Round 5: Budds Creek Motocross Park
MAZDA TRUCKS/AMA 250cc NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP MX SERIES
By Kit Palmer
Photos by Karl Ockert
BUDDS CREEK, MD, JUNE 20
I:-Vj"""" hen it rains and is just plain
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miserable outside, many peo-.JI
pie like to stay inside and perhaps cuddle up to a good book, but not
Kevin Windham. The Team Honda rider
from Ethel, Louisiana, instead likes to
straddle a good motorcycle and go racing - and win. Just like he did at the
Budds Creek 250cc National in Maryland.
In rainy conditions that left the otherwise beautiful, well-prepped Budds
Creek Motocross Park track a soggy,
wet mess of soupy mud, Windham put
on a mud-riding exhibition that left the
other 39 riders - as well as the 11,000plus spectators who braved the ugly
conditions - in awe. While everyone else
was doing everything in their power
just to complete each lap without looking like they were riding a motorcycle
for the first time, Windham was attacking the track as if he rides the goopy
stuff every day.
He was simply flawless in the mud
as he became the first rider of the series
to chalk up two wins.
"It was just one of those days where I
can honestly say I didn't make any mistakes," Windham said. "The key was
finding the good lines and getting a couple of good starts."
Those two good starts he was talking
about resulted in a pair of moto wins
for the Honda rider, which is
becoming a common happening in
this year's series. Of the five races
held thus far, all but one have been
won with 1-1 results. Ironically, the
only t~e that it did not happen is
when Windham scored his other victory
at round two in Sacramento, California,
when he went 3-2.
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The only rider· who even came close
to matching Windham's mud prowess
at Bu
