MOTOCROSS
AMA 125/25Occ NATIONAL
C
HAMPIONSH M T C O SERIES
IP O O R SS
Round 7: Red Bud Track 'N' Trail
(Len) Yamaha 's John Dowd
scored his second 2SOCc
National win in a row at Red
Bud . In Michigan. His win the
previous week at his home tra ck
In Southwick wasn't too
surprising; his win at Red Bud
was . Dowd Is mak in g 8 ru n at
ser ies leader Jeff Emig .
(Below) Kevin Wind ham
returned to wi nning fo rm in the
125cc Nati onal, He wo n Ihe firsl
moto and look I hlrd In Ihe
sec ond, scoring hi s first overall
Nat ional win of the year.
By Davey Coombs
Photos by Kinney Jones
BUCHANAN, Ml.jULY6
a ma h a le a m m a tes Jo h n Do wd
a nd Kevin Wind ha m turned the
Fourt h of Ju ly weekend into a
Blue Sunday a t Red Bud Track 'N' Trail
when they won the 250 and 12Sec classes, respecti vely, at the seventh round of
the AMA Nationa l Motocross Cha mpions h ip Ser ies . Dowd , fro m Ch ico pee,
Ma ssa ch u se tt s, ra n 2- 1 10 clinch Ihe
ove ra ll in the 250cc class, while Windham , from Baton Rouge, Louisian a, finished 1-3 in the high ly compe titive 125cc
division.
For 32-yea r-old Dowd, the Red Bud
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16
win marked the second time in as many
races that he has won the 250cc class,
ha ving swep t both mot os at his hom etown Southwick race two w eeks " go.
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Red Bud was also the third win in a row
for Yamaha , going back to tea m ma te
Ezra Lusk's fifth ro und win at Budds
Cree k in ea rly June. BUI unlike Dowd's
victory at the sandy Sou th wic k circuit,
Su nday's wi n in Mich igan was q uite
unexpected .
"I' m as su rprised as everyone else is,"
said Dowd, the oldes t rider in the race.
"T h is has never rea lly been one of my
better tracks . In fact, I don't Ihink that
I've ever really been on the podium here
before. But I felt pr etty good in practice,
had some good starts and a little bil of
luck , and everyt hing
just we nl my way. I
felt like I was flowing around the track
really well all da y long."
Jeff Emig, a Red Bud crowd favorite
after winning fou r Nationals in the last
five yea rs going into this yea r' s race,
was second on the da y with a I -5 tally
after crashing on the first lap of the second mot o . Su z u ki's Jeremy McGr ath,
with old mechan ic Skip Norfolk back in
his corner (see Briefly...), wa s third overall w ith a 3-4 score. Rou nd ing ou t the
top five overa ll on Su nday we re Lu sk
(6-2) and local hero Mike Lalcocco (5-3).
