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the win out from under him, coming
from behind to beat the 2021 Pro 2
Champion, Girroir, by a mere three
seconds.
Girroir, however, still managed the
overall victory on combined elapsed
time, but Michael had served notice that
there is a championship battle to come.
Three hundred riders (221 adult and
79 youth riders) enjoyed excellent
conditions on both days of the race,
which also doubled as an ISDE
Qualifier, with 21 Letter of Intent (LOI)
riders signed up.
Girroir won two of the six tests
on Saturday, as did Michael. But a
mishap by Michael in the first enduro
test left him playing catch up for the
rest of the day.
WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY
BY SHAN MOORE
J
ust when Coastal Racing Gas-
Gas' Johnny Girroir appeared to
be running away with the 2022
U.S. Sprint Enduro Series, AmPro Ya-
maha's Layne Michael caught fire and
put an end to the New Jersey rider's
short three-day win steak.
After winning both days of the
series opener in Sellers, South
Carolina, in January, it was business
as usual for Girroir, who was en route
to a 17-second win on day one at the
South of the Border MX complex in
Hamer, South Carolina. However,
Michael found a way to match Gir-
roir's speed on Sunday and ripped
JONATHAN GIRROIR HOLDS
ON FOR NARROW WIN
GIRROIR
AGAIN
