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Merrihew won the final moto, but it was
Baumert who nabbed the win with consistent 22 scores .
Results
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80 BEG: 1. Brandon Hamlett (Y.am).
llO JR; LCD!<"""" (Yam!
80 INT: 1. ~I Siftuor(yam).
125 BEQ L Je Ham (K.ow~ 2. 8«ky K...... (K.ow~ 3. Cd............. (Iion~ S. Dou S _
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4- 5'J"R):; AM: 1. Scott A1mrid.I(Han); 2. Daw Simcod (Han);
3. C us Bender (Hon ); 4. Mi n BinghAm (Hon); 5. Ct"ig Franco
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SR. AM: 1. John Millttt (Ya m); 2. Rick I-~ (K.t w); 3. Paul
Dumais (Suzl; 4. Tom e-idy (lC'1ld),;5. Bob Young (DM).
125 NOV: 1. Brian O'NeoD (Suz); 2. Scott ~ (Yam); 3ZKtwy Beaudoin (Y am ); 4. Chris Hiltoa (I"Ion); So Todd s.nttwIOn
(Y.am).
200 NOV: 1. Q\ria Si.m peon oc..w l; 2. Scott ldrndft' (Kaw ); 3.
C re'go ry Me- a iton (KJiw); 4. Fn m k Smlt'Oyn lti (K.aw ); S. Joe
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Mclaughlin (K.Iiw ).
2SO NOV: 1. Tab ZUnmennan (Han); 2. WUliMn Boyd (Han);
. 3. Scott Reynolds (Suz ); 4. Dilvid Bonull (K,Iw): 5. Cknn Arnold
(Sozl.
OPEN NOV ; 1. Jiunn Cordero (Hon); 2. u ri J'-"pson (Hun); 3Scott Keitel (Han); 4. Richard. Lund y (H on); S. Robert Pettingill
(lion!
VET NOV ; 1. Robn1 A cq~frnc.. (Suz); 2. Don Brown Jr.
(Han); 3. Joun Ra~t (Jc.w); 4. lame. St. Laurent (K"TM) ; 5. Don
W..lten (Suz) .
4-STRJC NOV : 1. Donald Cordon (Hon): 2. Eric Giro. (Hon);
3. Kf'vin Knolt (Suz); 4. Mikl: Kamin.ki (Hon); 5. Stl:v en
o..c::IumJ'" (Han)•
. SR NOV : 1. Joe Fratlanni (Vam) : 2. AI FAga n (KTM); 3.
William ~farell (Hon) ; 4. Toni Moo~ (KTld) ; 5. Robrrt King
(Yam)..
SISIC 1. Jver boys the fast way around
the cou rs e. Robert Zingg did all he could to
overtake Grise, but in the end was forced to set·
tle for second aboar his Suzuki RM. Doug Moll
held down third early in the race, but couldn't
hold off a hard-dlarging Rob Gladden. Mounted
aboard an Acerbis-sponsored Honda XR600,
Gladden thundered past Matt with a certain air
of authority in the front grandstand turn. Mall
held on to fourth, while Jeff Campbell finished a
d istant fifth.
Moto two was a carbon-ropy of the first. as
Grise took charge right from the get-g o. Zingg
was again a solid second, while Gladden - who
works part-time as a fashion model - was third
over Moll . Chuck Williamson nabbed fifth. edg ing out Campell for fifth overall.
Form er professional Jet Ski racer Jeff Hain
dominated the 125cc Beginner class aboard his
Gra nd ma's Cookies-sponsored Kawasaki
KXI25. Kukla Cartoons' Becky Kukla ho leshot
bo th mat os, bu t Hain ran her down in both out·
ings and romped away wi th convincing win s.
Kukla held on to seco nd in bo th motos. Greg
Hoffma n was third, and Sean Sparkman wa s
fifth.
Jeff Surwall hammered the competition in
the first Vet Pro mota, easily beating Jay
Baumert, Jeff steinrock and Joe Merrihew. Su rwall, however, was not able to stay for the second mota and left the overall win up for grabs.
The fina l scra mb le of the series got off to a
p recarious start as the club officials were forced
to black-flag the start of the event after the entire
AA and A classes left to complete wha t was supposedl y their first lap. As the final wa ve of A
riders left the massi ve field start to squeeze into
a 5-foot alleyway, Mark Olson and Kip Dirazonian collided while fighting for the holeshot; their
b ikes locked bars, and the two r id ers w ere
thrown over their mounts. Olson had the misfortune of landing in the middle of th e alleyway
with more than 60 scream ing b ikes bea ring
down on him fast . O lso n sustained minor
injuries and was taken away by ambulance.
