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Parts U n lim it e d O ff-Ro a d Cha mpion ship S e r ie s R oun d 2 : The Moose R u n Hyde led for a while. Asked if he expected to be up that fa r, the four time Blackwater 100 winner an swer ed , "No, yo u lead till yo u fa ll, th en so me body e lse ta kes ove r. It just ha ppen ed to be my turn in th e rota tion [to lead] . The one g uy at the one c heck, he wa s giving m e a hard time beca use I ca me aro u nd one loo p le ad ing a t that c heck an d the next lap I wa s , like , in 10th. He sa id, 'Wha t'd yo u do? ' I said, 'You would n't believe m e if I told you.' " Th e ra c e soon developed into a n And rew s/Woodford coopera tive ve n tur e at the front, with the rea l dicing tak in g pl a c e b eh ind t he m. TM m ounted Mike Sampson hel d third for a while , as did Hyde, Johns and sev eral others throug hout the course of the long day. "The first la p, yo u kind of cruise," Andrews sai d . "I think th ere were five o r s ix of us togeth e r on the first lap . I wasn 't excited about t ha t beca use ' l kn ew tha t once we p icked the pa c e up and th e mud ho les st a rted getting deeper, we 'd start thinn inq out qu ick. Th e seco nd lap , we a lready th inne d o ut to j us t C h uck ie a nd m e . I got s t u c k o n ce o r tw ice , an d he c a me ba ck to help m e g et o ut; I d id th e sa me for h im . We c am e t o r id e tog ether a nd just make it thr ough." Indeed, wh ile other racers ta c kled the extremely technica l and ph ys ic al course with its endless supply of logs 24 n By M ARK K ARIYA FENTON, IL, MAY 21 re d Andrews led a Tea m Gr een s wee p of th e top-thre e fin ish ers at th e sixth annual Moose Run , round two in th e Pa rts Un limited Off-Ro a d Ch amp ion sh ip Se ries. Ac t ually , it'd b e more accurate to c a ll t he m s u rvivors be cause th is ed itio n of the race - which grew out of th e prev ious Illinois C ro s s -C oun t ry Ch amp ionsh ip a nd bills itse lf as America 's to ughest rac e - was a rgua bly the most physi ca l yet. Andrew s needed nearly five a nd a ha lf hou rs to co m plete all six of the 13 -mile la ps. "[ P aul] Edm ond s o n [o f G r e a t Brita in] has won America's to ughest race the last two yea rs , so we needed a n Am e rican to win it finally , and I'm glad I did. If he 'd ha ve been he re , I'd have be a te n h im an ywa y," Andrews sa id lau gh ing . Andrews took the lea d right away on his Pro Circ uit/ Moo se/ S ho e i-s ponsored KX2 50, with Chuc k Woodfor d right beh ind him on a similar mount. KTM's Mark Hyd e , Kawasaki ra ce r Aa ron Johns and Team Green 's Jeff Fredette joined th em ne a r the front F J UN E 7 . 2000' cue I e e Vll S (Ab ov e) Fred Andrews (2) started In f ron t and spe nt most of the day there with e ve n t ual runner-u p Ch uck Woodford (12) ri ght beh ind or right In f ront of him. a n d d itc he s to n eg ot iate , And re ws time e ntr a nt Wo odfo rd s a id . "T he re and Woodford helped e ac h oth er o r a re a lot more o bsta c le s . I fig u re d waite d if the other gu y got stuck. The rest of the field drift ed farth e r away, there'd be more time to rest out he re , each rider e le cting to go it a lone. physical. There're a couple fields that "It isn 't a nything like I imagined ; it's a lot d ifferent than I im a gined ," firs t- but it' s a rea lly tough race ; it' s rea lly you go through , but other than that, it's log afte r log. It' s really gnarly. "