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impossible for th e ra cers. Team Green
Open rider Shane Es posit o , howeve r,
pow er e d his KX500 off the silty sta rt,
spewing up a s ur ge of s alty dust for
anyon e in his wa ke.
Th e first 40 -mil e loo p of t he ra c e
t ook th e ra c ers a cr o ss r ou gh ,
whooped-out bu ggy cou rses and fas t,
rocky roads th at eventua lly wou nd up
at the first gas in Nigh tenga le , Neva da . By thi s time, Espos ito ha d pull ed
a com fo rta b le le a d over Te a m RMS
Ope n r id e r G re g Searle a nd RMS ba cked Americ an Husky 250cc rider
Denn is Belingheri. He ading o ut on to
the se c ond 40 -m ile s t re tc h of t he
ra ce , Esposito wa s th e first ride r to be
sabotaged by an underma rk ed section th at tricked th e Team Green rider
into go ing in th e wro ng direct ion . For tun at ely for Es posito , he m anage d to
reorient himself before too mu ch tim e
wa s lost a nd ho ld on to his lead over
the re st of th e fie ld .
T ho u gh a litt le undermark ed , the
second loo p was co ns idered by th e
majority of the riders to be the m ost
exciting section of th e ra ce , du e to its
twisty sandwa sh e s a nd rather te chnic a l s ections , which was a relief fro m
s ome of the wide -open je ep trails on
which the rac e was run .
Mea nwhil e , ba ck in th e Amateur
pack, Open Am ateur rider Scott Sib ba ld a nd Four-Stroke Amateur rid er
James "J a c k ie Ch an " Cha vis were
le ad ing their respective d ivisions a nd
n ipping at th e he a ls of many well respected Expe rts . In the Novic e divi s io n , 250cc rid e rs Steve Jessop a nd
Kyle Shepard were s etting a blazingly
fast pace , a nd 250c c Novice ride r Pa t
Dan iels was a lso in th e hunt for th e
ov era ll Novi ce p ositi on , but he wa s
unf ortunate ly m is d ire ct ed in a n
undermarked section and he a c ciden ta lly c ut a la rge porti on of t he cours e ,
resu lting in a s ev ere pen alty that cost
h im the ove ra ll.
In t he c o nc ludi n g 40-mil e lo o p ,
Esposito sti ll he ld the over a ll le ad , followed by S ea rle and Belingheri. Over
38 rider La rry Wrigh t, showing off his
Vegas- to- Reno riding skills, locked up
fo urth o vera ll. Due to the d usty and
fast cond ition of th e final loo p, no posit io n c ha n ges were made by the to p
four riders . Not too fa r beh ind, Fou rStroke rider Nick Fain and Open rider
Ryan Johnson finishe d fifth and sixth,
re sp e cti vel y , while O pe n ride r Sa m
Key , 250 c c rider Ste ph e n Ti chen or ,
O ve r 3 8 ride r Ke vin Brown a nd Pa ul
Em er son rounded th e to p 10 overa ll.
On th e pre viou s d a y , Min i rid e rs
wer e a ls o tre ated to a sho rte ne d ve rsion of the big bikes ' po int -t o -p oi nt
ra ce. Unfortunat e ly, du e to th e la c k of
m arkin gs , many of the top Mini ride rs
got off the course.
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Fallon-to-Lovelock Point-to-Point
Fallon, Nevada
Results: October I, 2000 IRound 6J
O / A : 1. Sha ne Esposi to ; 2 . Greg Se a rle ; 3 .
Dennis Belln gheri: 4 . Larry Wright; 5 . Nick Fain; 6 .
Ryan Johnson: 7 . Sam Key; 8 . Stephen T ichenor: 9.
Kevin Brown; 10 . Paul Eme rson.
O PEN EX: t . Shane Esposito: 2. Greg Searle; 3.
Ryan Johnson; 4 . Sam Key: 5 . John Levie.
Sal Nov&Sun Nov 5
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