Emmett Minge, 14, spent Wheel Life Rally running within seconds of Joe Greska across every track, and in the Enduro time trial the Teen Boys winner actually posted a faster time than Greska's own Mens Pro EUC run. Greska still swept every Mens Pro EUC race on the day, time trials and mass-start alike (Enduro 04:02.600, Off-Road 04:10.700), and was named Mens Pro EUC mass-start grand champion. Daniel Della-Badia won both Mens Amateur EUC races.
Wheel Life Rally is one of USA EUC's East Coast stops on the 2026 season circuit, run at The Wick 338 in Southwick, Massachusetts and organized by Erwin Green (ThaBlackBCobra). Racing split into two formats across four EUC divisions (Mens Pro EUC, Mens Amateur EUC, Mens Novice EUC, and Teen Boys): a morning Off-Road session where each rider ran two attempts on the Woods, Flat, and Obstacle tracks, with their three best times combined into an overall Off-Road time; and an afternoon Enduro, a mass-start race combining all three tracks that closed out the day.
Who Won Mens Pro EUC at Wheel Life Rally?
Joe Greska navigating the Woods Track during the Pro Mens race. Photo credit Seth Johnson (USA EUC).
Joe Greska won both the Enduro and Off-Road Mens Pro EUC races at Wheel Life Rally, going 04:02.600 and 04:10.700. Lawrence Njume finished second in both formats, and Declan Kurant took third in both.
Enduro, Mens Pro EUC:
Pos | Rider | Time | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | 04:02.600 | 0.00 | |
2 | 04:22.900 | 83.68 | |
3 | 04:31.200 | 117.89 |
Off-Road, Mens Pro EUC:
Pos | Rider | Time | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | 04:10.700 | 0.00 | |
2 | 04:22.090 | 45.43 | |
3 | 05:05.300 | 217.79 |
"My biggest competition out there today was a 14 year old boy named Emmett," Greska said. "We're talking about a kid who can jump a 55 foot gap and I can do like 45, maybe 50."
Greska was talking about Teen Boys winner Emmett Minge, whose Enduro time of 04:02.000 would have placed him ahead of Greska's own Pro Enduro run.
Who Won Teen Boys at Wheel Life Rally?
Emmett Minge leading the pack of the Woods Track mass start, which he put in the second fastest time of the day. Photo credit Seth Johnson (USA EUC).
Emmett Minge, 14, of Bristol, Tennessee, was the lone Teen Boys entrant at Wheel Life Rally, winning the division outright on every track he raced.
Enduro, Teen Boys:
Pos | Rider | Time | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | 04:02.000 | 0.00 |
Minge and Greska traded the lead throughout the day. "It's really fun racing," Minge said of the back and forth. He and his father drove from Tennessee to reach the East Coast event:
The trip was about 15 hours by car and there's a lot of driving, but we made it through it.
Minge also raced through an equipment problem.
My back pad, my back power pad, it kept coming loose from the Velcro, and it just kept coming loose. I just had to land it back together and race again.
Mens Amateur and Novice EUC Results
Daniel Della-Badia at the bottom of the jump on the Woods Track. Photo credit Seth Johnson (USA EUC).
Daniel Della-Badia won both Mens Amateur EUC races. In Mens Novice EUC, Jason Mashia won the Off-Road race and Charles Dixon was the sole finisher in Enduro.
Enduro, Mens Amateur EUC:
Pos | Rider | Time | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | 04:36.500 | 0.00 | |
2 | 05:44.470 | 245.82 | |
3 | 05:52.550 | 275.05 |
Enduro, Mens Novice EUC:
Pos | Rider | Time | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | 06:41.500 | 0.00 |
Off-Road, Mens Amateur EUC:
Pos | Rider | Time | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | 04:42.010 | 0.00 | |
2 | 04:47.020 | 17.77 | |
3 | 05:58.000 | 269.46 | |
4 | 06:25.090 | 365.52 |
Off-Road, Mens Novice EUC:
Pos | Rider | Time | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | 05:22.000 | 0.00 | |
2 | 06:28.000 | 204.97 | |
3 | 06:37.010 | 232.95 | |
4 | 06:46.030 | 260.96 |
How Did the Flat, Woods, and Obstacle Track Races Work?
Emmett Minge leading the pack of the Enduro mass start, in which he put down the fastest time of the day. Photo credit Seth Johnson (USA EUC).
Beyond the Off-Road best-times format above, the afternoon also ran mass-start races on the Flat and Woods tracks, plus class-based heats on Obstacle since that track only fit four to five riders at once. Unlike Off-Road, riders raced head to head, and results by finishing position, not clock time, decided each class. Teen Boys and Mens Pro EUC are scored as separate classes; Emmett Minge's Teen Boys results are shown alongside each Pro table below to reflect how closely he ran with the Pro field, not as a shared standing.
Emmett Minge and Cooler Joe Greska ran within seconds of each other all day across every track. Even racing in separate classes, their finishing order swapped from track to track. Erwin Green, organizer, described it as a season-long dynamic:
Cooler Joe, he races with reckless abandon, and Emmett Minge is fourteen and he too races with reckless abandon.
Greska won every Mens Pro EUC mass-start track (Flat, Woods, and Obstacle), with Njume second on all three. Minge, racing Teen Boys, was the only rider who ran with him: his times would have placed 1st on Flat, 2nd on Woods, and 3rd on Obstacle had he been scored against the Pro field directly. After points were totaled across all four mass-start tracks, Greska was named the Mens Pro EUC mass-start grand champion, avenging a missed pylon that had cost him the same title the year before.
Flat Track:
Class | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
|---|---|---|---|
Novice | |||
Amateur | |||
Pro | N/A | ||
Teen Boys | N/A | N/A |
Run against the Pro field directly, Minge's Flat Track finish would have placed 1st overall, ahead of Greska.
Woods Track:
Class | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
|---|---|---|---|
Novice | jason mashia | ||
Amateur | |||
Pro | N/A | ||
Teen Boys | N/A | N/A |
Run against the Pro field directly, Minge's Woods Track finish would have placed 2nd overall, behind Greska.
Obstacle Track:
Class | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
|---|---|---|---|
Novice | Jason Mashia | ||
Amateur | |||
Pro | N/A | ||
Teen Boys | N/A | N/A |
Run against the Pro field directly, Minge's Obstacle Track finish would have placed 3rd overall.
The mass-start Enduro closing out the day was scored the same way: Joe Greska won Mens Pro EUC, and Emmett Minge won Teen Boys, in the same race. Read out on a post-event livestream, Minge's raw finishing position in that race was ahead of Greska's, the same cross-class gap seen on Flat and Woods.
Mens Pro EUC mass-start grand champion: Joe Greska
Joe Greska keeping his tire on the ground for the drop on the Woods Track. Photo credit Seth Johnson (USA EUC).
Conditions varied enough across the four tracks that tire pressure became part of race strategy. Seth Johnson remarked
If you really wanted to dial in there, you would need to change your tire between the different tracks, because we had the asphalt, you know, a lot of the asphalt track, you wanna have like a higher tire pressure, and then you have that floaty sandy stuff, you wanna have a lower tire pressure.
A microburst mid-afternoon cut the awards presentation short; organizers handed out the grand championship trophies and two special awards in the rain before wrapping the ceremony.
Full results and points are available on the Wheel Life Rally event page. Read the event preview for background on the venue and format.
