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Best in the Desert Silver State Series
By Anne Van Beveren
Photos by Tom Van Beveren
MESQUITE, NV, JAN, 20
aw asaki Team Green's Ty Davis
. dust ed th e competition at the
Mesquite Gran Prix - literally,
A fast -paced trip a round Frid ay
aftern oon ' s prolo gu e course e a rn ed
Davis a front-row start for the Saturday
morning event and gave the Kawasaki
KX250 pilot the ad vantage of one dustfree circuit of the 1D-mile course. By the
time the second of the six laps began,
the la rge field had turned Mesquite's
silty soil into a ·huge blanket of filterclogging dust that cut visibil ity to near
zero and made passing all but a thing of
the past.
.
"I had 10 miles to get out in front and
that wa s about it," said Da vis, "Once I
cau gh t up with the slower rid ers, it was.
so dusty it was hard to do anything ,"
But Da vi s kept go ing anyway and
managed to stre tch the one-minute lead
he had grabbed in his first lap into more
than four minutes by the tim e the checkered fl ag d ropped at the end of the
dustiest race that mos t of the riders had
K
ever seen.
" It wa s a fun race course, it was jus t
10
really, reall y du sty," said Open Pro
racer Paul Krau se. "If you were behind
somebody in the trees, you jus t had to
hope they w~re on a four -stroke so yo u
National Enduro
ChampionTy
Davis (above)
Jumped out to an
ear ly lead at the .
Mesquite Gran Prix
and would go on to
finish four minutes '
ahead of runner-up
Greg Zitlerkopf
(right).
Round 1: KTM/Oasis Gran Prix
