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reported . " I didn't ride as we ll as I · could." It was a far cry from the Tonopah 300, when he rode well all day to get second overall by himself. " Yea h, it was a lot different (than sol oing at Tonopah)," he said. "Th e second time I got on the bike was the only section I rode really well. I wish the race was a lot longer . Dave said he had the same thi ng, though , so we'll work together, a nd a t the nex t one we'll be ready." Th e d efending ra ce ch a m pio n, Campbell, would not repeat his solo victory of '98, though it w asn't for la ck of effo rt . Th e fourth bi ke off the line, he quickly moved pa st th e Ero n Bo yer / Matt Burroughs Husk y TE 610 for third before pit o ne. Wh en Zitterkopf dropped out, Campbell found him se lf in se co nd overall but with li ttle roo m to spare and the lead ers slowly but steadily drawi ng away. Thus, he mad e the decis ion to forego the schedu led tire change at pi t three. "It would've been close if I'd changed it and tried to ge t out ahead of the next bike, so I opted not to do it," he sai d . " It might 've cost m e, s i n ce I crashed (later). I might'v e been be tter off if I had new tires. About 10 or 12 miles pa st th e Caliente pit, in a sand wash, I ca me aro und a comer in th e trees a nd just clip ped a boulder that wa s rolling; th ere wa s a co u p le of them th e re. I step ped off and twisted th e front end up and bent the (left) foo tpeg up and bent the bars, filled my goggles full of rocks . It to ok m e a coupl e minutes to g e t go ing . The bike wa s laying there a couple minutes, so it took a while to start . "O vera ll, I'm pretty happy . Ondas and Shane, they pu t in a good ride. Ever since I got going from th e crash, they were right behind me the whole w ay. They pushed me a nd pushed m e and pushed me. I don't kn ow if I wo uld've gone that fast if they hadn't pushed me like that. I had to let 'em go the last 15 miles here ; I blew a couple comers, and .it was like, there was no sense (in trying to ho ld th em ofo because they started tw o min u tes b eh in d m e (a nd were a head o n co rrec ted time anywa y ). I wo uld've ha d to mak e u p two minutes in 15 miles, and 1 di dn't make it (u p) in over 150 (to there), so I decided they earned it." . As good as the racing was up front among the Open Pros , it wa s better Brieflv.·.. - (Right) Unlike last yea r, J ohnny Campbe ll didn't solo his way to the win at the Sliver State 300. Here, he holds off David Onclas about 46 miles from the finish, physica lly running second but third on corrected time where he'd finis h. Ondas passed him before the end to finish second phys ically as well. (Above) After battl ing through all the 250s and most of the Open Pros , Over 30 Pros Mike Healey (sh own) and Larry Roeseler earned fourth overa ll with their 6:17:15 time. It marked the th ird different Kawasaki they'd used in the three s eries races s o far this year. among the o lder O ver 30 Pr os . Daryl Folks start ed out in front on the Spo rtsman Cyde/ KTM of Gresham /Dunlop KTM 300 M / XC he shared w it h Rick Bozarth, but Carlita Ray /Dunlop/BRPba cked Mike Ba xt er and Ed Mc C o y mi xed it up o n th eir YZ400F a nd took the lead. However, coming up stro ngly was the Mike Heal ey /Larry Roeseler duo on their Tea m Green / IMS / Stro ke r-s ponsored 10<500. As the y'd started fifth in class, it didn't really matter if they beat their com petitors to the finish, but Healey wanted to