AMA Ford Quality Checked
ter heavy rains plagued the
Missouri State Fair in Sedalia,
Missouri, for nine of 10 days
before round 12 of the AMA
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Track Championship, State Fair Speedway's clay half mile was soft and inconsistent, making the race more a matter of
survival.
But on the same track where the great
Will Davis paid the ultimate price for the
sport he loved, the new number 21 , Jared
Mees, displayed remarkable consistency,
battling through three restarts to earn his
second career Grand National win, this
one coming in the same season as the first.
"It was a really long night," the
Saddlemen/Lancaster Harley-Davidsonl
Dodge Brothers-sponsored Mees said. "I
hate the restarts. I had Will Davis behind
me. Before I went out for the main event,
I got a God Speed 21 sticker and stuck it
on the back of my seat. He was right there;
he was on the front of my tank and right
behind me.
"I want to thank Saddlemen, Lancaster
H-D, Mike Bell Racing and Johnny Goad for
doing my wrenching," Mees added. "He's
awesome. I'm kind of at a loss for words,
but I did it for Will Davis."
The hot, humid night had turned into a
crashfest long before the IS-rider National
took to the track, and that was just the
beginning. It took four starts and nearly an
hour to run the 25-lap race.
"With all the restarts, it messes with
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your mind," Mees said. "There are seven
or eight minutes between each start.
That's half a National."
Latus HarIey-Davidso
