-Round 3
SUPERMOTO
Can
August 27, 2005
Beattie, Beattie
Ward scorch To
NASMOTO round
By MARK WOLBRINK
PHOTOS BY TARA BOGART/GINGE
anadian brother- act Steve
and Doug Beattie joined
Jeff Ward as class winners
during the Polson Pier
Supermoto, the third stop
for the NASMOTO Championship Series
also serving as one of the headliners at
the Toronto X-Fest, Hosted by The
Docks entertainment complex, this twoday event tastefully combined Supermoto, skateboarding, paintball wars and
girlie calendar models into one weekend
of fun,
Adjustments to the track continued for
the entire weekend, but the general layout was completed on Friday. Occupying
a parking lot and the better part of two
C
city blocks, the track included
a jumping dirt section, two
additional dirt turns, a few
respectably fast straights, and
a tight, abrupt infield, with a
barge - a real, floating, listing,
tied-to-dry-Iand-with-ropes
barge. A bowl turn on the far
end of the barge kept everybody dry, and a kicker jump
helped get the riders back to shore.
Helmet-painting god and Supermoto
fanatic Troy Lee grabbed the holeshot in
the SM2 main. Ignoring the wet conditions, dirt trackers Steve Beattie and John
Lewis worked their way around Lee and
into the front two positions. Beattie
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proved to be too fast for Lewis, who was
running on rain fires for the first time and
by the crossed flags. Beattie and Lewis
had settled into a one-two running order
that lasted for the remainder of the race.
Running in third, Llino Zecca offered the
spectators a bit of late-race excitement
when he tucked the front end in the last
corner on the white-flag lap; luckily, the
motor stayed running. Zecca made an
always-impressive "flying W" remount to
hold on to third place. Lee finished fourth.
The SM I main played out like the hook
joke for a bad sitcom, the same rimshot
