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AMA Grand Championship #1 Plates Up for Grabs at 2025 Red Bull TKO. Sign up before July 1 to get the early bird entry fee

AMA Grand Championship #1 Plates will be up for grabs at the 2025 Red Bull Tennessee Knockout (TKO). In addition to serving as the tenth and final round of the AMA US Hard Enduro Premier Championship, TKO will again serve as the AMA Grand Championship for Extreme Off-Road. Sixteen of the nineteen racing classes are eligible for AMA Grand Championship awards.

TKO will again serve as the AMA Grand Championship for Extreme Off-Road. Sixteen of the nineteen racing classes are eligible for AMA Grand Championship awards. Photography Future7Media.
  • Pro
  • Pro Women
  • A Amateur
  • A Vet 30+
  • A Senior 40+
  • A Super Senior 50+
  • 4 Stroke Sportsman
  • Masters 60+
  • B Amateur
  • B Vet 30+
  • B Senior 40+
  • B Super Senior 50+
  • C Amateur * Not a Grand Championship class
  • C Vet 30+ * Not a Grand Championship class
  • C Senior 40+ * Not a Grand Championship class
  • Youth 12-15
  • Women Amateur
  • eMoto Expert
  • eMoto Amateur

The 2025 TKO will take place from Friday, August 8 to Sunday, August 10, 2025, here at the Trials Training Center in Sequatchie, Tennessee.

The 2025 TKO will again be limited to 500 participants, which has sold out in the past. Enter before July 1st for the Early Bird entry fee. Riders can enter here.

The world’s top Hard Enduro racers have competed in the Red Bull Tennessee Knockout in the past and that is expected to continue in 2025. Germany’s Mani Lettenbichler won the 2024 TKO over Canada’s Trystan Hart and South Africa’s Wade Young. The TKO management team is working on confirming more of the top international riders’ participation for 2025.

Mani Lettenbichler (center) celebrates his 2024 TKO win with Trystan Hart (left) and Wade Young. Photography Future7Media

The multi-round racing format attracts up to 500 amateur entries and the best pro riders. The three days of racing will start on Friday with the amateur Hot Laps to set the Saturday starting positions. Saturday will include two rounds of amateur racing that will allow up to thirty riders to earn the opportunity to race in the Sunday pro competition. The pro riders will kick off their weekend with a Hot Lap on Saturday afternoon. Sunday will include three rounds of pro class racing that concludes with a multi-lap main event that is spectacular for the fans.

TKO will again include the ECR eMoto championship races with both amateur and expert classes for electric motorcycles and electric motorcycle demo rides sponsored by Surron to add to the fun weekend for racers and spectators.

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Ready to test your limits? Sign up for one of eighteen amateur classes for the 15th Annual Red Bull TKO on August 8-10, 2025

Don’t miss the 15th Annual Red Bull Tennessee Knockout Extreme Enduro on August 8-10, 2025. Do you have what it takes?

Sign up for one of eighteen amateur classes or come watch the madness in person.

The World’s Best Hard Enduro Racers will take on the same course in a three-day, multi-round Knock Out race format.

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2025 Red Bull Tennessee Knockout Entries Open

Racer entries are open for the 2025 Red Bull Tennessee Knockout (TKO). The 2025 TKO will take place from Friday, August 8 to Sunday, August 10, 2025, at the Trials Training Center in Sequatchie, Tennessee. The fifteenth annual TKO will again be part of the AMA US Hard Enduro Championship, serving as tenth and final round of the premier championship and round five of the East Hard Enduro Championship.

Entries are now open for the 2025 Red Bull Tennessee Knockout. Riders are encouraged to enter early to lock in one of the 500 spots that have sold out in the past. Photography Christian Pondella Red Bull Content Pool.

The world’s top Hard Enduro racers have competed in the Red Bull Tennessee Knockout in the past and that is expected to continue in 2025. Germany’s Mani Lettenbichler won the 2024 TKO over Canada’s Trystan Hart and South Africa’s Wade Young. The TKO management team is working on confirming several of the top international rider’s participation for 2025.

Mani Lettenbichler (center) celebrates his 2024 TKO win with Trystan Hart (left) and Wade Young. Photography Future7Media.

The 2025 TKO will again be limited to 500 participants, which has sold out in the past. Riders can enter here.

