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.::;« .:: .':' Round 4: Brownsville City Park ;: CROSS: COUNTRY:~" :. ArM WisecolYamahalDunlQPIBraking (3NCCserie$';. (Left) Over 300 riders were on hand at Brownsville, and lapped traffic was a major problam for the leaders. Here, the riders head Into the woods off the start. (Below) With much of Team Suzuki Off-Road across the country at the Nevada Qualifier, Mark Hyde put away his wrenches and pit board, and did battle on an RMX250, He was second In the Vet A . division, finishing behind Ed LoJak. Brownsville. "The only place that those other guys were pulling me was on the big hills and the power-lines. The ground got loose after a while and 1just couldn't hook up like they could. 1 was just spinning my tire some limes but 1 think 1 was faster than them in the woods. 1 must .have b een able to keep ca tching b ack up." . It wasn't until five of eight laps were completed before the final order started slowed back down b y someone you're lapping for the third lime. Trying to get away from the pack here is like beating you r head against a wall." Plessinger and Andrew s swapped the le a d .s e vera l times, bu tat o ne poin t Andrews was w aved to the front of the line by his counterpart. "1 think Scott saw that 1 was better at getting through the lappers so he pulled over and let me by," admitted Andrews. "1 was the one yelling o r plowing through the traffic while he pretty much stayed right behind me." Andrews led most of the seventh lap, but made an error just before the open section where the competition was scored. Plessinger, a purebred woods rider, took the miscue as a sign to make his own break, but the motocross track proved to be the wrong place to try and leave Andrews, a veteran pro motocrosser. Plessinger held his own to take shape. Conner was in the thick of things until he fell down just after the halfway mark, never to m a ke contact with the leaders again. Norton stayed in contention longer, but as the lead pace picked up the 125cc rid er started to lose ground on the other faster bikes. He was never completely out of the picture until he had another run-in with a lapped rider that finally eliminated him fr om overall con tention. . . " .in t'J~vadathesanie daYfor",e AMA. ~atfon~ :-. .. ::ill 'Reli,,!pility End\JroSeries. Tile 34-year:old -". :·. J-lyde cofTl peted.. .in·the Vet A class. on an . -.--:-----''-'--'-.:--'--....:.-,....-- .;.. RMX25Q but was defeated:by long-ilme .(ival· The day~lim~ ballie betWeen Fr~ Andtew~, > . Ed .Lol, k, ~oal33yearS ~f age '!Vas co~· . · Scott .Ples Slnge r,': Tom NO.rtOA. andlhe ' ~esl ' petmg 10 hl~ first C!OSS co untry: Natlo~aL!n :of the frontrunners-was the first ~clean" race: . more 1ha n.a year. . Ed beat.m e aga,n,. ·sald ·.o p he series . ·.· No:one got ·knockeddowri·by :' HYde reflectivel~ .. ~hich 'just goes to s how' · one of the other guys,"·said Aridiews,' who ' . that the more .!hmgs chanq e, the more th.e y· . was never more thaq 'IQ or '15 'seconds apart': · staytheserne. .· '. '.: . .. ' . . .: .. . ·fropi· Plessinger.' $cotnind 'I:were together : .: ' .' ' . v: .: .: . . . . . ' . ' from the s.tart but. it was a clean race the ':. Swedish'off-road import Orrvlk had to cut w hOle time....We Iiit'together:one ·tiirie:buUt ::: sho rt ~iS' workingvacaii.on :In' A rnerfca to· . ·was·n'( .·,anythi rig '. intentio na l,"'.:: added" return to his hQ~eland before the.BrownSVille : .. Plessinger, Ihe runner-up. ~Fred wenton .: event. Orrvi k, a '. Kawasaki rider, h.ad be en ' · thaoutslde and lcuton theinside a nd we '. ' staying.with ·Team· .~reenrider Doug E!lack~ · both just Iii together. I stopped and.t waved '-' well a nd competing :In .Ea s te rn .off-road t · at tiim a nd he waved back at me. It was really .' events through the first.two .rrionlh:s of the ' il good, clean race," And a welcome change : .' 'season. Orrvik was riding here as a way:to : .: . . ' . '. ..... . .. , ' ' , ..., train forhls own'Country's off-l oad.series but'. 'A bizar~e: '~OIUSiQ~' ;60~ ·pla~e:: i~ iiie. s~cQn~ . :had. to go back to Europe' eai'l ier thanexpect- . · hour:Q .the race . 'Jlm .Ja·rrett,"the·2QOcc!3 · ed .when ·a deal·with anot he r 'ma nufacture r' f class winner,.was T-boned by a high-speed .'ca.!'!!