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u.s. PRO MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES ~OUTUWI[R ~M33ir JUNE 12&13 r..-.... by MOTOCROSS ] 38 Soutllwkk. MA 2004 $ SUZUKI & PARTICIPAT ING S UZ U KI DE ALE RS 125/250 cc Pro MX Nationals SATURDAV .JUNE 12 GENERAL ADMISSION After promoter Mike Cuff disqualified him, Russell Pearson explained what happened: '~t the finish I was right in David's dust, " Russ said. ':At the last alternate [gas stop] t hey said we had 10 miles [to the finish] from the last alternate. I could almost see David at that point. I go , 'I've got 10 miles; I can maybe do it.' I pushed, pushed, pushed, then all of a sudden there's a dry lake , and I'm like, 'Man, this looks like the finish.' I'm in his dust so I can 't make out everything, especially in a KXSOO's dust. ':All of a sudden I see the pits off to the left and the big flnish banner that we had to go under, so I head to the finish banner - David had beat me there - and went through the checkered flag and everything. ':Aguy comes up to me and says, 'Hey, you 're not finished unless you go through that chute.' 50 I looked back , and there was a chute. It didn 't go all the way to the finish [banner), though; it was just a little chute about a hundred feet back or something. 50 instead of arguing with the guy - I figured I could argue with them later if I got passed - I just flipped a U and quick as I could went back to the chute and came through the way I guess I was supposed to because I didn 't see the chute in the dust [the first time]. "I came through the chute, crossed the finish line, and [an official] was like, 'Thanks for coming to the race.' That was it. I loaded up and headed home. "The n two nights later - Sunday night, because the race was Saturday - the guy, Mike Cuff, calls me at 10:30 and tells me I'm disqualified for unsafe riding. "I go , 'What did I do?' "He said, 'Yo u roosted on some guy.' "I go , 'Well, I didn't mean to , and we're on a dry lake. What am I supposed to do when a guy says I'm not finished when I just Grossed the finish line?' "There's no way I would want to hurt anybody because that's not in my riding style ; I would never do that in my life. It was just a miscommunication. I guess I missed the finish chute in the dust." Officials with Sidewinders Motorsports alleged that when info rmed that he had to go back through the finish chute, Pearson spun around and heavily roosted those in the area. However, AMA Sports rules state that "The final results posted at the end of the 30-minute protest peri od may not be altered except by the AMA or the appeal process."Since the organizers didn 't disqualify Pearson within the specified time frame, the initial results stood, thereby reinstating Pearson's third-place finish. 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