2024 AMA/NATC MotoTrials Round 4 Results
| June 25, 2024
FactoryOne Sherco’s Pat Smage and U.S. Montesa Honda-backed Toby Martyn split wins at the latest rounds of the 2024 AMA/NATC MotoTrials USA National Championship Series, presented by Trial Store USA, returning to the infamous Trials Training Center in Sequatchie, Tennessee, June 22-23.
The battle for the win at the AMA MotoTrials Championship was close, with Pat Smage taking a narrow win on Saturday. Photos: Stephanie Vetterly
Story and Photos by Stephanie Vetterly
As is typical of the venue in the summer months, temperatures neared 100 degrees and humidity was high; attention to proper nutrition and hydration was key to staying sharp and keeping in the competition. The hosting club, the Southeastern Trials Riders Association, worked to uncover sections and areas that were used back in the ’90s and also at some previous FIM World Trial Championship rounds and had long since been reclaimed by Mother Nature. As a result, despite most of the Pro class having significant experience riding the Sequatchie course throughout their riding careers, many of the sections and lines were now new to the riders, giving everyone a more even playing field. Sections were extremely technical, and many riders found that precise tire placement was necessary to avoid accidentally misplacing a marker and taking full points.
Competition in the Pro class was extremely tight. Smage and Martyn tied on Saturday with 15 points, with Smage edging out the Brit by cleaning (completing the section without taking any points) one more section, 30 to Martyn’s 29.
Toby Martyn at 2024 AMA/NATC MotoTrials Round 4
On Sunday, with sections only slightly easier, the top box saw Martyn take only a single point to Smage’s three points.
GasGas’s Josh Roper rounded out the podium both days with scores of 38 and 16.
In the Women’s Pro class, GasGas’s Maddie Hoover and Trials Superstore’s Kylee Sweeten swapped wins as well, with Hoover taking Saturday and Sweeten barely edging for the win on Sunday by two points.
The series will continue July 27-28 for rounds five and six at Donner Ski Ranch in Norden, California.
Kylee Sweeten finished off the weekend with the Women’s-class win after taking second to Maddie Hoover on Saturday.
SATURDAY
- Pat Smage (She)
- Toby Martyn (Mon)
- Josh Roper (GG)
- Alexander Myers (Sco)
- Will Myers (She)
SUNDAY
- Toby Martyn (Mon)
- Pat Smage (She)
- Josh Roper (GG)
- Will Myers (She)
- Alexander Myers (Sco)