The multi-round racing format that attracts up to 500 amateur entries and the best pro riders will start on Friday with the amateur Hot Laps to set the Saturday starting positions. Saturday will include two rounds of amateur racing that will allow up to thirty riders to earn the opportunity to race in the Sunday pro competition. The pro riders will kick off their weekend with a Hot Lap on Saturday afternoon. Sunday will include three rounds of pro class racing that concludes with a multi-lap main event that is spectacular for the fans.

TKO will again include the ECR eMoto championship races for electric motorcycles (now with both eMoto Expert and eMoto Amateur classes) and the electric motorcycle demo rides sponsored by Surron to add to the fun weekend for racers and spectators.

Rider info

Amateur pre-qualification process updated for 2024 Red Bull Tennessee Knockout; Learn how racers pre-qualify for Saturday race two

The fourteenth annual Red Bull Tennessee Knockout will serve as the final round of the AMA US Hard Enduro Championship and the AMA Grand Championship for Extreme Enduro. The event is open to up to 500 amateur riders and will include three rounds of amateur class competition with some riders pre-qualifying for the championship deciding Saturday race two.

Hawaii’s Kamakana Waiwaiole-Kahalepuna, or Kana Boy, won the 2023 Red Bull Tennessee Knockout amateur class final on Saturday afternoon. He moved onto the Sunday competition and just missed making it to the twenty-rider main event. Kana has moved to the pro class so who will be the top amateur racer in 2024? Photography by Brandon Krause.

The TKO amateur racing format includes a Friday Hot-Lap and two races on Saturday. The morning race is a qualifier race to get into the championship deciding race two. All amateur class riders need to compete in the Hot-Lap to earn a starting position for either Saturday race one or Saturday race two for those that are already pre-qualified. Top amateur riders can earn a spot directly into the Saturday race two by meeting one of the following criteria:

  • Riders ranked in the top ten in the AMA US Hard Enduro championship points, excluding C class and Youth class (Premier, East and West) for the 2024 series leading into the TKO.
  • Riders that finished in the top 50 overall amateur at the 2022 or 2023 TKO Saturday race two. Riders that finished in the top three in class (excluding the C class) in the 2023 TKO Saturday race two will also be eligible to go directly to the 2024 TKO Saturday race two.
  • Riders that are not pre-qualified for race two that finish in the top 50 overall during the Friday amateur Hot-Lap will also be qualified directly for Saturday race 2.

The goal of the qualification process is to allow the top riders to earn their way directly into Saturday race two. Any riders that don’t prequalify will compete in the Saturday morning race where up to 200 riders that finish the course within the 2.5-hour time limit will also move forward to compete in the Saturday race two, which serves as the amateur class championship race.

The top 30 overall amateur finishers from the Saturday race two will also be invited to compete with the top Hard Enduro racers from round the world starting with a Saturday afternoon Hot-Lap and three round Sunday competition.

The list of amateur riders that have already pre-qualified for Saturday race two is here.

Amateur racers can read the complete supplemental rules and get the latest event schedule here.

The ECR eMoto (electric motorcycle) class will also be back for the third year with an AMA Grand Championship on the line. The eMoto class will share the course with the other classes but be scored separate from the gas-powered amateur classes. ECR eMoto Class rules can be found here.

The free electric motorcycle demo rides, sponsored by Surron, will be back again in 2024 and open to anybody that wants to give one of the bikes from multiple brands, including Surron and Electric Motion a test ride.

To kick off the weekend, the top sixteen pro riders will compete in a head-to-head prologue on a man-made straight rhythm inspired enduro course in downtown Nashville on Thursday, August 22nd. The 2024 Red Bull Tennessee Knockout will again be a three-day format with a Hot-Lap on Friday to set amateur racer starting positions followed by two rounds of amateur racing on Saturday. The pro riders will kick off their weekend with a Hot-Lap on Saturday afternoon and a three round Knock Out format on Sunday. The multiple rounds of racing and course layout provide a full weekend of exciting, spectator-friendly racing.

Riders can enter the 2024 Red Bull Tennessee Knockout here.

Announcements, Registration

Amateur registration is still open for the 2024 Red Bull Tennessee Knockout (TKO)

Racer entries remain open for the 2024 Red Bull Tennessee Knockout (TKO). The 2024 TKO will take place from Friday, August 23 to Sunday, August 25, 2024, at the Trials Training Center in Sequatchie, Tennessee.

Click HERE to register. (Note: If you are signing up via a smartphone, it will help if you close other tabs that are open in your website browser software.)

