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250 B: l Rictde Horton (lC&w); 2. o.vld Price (1-100); 3. Paige
HUUw (Yam); 4. ThOINlI WilliaD'\l (Kaw); 5. Bobby Und...y
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Neese rocks Oevil's
Ridge Motocross
By Benjamin Williams
SANFORD, NC, MAY 16
Team Green's Jim Neese was definitely a happy
camper after taking home first-place honors in
both the 125 and 250cc A classes at round six of
the U1traseries at Devil's Ridge MX.
Neese had little trouble in the 125cc class as
he led both motos start to fInish. The 250cc class
however was another story. In the first 250cc A
moto Neese had to work his way up from a bad
start. He came around for the first lap in fifth
place after having already dealt with a few of
the slower riders, and passed Alan Andreu at
the finish line jump. Neese then went on to work
on Bobby Stovall, who headed him off for about
half a lap until they got into the back straight,
where Neese just opened it and passed Stovall
in the air over the second jump. Neese then set
Bunce battles to LACR MX win
By Greg Robertson
PALMDALE, CA. MAY 21
Answer Products/Tru Tec-backed Dusty Bunce
split moto wins with Christopher Tocco in a pair
of hard-fought motos to earn the overall honors
in the Mini Beginner clasa under the lights at the
California Racing Oub's Friday night MX, held
at Los Angeles County Raceway.
George LaMonte was the fastest rider
through turn one, followed by Bunce, Tocco and
Ryan Orr. As the ride.rs completed the first lap,
Bunce took over and enjoyed a slight lead over
LaMonte and Tocco. The battle between the
three riders waged throughout the entire moto,
with Bunce taking the win just a few inches
ahead of laMonte. Tocco was dose enough to
peel the stickers off LaMonte's rear lender in
third.
Tocco powe.red to the second moto holeshot
with Bunce and LaMonte hot on his heels. The
three riders picked up where they left off in
moto one and began to argue over the lead.
Tocco took over at the mid-way point and established a three-second lead over Bunce and
LaMonte. The running order stayed the same to
the finish with Tocco scoring the win over Bunce
Danis Gamer (49) and Josh Jenkins (10) I'OO)ited around Los Angeles County Raceway.
and LaMonte. Bunce's 1-2 finishes were good
enough to secure the overall win.
Daniel Cleveland turned a first-moto
holeshot into a close win over Steve CorteviJle in
the Junior Vet Novice clasa. Being almost identical in shee.r speed, Corteville 8pent the entire
race camped out on Oeveland's rear fender. It
came down to the wire, with Oeveland scoring
the win only a few feet ahead of Corteville.
Corteville grabbed the holeshot in the allimportant second moto and that was all she
wrote. Oeveland dogged Corteville but couldn't
find that little edge needed to make the pass. But
at the same time, Corteville couldn't pull away.
Corteville's 2-1 edged Oeveland's 1-2 for the
overall, while C.T. Watanabe finished third in
both motos for third overall.
Simi Valley Kawasaki-sponsored Mike
Crosby gubbed a pair of holeshots in the 125cc
Novice clasa and ran away with two easy wins.
The battle for second was intense, as Karl Huey,
Darris Gamer and Josh Jenkins banged bars.
Huey proved to be faster than the rest, and finished second overall.
Results
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P /W A:. 1. Smtt Howe (Yam); 2. Anthony 8ubIlcoYI (Yam).
P/W MOO: \. Brad Howe (Yan).
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Donny a.uosJIo (Iion~" Mlke c..hom (Yom); S. ...... """ (lion).
>SO NCYV, I. ...... GoIIqoo (HoN); 2. J..... _'" (Yom); 3.
Bob Wood (Kow);" John o..n (Suz); 5. - " HoIl (Suz).
>SO INT; 1. Sa>tt MumIonl (Yam~
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x.np Cou",,", (Suz);" JooI ..... (Suz).
