OFF-ROAD Best in the Desert: Final Round
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JANUARY 7-9
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(Above) Despite
finishing second
overall, Danny
Hamel nabbed
the Best in the .
Desert
Championship.
(Left) Stephen
Tichenor
finished 13th
overall and
scored the 12See
Pro class win .
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lapped riders, battle through dust and
pick new lines on the choppier-by-theminute trails. As the miles took their
toll, many of the racers were thanking
their lucky stars that a two-loop format
had replaced last year's three-loop
ordeal.
"1 was hammered," said Krause.
But for out-of-towners like Julian
Cerny from Calgary, Canada, and
National Enduro guru Dick Burleson
from Michigan, the ri de could have
gone on forever.
"It's too cold
in Canada. You
can't ride there
anymore because
of the weather,"
said Cerny. "1
w as itching to
ride. That's why
we came all the
way down here"
Burleson said
riding is out in
Michigan, too."
It's deer season
and in the State
of Michigan
there are 800,000
deer hunters,"
Burleson
explained. "It's illegal to ride and if
you did, you'd be dead. They'd just
say you seemed like a deer - a 40
horsepower deer:'
As the final loop drew to a close,
Hamel and Davis did all they could to
tip the scales in their favor. Hame l still
had the physical lead when he th undered into the finish, and he held the
throttle wide open all the way past the
checkered flag to wring the last seconds
ou t of the time clock. Behind him, Davis
was charging as hard as he could with
