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AMA 125cc National Motocross Presented by FMF
off the factory racers one after another
before moving up onto Langston on lap
12 of 14. But the veteran Langston, on the
Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki,
would save his best for last, putting in his
fastest lap time on the last lap of the first
moto to hold off Hepler.
Between motos, Suzuki team manager
Roger DeCoster said: "Broc [Hepler] just
needs to get better starts."
Well, that's exactly what he did in the
second moto, and he put on a performance that matched Alessi in the first moto,
though Alessi would win the overall
thanks to Langston.
Also on a rail in the first moto - only to
be derailed early in the race - was
Amsoil/Chaparral/Factory Connection/
Honda's josh Grant. Had it not been for
Grant's eartwheeling crash, the Southem
Califomia speedster would have been right
in the hunt for the trophies. To his credit, he
did gather himself and race back to a
respectable sixth-place finish after the crash.
The top Honda racer was last week's
winner Short, who made some good
passes in both motos but just didn't have
it in the tank to catch the front-runners.
"I didn't have the speed to hang with
Hepler or Alessi today," Short admitted.
"I struggled a little bit on the starts and
that's about it."
Honda's top guy for much of the season, Mike Brown, on the jim's Cycle
Center/Honda CRF250R, showed some
signs of the old "Brownie" who led the
points for the first portion of the season only to have dropped off the pace in recent
races. Brown's Sixth-place finish in the second moto put him into the top 10 overall
in eighth, just behind Yamaha's top finisher,
Yamaha of Troy's Kelly Smith, in seventh.
"This is my best finish this year, but I
didn't catch Danny [Smith] to get into the
top 10 overall [in the points standings],"
Kelly Smith said. ''I'm working at it,
though. I'm slowly picking off points here
and there, getting better every weekend."
Danny Smith leads Kelly Smith by six
points for 10th overall with two races
remaining.
The
battle
between
Cernic's
Suzuki/Monster Energy's jason Lawrence
and his soon-to-be Monster Energy/Pro
Circuit/Kawasaki teammate Ryan Villopoto
was all Lawrence, as he went 5-13 for
ninth overall to Villopoto's 14-16 for 15th
eN
overall.
BROOME-TIOGA SPORTS CENTER
BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK
RESULTS: AUGUST 21, 2005
(ROUND
10
OF
12)
MOTO I: Mike Alessi (KTM); 2. Grant Langston
(Kaw); 3. Broc Hepler (SOl); ... Andrew Short (Hon); S.
Jason Lawrence (Suz); 6. Josh Grant (Hon); 7. Ivan Tedesco
(Kaw); 8. Kelly Sm