OFF-ROAD
KENDA AMA NATIONAL ENDURO CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 8 / NOVEMBER 1, 2020
REYNOLDS PASTURE / STANTON, AL ABAMA
P70
I lost a lot of time. On the last
test I had about four seconds on
Cody. I gave it everything I had
the last test and it just wasn't
enough."
Jonathon Johnson was ninth
overall and third in the NE Pro 2
class on a privateer Honda.
"Stalling the bike out and
having to kick it a couple times
cost me a good bit of time in the
fourth and fifth test, but I picked
it back up there after that," said
Johnson. "Cody and Craig were
just on it today. So, I didn't have
nothing for them there at the
end. But we ran well the first
little part of it, so it was good."
Zack Hayes rounded out the
give it a hundred percent. That's
what I did. I won the test by I
think six or seven seconds and
that was enough to get the win."
DeLong led for most of the
day but tried to change things up
in the final tests, which may have
cost him the win.
"It was a little bit of a nail-biter
there at the end," said Delong.
"Just close racing. I had a
decent lead for most of the day
and then in test five I tried to ride
a little bit different in the tighter
stuff and tried to be smoother
and see if I could kind of tie the
stuff together instead of being so
sporadic and super aggressive.
It kind of bit me in the butt and
hit just a sink hole and buried it
and wasted a bunch of energy
and time. Real rookie mistake.
So not really the day I was
looking for. Just tried to finish
out strong and salvage some
points."
Beta USA's Cody Barnes
headed up the NE Pro2 class
with a seventh overall finish.
Barnes was trailing Rockstar En-
ergy Husqvarna's Craig DeLong
by four seconds heading into the
final test but managed to pull out
the class win with a strong ride.
"Yeah, super close," said
Barnes. "I was behind going into
the last test and in my mind, it
was just kind of all I can do is
Ben Kelley was fourth overall after a switch to a 350.
