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the lights. So m e of the raci ng was he ld ~s late as 10:00 p .m . Racers also endu red a va ri ety of natural elements, such as high winds , ra in , cold and heat throughout the four-day event. Like Stewart. Billy Lan inovich had a very succe ssfu l week of racing , bu t his success cam e in th e Pro ranks. where he won three out of four Pro clas ses. Hi s o n ly loss came at the hand s of 12 5c c S t o c k Pro winne r, Hondamounted Turbo Reif. Laninovich was sol id in the 250cc Pr o classes , but may have gotten a break in the second 125cc Pro Modi fied race . He benefited fro m a red flag that came out ju st before th e halfwa y p o int while runn in g th ird . On t h e rest ar t, L a n in o v i c h smoked the ho l e sh ot and pos t ed t he m oto and ov erall victory in front of hard -ch arg in g Kevin J ohn so n and rookie Pro Evan Laughridge. Jimmy Nelson , Dav i Millsaps and Eli Tomac all took a bid at bei ng th e top Mi ni race r of the week . with each rider scoring three cham pionship titles . The Millsaps/Mike Alessi Minicycle rivalry resumed at Las Vegas, and th is one wen t to the Suzuki rider Millsaps . Millsaps was fast all week . plus . he was able to use his la rger size to an ad van tage th rough the difficult Las (Below) The 85cc (14-16) class lau nch es off the start li ne. (Bel ow righ1) Billy Laninovlch chalked up three Pro-class w ins. (Top left) Bob Kiniry (203), here leading Jimmy Nelson, was Nelson's number-one nemesis throughout the weekend. (Above) Dustin Pipes (532) took runner-up honors In the 65cc (9-11) Modified class. (Above) Do m inic Izzi co llect ed a pa ir of 65cc cla ss titles. (Bel ow) Cha pman Fie ne (57) holeshots the 85cc (0 -11) start. Vega s whoops . wh ich swallowed up the smaller Alessi. (A lessi was left on the ground on more than one occasion t hroughout th e c o u rse of the week , and he went ba c k to California titleless.) In the end. Millsaps wa s the top gun. scoring three cham p ionship titles in the 80cc (1 2-1 3) Stock and Modi fied, and 80 cc Open cl asses. Tea m Thousand O aks ra cer Jim m y Nelson was just as successful as Millsaps, scori ng three titles. The Yamaha rid er won in the 80 cc (1 4- 16) Stock and Mo difi ed, and Sup ermini d ivisions. Nelson ' s m a in rival th roughout the week was Suzuk i -m ounted Bob Kiniry, who posted a pair of runner-up fi nishes in both the 80cc Modified (14 -1 6) and Supermini d iv isio ns . Nelso n al so pos te d o ne of the week 's fa stest Minicycle lap times of o n e minu te , 38 seconds , and w a s argua bl y the qu ickest Mi nicyle racer th r o u g h the i m p o r t a n t whoo p sections . Eli T oma c , th e son o f m ountainbike-racing -Iegend John Tomac, po st ed an awesome run of victo ries in the 5 0cc (7 -8) St ock and Modifi ed , and 65 cc (6 -8) divisio ns, losing only o ne of the fo ur cl asses he entered. In that race , the 60cc (6 -8) class , Chris Thies neVIl's