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Delaware: Final Round AMA NAT10NAL ENDURO SERIES (Left) Mike Lafferty won the final National Enduro round, posting his sixth win of the series. (Above) Motocrosser-turned-GNCC- regular Joel Dengler rode to second overall in Delawa re. By Paul ClipperfTra il Rider Magaz ine DELAWARE CITY, DE, OCT. 31 ike Lafferty treated himself to a wi n on the tricky trails of De la w ar e du ring th e final round of th e Na tio na l End u ro se ries, w h ic h was h eld o n Ha lloween . Th e M oo s e O ffroa d/ KTM fac tory pil o t cha rged away from the start like a wild ani mal a nd never let u p all day. Wit h the series cha mpions hip already decided in Ty Davis' favor, Lafferty had not hing to gai n bu t one more win in front of his home crowd , but that was one pow- [iJ r-: ~ ~ Cl> .s::J E Cl> > o z 10 er ful incentive for the two-time nat iona l champion. A no ther incentive may have been ru ffled feathers. He was riding far back from the rest of the AA pack, on minute 41, a fairly late nu m ber for Delaware and considere d a handicap by most. "I do n't know w hy I' m back he re," Lafferty commen ted before th e s tart, "an d I really don' t care. I' m still goi ng to bea t them all by 10 po ints ." La fferty was definitely rid ing with the confid ence of Mu ha m mad Ali, but acco rdi ng to end uro referee Charlie Stapleford, no sligh t was intended . "Michael sen t in his entry late, pure an d s i m p le," sai d Stap le fo rd . " H e m issed the d raw in g and w e foll owed the ru les an d gave him the next nu mber available . Same th in g ha ppen ed with Fred Hoes s, He was even la ter tha n Michael, and the bes t we cou ld d o for him was row 60." With the seaso n d ecided at the Michiga n rou nd, most nati on al AA competitors si m p ly s tayed home, a sit ua tio n Rand y Hawkins tried to alleviate. "I wan ted to ge t as many riders as I could u p to Delaw ar e, jus t to help the club out. I talked toFred And rews and some of the othe r G NCC guys, just tr yin g to ge t s o me m ore rid er s up , " Hawkins said a week befor e the even t. His efforts d idn 't pan ou t, as he a nd La fferty were the on ly major nat ion a l AA rid ers in at tendance. That's not to say th ey we re lon ely. Th e combina tion o f goo d w eath e r and lat e- s ea s on e n t h us ias m dr e w 45 0 rid ers to Del aw ar e C i ty for th e De law ar e Enduro Riders' ann u al event, and they we re n ot t o b e d is appoint ed . Th e Delaware End uro Rid ers put together a se lection of sec tio ns broken up by 18 ch eckpoin ts, every sectio n ca pable of ta king p o ints from mo st riders . Th e club d id a fa ntastic job of kee pi ng all this to get her , a nd p roved on ce again