2018 NATC Motorcycle Trials Season

The 2018 NATC trials season was the 45th season. It consisted of ten trials events in three main classes: Pro, Expert and Womens Pro. It began on 21 April, with round one in New Mexico and ended with round ten in California on 2 September.

Season summary[]

Patrick Smage would claim his tenth NATC Trials Championship in 2018. ^[1]

Josh Roper would claim his first NATC Trials Championship Expert class title in 2018. ^[2]

2018 NATC trials season calendar[]

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Round	Date	Trial	Venue	Pro class	Expert class	Womens Pro
1	21 April	New Mexico	Roswell	1) Patrick Smage 2) Daniel Blanc-Gonnet 3) Alexander Niederer	1) Josh Roper 2) Alexander Myers 3) Micah Hertrich	1) Madeleine Hoover 2) Kylee Sweeten
2	22 April	New Mexico	Roswell	1) Patrick Smage 2) Alexander Niederer 3) Daniel Blanc-Gonnet	1) Alexander Myers 2) Josh Roper 3) Jerome Gregorowicz	1) Madeleine Hoover 2) Kylee Sweeten
3	28 April	Colorado	Texas Creek	1) Patrick Smage 2) Alexander Niederer 3) Daniel Blanc-Gonnet	1) Josh Roper 2) Alexander Myers 3) Micah Hertrich	1) Madeleine Hoover 2) Kylee Sweeten
4	29 April	Colorado	Texas Creek	1) Patrick Smage 2) Daniel Blanc-Gonnet 3) Alexander Niederer	1) Josh Roper 2) Alexander Myers 3) Micah Hertrich	1) Madeleine Hoover 2) Kylee Sweeten
5	9 June	Tennessee	Sequatchie	1) Patrick Smage 2) Alexander Niederer 3) Karl Davis Jr	1) Drew Fortner 2) Alexander Myers 3) Josh Roper	1) Madeleine Hoover
6	10 June	Tennessee	Sequatchie	1) Patrick Smage 2) Karl Davis Jr 3) Alexander Niederer	1) Alexander Myers 2) Josh Roper 3) Drew Fortner	1) Madeleine Hoover
7	16 June	Arkansas	Uniontown	1) Patrick Smage 2) Daniel Blanc-Gonnet 3) Karl Davis Jr	1) Josh Roper 2) Alexander Myers 3) Micah Hertrich	1) Madeleine Hoover
8	17 June	Arkansas	Uniontown	1) Patrick Smage 2) Karl Davis Jr 3) Daniel Blanc-Gonnet	1) Alexander Myers 2) Josh Roper 3) Jonathan English	1) Madeleine Hoover
9	1 September	California	Donner Pass	1) Patrick Smage 2) Alexander Niederer 3) Daniel Blanc-Gonnet	1) Alexander Myers 2) Josh Roper 3) Ty Cullins
10	2 September	California	Donner Pass	1) Patrick Smage 2) Daniel Blanc-Gonnet 3) Alexander Niederer	1) Josh Roper 2) Micah Hertrich 3) Alexander Myers

Scoring system[]

Points were awarded to the top twenty finishers in each class. All ten rounds counted for the Pro class, and the best of nine in Expert and Women's Pro classes were counted.

NATC Pro final standings[]

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Pos Rider Machine NM NM CO CO TN TN AR AR CA CA Pts notes 1 Patrick Smage Sherco 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 300 2 Daniel Blanc-Gonnet Gas Gas 2 3 3 2 4 4 2 3 3 2 220 winner of 2018 Ute Cup (RMTA)[5] 3 Alexander Niederer Gas Gas 3 2 2 3 2 3 - - 2 3 184 4 Samuel Fastle Sherco 4 4 4 4 5 5 4 4 4 4 176 5 Andreas Niederer Beta 6 5 6 5 6 6 5 5 5 5 156 6 Karl Davis Jr Scorpa - - - - 3 2 3 2 - - 92 7 Quinn Wentzel Scorpa 5 6 5 6 - - - - - - 62 NATC Expert final standings[] Pos Rider Machine NM NM CO CO TN TN AR AR CA CA Pts notes 1 Josh Roper Sherco 1 2 1 1 3 2 1 2 2 1 250 (271) 2 Alexander Myers Scorpa 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 3 245 (266) 2017 Expert Champion 3 Micah Hertrich Gas Gas 3 4 3 3 4 5 3 4 4 2 181 (197) 4 Jerome Gregorowicz Beta 4 3 4 4 5 4 4 5 - - 143 5 Nigel Parker Sherco 7 5 7 7 8 7 7 7 - - 113 6 Brian Wojnarowski Sherco 5 7 8 8 7 8 6 6 - - 113 7 Sam Meyerpeter Sherco 6 6 6 6 - - - - 7 7 88 8 Jonathan English Beta - - - - 6 6 5 3 - - 67 9 Drew Fortner Beta - - - - 1 3 - - - - 51 10 Ty Cullins - - - - - - - - 3 4 39 11 Keith Sweeten - - - - - - - - 5 5 32 12 Miles Morgan Scorpa - - 5 5 - - - - - - 32 13 Tracon Kirk - - - - - - - - 6 6 30 14 Alan Shirley Gas Gas - - - - 9 9 - - - - 24 NATC Women's Pro final standings[] Pos Rider Machine NM NM CO CO TN TN AR AR CA CA Pts Notes 1 Madeleine Hoover Gas Gas 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - - 240 2 Kylee Sweeten Sherco 2 2 2 2 - - - - - - 100 References[] ^ "smage takes tenth". dirtrider.com. Retrieved 5 August 2020. ^ "top 5 riders". mototrials.com. Retrieved 5 August 2020. ^ "natc 2018 schedule". mototrials.com. Retrieved 5 August 2020. ^ "natc 2018 standings". trialonline.org. Retrieved 5 August 2020. ^ "ute cup winners". rockymountaintrial.org. Retrieved 6 September 2020.