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Rock y Mount a in M/C-ATV WO RCS Series
Round 7: Honey Lake Motocros s Park
May the "Forsberg' Be With You!
By DAVE BROSIUS
MILFORD, CA, MAY 22 -23
n e of Northern California's finest
Motocross facilities played host to round
seven of t he Rocky Mou nta in M/C -ATV
WaRCS Series. The Honey Lake course was
well-prepared and offered outstanding off-road
section s to test the record turnout of participants . The event drew we ll over 900 e xcite d
co mpetitors from all over the United States .
The racing was very clos e in every class,
but non e was closer than in the Wom en's A
class . Th e field was headed by Kelly Yanc y,
wh o has carried the IW plate for thr ee years.
Up for th e challenge we re tw o -tim e e ve nt
winner Mar ia Forsberg, ISDE vet eran Carol
Williams, and one of Nevada's top cont e nders,
Susan Hellman.
Ya
ncy too k her Troy Lee Designs KTM 450
MXC straight to the front. follo wed by
Fo rsberg and Williams, who were side by side
go ing int o the first tu r n. Yanc y ha d a
co mma nding lead as they came t hro ugh the
scor ing chute for the first time . Forsberg was
second but feeli ng pressu re from Williams .
Suddenly, Yancy started to slow, and Forsberg
closed the gap. Yan cy's luck we nt from bad to
worse, as her rear tire went flat; as Forsberg's
KX250 closed in. Yancy made co ntact wit h a
lapper and went down.
"I had a flat, but I can still ride hard on the
Ma xxis tires , so I gave it shot ," Yancy
explained. '" was coming up on Christy Brosius
when we both just got in each oth er's line and
we nt down, and Maria got by."
Fo rsbe rg took the lead . Th en the hard charging Williams made her move , taking over
the lead in the final laps. How ever, luck was
not on Williams' side , either: As the ladie s
we re running much faster t han the men w ho
on the track, lappers came into play.
"I had some good lines and used the lappers
O
finally yielded, going down on t he seventh lap.
Carroll quickly jum ped up to co nt inue t he
race , ma naging to lo se o nly on e po sitio n.
Suzuki ride r Chris Flesia, Rhote n and Edward s
rou nded out t he top five.
Th e final race of the eveni ng, the 250cc
Pro main event, had Cam pbell. Sande ll and
Rhote n battling it out once again. Rhot en was
th e hol eshot wi nne r and led unt il t he Sun
Ha nd a/ Fly Raci ng/Re lentl e ss- s po nso re d
Camp bell found a way around him on lap four.
Sa nd e ll settled in beh ind t he t w o race rs ,
lo o king fo r his ow n pass ing o ppo rt unity.
Despite being forced to pick their way around
lap ped r iders , t he to p t hr e e hel d t he ir
positions for the re mainder of t he race. Two
Suzuki ride rs, Da rin Co nne t and Edwards ,
came in fourth and fif respectively.
th,
RESULTS
SO CL 2: I. Gavin Silver (Kaw); 2. Austin Warren (Cob):
3. Tan ne r Wineland (Cob) ; 4. Tucker Ca ntrell (Co b); S.
Devan Ganze (Cob). 50 CL 1: I. William Rothwell (Pol); 2.
Zachary Snoke (KTM): 3. Nicole Davis (Cob); 4. Christian
Bahl (Yam); S. Jacob l ong (Yam). 50 CL 4: I. Ch ris Kinney
(Hon); 2. Kimberly Guerette (Hon): 3. l evi Meye r (Hon) ; 4.
Dalto n Raue r (Hon) . 50 CO MB: I. Ta nne r Wi ne land
to get back aro und Carol," said Forsberg after
taking the w in. "She was going so fast , and I
just tried to match her speed and was able to
get by her near the e nd. I need to thank Mike,
my family Kawasaki, and the Mount Baker gang
,
for allof their support."
Williams was runner-up . Hellman also got
around Yancy's slowing KTM to finish third .
Taking the w in in the Wom en's B class was
16-year-old C RF250 Honda ride r Mich e le
Coll ins. N ikk i Marshall , the se ries poi nts
leader in the B class, came in se co nd, and
round-t w o w inne r Ci ndy Arm bru ster to ok
third on her RMZ250.
Jason Tro xler and Chris Schildge n, both
from Flagstaff, Arizona, had a good weekend .
Troxler rode his KTM to the top spot in t he
250F B class, followed by the Y
amaha-mou nte d
Schildgen and Honda rider Cory McArthur of
Alpine, Utah.
With only one race left before the WaRCS
crew takes a summer break, the points races
ar e st ill up for gra bs, and a numb er of ne w
motorcy cles will be finding new homes when
the se ries concludes in Novem ber, so don't miss
out on the second half of Wa RCS Series! eN
HONEY LAKE MOTOCR
OSS PARK
M IL ORD, CALIFORNIA
F
SULTS: MAy 22-23, 2004 (ROUND 7)
RE
50 (7 -8): I. Brandy Richards (KTM); 2. Ty Tre maine
(KTM); 1 . N icolas Hammo nd (KTM) ; 4 . joseph Har ne y
(KTM); S. Brett Sage (KTM). 50 (4 -6) : I. Tucker larrieu
(Pol): 2. Kotton Lynn (KTM); 3. Tom Bates ; 4. Tyler Ducray
(Yam) 65 A , I . CJ. Hyn= (KTM ); 2. Kilhan Woo., (IUw);
.
3. Angelo Tanner (Kaw): 4. Ryan Goodwin (Kaw). 65 B: I.
Patrick Pica (Kaw); 2. Hudson Knoll (KTM); 3. Dylan Just us
(Kaw); 4. Hunter Knoll (KTM); 5. Tucker Larrieu (Pol). 65
C: I. Austin Gibso n (Kaw); 2. Cross Kirchmeier (Kaw); 3.
Samantha Menighan (Kaw); 4. jame s Bro ussard (Han): 5.
Cody Kunkel (Suz). S/M INI A: I. Shawn Haber10ck (Hen ):
2. Joshua Morros (Kaw); 3. jonathan Davis (KTM) ;~ . Jam ie
La nza (Yam); S. Sean Geiser (Kaw ) . 85 A: I . Shawn
Habe rloc k (Han) ; 2. Jamie Lanza (Yam); 3 . Sean Ge iser
(Kaw); 4. Joey Pascarella (KTM); S. Ronnie Goodwin (Kaw).
85 B; I. Zach Watson (Yom); 2. Alex Me