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Cycle News 2013 Issue 12 Mar 26

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VOL. 50 ISSUE 12 MARCH 26, 2013 P75 THREE-PEAT Tyler Bowers gets it done the hard way BY DAVE DERINGER PHOTOGRAPHY BY KINNEY JONES Y ou'd think with 20 mainevent wins and 10 overall victories on the season that winning his third-straight Arenacross Championship would have been another stroll down easy street. Ha! It was anything The new Race to the Championship format had the top qualifiers' points reset, which meant Bowers' points lead was all but erased. He prevailed with three to spare. but for the 22-year-old from Danville, Kentucky. With Arenacross making drastic changes to its racing format for 2013, the series organizers got exactly what they wanted - a title fight to the bitter end, which pretty much came at Bowers' expense. Along with some other changes (random "briefcase" starts, head-to-head bracket racing, etc.), the most significant change was using the first six rounds of the series as sort of a "qualifier," then resetting the points for those who qualified, making the last four rounds of the series a sprint "Race to the Championship," much like how golf does it with its "FedEx-

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