company ever.
- $24,000 in purse money was given away to the top ten overall and top three in the A class at this year’s 12 Hrs of America. In addition each year $3500 in special awards are given away to 50% of the field.
- Fast-Trak Promo was the first to pair ATV racing with a country music concert. It was called Country Rockin’ & Racin’ It was held in Edmonton, KY in 2001.
- Fast-Trak Promo introduced the first Production based ATV class since the late eighties at the Ft. Dodge, IA GNC in 2002.
- Fast-Trak Promo created the “ATVA Short Track Nationals” in 2002.
- The 12 Hours of ATV America event has been seen with live video on www.atvscene.com for three years.
- Fast-Trak Promotions, Inc. won the AMA People’s Choice ATV Outstanding Promoter of the Year Award twice, 1999 and 2000.
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Special thanks to all the volunteers like the entire crew at Eddie Deen & Co., David at ATVCCS, Jason at OCCRA, the Cash Volunteer Fire Dept., Mark Straubinger of Banger Race Announcing, Brad Dedon of Brad Dedon Creative Services, Brad at Premis Ind, Charles Johnson of PhotoSensate – Apprehending Light, David Minton of Finish Line Graphics, Sandra at Giggles & Grins Newspaper and everyone else that went above and beyond the call of duty to make this year’s event the success it was.
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A few final words from the promoter
To all the appreciative teams that also spend a lot of time and money to take their part in this unique event, on behalf of Maxxis Tires, the entire Miller family and all the volunteers that make the event possible I sincerely thank you for your support.
