t ho ugh the 40 -ish rider rode o nly a loop.)
"We got a little behind in the beginning
and made up a litt le bit, lo st a littl e bit just neve r ga ined enough, I guess ," Brown
o bserved.
H is partner, Abbott, added, " [David]
an d N ic k both rode really well t o d ay. I just
d id n't have it. I thought I rode rea lly w e ll
today, but t hey rode bette r. My hat's o ff
to them. I'm glad to see Kawasaki w in, of
course. We wante d to wi n t his o ne really
bad , so I'm kind of bummed , but hopefully, ne xt year."
Thei r 1-2 finish es in the two races so
far t his season do keep t he m at the to p
o f the points ch a rt , t ho ugh.
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LAUGHUN H ARE SCRAMBLES
LAUGHUN, NEVADA
RESULTS: FEBRUARY 28, 2004 (ROUND
2)
O /A : I. David Pea rsOlVN ick Pearson (Kaw) "': 12: 10; 2.
Des try Abbo tt/ Brian Brow n (Kaw) 4: 14:"'7; 3. Russell
My
Pearson (Yam) 4:2 1:27; 4. Clint Braun/Matt
Go sne ll (KT M) 4 :28 :56;
5.
Qui nn
Cody/ Kend all No rman (Hon) 4:35:04 ; 6 . Paul
Krause/ Elme r Symons (KTM) 4:37:40; 7. Ray
Crumb/David Fry (Yam) 4:48 :55; 8. Robbie
Clauss/Jack Masse y (Hon) 4:49:48; 9 . Matt
Berau lt/Mark Miller (Yam) 4:5 1:49 ; 10. Dal
Trubey~ason Trubey (Yom)4,SH6.
OPEN PRO: I . David Pearson/N ick
Pearson (Kaw); 2. Destry Abbo tt/B rian Bro wn (Kaw); 3.
Russell Pea rson (Yam); 4. Quinn Cody/ Kendall Norman
(Hoo) .
25 0 PRO: I. Oint Bra un/Matt Gosnell (KTM); 2. Jason
AJosVSean Berryman (Hoo ).
125 P RO : I . Matt BeraultlMark Miller (Yam); 2. Phil
Hokomb/David Oodas (Kaw) .
4·STRK PR O , I. Paul Kr.o"""EI""" Symons (KTM): 2.
Ray Crumb/David F'Y (Yom): 3. Robbie Claussl)ack Massey
(Hen): ... Chuck De mpse yfT abe r Murphy (Han); 5.
.
Nicholas BWs (Hoo) .
30 + PRO , I.IlVTooy Zasuow (Hon).
SO," he co nfessed.
30 +
AM ,
I. John Kare IVRoy
Briefly...
Wa=rlY""" WatSOn (KTM) .
35 + A M : I . Paul Buc kleslScott Pe rkins
(Kaw ).
OWN RACE
David Fry
2nd Four-Stroke Pro/7th overall
"I pumped up pretty hard and just had a bad first lap [after starting first in class]," Fry said. "[After Krause/Symons passed us],
we just hung with them all day, then on this last lap, I stacked it up really hard trying to chase them down."
Mark Miller
1st 125cc Pro/9th overall
Miller rod e mos t of the race without relief after partner Matt Berault cras hed , breaking his co llarbone and hurting a leg (tho ugh he stuck around for the finish). "The re was ano ther 12S, a Kawi,
and we kind of got ahead of him, " Miller said. "We were just pacing, picking off one guy a lap and
getting up in the top 10, into ninth . Then [Berault] bailed and just limped it in. So then we were
13th or something go ing out, and I just d id what I could!"
Daryl Folks
Ist Over 30 Pro/12th overall
"1 ran out of gas once for about five or six minutes, and we got passed by some Experts and a co uple Pros : ' Folks said. "It was
right here [close to the pits]. What happened was the [gas] cap was lea king. [They didn't have time to install a dry break system
in the tank, having received the bike only two days before the race .] That's the part that put us back , or we'd have been up
there a little further, but we won the class , and that's kind of fun anyway, so it turned out good."
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Though it had rained earlie r in the week
(making for superb conditi o ns), there was
no rain in sight on race day. Still, the KTM
4S0 MXC t hat Elmer Symo ns and Paul
Krause ro de spo rted a pair of the "e lephant
ea r" -ty pe hand guards usually seen only for
mud races, which is w hat Symon s had ridden the previous Sunday at th e Ho lliste r
Nation al hare scra mbles. Wh en pr ess ed for
an ex plana tion. Krause answered,
"[Symo ns] w as sca red of the cholla! He
goes, 'Hey, yo u know those big floppy
things?' He 's trying to describe them, and
he's not really sure what t hey were . I go ,
'You mean those big hand guards? ' He goes,
'Yea h! T hos e guys had them in t he mud
[last week at Ho llister]. We need t ho se for
the cactus!' I go , 'Are you sur e?' So last
night I put them o n for him, and he was all
excited. And I'm no t so sure he was excited
about the cactus or because he just thou ght
they were nea t and wa nted to try the m
o ut . But you know what? I've got no cactu s
in my hands!"
CYCLE NEWS • MARCH 17,2004
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