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Craig "Rappa" Ranells won the Vet Intermediate, Old·Timer Intermediate and Over 30 X classes at the Clawson Motorsports/CMA Bounty Hunter MX Series fina le in Madera, California. Clawson Motarsports/CMA Bounty Hunter MX Series Round 9: Madera Fairgrounds Farewell to the Hunters By EDDIE GRAVELINE MADERA, CA, OCT. 10 A ll good th ings must eventually come to an end . and so it was for the Bou nty H unt er Series. A fter ru nning all over the state of Cal ifornia since the beginning of May. the block- buster ser ies was w rappi ng things up with a do ubleheader in Madera. Some of the riders lo ok e d a litt le peaked as t hey walked the freshly prepped trac k that Sunday morning . Almost all of them had spe nt the entire prev ious day racing on a spe cially built trac k inside Made ra Speedway ne xt door. After wa tching a grea t Pro race , they headed back to their homes (o r motorhomes) for an abbreviated night's sleep . With such a lo ng se ries , it' s only natural that riva lr ies de ve lop e d in most of t he classes. Tha t was true all the way do wn to the greenest of the 50cc riders . T he co mpetitors in the First-Timer class had a grea t batt le to end the se ries. KTM rider Jordan Wisnoski came out of the gate strong and was able to w in the first moto, just ahead of Sweet Pea De La Mora and Tony Gonzalez . O bviously looking to do the same thing in the second race , Wisnoski was met with more resistance the next time out, De La Mora ran toward the fro nt - as he had in most of the series - and pulled ou t the mo to win to clinch the overall vic tory. Go nzalez slippe d by for se co nd in t he rac e . bu t W isnoski's 1-3 tally was goo d enough for second ove rall. A few of the SScc classes feature d very close racing up front . T he re we re two divisions of SScc Beginne rs, and ride rs we re placed based on the ir positio ns in the se ries points standings. In othe r words, the top guys fro m all of the previo us ro unds were goi ng head to head in the first d ivision. T hou gh th e re wa s movement in the top three in the two motes, the riders were the same . Honda rider Nick Mue ller looked great in wha t was act ually the first moto of the day. After ea rly skirmishes , he rode on to take the checkered nag ahead of Jake Hjort land and Anthony Macera. The second mo to was run under simila r circumstances, and the race for the lead was hea ted. In the end, Hjo rt land prevailed ove r Mueller. and he took the overall by way of tie breaker. Macera was third again. tak ing the same spot in the overall stand ings. The Open (5- 1I) class was another closely contested one. Joshua Dier cks and Joseph Reynolds tra ded wins and secondplace finishes. Be hind them. Mason Garcia and Austin McCall swap pe d third- and fo urt h-pl ace rides . The fina l stand ings showed Diercks (2- 1) on to p . follow ed by Reynolds ( J -2). Garcia (4-3) and McCa ll (3-4). r-------------------------------------DYES! StMt my eubsc r tp tion immt-'iliatdy to Cycle News. I . yl'ar /SO issu es for $--15 .00. (ca n be bil led 2 monthl y pn.r) MC / Vi~'1 # Exp . Dale rt...' ......... l.~"""~~.... \~. :~·~~=.~:~~~~~7\. hi ~-------------------------------------www.cy clenews .com CYCLE NEWS • DECEMBER 1, 2004 65

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