anyway. Chasing Baxter, Healey chose a wide-o pen, fourth-gear sweeper in the final section where he pinned it sideways, looked o ver and waved as he neatl y sw e p t pa st the stu nned Yamaha rid er. The Kawasaki racers ended up fourth overall for their efforts in 6:17:15, which was just four seconds faster than Garrahan and Pearson, though the y were physically furth er back. Pearson actua lly diced with Bostrom coming int o the finish , and both reported having a great lime d oin g so. "The last 30, 40 miles, we were just having a g reat time s lid ing around on beh;nd defending ser ies champ Doug Blackwell. Road racers Ben an d Eri c Bo strom Steve Hengeveld and Oakley Le hman ' showed 'up at the fin;sh in the black 1960 had a terrible day on their Team Green 10<250. Cadtllac Eldorado Ben purchased a coup le A rock hit the pipe. moving·;t enough to bum a weeks ago and drove back from the East hole in the-tank early in the race. One' quick Coast after a National In New Hampshire the patch job didn't hold. and ttiey ended up pulling' previous weekend. After brother Torsten finthe tank off three different times. finally swap- ished sixth overall. fifth Open Pro with partner ping fo'r one off another bike. It was all for Jonah St reet. the Bos troms hopped in the naught. though. as they were disqualified for. clean Caddy and were last seen headed south accepting outside assistance. reportediy when toward Las Vegas and - presumably. eventual- . . .anot her compet itor gave them gas on the .. Iy - home. course after their tank had run out prematurely. . . . .. While jt was rio surprise to' see d ef~ndirig series champ Ty Davia entered. Pa ul Krause Da nn y Cooper and Dave Ha mel ended up replaced normal partner DOnnie Book. Howevsecond 250cc .Pro. though they were a lot er: neither Book nor.Davis could be found anycloser than a quick look at hnish;ng times where near Alamo. Asked the whereabouts of. reveals . When Scott Underwood crashed 'and his new partner, Krause joked. "I had a part. ' broke his femur. Cooper stopped to help. He ner: he just never showed." Krause went on to . explain that he was simply riding so Davis later.ran out of gas -. .'. would eam some points while he went to race . . Brian Garrahan had busy weekend lined . the 'Mammoth Motocross: "Ty called me last up. Immediately after finishing fourth Open . week ·-.actually before he w ent to Tennessee . Pro..fifthovernll with partner Russell Pearson. [for the AMA National Reliability Enduro Series Garrahan headed to ca tch a flight from ' Las . finale] · and said. 'Hey, I knowthis sounds kind . Vegas to Chiceqo. He had to be on the start- of hare-brained and wacky. but do you wantto ing hneat 9:00 a.m. the next morning' for round · do-this?' I told him, 'I can't g6 Ihere arid be' f; ve of the AMA National Hare S crambles . 100 percent; I'll go there and finish." !Davis Series wher e he's second in points. two repli.e~t 'That's ieally ail lrieed: ·- . . a th e roa d," Bostrom sai d . "This las t section we started racin g together . I rea lly s ho u ld've backed off - kind of mad e a rookie mistake th er e - because I was p re tty sure we w ere ahead of him o n tim e, but you get caught u p in the heat of the mom ent. I wa s having fun ; he wa s yelli ng and having a great tim e - I didn't w ant to back off. I ended up overshooting a comer and landing in a bunch of rocks, SO that wa sn 't a lot of fun ." A bit banged 'u p but otherwi s e unhurt ju st feet from th e finish, Bostrom's bike su ffered a cracked