"On the last lap it came down
to me and Colton. I said, 'I've
gotta go, dude!' and I just went as
hard as I could to try to break him
down and I think it worked."
Robert salvaged fourth with
Graffunder a strong fifth ahead of
FMF/Maxxis/RPM Racing KTM's
Will Riordan, Gerston, Riordan's
teammate Cooper Abbott, Keith
Sweeten and Dustin McCarthy. CN
OVERALL
1. Trystan Hart (KTM)
2. Colton Haaker (Hus)
3. Cody Webb (She)
4. Taylor Robert (KTM)
5. Cory Graffunder (Hus)
further 2:45 back.
"I wasn't riding a ton in Janu-
ary to prepare for this because
of winter back home in Canada,"
Hart said. "I was just skiing and
snowmobiling—time off the bike,
which isn't always a bad thing;
sometimes it's a good thing.
"I came down four or five days
early. Today was my sixth day in
a row riding so I was used to the
desert by now. I was riding with
Taylor almost every day. He's
really good out here—he was
impressing me—so I knew he was
going to be good, especially if
the loop was fast, which it was.
He was hauling the mail all day,
but he was also crashing all day.
However, Robert took an
awkward tumble on his Renthal/
Dunlop/Alpinestars 300 XC-W,
possibly breaking his thumb and
inadvertently blocking the line so
Haaker had to wait. "Trystan got
away right there," Haaker said. "I
tried to reel him in, but the dust
kept me at a disadvantage.
"I felt like I rode really well, ac-
tually. I rode really clean—I didn't
even have a dent on my pipe.
I didn't have any moments too
much. I think I just didn't get into
position at the right spots."
Hart completed the two-lap
tour in one hour, 41 minutes and
46 seconds, giving him a cushion
of 2:26 over Haaker with Webb a
OFF-ROAD
ALL BALLS RACING GROUP KING OF THE MOTOS, PRESENTED BY PROGRESSIVE
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
HAMMERTOWN / JOHNSON VALLEY, CA
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