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marker the brakes started fading, and I made
it just to the nine-mile marker and had no
brakes." Grider said. "That's when I looked
down, and there was o ilev\>rywhere. I th ink
I lost 45 minutes total with coming back to
the truck to get oil and going back out
because I knew if I kept going. the bike
wouldn't make it. A finish is better than a
DN F. We 're in a big points chase right now,
going for the F I [plate] again."
Grider and Blais would finish second in
class and I I th overall in 5:48: I I on a bike
neither had ridden before; in fact, they bolted the last few parts on the night before.
One te am that didn 't have any proble ms all race was the 250cc Pro pair of
Clint Braun and Matt Gosnell . At the end
of the day, they were third overall on
their Sportsman Cycie/SuperMex/ DH
Racing KTM 250 SX in an unofficial
5:26:34. The class win clinched the numberone plate for t hem , t hough it was far from
a trouble-free ride between a flat front
tire , hav ing to drain the fuel tank once
because of a pit mistake and needing to fix
a broken e xhaust flange.
Open Expert w inners Larry Brown and
David Fry on their TCR Perfo rmance/
Beam Design/Brento's Cycle X R650R follow ed Bra un and Gosnell in the overall
motorcycle standings, though separated
by two ATV teams on time.
" Dave [Fry] keeps me out of trouble, "
a gracious Brown sa id. " He' s the one w ho
fixes all my m istakes; he kind of gets us
bac k on course he re ."
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LAs VEGAS 2 00
JEAN, N EV
ADA
RESULTS: O CTO BER
( R OU N D S OF 6)
16 , 2004
OVERALL Mle: 1. Steve Hengeveld (Hon ) 4:46:3$; 2.
Mike Childre ss/Chuck Dempsey (Hon) 4:54:32; 3. Clint
Braurv'Matt Gosnell (KT M) 5:26:3-1 ; 1. larry BrownIDavtd
Fry (Hon) 5:36:03 ; S. Alltkony Casti lk¥Pat rick K. We lls
(Yvn) 5:38:03: 6. S<:ott H..-weg!Chns Ray (Kaw) 5:43:36; 7.
a.
Chri stopher" BIOIislAndy Grid er (KT M) 5:48: I I ;
Steven
EayrslDa vid Thomas (KTM) $;5) : 19; 9. Oay GremellScotl
Reutner fMichael Wi lliams (KT M) 5:56:12; 10. Ton y
Aguilera/Chris Fry/ Nacoma HcCormk k (Yam) 5:57:52.
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ATVs shared the course with the bikes,
and some of them proved very fast. In fact,
the top two AlVs were actually the fifth
and sixth vehicles to finishthe motorcycle!
AlV portio n of the event . In addition, the
third and fourth Quad Pros were actually
ninth and 10th overall.
OPEN PRO : I. Steve Hengevel d
(Han ).
250 PRO: Clint Braun/Matt Gosnell
(KTM).
4·STRO KE PRO :
I. H ike
Childress/Chuck De mpsey (Hon); 2.
After a career-best fifthoverall motorcycle
and second overall Expert, teenagers
Anthony Castillo and Patrick Wells clinched
the series 250cc Exp e rt championship.
Vegas marked their fourth series victory in
a row on their Eliminator Pest ControV
M2R/Scon USAYZ2S0. Asked if they'd
move to the Pro class next year, Wells
replied, "Well, we 're thinking about it."
Clint Braun (pictured) and Matt Gosnell
clinched the 2S0cc Pro-class championship with their v ictory.
C hristopher Blais/Andy Grider (KT M) .
Former desert/enduro/15DE racer Kelby
Pepper of Colorado demonstrated how
quickly he's adapting to the car racing
world by nabb ing fourth overall in his Class
1500 Toyota-powered buggyat the Vegas
200. The trucks and buggies raced at the
same time as the bikes and AlVs but utilized an entirely different 75-mile course,
based mainly to the south of the dry lake
and entirely east of 1
-15.
I
OV ER 4 0 PR O :
I. Mark
Anondsorv'Doug Heil (Hon) .
OPE N EX: I. Larry Brown/D avid
Fry (Hon); 2. Scott Herweg1Chris Ray
(Kaw ); 3. Steven EayrslDavid Thomas
(KTM).
2S0 EX: I. Anthony Castillo/Patrick
K. Wells (Yam); 2. Kyle HearoldlJason
Tyer/AndyVance (Yam).
4-STROKE EX: I. Tony Aguilera!
C hris Fry/Nacoma McCormick (Yam); 2.
Jamie GrahamlCurtis B. Moon (Hon) ; 3.
Joshua Fishe r/Kevin Fisher (Han ).
OVE R
30
EX:
I.
Ead
Des iderio/James Embro/Duane Schwab
(KT M); 2. David J. Dunn/Jer ry
HertingtWilii m M . O 'Hara (Hon) : 3.
a
Kurt Hintz/Brett Hoffman/Doug Imhof
(Han) .
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OVER 3S EX: I. Todd Co lley
Goelz (Han ).
O VER 40 EX: I. Greg FountainIJeff
.
Phill psIKurt Sofka Jr. (Hon ); 2. Rex Peck (Kaw).
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OVER SO EX: I. Ne lson Hemandez/Bill Pallono
(Yvn) ; 2. Je")" AJIe