centercase and ignition cov er, and bled oil into a little pool und ernea th the bike after finishing. He wouldn't have made more than a few miles with such a terminal puncture, so he no doubt cons idered himself fortu na te to fall so close to the finish. The Honda ended up 11 seconds behind th e KTM for sixth overall, follo wed by Bo zarth /Folks a nd Ba xter / McCoy. Br y an Fol ks a n d D a vid Pe ars on teamed u p fo r the 250cc Pro w in a nd ninth overa ll on their Pro Circuit/Dunlop/F&L/ Acerbis KTM in 6:22:42. Kurt Caselli and Dana Van Stee rounded ou t the top 10 and won th e 125cc Pro class o n their Tea m G ree/ Pro C ircuit/IMS/ Alpinestars KXI 25 in 6:34:44. Oth er class winners incl u ded Fr ed Wille rt/TIm Staab in Under 450cc FourStro ke Pro at 11th overall on a Montclair Yamah a /Preci si on Con cepts /FMF YZ400F, and overall (plus Open) Expert vi ct ors Mall Gosnell /Malt Roy lance / Trent Sandoval on thei r FMF / Spo rtsma n Cycle/ IMS-ba cked KTM a t 6:40:19 for 12th overall. Scott Anderson and Larki n Wight destroyed the Over 40 Pro class.on their Montclai r Yama ha / Acme Su spens io n/ O' Nea l-sp o nsored YZ400 F, winning by nea rly 10 mi nutes in 7:16:08. _ Best In the Desert Sliver State Se ries Alamo, Nevada Results: June 26, 1999 (Round 3 of 5) OPEN PRO: 1. Destry Abbott /Brian Brown (Ka w); 2. Sha ne Es posito/ Da v id D nd as (Ka w): 3. Johnny Ca m pbell (Han); 4. Brian Garrahan /Russell Pearson (K'IM); 5. Tors ten Bostrom/J onah Street (He n), 250 PRO: 1. Bryan Folks /David Pearson (KTM); 2. Danny Cooper /Dave Hame l (Ya m ); 3 . Bill Delcarlo /Tim Fitzpatrick (KIMI. 125 PRO: 1. Kurt Caselli /Dana Van Stee (Ka w ); 2. Nat e Pearson /Kellen Welch Il-lus). OVER 30 PRO: 1. Mike Healey /Larry Roeseler (Kaw); 2. Rick Bozarth /Daryl Folks (JaM ); 3. Mike Baxter/Ed McCoy (Yam). OVER 40 PRO: 1. Scott And erson /Larkin Wig ht (Yam); 2. Stew Pitts / Jay Zicker (ATlO. UND ER 450 4·STK PRO: 1. Fred Willert /Tim Staab (Yo1 m); 2. David Fry /Kirk Step hensen (Yam ); 3. Donn ie Williams / Josh Wilso n (Yam). OVE R 450 4-STK PRO : 1. Taber Murph y /Ken Patrick tHo n). OPEN EX: 1. Matt Gosnell / Matt Royla nce / Trent Sandoval (I(TM ); 2. Josh Co lma rac/Rob Phillips (Hbg) ; 3. Dave Ha nsen /Pau l Ha rbau er / Chad Tichenor (Yam); 4. Nick Fain / Sha wn wilson (Ka w ). 5. Ja red Devts /Klay Phillips (KIMI. 2SO EX:1. Tod d Da vis /B ryan Martin (Yam). 125 EX: 1. Koby Kischer /Kyle Kischer /Ronnie Kischer (KIM). OVER 25 EX: 1. La rry Lawren ce /Tr ask Jo hnso n / Dick Yardley (Kaw): 2. Chris Farmer/Ron Shuler/Richard W~om (Yam). OVER 30 EX: 1. Ron A. Purvines/Glenn E. Tav lor (KIM); 2. Richard Hersh /David R. WHson (KTMi; 3. Frank C hase /Steve Nakamo to ( Ka w ); 4 . Mike Ga rvin/]on Par ks (Ke w ): 5. Mi ke Aguilera /Ton y Aguilera /Kelly.Hall (KIMI. OVER 35 EX: 1. Mark Morris / Pa ul Skeary/Donald R. Tussing (KTM) . OVE R 40 EX; 1. Ron Lawson /Gary Jones (Hus ); 2. Tad Goimarac/ Frank White (Hbg) . UN D ER 450 4-STK EX: 1. Lester Lehigh /Justin Lund in /Rick Lundin (Yam); 2. Chris Dabn ey /Brendan Lutes /Mike Tyner (Yam) ; 3. Donald Yan cey / Kell y Yancey /Ta ylor Yancey (Ka w). OVE R 450 4· STK EX: 1. Carv Blake /Micha el lsom /Terry Wilde (HbgJ. • OP EN AM: I. Steven Scales /Ross W;U;ams (HbgJ; 2. Al an Cameron /Jeff En gelke /Ton y Wiser; 3 . Christi.1n Anderson /Matt And erson/Shewn Cogswell (Ha n). 250 AM : 1. Rich Jesse /Mike Roth /M a tt Tom s (Hon); 2. Putter As.hford /5cott Saunders O

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