behind the Minchinton team.
Fernando Beltran, Larry
Serna, Luis Flores and Mauri
Herrera (Honda) won the Pro
Moto Limited class, and Giovanni
Spinali, John Griffin, Jim O'Neal
and Darren Elliot (Yamaha)
topped the Pro Moto 50 division.
In Pro Moto 40, Ryan Liebelt,
James Shultz, Jason Trubey and
Steve Tichenor (Yamaha) came
away with the class win.
The top Ironman finisher was
Aaron Richardson, who rode a
KTM 500 EXC-F in 13 hours, 45
minutes, and 36 seconds with a
speed average of 33.66 mph.
Chael Urcadiz, Alejandro Gal-
legos, Alejandro Osuna, Alberto
Stover Takes 10-Hour Victory
A
recent dry spell in SoCal,
paired with over sixty teams
competing on a technical and
deteriorating grand prix course,
made the 10 Hours of Glen
Helen, round two of the 3Bros.
Glen Helen Endurance Series,
a true test for riders of all skill
levels. But when the going gets
tough, the tough endure, and
in the end of the 10-hour race,
which spanned from 4:00 p.m.
on Saturday to 2:00 a.m. Sun-
day morning, June 4-5, it was
the defending Nick Stover team
that showed why they run the
number-one plate at Glen Helen
Raceway.
As the green flag waved on
Saturday afternoon, the top
pro teams raced around the
infamous Talladega first turn.
The number-1 of Chance Ful-
lerton grabbed the holeshot but
the 22 of Thomas Dunn made
a pass in turn two, setting the
tone for the 10-hour slug fest that
was to come. At the end of the
first 10.5-mile lap, Dunn held a
marginal gap over Fullerton, and
the duo had already separated
themselves from the rest of the
field, setting up a head-to-head
race for the remaining 9.5 hours.
Over the course of the first
four hours, the lead swapped
multiple times between the num-
ber-22 (Trevor Hunter) and num-
ber-1 (Stover) teams, with Hunter
leading the way when the sun
went down and the lights went
on—around 8:00 p.m., nearly
halfway through the race. With
two course deviations already in
the books, unforgiving silt, steep
hills and stranded lappers strewn
all over the course, the race
became more of a chess match
to see who could get through the
dust and traffic the cleanest.
At the halfway point, the battle
for the lead came to a standstill,
literally, as the Team Hunter and
Team Stover teams both found
each other stuck on a hill to-
gether, passing each other as
they turned around to get an-
other run at it. In the end, Stover
made his way through the pileup
first and made dust, leaving the
number-22 bike behind. This
held steady through the last five
hours, with Stover eventually tak-
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Gomez and Miguel Trujillo com-
bined efforts to win the Sports-
man class.
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Salvatierra's 10x team
was glad to report an
uneventful race en route
to the overall victory.
