ride my own race. That made it
a lot easier." Except for lappers.
"That was one of the toughest
parts of the race."
Though he banged out lap
times in the 17-minute range until
the last couple laps (he had to
make an extra pit stop because
his pace was so quick that he
got the white flag well before the
2:30 mark and had to do an extra
lap), Kamo still had a comfortable
edge on the charging Gerstner at
the end.
Third Pro 250 going up the
sand wash off the start, Gerstner
obviously got to grips with his
Wrap Colorado/Kenda/Leatt
Husky-based KTM fairly quickly
and led the class by the end of
the first lap. From there, he set
about picking off the Open bikes
with Kamo his ultimate quarry: "I
was trying to catch David really
bad—I wanted that number one
[overall]—but I knew he was mov-
ing along good so congrats to
him on the win."
For Baker, the race was his
first WHS in 11 months—just like
everyone else who rode the 2019
series finale—and it proved to
be a push after the steady (and
shorter) diet of WORCS races
he's been doing with his FMF/
Motul/FXR 450 SEF Factory.
"I just kind of followed [Bonita]
for the first lap, just trying to get
a flow," Baker said. After that,
though, "I couldn't really find a
pace, a good one. Like my sus-
pension was super-stiff still from
the [last] WORCS [race] so it was
kind of beating me up out there."
Still, second in class keeps
him in contention for the overall
championship, which wraps up in
two weeks at the nearby Owyhee
Motorcycle Club facility in Boise.
Bonita ended up third in class
and fourth overall in his first race
in a while and first on a bike he
just got. Open A winner Blayde
Jones earned fifth overall on a
KTM followed by Beta's Cole Co-
natser, the Pro 250 runner-up.
KTM riders Blake Best and
Lane Buchert were next in line
followed by overall B and 250cc
B winner Seth Sadorra (who'd
won the Big Wheel race the day
before) on his GoPro/Kenda/Le-
att KTM 250 XC-F. Beta's Rod-
ney Smith (yes, the MX/GNCC/
ISDE legend) rounded out the top
10 and won Super Senior A. CN
Overall
1. David Kamo (KTM)
2. Clayton Gerstner (KTM)
3. JT Baker (She)
4. Justin Bonita (Yam)
5. Blayde Jones (KTM)
6. Cole Conatser (Bet)
7. Blake Best (KTM)
8. Lane Buchert (KTM)
9. Seth Sadorra (KTM)
10. Rodney Smith (Bet)
IN
THE
WIND
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Seth Sadorra aims
to finish out his Big
Wheel days on a
winning note, and
he took the overall
victory in Big Wheel/
Mini/Junior Mini on
Saturday. He then
came back on Sunday
to win 250cc B on
his KTM, finishing an
amazing ninth overall.
