AMA,/FMF National Championship Enduro Series
Coalinga. CA .. Febt""Uery20._ _ _ _ _..,.1
_ 2CXXJ
Round 1 : Clear Creek
By
JILL ASHWORTH PATTERSON
(Below) Five miles Into the first
loop, winner Randy Hawkins
thinks about the first check. A
44-point card was good enough
for the win.
(Below right) Defending champ
Ty Davis was going for five
consecutive wins at the
Quicksilver National but
came up one point short.
He still finished second
overall.
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Randy Hawkins started off this
year's AMA/FMF National Enduro
Series with a hard-earned win at the
Quicksilver National Enduro near
Coalinga. The event was also the
first round of the Moose Northern
California Championship Enduro
Series.
The three-loop, 120-mile (actual)
event, which was hosted by the Salinas Ramblers, started out to be
another quality National event with
excellent riding conditions, but
Mother Nature decided to muddle
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things up for the more than 250
entrants.
Not long after riders started into
the first loop, strong winds and intermittent rains began to terminate the
nearly perfect traction along the trails
and roads of the Clear Creek riding
area.
From the start, riders followed fire
roads to the first test, which began
with a check-in at the first check, at
3.2 miles. Rocky single-track trails,
set at 18 mph, worked riders around
Picacho Rock and led them to the
check-out at 8.6 miles. Roads and
two-track rocky trails, all at 24 and
