Triumph Racer Ricky Russell Takes Inaugural Victory in Ama National Enduro Series

Triumph Racing is excited to share that Enduro Engineering Triumph Off-Road Racing Team’s Ricky Russell has taken his and the TF 450’s debut victory in the prestigious NEPG AMA National Enduro Series at the weekend in Missouri, USA.

Russell battled the intense heat and dust at the Lead Belt National round seven of the AMA Enduro series, to tackle six sections totaling 44 miles of competition in the NE Pro1 category. Kicking off with two 6.5-mile tests at the start of the day, racers then took on two tough 8-mile sections followed by a 7.5-mile section, before the racing reached its conclusion with a 7-mile test.

Bringing confidence from clinching a podium at the previous round, the Rattlesnake National in Pennsylvania, Russell got to work and put in an outstanding performance throughout the day’s proceedings. Staving off some tough competition, the Enduro Engineering Triumph racer won all but the final test, in which he finished second, to take the overall victory - his first in the series - aboard Triumph machinery.

Russell is currently third in the overall championship standings, having only once been out of the top five overall so far this season. The Washington state native is proud to be the first rider to take an NEPG AMA National Enduro victory in the modern era of Triumph aboard the British manufacturer’s newly developed off-road machinery.

Ricky Russell

“I finally was able to put a full day together at an NEPG Enduro and get my first ever win! I’m stoked to have taken five of the six tests in gnarly conditions with temperatures reaching 95 degrees and a lot of dust. I finished the Rattlesnake [National] with a good win on that last test, and I just knew that if I could just do that today and just ride like I know how, we’ll be good. I got out there, and it was definitely dusty and tricky. You got to know where to push and where to kind of back off and not take the chances. I had no crashes until the last test where I crashed twice, I almost had the sweep on the day, but Grant [Baylor] snuck in there and got that sixth test win. I’m really happy to get this done, though. It’s my first-ever NEPG win, so I can’t really complain - I’ve been on the podium here and there quite a bit but was never able to click off that win. So, I’m really happy to do it the way we did today.”

Jeremy Coker – General Manager, Triumph Racing America

“Everyone at Triumph would like to say a huge congratulations to Ricky and everyone at the Enduro Engineering Triumph Off-Road Racing Team. It was great to see a Triumph on top of the podium in Missouri and Ricky really did it in style. To take a win in such a short space of time against some really established competition in the AMA National Enduro series is testament to all the hard work done by everyone. It’s a first victory in the championship in the modern era of Triumph competing in off-road, and we couldn’t be more proud.”