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P34 WIND the leaders and spent over 10 minutes repairing the bike. That gave Jones an even bigger lead. In second, there was a race between two Purvines Beta teams - one on a 300cc twostroke and the other on a 250. Eventually the 300cc team, with Nick Burson, Ryan Abbatoye The Beta crew took the overall and Bobby Garrison and win at the new Justin Morrow, was sol- 10-Hours of Glen Helen. idly in second overall. As the teams rotated the only two teams on the lead through their respective riding orders, the race gradually lap. After his first-lap crash, Bell tightened up. By the three-hour mark, it was wheel to wheel - started picking off riders until he KTM 450cc four-stroke versus and teammates Mark Tilley and Beta 300cc two-stoke. When Benny Breck were becoming relthe RPM Racing teamsters Eric evant again. But bad luck wasn't Yorba and Ty Tremaine rotated through with the KX450 team. "We got three flats in a row!" back to Jones, the Beta team said pit captain Bob Bell. "I know took the lead. Then Abbatoye and Jones went elbow to elbow why we usually run Mousses. As for a lap. The lead went back to soon as I would fix a spare wheel, RPM when the Beta pitted, but it would go back on the bike and for hours the two teams would I'd have to fix another." never be more than a minute As the race came into its final apart. And they would end up laps, the Bell/Tilley/Breck team PHOTOGRAPHY BY RON LAWSON IN THE got itself solidly in third place overall, but far behind the leading duo. The Beta team took the lead for the final time when the course was altered due to deteriorating conditions. The most amazing performance of the day may have been Dirt Rider magazine's Kris Keefer. He won the Ironman class on a KTM 150, duplicating his win in the Glen Helen Six-Hour back in March. Keefer finished seventh overall, setting a high-water mark for an Ironman in this race. Ron Lawson SMAGE CONTINUES IN VERMONT P at Smage continued his march towards a sixth National Trials title by taking a double victory at rounds three and four of the AirES AMA NATC MotoTrials U.S. National Championships held near Highgate, Vermont, June 22-23. Heavy rain during the week left the already slippery terrain even more treacherous, as some of the sections proved to be nearly impossible to conquer. On Saturday, Smage started off a little shaky. Needing a few safety dabs to get through some of the early sections and at the end of the first lap, the Sherco rider found himself trailing Sherco USA teammate Bryan Roper by two marks.