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- - -- -- - - - - - - - - - - - Round 3 MOTOCROSS June 12,2005 AMA 125cc National Motocross Championship Presented by FMF Briefly... Continued from pDge 23 Southwick fans have been known to support their local heroes. This year was no different. "The fans here at Southwick have just been amazing," Dowd said. "For myself, Doug Henry and all the local guys that are here, they come out yelling and screaming. Sometimes on the starting line, we can't even hear our bikes. It really helps when you are out there getting tired and swallowing dirt and everything." Doug Henry rolled in his new Fun Mover RV, a far cry from the last time Henry raced Southwick and showed up in a clapped-out compact pickup with his VZ2S0 crammed in the back, along with a tent and sleeping bag. Bike dealer/team owner Jeff Cemic is opening up a new shop in Somerset, Pennsylvania. Cernic got good deal on an old, 32,000square-foot ice hockey rink and will convert it into a third shop. Dubbed "Cemic's Cyde World," the new shop is set to open in three to four months. Uttle known fact: The MX33B track was the first to incorporate a backwards-falling starting gate back in the early 1980s. Chad Reed reportedly sported a mohawk before the Southwick race but hacked it off before the race. "I had to get rid of it because I had this big Yamaha function [a dealer show in lAs Vagas]," Reed said. he wild world of 125 racing took yet another unbelievable turn at Southwick's MX338 track, when Grant Langston, on the Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki KX250F, managed to rise above the pain of a severely injured ankle to capture the overall victory, while teen phenom Mike Alessi may have crashed his way out of the tide chase. Langston, who went 2-1 for the overall win, taped up and hobbled off the sidelines - a modem-day version of Dick Mann in On Any Sunday - and stunned an industry, which had all but written him off for at least the next few races following Langston's dislocated ankle at Hangtown and subsequent DNF/DNS at Mt. Morris. "Sometimes you have to dig deep and overcome the pain," Langston said, his foot heavily taped and elevated on the press conference table next to fellow podium finishers Ryan Hughes and Mike Brown. "This has a lot to do with my drive to win. A win today was awesome for me, a big surprise. My adrenaline took over, then when the checkers came, it [the ankle] hurt like a son of a bitch again. The blisters on my hands, sand in my mouth and a lot of other things took my mind off my ankle. "It's [Southwick] just a miserable race," LAngston said. ':And as much as you love it, you hate it at the same time." The win was Langston's second of the year, seventh of his career and first ever at Making the trip to Southwiick from the UK was former GP racer Mark Eastwood. The fOfTTler MX3-

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