You can count on them all this weekend at Lake Hartwell, Ga, as the 2016
Hidden Trails/Sea Doo Pro Watercross National Tour heads into Round 6 – the
Triple Crown of Watercross. As the final stop on the tour before the National
Championship in Charleston, West Virginia, and the World Championship in
Naples, Florida, the flatwater racing on Harwell promises wide-open, throttle
busting battles as PWC’s top athletes fight to claim those all-important tour
points.
This season has seen some of the
most intense competitions in several classes, with Round 5’s to-the-wire
battles in the Pro-Am Ski GP class proving some of the most exciting motos of
the year. And with both Dustin Farthing and Sam Nehme having a red-hot season,
racers are leaving it all out on the course to challenge those standings.
Lake Hartwell’s course promises
more turns and higher speeds, and provides the perfect venue for this sixth
round of Pro Watercross’ ultra-competitive 2016 National Tour, with plenty of
hard-fought, side-by-side racing on tap in both pro and amateur classes.
The Pro Watercross Tour Stop is
held in conjunction with the community’s Wet and Wild celebration – promises
more than just buoy-to-buoy speed and checkered flag challenges, with the
Freestyle competition looking to heat up during this final stop before the
Championship rounds. Amateur freestyler Justin Sylvain has consistently awed
fans with his pro-level routines this year, and both the pro and amateur
classes are wide open in the search for the best of the best – it’s not too
late to see a newcomer or late-season entry rack up the points and prize money
with some gutsy aerial acrobatics. With $1,000 in payout on the line in Hartwell,
there just may be some surprises in store!
On the flipside of the high
flying flips and twists of the Freestyle competition and the high-tech machines
of the Pro motos, Pro Watercross will be going old school at Hartwell, hosting
a Vintage Ski “run what ya brung" class, complete with a
$400 payout, thanks to Performance Excavating Inc. and Rex Hayes.
The Hidden Trails/Sea Doo Pro
Watercross National Tour, sponsored by Jet Lift, will once again be
livestreaming all the action on prowatercross.com/live, Ustream, YouTube Live, and on the
Pro Watercross Facebook Page with Facebook Live. The Pro Watercross Tour fan
base is exploding as the livestream audience gets closer to that 1 million
mark! The livestream platform, added to the CBS Sports Network Coverage of the
Championships, not only supplies a wider audience for Pro Watercross and
doubles down on the tour’s efforts to grow PWC as a sport, but it also
multiplies the exposure for individual racers – a fact that is keeping both
athletes and sponsors energized and involved.
While this weekend’s Triple Crown
of Watercross stands to see some of the most fiercely-fought motos of the
season, Lake Hartwell offers more than starting-line-to-checkered-flag
adrenaline. The Wet and Wild weekend events at Long Point Recreation Area on
Lake Hartwell include a road race, stand up paddleboarding, free activities for
the kids, vendors and food booths, and a beautiful park to relax in ... not to
mention the nearby town of Hartwell – full of eclectic shops, great restaurants
and some amazing live music in the evenings at the local watering holes!
Be sure to keep up with the 2016
Hidden Trails Motorsports/Sea Doo Pro Watercross National Tour and Championship
at www.prowatercross.com, www.facebook.com/ProWatercross and twitter.com/prowatercross.