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Mark Horton (Yam); 4. Tom Webb (Hon); 5. Gene Dic.kinaon
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Hoenshell, Benton score at
Sand Hill Cross Country
By Mark Childre
GHOlSON, TX, MAY 16
Arlington Suzuki/MSR/Scott-backed Clay
Hoenshell dominated the Pro class with a start
to finish performance at the central Texas track
just north of Waco. In the Expert ranks, 15 seconds of adjusted time separated the top two
with Yamaha-mounted Gary Benton taking the
overall honors from Rogers Yamaha-backed
Mike Abbott.
The race was run in the sandy bottomland
just 15 miles down the Brazos River from Lake
Whitney Cycle Park. The sand fields earned the
track the name "Sand Hill" and if it had rained
in the last half hour, the conditions would have
been ideal. That was not the case for this seventh
round of the IS-round Texas Cross Country
Series. Since the last race, all the rain had ceased
and the temperature had risen at least fifteen
degrees. This played a very important roD in the
race as the dust was impenetrable in places and
the heat came as quite a shock to many of the
329 entrants.
The course was probably the fastest and least
technical thus far in the series. Immediately after
the start, the course ran back and fourth across
an unplanted peanut field six times. Short, wide
woods sections broke up the straightaways. The
dustiest section of the tuck was next, with three
straightaways through powder sand with the
consistency of taJcum. "Keep it pinned and hope
no one goes down in front" was the motto of the
day. A fast fun section through grassy fields followed. This section was entertaining since riders
weren't going straight in drag uce fashion and
the ground wasn't completely flat. After a couple of additional trips across the open peanut
field, riders were introduced to the most technical section of the track which featured a rutted
uphiu charge with several lines to choose from
and some tighter woods in the ravines to test
one's ability to execute a turn.
As he does so weD, Hoenshell was able to
steal another holeshot from the thirteen rider
Pro class field, leaving Dallas Honda backed
Steve Mack and Dunlop/Answer/ Silkolene
sponsored Steve Cardwell to suck dust across
the first long straightaway.
'1 got to the other side of the field and Dean
(Lane) was nowhere in sight, just Mack and
some of the others'" said Hoenshell of his early
lead. KTM /MSR/DuraJube/Super B Fuels/
KTM of Ft. Worth-backed Lane had decided to
take a soil sample exiting the first tum. Lane was
determined to catch Hoenshell, passing both
Cardwell and Mack with one move in lap two.
Lane was moving up on the leader and pulled to
within 20 seconds on lap two. That's when
things went south.
.
"[ was about three straightaways into the
third lap when something just didn't feel right.
like a flat tire or maybe a bad axle from the earlier crash," said Lane.
As it turns out, the bolt holding one of the
bar clamps had sheared through the clamp,
leaving the bike somewhat uncontrollable. Lane
lost about 12 minutes in the pits insta1ling the
stock hardware, pu1ling back into the uce just
ahead of HoensheU. Down nearly a full lap and
in de~d last, Lane was able to mount a charge
that would secure fifth place and salvage valuable series points.
Steve Mack's stock gearing was not enough
to hold the number two Pro clasa position with
Cardwell stirring a wide-ratio gearbox. The
South Texas Hare Scrambles champ was able to
motor by Mack in one of the many fast straights.
Other than the gearing differences, the two
appeared fairly well matched as Cardwell
secured the number two spot with a margin of
less than a minute. Local AA enduro champ,
Josh Whitaker was entered and stayed just out
of Lane's reach to wrap up fourth place.
The overall Expert winner came from the
250cc Expert ranks as Benton took the holeshot
in his class and never surrendered the lead, finishing just ahead of Abbott on adjusted time.
Abbott who started a full minute ahead of
Benton accomplished the same in the Open
Expert class, taking the holeshot and leading
wire-to-wire. Perhaps constant pressure from
Brent Shaw and Eric Hess pushed Benton just
enough to stay out of reach whereas Abbott
took his class by a full three minutes over second place Bert Reynolds. Third overall for the
day went to Vet ace Darryl Smith, who led
from early in the first lap after allowing this
reporte.r his one token holeshot of the year.
Smith was motoring away out front with
Andrew Cooksey pulling into the number two
spot. Cooksey was fast, but not fast enough
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