ROUND 8/JULY 28, 2013
CROSS FORK, PENNSYLVANIA
OFF-ROAD
P86
REKLUSE AMA NATIONAL ENDURO SERIES
start in the slick and muddy
event. Despite still being on the
mend from the after effects of a
nasty crash a little over a month
ago, the factory Husaberg rider
posted the fastest time in the first
three tests of the day to jump out
to a quick lead by the halfway
point of the enduro.
Starting this year, the rules call
for the pro riders to start each
race according to their finish at
the last round. Bobbitt was 15th
at the previous Foggy Mountain
Enduro in Blain, Pennsylvania,
which put him in the back of the
pros on row 31 for the Rattlesnake. Meanwhile, the winner
of the Foggy Mountain Enduro,
Charlie Mullins, started from 21
and was pretty much breaking
trail for the rest of the pro riders.
"I had a little advantage over
the guys on the first few rows due
to the mud and slick conditions,
but I'll take it," said Bobbitt. "I was
riding well, too, and that didn't
hurt; it just feels good to finally
get the win. "
What goes around comes
around, however, and Bobbitt will
be starting from the front at the
next round in Indiana.
"This has been a long time
coming," Bobbitt said. "But we
were ready for this race when
we came in here. We had a good
bike setup and I felt pretty confident from the get-go. We put on
a trials tire for that second test
because I walked some of it on
Saturday, and I saw that it was really rocky and technical, and that
paid off for us.
"Overall, I was pretty clean
during the morning, although I
(Top left) Eight-time National Enduro
champ Mike Lafferty contributed to
a Husaberg sweep of the podium by
finishing third.
(Top right) Charlie Mullins had an off
day with a fourth, but he still carries
a 29-point lead in the series standings with two to go.
(Right) Brad Bakken had a good day
in the Pennsylvania mud, riding his
Obermeyer Yamaha YZ250F to a
fifth-place finish.
crashed twice in the fifth test and
struggled to get my bike started.
In the last test, I knew I had a lead
and I just played it smart."
Finishing 33 seconds behind
Bobbitt in the runner-up position
was Nick Fahringer. The Radiant
AirGroup Racing Husaberg rider
got off to a bad start in the first
test, where he was sixth fastest,
but came on strong in the end,
posting the second-fastest time
