Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

meant the title. I'v e been done like that myself pl enty of tim es, but that's just racing." " It was jus t too hot here for me and I wa s not used to it : ' sa id Bau , w ho has b e en s t a r r ing o n th e Wom en ' s Motocro ss League circuit that follows so me AMA Pro Na tiona ls. "I just got tired and she bea t me." Finishing third was former champion .Kristy Shealy of Texas, who had a ru n-in with a lapped rider in the opener that left her with a so re shoul der. Seco ndm oto w in ne r Ange la Keun tjes w as fourth overall. Sarah Whitm ore swept the title with all three moto wins ov er Texan Kristi Myers and Oklahoma's Brand i Davis. Team Green 's Gra cyk has been moving up on the amateur charts for the pas t cou ple of yea rs, especially after his ove rall win a t last year's Kawasa ki Race Of Cha mpio ns at Englishtown, New Jersey. At Loretta Lynn's, he dominated th e Su permi ni lOScc class wi th thr ee straight moto wins. "Last yea r I thought I had an overall w it h th e wa y I a dded it a ll u p, but I guess I was wrong and I ended up second," said Gracyk, who hails from Ohio an d is backed by Team Green. "This ? me I wen t ou t, jus t looked forwa rd and raced the track. I did have a brain fart over there at one point and fen over, but rve been training hard, and I could hear the Yama has back there. I knew they 'Yeren't going to let me have it this easy, but I got it down." "I'm getting a little too big for these BOs," admitted Arizona's Michael Blose, the nephew of former Kawasaki factory rid er Chappy Blose. "I think that's wh y I'm cras hing so mu ch - I can't get my legs out and I get caught up in the bike. I will be mo ving up next year, so I'm really looking forward to coming back on a 125." "I felt real good and just went ou t and tried to s tay up," said California's Jes se Casillas Jr. "Michael and Gavin rode rea lly well , so I give them a lot of . cred it. I'm jus t glad that I could come here to Loretta's and p rove that I could be up there." The Suzukis of California's Bess and Florida 's Millsa ps were domina nt in their respective cha mpionship classes. Bess ra n 1-1-1 to top Colt H u mph rey and Gracyk in the highly competitive 8Scc 04-15) Modified class, while Millsaps cru ised in the 8Scc (7-11) Stock class. In fact, in the first moto for Millsaps, hi s clo se rivals Kyle Chisholm, Grant Moreland and Mike Alessi all had (Above) Ryan Morais emerged victorious in the highly competitive 125cc Modified (12-15) class. (Above right) Gavin Gracyk (3) won the 105cc Superm ini class. (Right) Davy Millsaps put his Suzuki Into the winner's circle in the 85cc Stock (711) division. problems on the first lap and were in the back of the pack. Millsaps went ballistic at the opportunity to build a lead , a nd by the end of the seco nd lap, he was an incred ible 41 seconds a he ad of eve ryone. Althou gh his leads in the last two motos wo u ld not be as grea t, he claimed his fo u rth ca ree r title w it h ease. Th e Kawasaki-mounted Chisholm ended up second ove rall, with Michigan's Moreland third . Hot Team Green prospec t Mike Alessi fended off the charges of 41 ot her 65cc Stock 00-11) riders, as well as several protests over whether or not his bike wa s st ock . Alessi's bike proved to be legal every single time, and the Californian claimed his second caree r Loretta Lynn's title. The st ylish and fast Alessi, who wears "2007" on th e back of his pants as a subtle hint at wh en he hopes to ride his first professi ona I su percross, was dominant in this class, winning all three motos with ease. .New Jersey's Jason Lawrence piloted a KTM to three straight runner-up finishes, whil e ew Yorker M itchell Dougherty ran 3-4-4 aboard a KX60. In th e 6Scc (7-9) Stock class, Washington .s Joshua Hill was the fastest of th e bunch, winning al! three motos ah ead of Virginia 's Zac h Osborne and No r t h Ca rolina ' s Aus t in S troupe . Stroupe w ould switch from KTM to Cobra for th e Slcc Stock (7-8) class and sco re th ree moto wins and a title of his own. He was trailed in the final r esults b y Vince Friese and Lowell Spangler. In the Sl cc Stock (4-6) class, second-generation racer Ian Trettel got the first National titl e of his young career with another three-mote sw eep. He topped Garret Toth and Blake Baggett for th e title. The younges t class of the week, also featured the mos t controversy. The Slcc Stock (4-6) Sha ft Drive class sa w th e Na tional debut of James Stewa rt' s little broth er M a lcol m , w ho won a ll th ree mo tos aboard a Yamaha PWSO. However, when officia ls took the seat and tanks off the bikes of all the top finishers after the first moto, it was discovered that the kill switch on Stewart' s bike was not connected. He was deleted from th e first-mote results, but his strong ridi ng performances in all three motos signaled that an other fast Stewart is waiting in the wings, as soon as James moves on to the motorcycle ranks. With Stewa rt out, the w in w ent to you ng Kalen Fitzpatrick, who ran 1-2-4 in three motos to ea rn the ch a m p io ns h ip . Cod y Robbins and Ja cob Renkenberger rounded ou t the top three overall. Kawasaki-mounted Jeremy Du rrett made his AMA Amateur National debut. a n excep tiona l one, w inning both th e 12Sec C Stock and Modified classes. The Texa... was followed by Ohi o's Timothy Ballentine in th e Modified cla ss a nd Michigan ' s Na te Larsen in the St ock divi sion. Final! v. in the 2S0cc I Open C cla ss, Florida ' s Ky le H oc h s te tle r topped Lar sen fo r the titl e with a 2-2-1 sco re to t h e Kawasaki -mounted Larsen' s eN 4-1-5. Loretta Lynn's Ranch Hurricane Mills, Tennessee Results: August 2-7,1 999 2S0/0 rEN A : 1. T ravis Pa st rana (Su z ); 2. Tyson Hadse ll (Yam); 3. Mark Thompson en . < '" 27

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