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Charlie Flippen (41 CI edges Mic Elsberry (1641. Jeff Fine (777) and the rest of the 250cc Intermediate class into the first turn. Ed Ve rhelst (891 leads Vet Intermediate riders Dave Simmons (2581 . Randy Skinner (3 8 3 1and Marshall Marion int o a turn. AMA Amateur Supercross Championship Series: Round 2 . . Huffman, Ulven best in San ·Diego By Tony Alessi SAN DIEGO, CA, FEB. I I Fourteen-year-old H on da rider Ryan Huffman just wasn't satisfied with his second .place finish last week atthe Houston, T exas, Amateur Supercross, so he drove to San Diego, California, with win ning in mind. Huffman did . h h . h k Just t a t, a m me n n ~ t e pa c of 125cc In terrn ed ia tes fo 22 seco nd in the first rnoto and motorin g past th e leaders in the seco nd moto to tak e th e overa ll win . Ka wa- saki support rid er Da n Ulv en had to fend .off charges of a hun~ry . pack to wm the 250cc Int ermedia te class and take a well -earned second in th e' I25ccIntermediate beh ind H u ffman. Bobby H u bba rd showed hi s su pe rcross skills by do min ati n g both motos of th e 125cc Novice class and finishing a strong seco nd in the 250cc Novi ce division. GFI Ra cing promoted the even t but was governed and supervised by the Mick ey Thompson Entertainment Group, promoters of the Camel Su pe rcross Series event held th e previous night. GFI ra ce promoter Linda Breeker said "T here were a few riders comp laining about th e tra ck being too easy, but our goal wa s to design a track that was safe a nd fun to ride, and no one complained the y didn't have fun ." Ka wasaki/Race T ech-sp onsored Ulven led th e way in th e first I25cc Intermediate moto. Charlie Love and Sean Pagel followed closel y on th e fir st lap, while cha rging hard from back in th e back wa s Huffman. Huffman wa s flying further th an a nyone off th e jumps and cut hi s wa y through the p ack to th e front runners . Huffman fir st power ed passed J eff Brownlee, th en closed on the Barnett-Pagel battle for second. Huffman backed off a nd watched th e two Suzuki rider s battle it out, hoping they would take each other o ut. As th e final la p ap proached , Huffman becam e impati ent with the du el a nd jumped by Pa gel th en cu t in side Barnett. On the last half of th e last lap Huffman reeledin second p la ce C har lie L o ve, a n d ra il ed arou nd a n o u tside berm to tak e seco nd. Ul ven styled to th e win followed by H uffman , Love a nd Pagel. Ulven and Huffman reach ed the first turn side by side in moto two. Ulven reac hed a double jump first, but Hu ffman had th e faster ou tside lin e a nd flew past in the ai r. T ha t left H uffman o n the o utside fo r the next tu rn, a nd Ulven went 10 the inside a nd executed a bloc k pass. Huffman flogged Ulven on th e first la p before he found a n openi ng a nd sq ui rted by for th e lead. Huffman powered a way from U lven a nd went o n to wi n by five seconds. U lven fini shed second followed by Barnett, while Pagel got a bad start a nd worked up to fourth aft er passi ng Je ff Bro wnl ee o n th e last la p. Kevin Geyer led th e start of the first 250cc Interm ediat e moto a nd co n tro lled most o f th e race until the final laps. Ulven had wor ked ' u p from a 10th p lace start to seco nd in five la ps, and th e remain ing two laps were a tight battle between Geyer a nd Ulven . Geyer blocked Ulven's pass a ttem pts all th e wa y LO th e chec kers a nd beat Ulv en. Jeff Moore and Mic Elsdberry rounded out the top four. In th e second moto Ulven holeshot a nd Geyer started 10th. Ulven styled out front whil e G eyer battled through th e pa ck. It took Ge yer most of th e race to get to fifth and a t that point he encou ntered a fierce battle between J ack Willis and Charlie Flippin. Geyer clo sed , but couldn't mak e a pass. Ulven 's win was undisputed , Br yan Ri chardson held second; Derick Willis decided .the battle for third, Flippin settl ed for fourth a nd Geyer finished fifth. Mor e than 75 125cc No vices were entered in th e event and had to be broken into three div isions. In the first divi sion action, Bobb y Hubbard , sp o n so re d by Saddleback Suzuki, led th e pack into th e fir st \ turn. T im Staufenbeil and Brian T eets ran seco nd and third while Shaun Mcintosh was fourth. Travis Fleming worked traffi c and moved to the front. Fleming used an outside berm to pa ss Mcintosh, whi le Fleming clo sed down o n Steaufenbeil , but . cou ldn 't find a way a round. Hubbard cru ised to victory foll owed by T eets , Steaufenbeil a nd Fleming. Hubbard was th e hol esh orartist agai n, in moto two follow ed by ' Stea u fen beil, Fleming a nd McIntosh, wh ile T eets sta rted 12th. T eets drilled hi s wa y to six th by the fifth lap as Hubbard styled ou t front unch allenged: Fleming closed on Stea fen bei l, but backed o ff in a yello w-flag area wh ere Steaufe n beil refu sh ed to ac knowledge the flag. On th e fina l lap T eets mov ed to fifth a nd closed o n McIntosh in fou rt h . At th e checke rs, it was Hubbard w it h two p erf ect moto fi nis hes . S teaufe nb ei l fin is h ed second but was disq ua li fied for no t . obeying the yellow flag . Seco nd went to Fl em in g , Tee ts to ok a we lldeserved thi rd, McI ntosh finished fourth and 80cc Intermed ia te winner J ack Cox ro unded out the top five. Fourteen -yea r-old Danny Seyler an ni hi la ted the 250cc Novice class with bi g leads in both motos. An interesti ng ba ttle too k p lace between Chuck Bagwell a nd Steve Mitchell in th e fir st moto . Bag well was comfort able in seco nd when o ut of nowh ere ca me a raging Mit ch ell , who had already passed six o ther riders. Mitch ell blitzed by Bagwell on th e fourth lap , but Bagwell repassed h im . On the sixth lap both riders ca me side by side into th e rockers. Bagwell shu t off but Mitch ell didn 't