The 54th Annual THOR Mini O’s brought the amateur motocross community together for more than a busy week of competition and camaraderie
WORDS: Griffin Cotter
PHOTOS: Cody Darr
Deep down in central Florida, nestled in the quarry fields of Alachua County, there is a wooden deck. It sits below a massive oak tree and between three single-wide trailers, rising maybe eight inches above the sand and measuring 900 square feet. For most of the year, this deck just sits there, catching all the Spanish moss from the oak’s branches above as it bakes in the Southeast sun. But for ten days every November, that lonely deck becomes the epicenter of the single largest amateur motocross race in the world. It is from this tiny platform, in the middle of Gatorback Cycle Park, that the massive THOR Mini O’s presented by Pro Circuit, the single biggest stand-alone event of all, are managed and directed. It is a dirt bike world unto itself.
The motos start early and run often
at the THOR Mini O’s, the oldest and
largest stand-alone amateur
motocross event in the world.
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