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:·AMA NatiOnal ChampioilshipB Scramble senes Round 7: Silver City National H E C AMHare .. AR :S R LE:· : By Davey Coombs was kind of mot ocrossy, especially in the canyo n." The desert-like track seemed to play right into Davis' hands, as d id the start. The event org anize rs, Dirt M.e., went SILVER CITY, !D, ocr.9 n a da y reserved for a personal go al , Team Green ' s Ty Davis won the seven th round o f th e AMA National Ha re .----~ Scrambles Championship near Silver City, Idaho. " It was one of my goals to win a National Hare Scrambles, a n d now I've done it ," sai d Davis, the 25-year-old former pro motocr osser from Hesperia, California. "My goal for the year was to win one of every off-road ev ent. Now th e only one that I've yet to win is a Natio nal Enduro, and I will try to do that next weekend in California." Beside the major U.S. offroad events that he's won in '94, the versatile Davis was also Top American at th e International Six Day Enduro in Oklahoma last month and also qualified for the l25cc main event at the Anaheim Supercross last January. Round ing out the top five overall in Idaho was Team Suzuki' s Rodney Smith, who cliched the series title, Team Mirage-Kawasaki's Tom Norton, Washington's Ja son Dahners and Californian Eric Mashbir. "I clinched the championsh ip , which was my main goal th is year," said the Team Suzuki /Moose Racing/ AlpineStar / Pro-Ta per /B ieffe / Braking /FMF /Race Tech/ Acerbis / lOO%/Be l-Ra y / De Vol / D u n lop/RK Chains/Endura/Motion Pro / Mo t o - v a ted / Power . Bar /Smith/Uni /Santa Cruz Concepts/WER/Wiseco/Indego -sponsored Smith. "I've had good races all year and I'm really pleased wi th how everything has turned out. I' ve on ly been ra cing off-road for two years and I've won two National Relia bility Ser ie s Championships and now th is. That means I've won three of the first four champ ionship s that I competed for , which is about as well as I could hope to do ." The lO-m ile-long co u r s e had the racers competing J or over three - hours . Warm with a bomb run start that stretched out weather pre vailed Sunda y, just to straight for almost two miles. Davis ' liking. "That was great because it was just' "The track was pretty fast and dry ' like a desert race," said Davis ; who . but it was awesome," said Davis who reached the bomb area having already was sporting a 1995 Kawasaki KX250. built a cons iderable early lead. "It was "It rained here earlier in the week and 0'\ funny because Rodney was trying to it looked great Friday, but by Saturday ,....; talk to the official about it, saying," After it had dried up and was even worse -.D Sunday. The track had lots of hills that about 100 yards or so they usually have N a tum. The first tum here is two miles were kind of grazed over with dirt but away!'" there were no rocks, which was great. "It was a d ifferent type ' of hare There were a lot of washes and ra in scrambles, all right," said Smith. "It was ruts, some of them so deep you u couldn't see because they were over kind of fast and dusty. The start was a bomb run and I was fourth, I think Ty your head. It wasn't that tight for an took off from us but I really wasn't woroff-road race, just really a lot fun ried about him because of the champibecause you cold pit it everywhere. It O -g, liJ .g .... o 36 onship. He ha d 40 seconds on all of us after three miles. I was jus t concern ed wit h getting second and staying ahe ad of Tom Norton." "Everything went grea t for the whole race except for a busted brake pedal," said the Team Green/FMF /Shoei/ Smith/Fox /Trick Racing Gass /MaximalAcerbis/Multi-Air/Dunlop/Tsubai/Fast Line/MXA/Pro-Taper/NStyle/LR Racing/PPS-backed Davis. "Three hours through the trees is really hard but this was great because it -was so open. I didn't really have any problems until the second lap from the end when I hit a stump and broke my brake pedal off. It scared me because the stoop hills and trees and stuff but we bent it out so I had something to push down on . No one seemed to get too close. I don 't know how hard Rodney was pushing it because he had the charnpi- onship on his shoulders. I can understand wh y he would n't want to take any chances." Davis added that Norton might have been a factor if he had more than a 200 underneath him, "bu t his bike does sound mo re like a 240! He wa s kind of bummed because it really wasn't a 200 course." "The race wen t really well for me, es pecially with Scott Summers no t s howi ng up because he' s still hurt," sai d Smith. " No rton was my main concern beca use Suzu ki wanted me to wra p it up as soon as possible. All I had to do was beat him, I did it, and that was it. Ty was ou t in front and I didn't really worry about him . Ty was going really fast when he broke out the first couple of . laps . I may have caught him a little in the middle of the race but then he picked it back up at the end." "The club p ut a lot of effort into the race, so it was a bummer that mo re riders didn't show up," said Davis after the run. "The guys who follow thi s se ries onl y ha ve to go to sev en races inste ad of all of them. Beca use the seri es is mostly in the eas t, they can mi ss one or two out west . Beside, when they come out here guys like me show up !" " I was going as fa s t as I wanted to go," said third-place finisher No rton of h is 200cc Kawasa ki. "That kind of racing is totally for eign to m e. I've n ever r idden an ything li ke that, with big, giant hills about 500 feet high with no trees or rocks or anything. It was smoother off th e trail in that brown grass, but it was dangerous because you couldn't see what might be laying there. I spent the whole da y rid ing about six inches off the tr ail where it was smoother. " My bik e was ' pulling as hard as it could up those hills," added Norton. "Ty was putting a minute a lap on me, so the track must've been perfect for h im. Rodne y was going almost as fast , so I really didn't have a chance. I sta yed on the bike all day, which is something I wa s determined to do because we were going so fast. Maybe I should 've brought a 250, but I don't have one anyway." B DirtM.C.' Sliver City. Idaho Results: October 9, 1994 OIA: 1. Ty Davis (!

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