€! ' up' iln~,:aci;o rdii:Jg to alacll;Well, ·ltwas : deer in' a large open field. ~I was going across '· 100 good to pass up: Orrvik'sbsst finish in a . this really fast straightwhen a dee r ran out in' . major racewasslxthoverall at the: Loretta frontof me," said Jarrell..' was watching it go : ' LYnn's Ranch round'of the GNCC serles:. . ." . . . . .. . .r. >" · across in front of me; but' when: I looked up . : ' .'. :: anotherorte ran right irito the side of me::,Jt ,.· :Yarnaha's 'TerryCunnlngha m was back in . ·scared ·the crap out of mel" Jarrell ' and the ' . action at BrownSVille following his high-speed .' banzaldesr wenl down together In heap ' .ge t-off. in·SoiJth Carolina:in .ea rly.March,.but . .arid slammed into a tree. The startledJarrett ". th.e:effects of his. Crash linger. •, still have this" got up and'finished the race..no word 'c n the ' . Pain .n the back of. iny head," said Cunnlrig-: i · fate t;>f the U11fQrtumite'deer: . . . ' .. . ham, tour-time AMA Nation Enduro Champi;:' al .:'. ~ . ' . . . . . ' .i-:.•... .~ . " .: : " .' .'. ·on.;· I.·still h~ve"acr,ck 'jn rJl}i neck, !oo.For . ·Absent .tromSunday's :f,ourtJ:l round 01' thll : · about .three weeks! ' hadtrauma due .to the ' . 1994 GNCC ·Seriesw'ere 'Team Honda's · .'. impact, bot its ·Pretty much' gone now. It Was ' 'S cott Sllmine rs and Suzllki's Steve Hatch : ' ;: pretty scary; but it's good to be back.So quick...·' · Bolb are.en.me ·injiJred reseive"list following ": :'.' : . ...:. .... " . .. ". '.: . ..:.: :..... . ' :. "recent accidents: Summers' broke his 'arrnat'. ' When 'qullstioned abcuttne recently. can-: . the third-round LOretta Lynn's RanchiaCe' ii-; :' 'celled Blackwater' 100; nice founder Dave ' Tennessee last month~ while Hatch Suffered . Coombs replied, ·· II's not over yet: There is a broken finger while practicil;g at Guy Coop: . 'going to be a race that w~ekerid arid it 'is er's flanc)1 In Qklahomll;.·.ACcordingto Milrk .goingto: beCaJlad jhe Blackwater:IOQ,:said · Hy~e ,Suzuki's Eastern off-road:race' team ..: Coombs, ·but.I'm. not sureyet ~ere)ts gqing · manager: the'circumstances of Hatch's injury '" to be .·We. are .working with another orqanlza- : ':ar e : questionable ~ ·11's ·goCcart related" :" liail (PQtom!ic'Highlands :Sp,orls Club) .In · : laughed Hyde:'StB\(e says he did· .~. i>rliClI~ : . ' hopes of gelling:a leas e 00' the land lor that · ing in the .woods without bark;busters;.but I:: : weekend (June "18-19). If t.hatdoesn't work,: .think fie aCluaUydid~racin9go,carts 'aroUrid .:' -veareconsidl!ring'moving'thil'race io :Timer- · , the -drivewaY.~... ~" . . '..:': ,,:' . '.:.::. . '. .:',":: >..': Iil)e:Ski'Resort, Which is kicated 'right neXi to . .: .: :-::::': < : < .:- , ·c. .':, '..:' .. '','-:. ':.':,. the .regiJlar course 'iiT Canaan vat ley., . : Mark ,Hyde was eiri hand · the only rep!'e-' : Coombs .also menliohedthat a decision on :' :·sentative .for SUiuki's ofHoad team. Hatch. is, " . to'· hold. williI' will be .the: 2Oth Annual ' stlil jnJurlld: and··teamma tes ~iJyCcioper,· ., BlaCkwater .}OO wUl bil made 'iVithln' the next : Rai'ICly HaWkIns aridRodRI!Y Smlth 'were aU : ·:'two:weeks:: : . :- ," :.': ' : : : ': ~ , '. ..' . . . .. . _. - -. . .. , .' . " ' ,' .. . .. . .. '. "; ." : . . ,' " U" race a as ". ' ', ' ' Where. . ' ". "When Conner fell down 1 knew that it was ti me to start running," said And rews. " N orton was still right there with us, b ut if we at lea st lost Conner that w ould narrow it down a little. 1 got around Plessinger, he went with me, and with two laps to go it looked like it was go ing to between the two of us." N orton remained in contention until the waning moments of the nearly threehour-long race. "There were so many people and it was so tight that you couldn't really pass anyone," said Andrews. "Somehow this track is tighter and faster than most of the tracks on the circuit. Every lime you try to take off running here, you just get against Andrews and stil l had the lead when they dropped out of sight into the first tight woods section. Then the massive lapped traffic once again came in play. "Every thing was going pretty good until that last lap," said Plessinger as he iced a bruised shoulder after the race. "1 thought 1 had him, but some lapped guy on an XR took the front end out from under my bike and that gave Fred about 10 seconds on me. 1 caught back up after the second check when he went over in the trees passing some guys, but right when 1 caught up to him one of the guys that he was having trouble with locked his brakes up in front of me and 1plowed

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