Registration, Rider info

Entries open for 2024 Red Bull Tennessee Knockout: Three days of racing – Friday, August 23 to Sunday August 25

Racer entries are open for the 2024 Red Bull Tennessee Knockout (TKO). The 2024 TKO will take place from Friday, August 23 to Sunday, August 25, 2024, at the Trials Training Center in Sequatchie, Tennessee.

The fourteenth annual TKO will again be part of the FIM Hard Enduro World Championship (HEWC) in 2024 and will also be part of the AMA US Hard Enduro Championship and serve as the AMA Grand Championship for Extreme Enduro. The top North American riders will take on the best international riders.

The multi-round racing format that attracts a maximum of 500 amateur entries and the best pro riders will start on Friday with the amateur Hot Laps to set the Saturday starting positions.

Saturday will include two rounds of amateur racing that will allow up to thirty riders to earn the opportunity to race in the pro class racing that will start on Saturday afternoon with a Hot Lap on the more difficult pro short course.

Entries are open for the 2024 TKO for up to 500 amateur riders. Mani Lettenbichler, the 2023 FIM Hard Enduro Champion, will be back looking to earn his second TKO win. Photo: Red Bull Content Pool, Christian Pondella

Sunday will include three rounds of pro-class racing that concludes with a multi-lap main event that is spectacular for the fans.

The TKO will again include the ECR eMoto championship races for electric motorcycles and electric motorcycle demo rides to add to the fun weekend for racers and spectators.

The top amateur riders will be eligible to qualify directly to the Saturday amateur race two if they finished in the top 50 in the amateur racing at the 2023 TKO or finish in the top 10 in the East, West or Premier AMA US Hard Enduro championships in their respective classes* (Amateur C, Youth and Women’s Amateur class riders will race in Saturday race 1).

The top pro riders will be invited directly to the pro class Hot Lap (new for 2024, pro riders can enter the pro class without an invite).

Amateur Registration

Riders can enter the 2024 Red Bull Tennessee Knockout here.

Announcements, Registration

2023 Red Bull Tennessee Knockout date confirmed for August 18-20, 2023. Amateur entries open January 18, 2023

The thirteenth annual Red Bull Tennessee Knockout (TKO) is confirmed for August 18-20, 2023, at the Trials Training Center. It will again serve as the AMA Grand Championship for Extreme Off-Road and is expected to attract the top North American and International Hard Enduro racers.

Amateur riders registration

Entries will open on Wednesday, January 18th at 6:00 PM Central Time. The entry fee will be $100 (this includes a transponder rental fee) for participants that enter before March 31, 2023. The entry fee will increase to $120 after March 31.

Amateur riders can enter at Trackside Registration starting at 6:00 PM Central Time on January 18, 2023:

A separate link will be sent directly to the pre-qualified Amateur and Pro riders.

Racing format

The racing format will be like past years with a Prologue on Friday to set amateur racer starting positions followed by two rounds of amateur racing on Saturday and a multi round Sunday competition for the pro riders, which will include the top thirty finishers from Saturday. The ECR eMoto electric motorcycle class that was a huge success in 2022 will be back and a few other exiting ideas are being developed.

TKO will again pre-qualify the top riders to the multi round Sunday competition. This will include top riders from major US and international off-road racing series and events. Any rider that finished in the top 35 on Sunday at the 2022 TKO, as well as riders that have qualified for a previous TKO Sunday main event, will be qualified directly into the 2023 TKO Sunday program.

The Saturday program will include two rounds of racing and will serve as the AMA Extreme Off-Road Grand Championship for Amateur riders. The overall Amateur winner will be awarded the AMA Extreme Off-Road Grand Championship number one plate.

Classes will be available for A, B, C, Women Pro, Women Amateur, 45+, Youth and eMoto. The top 50 amateur finishers from the 2022 TKO will earn a spot directly into Saturday round two. Amateur riders will also be able to earn spots directly into round two via several AMA Hard Enduro regional championship events.

Riders that do not qualify via one of the AMA regional events can sign up for one of 500 open spots that will compete in a morning qualifying race that can earn a spot in the championship final on Saturday. The top 30 finishers from Saturday will be invited to Sunday’s expert program.

Registration, Rider info

Amateur Class registration for the 2022 TKO is now live – again!

Register for and pay to race at the 2022 TKO:

Click here for the 2022 TKO Amateur Class Registration

(And our apologies again for yesterday’s technical problems.)