Press Release

Cobra announces its 2010 Race Team



Missouri’s “Lightning” Lance Kobush and Austin Forkner, along with Illinois’ Chase Sexton, headline
Cobra’s 2010 factory effort


HILLSDALE, Mich., (March 5, 2010) – Cobra is
pleased to introduce today the world’s fastest young dirt bike racers
– the members of the 2010 Cobra Race Team.



A new chapter in the “Cobra Generation” story
begins to play out in the coming weeks at the first ever Daytona Amateur
Supercross, Texas’ Lake Whitney Spring Classic and Oak Hill’s GNC
Final, then continues on through the summer and fall at hallowed amateur MX
racing grounds such as Vegas, Ponca City, Loretta Lynn’s, Branson and
Gatorback – with a trip overseas for America’s top racers to join
up and compete with Cobra’s top European stars against the world’s
best mini cycle racers at the MX Masters (aka the Mini Des Nations).





Named to this year’s premier Cobra Factory team are
three outstanding racers that have been aboard the Cobra brand for a number of
years, winning multiple national championships along the way. Missouri’s “Lightning”
Lance Kobush
will be mounted on his King 50 and CX65, while Austin
Forkner
(Missouri) and Chase Sexton (Illinois) will run the 65cc
class on factory-backed Cobra CX65s.





“Lance, Austin and Chase make up the core of a Cobra
race team that features championship-caliber racers from top to bottom,”
explained Cobra President Sean Hilbert. “We look forward to the coming
weeks in Texas not only to showcase our talented factory-backed racers, but
also to witnessing the challenges our top guys face from privateer-mounted
Cobra racers in their quest for podium spots at the major amateur MX nationals.”





Rounding out the Cobra Team program are a number of equally
fast racers from all points of the U.S. map, including:



 



Racer                                                    
State                                    
Class(es)



 



Michael
Hicks                                    
Missouri                              
7-9 65cc



Julian
Kempany                               
Georgia                               
10-11 65cc



Palmer
Kling                                      
Georgia                               
F2, F3 (Road race, Supermoto)



Guage
Keith                                      
Maryland                            
7-8 50cc&7-9 65cc



Jonathan
Lee                                    
North Carolina  
               
7-9 65cc



Logan
Leitzel                                     
Pennsylvania                    
7-9 65cc



Daniel
McCullon                              
Florida                                 
7-8 50cc & 7-9 65cc



Stilez
Robertson                              
California                            
7-8 50cc



Jack
Rogers                                        
Maryland                            
7-8 50cc & 7-9 65cc



Kruz
Sampson                                  
Tennessee                         
7-8 50cc & 7-9 65cc (GNCC)



James Shocky                                   
Virginia                
               
7-8 50cc & 7-9 65cc



Brandon
Smith                 
               
New Mexico                     
7-9 65cc



Vance
Stiers                                      
Ohio                                     
4-6 50cc



Jackson
Turpin                 
               
Georgia                               
7-8 50cc & 7-9 65cc



Chase
Yentzer                                  
Pennsylvania                    
7-8 50cc & 7-9 65cc



 



“We’ve got the Cobra support semi stocked with
parts and are ready to hit the road for the Texas amateur national
openers,” said Hilbert. “Everyone at Cobra R&D is looking
forward to getting away from the computer monitors for a couple weeks and into
the dirt for the opening races of the season.”





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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