In the meantime, the Amateur classes had
been left sitting on the line w hile the group of
AA and A riders completed an entire 7.I-mile
lap only to be told it was just a practice run. The
race was then cut from the original seven laps to
six.
The restart saw Phelps grab the holeshot
with Cris Crispin, P.J. Pecu1in and Robert Sperani hanging tight together. Phelps led the entire
first lap with little challenge from any other riders . Randy McCann, w ho had managed yet
another of his fantastic starts - dead-last - was
wicking it up in an attempt to catch the rest of
the class . McCann quickly adapted to the sandy,
whooped-<>ut track and managed to pass Phelps
in the san dy whoops at the start of the second
lap.
McCann held the lead position for the next
three laps until he began to make little mistakes,
allowin g Phelps to eat away at the minimaJ lead
McCann had built up . By the end of the fourth
lap, Phelps and McCann pilled simu ltaneous ly
with Phelp s exiting the pits ahead of McCann.
Despite having to ride out the last two laps with
a large hol e in his pipe, Phelps outdistanced
McCann. The final lap sa w Phelps finish almost
five minutes ahead of second-placed McCann.
The third position went to Crispin,
Results
AA: 1. Scott Pht> (Yam); 2. Randy McCann (KAw); 3. e ril
lps
Cris pin (Hon); 4. RobertSpm:wU {HOfl); 5. Todd Levrsqur (YAm).
125 EX: 1. Josh MoLrv y (lU w); 2. BriAn TucUT (ICTM); 3.
Craig Vollkommer (Suz ); 4. Ken lAw (Yam ); 5. l a RK'S PrIor (lion).
200 EX: 1. Jimmy Edmond. (}(aw) ; 2. David FI'IIIWf (lCaw); 3.
Randy La w (K.aw l; 4. Kev in Wan (K.aw) ; 5. Todd D.bkow . kJ
MIN1 : 1. Shawn T)'"'C!U (Y.am); 2. Eric Pouliot (Sw: ); 3. Chris
Dunh.am (Kaw); 4. Drew Carpenter (Su); 5. Mib Pms~ (Kaw ).
WMN: 1. Sheny Landry ( ~ w); 2. Mlch~l e Lau (Jc..w ); 3M ichellr Bl.o\ndwtte (lion ); 4. Pam M iMI,la. (K. w); 5. AnYnda
Youns (Haft).
Brown takes Fall Classic
Motocross title
By Kyle Myers
REDDICJ(, Fl.,OCT. ~30
Little did he know it. but Mike Brown wrapped
up the championship in the AMA /KTM /Dirt
Shirts/Honda of Troy Fall Classic Series, before
the racing even started at Motocross of Marion
County.
As the 250cc PrO class was called to the starting line , a severe rain and lightning storm hit the
clay-based course and delayed the race 45 minutes. When the rain passed, all the riders agreed
to cancel the race, and the H.O.T./Pro
Circuit/Scoll-backed Brown gladly accepted the
$3000 winner's payout of the series points fund
and earned his first AMA Pro number-one plate .
The amateur riders did hit the track on Saturday, with Jason Thomas winning the 12See B
class. When the Io-rider field rounded the first
comer in the opening mo ta, Thomas led the way
with Ronnie Renner, Kenny Jones, Jason Dodds
and Edd ie Ray following. Jones slipped by Renner in the second tum to take over the runnerup spot. while Thomas pulled out a th ree-secand advantage. Positions would stay the same,
with Jones dosing in on Thomas but unable to
make a pass. At the finish, Thomas, Jones, Renner, Dodds and Ray rounded out the top five.
lhomas again ripped the holeshot over Renner, Dodds, Ray and Jones in moto two. Streit'sbacked Thomas added three seconds to his lead
as Jones motored by Ray. Renner then endoed
on the middle double, allowing Dodds, Jones,
Ray and James Joiner by . Dodds then set his
sights on Thomas and dosed to his rear whee l,
Thomas handled the pressure well and aossed
the line just in front of Dodds to score the moto
and overall wins. Jones, Ray and Joiner rounded
out the top five.
Results
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