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results, to say the least, but yet he re m ained upbeat. " I rode strong today; my Throttlehead .com/Kawasaki worked great today. I had fun, and I'm looking forward to some w ins," he said. Team Green Kawasaki's C huck Woodford filled out the podium, but he might have won had he not had some problems early on . "Chucky,' riding a KX250F thumper, dropped just 18 points on the day, wh ich included two extra po ints due to timekeeping faux pas. This was Woodford 's first race with a computer. " Peo ple ke pt tell ing me , ' It 's easy; all you have to do is look at the computer, an d it will tell you w hat to do," Wood fo rd sai d . ''' If it 's blinking, yo u got to slow down, a nd if it is not blinking, t he display will show you how m any seconds yo u are beh ind sched ule .' Well, it's not t hat sim ple. There is a lot more to it than that." His mileage was off a bit in the morning, and as he approached the mileage marker just before the check-in of the second test, he stopped to ad just his odometer accordingly. Unfortunately for him, all that did was put him at the bottom of his minute, and by the time he got around the comer to t he check, the card had already flipped . As a result, Woodford picked up an extra point here as w ell as when he checked out. Former N at iona l Enduro C hampion Randy Haw kins po sted an 18-point sco re ca rd to grab fo urth o ve ra ll for the day. He was just 20 seconds ahead of fifth overall, Russell Bobbit, w ho ha d Hu s ky, bu t h e mis sed t he flip o f t he th e othe r 18ยท po int card fo r t he day, card three ti mes by just seconds. He Bobbit , just 18 years o ld, is in po sit ion end e d up sevent h o n t he d ay b ut is po ssib ly to w in the SE&T RA holdi ng down fifth in t he series points Championship, which t his race was also a stand ings . eN part of. C H ERO KEE CYCLE CLUB SE&TRA:s Jaso n Chancey was another G REENSBORO, GEORGIA would've-could 've for the day. Chancey R ESULTS: MARCH 14, 2004 ended up w inning his class, the O pen A (ROUND 3 OF 9) division , with a score of 25 points, but O IA: I. OMd Lykke (KTM); 2. Steve Hatch (Kaw ); 3. that tally include d seven bum points! Chuck Woodfon! (Kaw); 4. Randy Hawltin, (Yam ); S. Chancey came out of the first test a little R=ell Bobbit (GG); 6. Bany Hawk (Yam 7. Fred Hcess ); hot, act ually way ho t, as he was the only (Hcs ); 8 . flobb;e Je n'" (Yam); 9. Noland Kn;g!tt (Kaw ); 10. T"')' Wellbom (Kaw ). rider to bum it by over one m inute. The AMA FH F NATI ONAL CHAM PIO NSHIP EN DURO first test was actually a timekee ping secSE RIES POINTS STAN DINGS (Aft... 3 of 9 round,), tion for all the faster r iders, as they had to I. DaW! Lykke (81n wW); 2. St eve Hatc h (62); 3. Randy scrub speed or stall to come through at Ha_ (6 1); 4. 1Y OM (4511w;n); 5. Fred Hcess (42); 6. R=ell Pearson (35); 7. B' ty R=ell (27); 8. N olan Kn;ght the middle of their minute. Still, many r id(25); 9. RJdwd Laff""Y (24); 10. C huck Woodfon! (21). ers got burned. Rob bie "T he King o f Bums" Jenks and his Yamaha teammate Barry Hawk both burned this check, but only by seconds. This year the Chero kee Cycle Club lost about 30 m iles H usq va r n a ' s Fr e d H oess of trail due Iand-use issues. The dub , however, was still had a good r ide o n his 250cc able to lace together almost 90 milesof trail without too much asphalt. There were a total of 12 checks to check the riders in and out of every section, except one . The final test , which didn't even take any points from the "nonhumans" was lacking a check-in. The enduro-savvy riders who were on the sharp lookout were able to sneak in to the last test, possiblyshavinga point offtheir score . This did not change the race results much at all, though, very different from last year's deep check-ins, which definitelytweaked the results. Briefly... KTM'sMike Laffe rty was toolingaround on his newly repaired knee. He was upbeat, but it was very obvious that he wanted to be racing and back in the hunt. lafferty hopes to retum to action toward the end of the year. Grumblings in the pits after the event were definitely present. Manyclaimswere made as to the use of shortcuts, some claimingthat riders beat them to the checkout without ever passingthem . Mer much discussion, there was nothing that could be done about it, since no riders missed any O.B. checks or any checks at all. David 4'kke was sporting a five-inch gash on his thigh after the race. He said that he crashed into a tree and endoed in the aftermath.