Quad rac­ing in Aus­tralia is rel­a­tively new on a pro­fes­sional level, but the name “Chris Bren­ton” is syn­ony­mous with the Elite level of the sport.

Bren­ton Rac­ing started Chris in the 2003 sea­son as a young 16 year old on the Yamaha Ban­shee fit­ted out with Elka com­pres­sion remote reser­voir shocks, mov­ing into the big league a year later on the YFZ450, rac­ing the Pres­ti­gious WA state Cham­pi­onship series & win­ning the #1 plate, he chose to run the Elka Com­pres­sion and rebound with Pre-load shocks upping the ante for all racers.

Chris Bren­ton was hand selected by The Honda Shop as the rider to bring Honda Aus­tralia a National title, part­ner­ing the Honda 450R, Phil Tom­lin Rac­ing Prod­ucts with Elka Elite Quad Rated Shocks proved to be a win­ning for­mula for Honda and Bren­ton, who cruised through the 2005 & 2006 Nation­als leav­ing every­one in his wake. Back to back National Titles!

2007 would be marked on Brenton’s cal­en­dar as the year, “what doesnt break you will only make you stronger!” recov­er­ing from a series of crip­pling injuries, Chris started the sea­son lit­er­ally on the back foot, his tenac­ity was seen by all, and a new appre­ci­a­tion of just how spe­cial this young rider was. Now only 20 years of age and encour­aged by Bren­ton Rac­ing, on board the Honda 450ER with Phil Tom­lin Rac­ing Prod­ucts and Elka Elite shocks the young­ster pushed him­self to another WA State Title in the hard­est fought Pro Quad series in the Nation.

The National title would elude Bren­ton in 2007 as a freak bro­ken axle and a DNF in the first race, gut wrench­ingly sore his 3rd title hopes diminish.

Bren­ton, Honda, Phil Tom­lin Rac­ing & Elka a force in Quad Motocross look for­ward to the 2008 sea­son of Motocross. “Team­ing up the Elka Fac­tory shocks with the sys­tem 3 steer­ing damp­ner will fine tune the Honda for Rac­ing, “I’m look­ing for­ward to the 2008 with quite a few Goals I’d like to achieve. Besides the Pro­fes­sional atmos­phere of Quad Motocross, coach­ing up and com­ing Junior quad rid­ers has become an enjoy­ment, know­ing I can pass on my knowl­edge not only in race tech­nique but Bike, fine tun­ing and Elka Shock set-up to get the juniors rid­ing at their best”.

Chris Bren­ton will con­test State and National events across the coun­try in 2008, which promises to be one of the best yet.

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Brent Spooner #08 from Lake Elsi­nore, CA won the SIDE X SIDE (UTV) SGP on Elka Sus­pen­sion while #5 Levi Marano from Hemet, CA fin­ished in sec­ond place in the ATV Pro class.

Pic­tures — Court­sey of Mike @ Throttlejunkie.com

We got some good news from the rid­ers on Team Polaris France report­ing on their par­tic­i­pa­tion at the 10th Edi­tion of the Enduro of Vas­sivière in France. Reputed as the hard­est event in Europe, this gru­el­ing race brought 260 rid­ers to face many obsta­cles such as water cross­ings, mud and 8 hous of rid­ing spread across 2 days. As a proof of that, only 86 rid­ers were able to get to the fin­ish line.

Team Polaris France rid­ers go amaz­ing results this year:

Jean-Hugues Adam won the event
Thierry Chevrot remained in the lead for most of the race, fin­ish­ing in 4th posi­tion
Ade­line Mar­tin won the women’s category

Thierry com­mented: «Thanks to Polaris, Elka and our other spon­sors that allowed me to par­tic­i­pate in that event. My Out­law 525 S was par­tic­u­larly well suited for that type of tech­ni­cal course. I had no mechan­i­cal fail­ures, per­for­mant equip­ment and every­thing went per­fect dur­ing the race. From the podium, all I could see was shadows!»

All those rid­ers were rid­ing Elka Sus­pen­sion, the choice of champions!