2024 Silver Kings Hard Enduro Results

Jesse Ziegler | July 2, 2024

FMF Factory Racing KTM’s Trystan Hart took the Silver Kings Crown at the 2024 Silver Kings Hard Enduro in Kellogg, Idaho, June 28-29.

Trystan Hart at 2024 Silver Kings Hard Enduro — **Trystan Hart was the overall winner at the Silver Kings Hard Enduro in Northern Idaho.**

By Jesse Ziegler | Photos: Ryan McCasland

The Canadian took the $10,000 top prize after two days of cumulative racing (after a fast prologue) in the rugged Northern Idaho terrain. Rockstar Husqvarna’s Ryder LeBlond and GasGas Factory Racing’s Will Riordan made it a factory-team-dominated podium in second and third, respectively. Hart, LeBlond, and Riordan were the only three finishers of the race’s most difficult Gold course during Saturday’s main event.

“Being the Silver King for back-to-back years now feels good,” Hart said on Saturday. “I had a good day one, taking the win by 10 minutes, and it was easy. Today was supposed to be a hard day, and it turned out to be moderately hard but long and grueling with some used tracks from yesterday, so it was rough and beat the crap out of me. And the bottlenecks were bad all week. We had over 250 Silver course racers out there racing basically the same course as us, and it made for some gnarly bottlenecks and big maneuvers to get around them.”

The 2024 Silver Kings event was not on the sanctioned U.S. Hard Enduro schedule this year, so the factory team appearances were somewhat of a surprise. But the Silver Mountain’s epic hard-enduro terrain is an attractive lure to any trail-riding and hard-enduro enthusiast, including the top racers in the world.

“It’s one of the sickest venues we have, so it’s always my favorite event,” Hart said. “It’s just four hours from my house, too, so I told the boys at KTM, ‘We got to go,’ and we made it happen.”

With more than 550 entries for the weekend and around 500 official starters, the Silver Kings Hard Enduro had a massive turnout, including a talented Women’s Pro class, where Sandra Gomez took an impressive win in front of Katie Hall-Leah and Melissa Harten, despite being assessed a one-hour penalty over the duration of the race.

Ryder LeBlond at 2024 Silver Kings Hard Enduro — **Ryder LeBlond was second overall.**

The weekend also had a packed schedule, including a Street Rhythm Endurocross-style bracket race where Rockstar Husqvarna’s Colton Haaker took the win, again.

Using a unique race format of a prologue plus two full days of racing—and the Street Rhythm Endurocross-style bracket race, with the race days’ times combining for an overall result, Silver Kings was a hard-enduro rally in a sense. Three unique courses were set up each day and all Bronze course racers (B and C classes, and Women’s non-pro) raced two three-lap, three-hour-limit races. Silver and Gold course racers (Pro and A classes, and Women’s Pro) raced a three-lap, three-hour race on Friday and were supposed to race a three-lap, four-hour race on Saturday.

Will Riordan at 2024 Silver Kings Hard Enduro — **Will Riordan finished out the weekend on the podium.**

The 2024 event was also unique for being the first race in North America to use the My Race Result scoring system—the same live tracking and scoring system used by the biggest European races, such as the Erzbergrodeo in Austria and the FIM-sanctioned series races. With live timing in the app, racers had quick access to results, and penalties were quickly assessed to those who missed parts of the course. But the race wasn’t without its fair share of confusion, as officials unexpectedly extended the Saturday race to five hours, leaving more than a few racers confused on course.

In the end, Silver Kings finisher medals were awarded to three Gold course racers, 110 A/Women’s Pro Silver course racers, and 139 Bronze course racers.CN