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The sections were very tricky. Most
of the championship-class riders complained about being off balance
throughout the sections. Even when
completing good rides, riders never felt
like they had much control.
The sections didn't have big obstacles as much as they were littered with
varying sizes of boulders placed at
many contrasting angles. It was hard to
stay sharp throughout the entire section.
'1 would get past the hard obstacles
only to get a five later in the section
when I was tired or slipped on something:' second-place finisher Lonny
Hal1sted said.
"At the end, my throttle hand was
doing whatever it wanted:' Aaron said.
'1 just had to hang on."
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When asked about his injuries sustained earlier in the year, Aaron said,
"It's still sore around the eye, but I'm
100 percent."
When Aaron is at 100 percent, everyone else is battling for second place.
Aaron won with 63.5 points. Betamounted Hallsted made it a good day
for the Beta team, finishing in second
with 99 points.
Everyone else was in triple digits.
Young brought his Gas Gas in at third
place with 124. Ryon Bell piloted his
Gas Gas to fourth place, finishing with
145 points. Rounding out the top five,
Raymond Peters rode his Scropa to fifth
place with 149 points.
Because of the long, difficult sections,
riders had a hard time finishing in the
six-hour time limit. Most of the champ
riders finished in the 30-minute grace
period, adding half a penalty point per
minute to their score. After 30 minutes,
a rider is disqualified.
Peters stretched the grace period by
finishing 30 minutes and 15 seconds
late. There was uncertainty over how
Peters should be scored, and a huge
debate followed concerning when'a
rider is actually considered disqualified.
Peters was more than 30 minutes late,
but he wasn't 31 minutes late. After
extensive debate, but with no clear rules
or guidelines to reference, the club
decided that Peters fell within the 30minute rule and counted his score.
No rider felt the time much more
than Gas Gas rider and local favorite
Jess Kempkes, who was showing signs
of brilliance and had some very spectacular rides. Kempkes was running a
strong second, but failed to finish on
time by seven minutes and was disqualified.
That seven minutes dropped Kem~
kes in the points standings from third to
sixth.
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OmMa, Nebraska
R....1la: September 21, 1996 (Round 8 of 9)
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