Jack Bierbower
PR Addict
Last one of the year!
Vintage bike show and shine.
Chili Cook Off.
Good times to be had.
If you haven’t been to a MERP GP - this is the GP for you.
2023 MERP Grand-Prix Series
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Last one of the year!
Vintage bike show and shine.
Chili Cook Off.
Good times to be had.
If you haven’t been to a MERP GP - this is the GP for you.
TwentyThreeMX
PR Founding Father
looking forward to it!
Romanyak256
PR Addict
I’m going to make my chili and bring up a pot. Smoked brisket is the key ingredient in it. Also bringing out the cr500af for this last event. RIP to my undefeated holes hit streak.
Jack Bierbower
PR Addict
Jack Bierbower
PR Addict
Chili Cook Off could be the most anticipated #1 plate of the season.
I will be entering.
White Chicken Chili. Let’s go.
Jack Bierbower
PR Addict
Open Pro racing has been awesome all year.
One last time!
Jack Bierbower
PR Addict
I say it every year but if you’re a moto guy that is even a little curious as to what GP’s are all about…this is the GP for you.
No membership fee’s show up an hour before your moto and throw down.
Track leans more moto than any of our other tracks and it always makes for a great GP.
End of the season! Have some fun mix up your program a little.
I’ll be there running around in a no fear jersey eating chili and talking about old bikes. Easy to find.
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Romanyak256
PR Addict
I’ll be there with the cr500af.
Jack Bierbower
PR Addict
2023 Malvern GP Review
Presented by SRS Suspension and Trackside Support
Sunday, October 15th
Waynesburg, Ohio
Words: Bierbower
Photo: Fraas
Our final race of the 2023 in the books AND capping off our second season. It’s hard to know even where to begin with this post. For as chaotic and stressful as running a race series is - The MERP team takes so much pride in what we do, we are harder on ourselves than anyone else could be and it’s simply because we want to present such a well oiled and fun racing series. We set the bar high for ourselves and we’re always looking to raise it.
Again, a million times - thank you to our racers, who at this point are friends and family. We finished off the season with a 360 entry day - after considerable rain the day before. You guys showed up and we tried like hell to give you all a fun track to go racing on. The Malvern MX crew crushed the prep for the hand Mother Nature dealt us.
Conditions today and I heard it from the guys that know - about as close to a pro national as you can get. Deep, muddy, loamy, ruts, gnarly, bumps, chuck holes and more. I think it’s safe to say today shaped up to be one of most physically demanding courses yet. Man vs. machine vs. the course. When tracks like todays rear their heads - excellent racing comes with it. The technical bike skills shine and raw speed can take a back seat. Trading mistakes and position, navigating the technical deep ruts and constantly changing traction. Today was a challenging course - and that’s one of the reasons we race motorcycles - because they’re tough.
Thad Duvall on comeback from a broken back pulled in the big bread in Open Pro Sport - not without challenge as Trevor Maley and Zach Peters gave the Coastal GasGas rider all he wanted and more. 35 minutes of war? Indeed.
We handed out a lot of hardware today - season end hardware and normal race day hardware. We’d love to see some photos of your plaques in their forever home. The red plates are here to stay because they look so trick. Congratulations to all of our champions - those red plates are EARNED.
We had some amazing vintage iron scattered around the pits today - more to come on the winner of that. Maybe one of the hardest fought battles of the day was the Chili Cook Off! Spicy chili would take the top step. White chicken would land off the podium…..ouch.
Another excellent season of racing. Plain and simple. More learning and growing for us as race promoters. Every race this year went better than the last. We made more mistakes and learned more lessons. Most of all - we had a damn good time racing motorcycles.
Here’s to 2023 - year 2 in the books.
*Still working through some results - equipment malfunctions created an absolute nightmare for our scoring department - as soon as we have results complete we’ll get um on website and let you know.*
Presented by SRS Suspension and Trackside Support
Sunday, October 15th
Waynesburg, Ohio
Words: Bierbower
Photo: Fraas
Our final race of the 2023 in the books AND capping off our second season. It’s hard to know even where to begin with this post. For as chaotic and stressful as running a race series is - The MERP team takes so much pride in what we do, we are harder on ourselves than anyone else could be and it’s simply because we want to present such a well oiled and fun racing series. We set the bar high for ourselves and we’re always looking to raise it.
Again, a million times - thank you to our racers, who at this point are friends and family. We finished off the season with a 360 entry day - after considerable rain the day before. You guys showed up and we tried like hell to give you all a fun track to go racing on. The Malvern MX crew crushed the prep for the hand Mother Nature dealt us.
Conditions today and I heard it from the guys that know - about as close to a pro national as you can get. Deep, muddy, loamy, ruts, gnarly, bumps, chuck holes and more. I think it’s safe to say today shaped up to be one of most physically demanding courses yet. Man vs. machine vs. the course. When tracks like todays rear their heads - excellent racing comes with it. The technical bike skills shine and raw speed can take a back seat. Trading mistakes and position, navigating the technical deep ruts and constantly changing traction. Today was a challenging course - and that’s one of the reasons we race motorcycles - because they’re tough.
Thad Duvall on comeback from a broken back pulled in the big bread in Open Pro Sport - not without challenge as Trevor Maley and Zach Peters gave the Coastal GasGas rider all he wanted and more. 35 minutes of war? Indeed.
We handed out a lot of hardware today - season end hardware and normal race day hardware. We’d love to see some photos of your plaques in their forever home. The red plates are here to stay because they look so trick. Congratulations to all of our champions - those red plates are EARNED.
We had some amazing vintage iron scattered around the pits today - more to come on the winner of that. Maybe one of the hardest fought battles of the day was the Chili Cook Off! Spicy chili would take the top step. White chicken would land off the podium…..ouch.
Another excellent season of racing. Plain and simple. More learning and growing for us as race promoters. Every race this year went better than the last. We made more mistakes and learned more lessons. Most of all - we had a damn good time racing motorcycles.
Here’s to 2023 - year 2 in the books.
*Still working through some results - equipment malfunctions created an absolute nightmare for our scoring department - as soon as we have results complete we’ll get um on website and let you know.*
Jack Bierbower
PR Addict
TwentyThreeMX
PR Founding Father
damn near pulled off a miracle w/ the weather I'd say, or got super lucky or all of the above! Either way, congrats to everyone involved on a successful season. I had a lot of fun getting out of my comfort zone and challenging myself a bit in different ways. Don't love my results but it gives me something to top next year for sure.
