Race Report | 2024 AMO Ontario Provincial Championships Round 1

Race Report | 2024 AMO Ontario Provincial Championships Round 1

Photo report from Round 1 of the 2024 True North Motorsports AMO Ontario Provincial Championships at Gopher Dunes

By Billy Rainford

I decided to stay local and check out some racing action at Round 1 of the 2024 True North Motorsports AMO Ontario Provincial Championships at Gopher Dunes. I’d heard that there were going to be a number of our top pro riders taking advantage of an early-season gate drop at one of our Canadian Triple Crown Series MX Nationals tracks so that’s where I thought my attention should be.

Added to that reason, I’d also heard we were going to have our multi-time national champion, Dylan Wright, there to show the newly acquired Honda Canada GDR Fox Racing 250 teammate, Australian 17-year-old Tiger Wood, on the track for the first time too, so I had to be there!

I had family commitments to attend on Saturday, so I missed the racing that took place in the cold and sometimes snowy conditions on Day 1, but managed to be there for every race on Sunday.

With over 300 riders and 765 entries, it was a race-filled day that saw the Pro Am class able to show up a bit later and race their 3 X 15:00 motos in the afternoon program. I remember this is how it was done way back in the day, so it jst seemed normal to me.

With coffee in hand and a full tank of gas in the #DMXVan (at $1.64/litre, 10 cents cheaper at Costco than other places) I hit the 401 east and made my way to the track.

Speaking of big rigs, #21 Nathan Fraser was there all the way from Nova Scotia! He drove his little Golf and met up with the team’s rig and full-on trailer! They were heading back to the maritimes after the races! That’s commitment and now I feel bad because I told myself I’d take a photo of the set up “later” and never did. Then they were loaded up and gone when I went looking at the end of the day.

Nathan won our DMX Total Devotion Award at the TransCan this year and is just now back from taking advantage of his free week at Club MX. I hope he had a great time and learned lots.

I was also amazed at how many people have been reading some of my Monday Morning Coffee ramblings. I only know this because there were a lot of people asking me how the renovations were going and shared hired hand horror stories of their own to match ours. I guess I’ll have to keep on ramblin!

Let’s get to the racing, shall we? I’ll go through them as they went through them on race day. Thank you for printing out a race order for me.

You can look at the full results HERE.

At the end of the first run-through of amateur motos, the Pro Am class took to the track for the first of their 3 15:00 motos. The sun came out right on queue too!

Here’s a look at some of the riders in the Pro class:

PRO-AM – Overall Finish Positions    View Laptimes Moto 1 Moto 2 Moto 3    Points for this class

Overall   Name Heat Semi Moto 1 Moto 2 Moto 3 Points Earned 1st #12  SEBASTIEN RACINE  Casselman, On   –    – 2nd 1st 3rd 67 2nd #84  TANNER WARD  Woodstock, On   –    – 5th 2nd 2nd 60 3rd #573  CHRISTOPHER BLACKMER  MUSKEGON, MI   –    – 4th 3rd 4th 56 4th #14  QUINN AMYOTTE  Blackstock, On   –    – 3rd 4th 5th 54 5th #9  DYLAN WRIGHT  Drummondville, Qu   –    – 1st 28th 1st 50 6th #143  TIGER WOOD  Australia   –    – 6th 6th 7th 44 7th #324  DYLAN KAELIN  Grand Bend, ON   –    – 8th 5th 8th 42 8th #223  AUSTIN JONES  Perth, ON   –    – 7th 8th 10th 38 9th #33  TANNER SCOTT  Oromedonte, On   –    – 15th 7th 6th 35 10th #21  LIAM OFARRELL  Paris, On   –    – 10th 9th 9th 35 11th #55  HAYDEN JAMESON  Woodstock, On   –    – 12th 10th 11th 30 12th #89  KEVIN SULLIVAN  Sutton West, On   –    – 13th 11th 12th 27 13th #104  KYLE KEAST  Cavan, On   –    – 11th 12th 14th 26 14th #211  JACK WRIGHT  Port Perry, On   –    – 14th 17th 15th 17 15th #73  TRISTAN DARES  Rockwood, On   –    – 22nd 13th 13th 16 16th #75  TYLER SHEWCHYK  St Thomas, On   –    – 9th DNS DNS 12 17th #187  LEITH NESS  Blackwater, On   –    – 17th 15th 23rd 10 18th #34  RYAN DERRY  Thornhill, ON   –    – 18th 14th 25th 10 19th #155  SPENCER DELEYE  , ON   –    – 24th 18th 16th 8 20th #43  BROCK KELLY  , ON   –    – 30th 16th 18th 8 21st #514X  SHELBY REMPEL  Ariss, ON   –    – 20th DNS 17th 5 22nd #39  MAX FILIPEK  Grimsby, On   –    – 16th DNS DNS 5 23rd #781  ZACK ZAGER  Melbourne, On   –    – 19th 20th 22nd 3 24th #136  DEREK HAMM  Brownsville, On   –    – 28th 21st 19th 2 25th #118c  CHRISTOPHER DA SILVA  SAINT-LUC, QC   –    – 23rd 19th 24th 2 26th #415  DARIO ZECCA  Midhurst, On   –    – 29th 24th 20th 1 27th #118  CHRIS COLENUTT  Maidstone, On   –    – 27th 22nd 21st 0 28th #451  RICKY CONWAY  Gorrie, On   –    – 21st 23rd DNS 0 29th #464  CARLOS PONCE  Pefferlaw, ON   –    – 26th 25th DNS 0 30th #17b  BOBBY GRAVEL  Fauquier, On   –    – 31st 26th DNS 0 31st #991  RYDER HEACOCK  Pontypool, On   –    – 25th 27th DNS 0