The Havasu venue is
one of the most brutal
on the NGPC circuit.
"It was fun!" Duvall said. "Peo-
ple think GNCCs are rough, but
this place was by far one of the
roughest tracks I've ever raced."
Round-eight winner Zach Bell
decided to sit out the finale re-
portedly due to an infection in the
collarbone he'd had surgery on.
SLR Honda's LaFountaine
came into the finale trailing Chap-
arral Motorsports/Precision Con-
cepts Kawasaki rider JP Alvarez
by seven points for the Pro II title,
meaning he needed to beat the
Team Green-backed rider by sev-
eral positions if he wanted to steal
the class championship. Despite
a somewhat lackluster start, he
managed to do just that, finishing
second in class to Mateo Oliveira,
and most important, besting
Alvarez by the requisite number
of positions, Alvarez taking fourth
Pro II for the day.
"That's all I was focusing on—
just winning the race," LaFoun-
taine said. An issue with the
clutch cable on his Pro Circuit/
STI Tires/Alpinestars CRF250RX
on the first lap made the race
In the NGPC 65cc race, Jack Aaron (B5) led from start to finish for the
class championship, second and third in the race going to Jacob Tilley
(B115) and Jayden Flowers (B99), respectively.
that much more difficult, but he
figured out how to compensate
about halfway through and took
back lost ground.
Oliveira's class victory left him
in a tie with LaFountaine for first—
both finishing the season with
183 points—so the tiebreaker was
greater number of wins. In that
department, LaFountaine bested
Oliveira, 3-2, giving the Honda
pilot his first Pro championship.
Alvarez was a close third at 181
points.
Like Dante Oliveira, Brandy
Richards had already clinched her
class title, so her goal became
going undefeated for the season.
She accomplished that with room
to spare, as the Elite Off-road
KTM rider led from start to finish
to go 9 and 0 for the season.
The 2021 series kicks off in
just five weeks at a new venue in
Delano, California.
Mark Kariya
Pro/Expert
1. Dante Oliveira (KTM)
2. Cole Martinez (Hon)
3. Trevor Stewart (Hon)
4. Justin Hoeft (Hus)
5. Dalton Shirey (Hus)
6. Giacomo Redondi (Hus)
7. Mateo Oliveira (KTM)
8. Chance Hymas (Kaw)
9. Tallon LaFountaine (Hon)
10. Colton Aeck (KTM)
IN
THE
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