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Best in the Desert Silver State Series Round 3: Terrible's Town 250 son] being out front...and Brian and Dave in second, it was tough. "But we started thinking about it and knew a lot of people were going to go all the way to pit two [before stopping or changing riders]. So we decided, if we're in somebody's dust, you might as well pit because then they're going to [pit] two, and if you can get back in their dust, pass them [while they're pitting]. So that's what our strategy was. Probably five miles out of [pit one], I caught back up to Johnny [Campell] and I got by him. A couple miles later, I got by Stephensen, so we were in free air, because Nick and Dave, they had a pretty big gap on everyone at that point. That's another thing - there's been some comments that the only reason we won is because J didn't stop for Johnny, and I want it known that I was in front of Johnny [when he crashed]. If he would've crashed [in front of me], I would've stopped and stayed until the next guy came, I know that's what Ty did. That probaby did cost [Davis and Russell Pearson] the race. But anyone of us would've done that.· Bert Bradford and Rob Phillips made their Four-Stroke Pro debut a winning one. After riding a KTM 380 in the Expert ranks for the past couple seasons, they tried the Pro class on their Rocky Mountain MC.com/Pro !Above) Ty Davis 'shown) was the first rtder on-scene when Johnny Campbell cnlShecl. The Vemahe ...cer remained with Campbell until H~'s An~ Grider errlved on the scene. Davis end Russell Peerson stili manegecl to finish second. (Left) Nick Peerson 'shown) end Mett Gosnell ended up third ov....lI. Cycle/Moose 520, finishing fourth overall in 5:33:36. Christopher Blais put in a tremendous ride to claim overall Expert honors, as well as winning the Ironman Expert division in 5:40:39 for fifth overall on his www.blaisracing.com/ IMS-sponsored XR650R. Making his ride even more impressive was the fact that it was his first race since 48 APRIL 17, 2002' CUD •• n _ .., s breaking his hand at the Laughlin hare scrambles in February. "Everything felt good,· Blais said. "It's just that I haven't ridden a lot in a while, so my hands started cramping. I started feeling it 80 miles in,· Blais bested class runner-up Rick Daniel, who rode a Z Racing/IMS/ Torco KTM 380, by nearly 50 minutes. Blais wasn't the only one coming off an injury. Abbott suffered a dislocated shoulder less than a month before Terrible's Town, but he said it didn't affect him physically during the race. "I was more worried about crash;ng on it, that was my biggest fear,· he said. "But everything worked out really well. John Braasch built a great bike again. I'm so excited to win this race two times now. I was really ner-