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(Left) David Price took his YZ250 to the
250cc Pro win at round five of the
Montrose Carolina Winter Series MX in
Montrose, North Carolina.
(Below) Brett DeVries won both the 125
and 250cc Expert championships for the
second consecutive year with consistent
finishes at the final rounds of the Future
West B.C. Arenacross Championships In
Abbotsford, British Columbia.
Bartram blasts
Bud Ultracross
By John Cliflord
CASPER, WY,FEB.15
Casper, Wyoming, played host to the final
round of the Budweiser/Harley Davidson of
Casper/Checkered Flag Productions I.fltracross
Series, where Kenny Bartram aced the 250cc pro
class. The program combined Ultracross with
monster trucks and brought out over 6300 fans
on Saturday night.
The 250cc Pro-class main event saw
Wyoming's own Glenn Goodell placing his
Yamaha into the whoops first. Ken Bartram,
Trent Hansen, John Hedden, Jason Owens, John
Merwin, Bud Kumpf and Mike Guerrera followed. Up front, Goodell had trouble in the
whoops and Hansen and Bartram used the hobble to gain one position each. Once in the lead,
Bartram loosened up and added some distance.
Meanwhile, Merwin's move to fourth was
stopped when he crashed into the back of
Kempf at the monster double. Hedden, after a
bad start, was pushing through the pack. Owens
then made a pass on the triple-jump section for
fourth. Goodell rode well and kept his third
position. Hansen put in another excellent ride
but had to sett!'e for second again and Oklahoma's Bartram was the winner and $500 richer.
In' the 125cc Pro class, Hansen stole the
holeshot and took the lead. Owens pressured
Hansen with Randy Stahla of Gillette,
Wyoming, Bartram, Hedden and Kumpf in pursuit.
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Back in the pack, Hedden was moving up
and slipped past Kumpf and Stahla. ln the lead,
Hansen was moving out and in command.
Owens, Bartram and Hedden became a three-
rider freight train. Kumpf had missed his landing on the monster double and feU back.
Just when it looked like a smooth Hansen
victory, a lapper interfered in the whoops, taking Hansen down. Before Hansen got up,
Owens sneaked by for the win. Hansen
remounted and held on for second. Bartram and
Hedden were all over each other and finished
third and fourth with Stahla rounding out the
top five.
In the jump contest, Kansas' Hedden had the
promoters bring in the "Cookie Monster" truck
and jumped over it for the $100 win. Kumpf
whipped out a heel clicker" but Bartram's nacnac grabbed second place's $50 prize.
Results
125 PRO: 1. juan Owens CKaw); 2. Trent Hansen (Hon); 3.
)on Hedden (Suz); 4. Kenny 8artnun CSuz); 5. Randy Stahla (Hon).
250 PRO: I. Kemy Bartram (Suz); 2. Trent Han8e:n (Hon); 3.
Glenn Goodell (Yam); 4. jon Hedden (Suz); 5. JiUOn Owent (Kaw).
80 AM: 1. ~ll Staford; 2. 50 Kasper; 3. ~el jones; 4.
Trent Jones; 5. Larry Rowland Jr.
t25 AM: 1. Danny I...ookhart; 2. Kendall StAford.; 3. Joe Engleman; 4. Shane CTDwford.; S. Trampas Mei.ndenger.
250 AM: 1. Dave Ford; 2. Larry Rowland; 3. Andy Peterson; 4-
joc:y Wilhelm; 5. Eric Janssen.
DeVries doubles again
at B.C. Arenacross
By Gary Radford
ABBOTSFORD, BRITISH COL1lMBrA, FEB. 8-9
Once again, Brett DeVries took. both the 125 and
250cc Expert class-wins at the final two rounds
of the Future West B.C. Arenacross Championship.
ln Saturday's racing action, DeVries grabbed
the holeshot in the 125cc main event, closely followed by AI Dyck, Chris Church, Blair Morgan
and Alberta rider Bart Stephenson. Dyck hound-
ed DeVries from the start, eventually making
contact with him, causing DeVries to crash on
lap four.
Dyck was seemingly on his way to the win but
DeVries didn't give up, slowly carving his way to
the front. Late in the race, DeVries made a pass on
Dyck, much to the crowd's approval. DeVries
took the well'deserved win with Dyck second,
Washington State rider Church in third, Morgan
rebounding for fourth and John Verdonk fifth.
In the 250cc main, Dyck blasted his Honda to
the front of the pack off the start with Morgan,
DeVries and Church in tow.
Early in the race, DeVries had a huge crash
over an infield step-up jump which put him at
the back of the field, and by midrace he had only
gained one position. Up front, Dyck and Morgan
circulated at a steady pace, but Morgan was
never able to close the gap.
At the finish, it was Dyck winning, Morgan
second aild Church with another third. DeVries
gained a wel1-eamed fourth and Verdonk was
fifth.
Heading into the last round on Sunday, Morgan held a slim one-point lead over DeVries in
the 250cc rlass with Dyck a distant third. ln the
12Sec class, it was DeVries with a five-point lead
over Dyck with Morgan six points back.
Shawn Galbraith of Abbotsford emerged
with the earlv lead in the 125cc main over Verdonk. Mean~hiJe, Morgan and DeVries were
back in eighth and ninth.
Verdonk took over the lead around the
halfway mark of the IS-lap final and looked as
though he was on his way to.a surprise win, but
a hard-charging Morgan caught him late in the
race and took over for the victory.
Verdonk had his best finish of the series with
a second, followed by DeVries, Church and Galbraith.
·DeVries was the series champion for the second year in a row, while Morgan's win enabled
him to pass the absent Dyck for second.
In the 250cc class the reaJ battle was between
DeVries and Morgan; whoever came out on top
in the final would be champ. DeVries grabbed
the holeshot, closely followed by Morgan. Both
Tan in close contention until Morgan threw it
away at the end of the whoop section before the
triple and was never able to mount a challenge
after that.
Once again, DeVries lived up to his numberonel'late by claiming the win and also the series
championship, plus a nice $1000 check for winning both classes, while Morgan bad to settle for
the runner-up spot in both classes, collecting his
$700 prize money.
Results
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125 EX: 1. Brett DeVries (Yam); 2. Al Dyck (Hon); 3. Chris
Chun:h (Yam); 4. Blair MorgiU\ ()(aw); 5. John verdonk