IBriefly...
The orga nizers threw something new at the
riders by hauling in crushed rock and making an artificialsection for the spectators.
The 40-yard-long "rock garden" was situated in the middle of a long straight just
after the pit area and was followed by a
series of telephone poles that were laid on
the ground so that the riders had to jump
over them . This area was a crowd pleaser
and makingit interesting to see the different lines that the riders took . "It's cool to
have something like that for the specta tors ," KTM's Kurt Caselli said . "It wasn't
too hard and the rocks were pretty stable,
so they weren 't skatingaround on you. It
makes for a good spectator spot, you just
had to worry about gett inga flat."
Sundaywas Halloween, and during Saturday's
com petition, Russ Pearson raced the 250cc Proclass in a Sponge&b Square Pants costume.
chan ce of wrapping it up two weeks ago
at Glen Helen and just had some problems. But today was a good day - I got a
good start, had som e mistakes early, but
came back and made it happen. 1am really happy for Y
amaha and Zip-Ty Racing. I
want to than k Ty Davis, Kenny Parry, my
w ife and everybody else : t hey all put
fo rt h a big effort towards my program
th is year."
At the start of the two-hour race ,
Woods got a good jump and entered turn
one ahead of the pack but went wide at
the exit, giving KTM factory-rider Kurt
Caselli a clea r path to the fro nt. A turn
later, Woods made another error, allowing both another KTM r ide r, David
W idme r, and Team Green Kawasaki's
Lance Smail by.
" I bobbled in turn two and went off
the trac k," Woods said. 'After tha t I
thought, 'O kay, I'm just go ing to stay he re
and try to work my way through. It's just
the first lap, and we've got two hours
left, and anything can happen .' From
there , I just settled in and start ed picking
people off."
By th e end of the motocross portion
of the co urse , Caselli had pulled several
seco nds on the pack ; meanwhile Smail
had moved past Widmer fo r second
place, with Woods, Karlsen, Bo nds,
Mon tclair Yamaha's Russ Pe arso n and
Team Green's De stry Abbott in tow.
De fe nding WO RCS champ Ty Davis was
re covering from a mediocre start and
news.com
Lance Sm ail
was one of
the few riders
who had plans
worked out
for the 2005
season. Smail
has signed up
again with the
Team Green
Kawasaki
Team and plans on doing the WO RCS
series and se lect GNCC and Hare
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