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Campbell and Hengeveld Dominate Parker 250 Woodford Hauls at Hollister Hare Scrambles Team Honda's Johnny Campbell and Steve Hengeveld gave chase for about 30 miles, Ohio's Chuck Woodford took advantage of the extremely never won at Parker," Campbell said. And that goes for both the Score events, when it was the Parker 400, and the previous two Best in the Desert Parker 2505. The winners ended up finishing nearly took over the lead and then rode away from the field on their XR6S0R to handily win the Golden West Cycles Parker 2S0 in wet and sloppy conditions to win the opening round of the AMA National Hare Scrambles IS minutes ahead of the runner-up team, State Series. The duo completed the three-lap, 232-mile race in four hours, 10 minutes and seven seconds. "This means a lot to me because I've Series in Hollister, California, made up of Clint Braun and Matt Gosnell on a KTM S2S MXC. They stopped the clocks at 4:24:06 and came away the FourStroke Pro-class victory. Braun and Gosnell finished ahead of defending Four-Stroke Pro champs Mike Childress and Chuck Parker, Arizona, on January 8, in what was round one of Best in the Desert's Silver on January 9. Sporting the National-number two on his Team Green KX2S0, Woodford's first victory at Hollister also earned him the $SOO bounty for beating five- Dempsey, who were third overall on a time winner Brian Garrahan, ~ Honda XR650R. ~ Open Pros Quinn Cody and Andy ~ Grider (KTM), and Taber Murphy and ~ Brian Pinard (Honda) rounded out the o top five. ~ Robby Bell and Kendall Norman made who was third on his Suzuki RM2S0. Garrahan's brother, )! '" a.. their debut as the number-two American Honda team entry, but it wasn't what you'd call a dream debut. After drawing the first start position and leading the early going, Norman crashed heavily, breaking the bike and shaking himself up. After limping in to the alternate pit, Norman took a trip to the hospital for a check out, while Bell finished the race. Unfortunately, Bell also took a nasty header but was able to get to the checkered nag 17th overall and fourth Open Pro. Steve Hengeveld (pictured) teamed up with Johnny Campbell to win the Parker 2S0. 6 JANUARY 19,2005 • CYCLE NEWS Patrick, was a close second on his KTM 2S0. "I really wanted to win this one for a long time," Woodford said. "'t feels really good to start the year off with a win aJso. I think it's really going to help get things rolling for the year; I've kind of got some wind in my sail right off the bat." After being buffeted by Wind, fog and rain, the Hollister Hills State Vehicular Recreation Kawasaki's Chuck Woodford opened the AMA National Hare Scrambles Series with a win at Hollister. Area was a mess and the conditions certainly favored mud riders. A number of racers took their turns at the front, but it came down to Woodford and Patrick Garrahan dueling on the fifth and final lap. As they headed to the final turn, Garrahan tried an all-or-nothing pass, clicking into fourth gear across the rutted, off-camber and slick slope, but he ended up on the ground, as Woodford rode safely away to the win. Kawasaki-mounted Ricky Dietrich and KTM's Nathan Kanney rounded out the topfive overall.