Rocky Mountain ATV/MC World Off-Road Championship SErIEs
&than Woods lOOk a h .
step toward the defense
01 his number-one plate In
the Rocky Mountain
ATV/MC World Off-Road
Championship Series, present-' jointly
by DHI Racing and Zlp-lY Racing, with a
win at round nine of the series at Honey
Lake MX Park.
After finishing off the podium in the last
four rounds, Woods dominated the
Honey Lake _ t aboard his Montclair
YamahalZlp-Ty Raclng/Moose-sponsored
VZ4S0F, topping runner-up Mike
KIedrowski by 55 seconds. PrlvIlteer
Bobby Garrison rounded out the podium
on his Big Valley HondalMaxxislNo Fear
CRF450R, finishing I minute and 9 seconds behind KIedrowski's FMF/Ounlop/
O'Neal RM·Z4S0, after running as far
back as eighth during the early going.
Woods' victory dealt a crushing
blow to KTM's Kurt CaselU, who
had been on a roll after winning
the previous two rClUflds of the
series. At Honey Lake, however, the Michelin/Motorex!
Moose 250 MXC-rnounted
Caselli oouId manage only S/lNenth. And though he maintained
second In overaI points, the
ISDE Yeteran slid backward in
the points chase to Woods, whose
rnlIIJln 1110 eased to 219-176, unoIfldally.
"My anns pumped up really bad,"
Caselli said. "My wrist was Imd of buglng
me ~m that tendonitis or whatever. It's
been buggkw me all week since the ISDE
finished. 1 lust don't think I was I'l*ly. My
body's kind of tired, and I'm kind of tired."
Woods, on the other hind, ~
fully recovered from the injuries he'd suffered at the start of the summer break at
aGNCCnc:e.
"I came back and felt like I could'w
won the last round in Utah, but I think my
conditioning was not up to par," he said.
"Getting second Is not anything to complain about, but when you feel you can
win the race, you're going \0 be disappointed, especially If you're a racer."
At Honey Lake, however, Woods
would settle for nothing but first,
"Today, I was on a mission; Woods
said. "I came on yesterday in practice, and
I felt that I was going to win the race. 1felt
good, my bikes worked good, everything
about it was lust going my way. When U.
happens, it's areat. It doesn't happen
way aU the time."
At the start, Woods' ~, lY
Davis, led the field with Woods, Caselli and
Kiedrowski tucked doseIy behind him.
Caselli and Woods aIDed briefly over second place before Woods finally broke away
and made a bid for flr$l. By the end of the
lap, Woods had taken the '-I, leaving
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