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Cycle News 2021 Issue 23 June 8

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champion, also riding a 430, ended up hammering out the most laps for the team with 16. "By the time they got us back in the pits we were 97th overall," said Parker. "We just wanted to get back in the race and try for a top 10." In the Ironman class, Jordan Whitmer, on a Kawasaki, took the win after completing 35 laps, and the Ironwomen-class win went to Caroline Kent, who knocked out 17 laps on her Team Somebody Help My Husband With The Baby- sitting Please GasGas. Kenny King OVERALL (Top 5) 1. NAP/XC Gear Elite 2. Blue Calf Semi-Factory Racing 3. Law Tigers/Max Motorsports 4. NAP/XC Gear 30+ 5. Crazy's From The South VOLUME 58 ISSUE 23 JUNE 8, 2021 P41 (Suz), Nick Ragland (Yam) and Ty Roberts (Husqvarna) completed 54 laps, as well, and took the checkers only a minute and a half behind the winning Expert team. "We didn't have any real is- sues at all," said Ousley. "On the next-to-the-last lap we got passed by the number-two team and then we had to pit. We just weren't able to make up the time. It did get sloppy after the rain and there were a lot of riders stuck on some of the hills, which was tough at night." Everyone was keeping an eye on the AHRMA Dream Team that was constructed of some of the '80s and '90s fastest off- road racers. Terry Cunningham, Trampas Parker, Fred Hoess and Tommy Veator, all former cham- pions, competed on wonder- fully restored 1983 Husqvarna air-cooled motorcycles. Cun- ningham rode a 430 Husky Auto, a bike he helped make famous back in the day. The vets finished seventh overall, completing 50 laps, averaging 28 minutes and 51 seconds a lap. "My race was pretty unevent- ful, just typical Alabama riding," said Cunningham. "I was blessed by the Lord to get rain every time I went out to keep me cool. Hoess started for the team. "I had a bit of a mechanical on lap one and that put us back right off the start," Hoess said. "A bit" was a seized engine that required a tow back to the pits. They were three laps down and dead last after one lap. Parker, a former world motocross Jordan Whitmer was the Ironman-class winner. Trampas Parker (pictured) teamed with Terry Cunningham, Fred Hoess and Tommy Veator to finish sixth overall riding vintage air-cooled Husqvarnas, which included a couple of 430 Autos.

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