VOL. 50 ISSUE 21 MAY 29, 2013
P105
NSHIP SERIES
the previous two rounds. "But I've
been learning more and I'm more
focused on what I'm doing.
"This time I paid more attention
and the signs were bigger so I'd
take my time when I [read them]."
It paid off, as Ramirez owned
30 seconds over Caselli at the
end of the loop.
But Caselli went to work on the
30-mile second loop that sent
riders more in the hill country
with its twistier trails through the
juniper trees and cut the gap to
just seven seconds at the end of
that one aboard his Muscle Milk/
Renthal/Sidi 450 XC-F.
"These starts up here, I don't
feel they're as important as Lucerne starts," Caselli noted.
A good start put Nick Burson
in the lead group early.
"Usually, you've got a lot more
time in the second loop - and if
we have a third loop - to really
catch people.
"The first loop was pretty fast
and pretty dangerous so I rode
my own race."
And that pace was enough to
get him past Ramirez not long after starting that last loop and taking his fifth win in a row, though
he seemed equally pleased to
see Ramirez finish second just as
they'd done at round four.
"I was happy to see him come
in second," Caselli said. "We've
got [the] Baja [500] in two weeks
so this was a kind of make-sureyou-stay-safe race and pay attention. Both Ivan and I are feeling
good and we'll go into the 500
with some confidence."
For Burson, he enjoyed a
good start and managed to hold
onto third practically the entire
day on his TBT/Motul/6D Helmets 498 RR. "I had a little bit of
an issue on the third loop - I got
a little sick," he said. "Probably
if you look at the times, I rode
pretty bad for the third loop, but
I got third so I can't complain. I
beat Jake, who's in front of me in
points, so that's the goal for the
rest of the races."
"I was horribly, horribly, really
far back [off the start]," fourthplace Argubright said. The Maxima/Dunlop/Fly Racing KX450Fmounted rider continued, "I was
