Cobra Mini Bike Buzz Texas, Lock Down All The Top 50cc Podium Spots

Mumford, Linville, Forkner, Smith, Kobush,
Robertson
& Rogers score big – as do former Cobra riders @ the Dallas
Supercross!

Photos courtesy of Motoplayground

HILLSDALE, Mich., (March 24, 2010) – Kids on
Cobra motorcycles continued to run up the big numbers synonymous with
Cobra’s stellar racing heritage, this past two weeks sweeping every one
of the 50cc class titles and adding podiums on the only American-made 65
as the
kids took big steps towards becoming future pro motocross racers.

So was a bit of poetic justice that names like
Millsaps,
Canard, Sipes and Baggett – all of whom cut their MX racing teeth on
Cobras – captured four of the possible six podium spots at the Lake
Whitney/Oak Hill-ending get together for the Cobra race support team at
the
Dallas Supercross.

“What a great way to end two solid weeks of amateur
national racing – watching kids from the original ‘Cobra
Generation’ fill out the majority of the podium spots at the Dallas
Supercross,” said Cobra President Sean Hilbert. “A big
‘Congrats’ from everyone at Cobra for two more highly successful
season-opening races in Texas.”

Beginning with the most recent contest at Oak Hill,
Georgia’s Gage Linville and Californa’s Carson Mumford
were the big winners, sweeping the 4-6 and 7-9 Stock and Modified 50cc
classes,
respectively, with Mumford adding the 4-9 50cc Open title. Also
noteworthy was
seeing Maryland’s Jack Rogers, who’s Cobra King 50 was
parked all winter due to snow, come out and podium in the highly
competitive
50cc 7-9 Stock class and place 4^th in the Modified class.

In 65cc class racing at Oak Hill Cobra was led by
Missouri’s Austin Forkner, who put the CX65 on the overall podium
(3^rd) in the week’s biggest 65cc race – the 7-11 Open.
In 65cc 7-9 racing Cobra’s Lance Kobush (Missouri), Brandon
Smith (New Mexico) and Michael Hicks (Missouri) all banged
out top
ten finishes on their CX65s. In addition, Chase Sexton scored a
couple
top ten finishes in the 65cc 10-11 Stock and Modified class.

Prior to the Oak Hill MX National, Cobra racers
shook off
the winter rust at the Lake Whitney MX National, sweeping all the top
spots in
50cc class racing. Linville was the (young) Man, dominating the
4-6 50cc
Shaft and Stock classes, while Kobush and California’s Stilez
Robertson split the 7-8 Stock and 4-8 Open classes, respectively.

Cobra’s 65cc racing season got off to an excellent
start at Lake Whitney with both Forkner and Smith scoring podium
finishes on
the CX65 – Forkner in the 7-11 Modified class and Smith in the 7-9
Modified class. In all CX65-mounted kids earned 11 top ten finishes in
the five
65cc classes at Lake Whitney. Along with Forkner and Smith those
included:
Pennsylvania’s Logan Leitzel, Sexton and Kobush.

The next big amateur national competition on the
schedule
for Cobra racers is the April
12-18 World Mini Grand Prix relocated this year
to Mesquite, Nevada (from Las Vegas).

Cobra, founded in 1993, produces the most
successful line of
competition mini cycles and mini quads in the United States with more
than 200
national titles in the last decade. Based out of Hillsdale, Mich.,
Cobra's
mission is to build premium products for the serious racer. For more
information on Cobra products, please visit our website at www.cobramotorcycle.com.

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