in the Desert Silver State Series
Hengeveld and
CaDlPbe11 Break Out
The Honda duo goes to the forefront
with Terrible's Town win
STORY AND PHOTOS BY MARK KARIYA
oing into the Terrible's Town 250, beat that."
round three of Best in the Desert's
Indeed, they led from start to finish, as they had
Silver State Series, two teams had done last year. But unlike last year, when they finidentical records that tied them for ished in front but were beaten on corrected time
the series points lead. Honda's by the team that rolled into the finish just after
Johnny Campbell and Steve Hengeveld, the them, Campbell and Hengeveld had a very comdefending series champs, and Team Green chal- fortable cushion, completing the course in 4 hours,
lengers Shane EspOSito and David Pearson each 14 minutes and 31 seconds. That put them well
had a win and a fifth place in the first two events ahead of the 4:22:21 of KTM's Christopher Blais
of the six-race series.
and Andy Grider on their Red Bull/Michelin/
When the dust settled after 243 miles of fast, Motorex-sponsored 525 MXC. Mike Childress
rough Nevada desert outside of Pahrump, it was and Chuck Dempsey rounded out the podium on
the duo on the Precision Concepts/Honda Pro their XR's Only/Temecula Motorsports/O'Neal
Oils/Dunlop-backed XR6S0R who had clearly XR650R, finishing in 4:26:54 despite Dempsey sufdominated the day and, in doing so, collected the fering a broken collarbone.
$5000 victory bonus as well as sole possession of
The Campbell/Hengeveld duo had drawn the
the points lead.
first starting position, as they'd done last year, and
"I wanted to just jump out in front early and try Hengeveld sprinted away at 5:45 a.m., trying to
to pull away as quick as I could, that was my goal," gap the field immediately. And he did.
Hengeveld said. "It ended up working out that
"I guess I pulled about 15 seconds on them by
way.
pit one, which was at mile 18," Hengeveld said.
"Nothing really exciting [happened]," "Then when I got to pit two [at mile 44], I don't
Hengeveld added. "We didn't have to change any know what happened, but there was, like, flYe
wheels or anything. We just kept it on two wheels minutes with nobody [in sight]. From start to two
and moving forward. Today was one of those days [where he handed the bike off to Campbell],
where everything clicked just right; it's hard to everything was going really well."
G
The Honda team of
Johnny Campbell
and Steve Hengeveld
dominated. They led
from start to finish.
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