Grant Baylor Wins Cherokee
National Enduro
T
he Baylor boys are at it again.
Grant (REV Motorsports
GasGas) and Steward (AmPro Ya-
maha) finished first and second,
respectively, at the Cherokee
National Enduro in Greensboro,
Georgia, June 12, separated by
just 18 seconds after six tests
and 75 miles of racing.
Both riders had to overcome
setbacks on their way to lock-
ing out the top two spots. Grant
entered the second test 30 sec-
onds late, while Steward came
into the race still on the mend
from a broken eye socket that he
suffered just a month before at
the Lead Belt Enduro and was
still in the healing process.
The win was Grant's first of the
season, in all he won three of the
six tests, while Steward, FMF/
KTM's Josh Toth and Coastal
Racing GasGas' Ryder Lafferty,
winner of the previous round
in Missouri, split the remaining
three test wins among them-
selves.
With the win, Grant moved to
within one point of series points
leader Lafferty (94-93) with six
rounds remaining in the series.
Toth is third with 75 points.
High temperatures and humid-
ity made for a tough day as over
660 riders took to the dry and
root-strewn course. Grant set the
tone by winning the opening test
of the day, but his mental lapse
in test two was a major unforced
error that cost him 30 seconds
right off the bat.
"Going into the second test,
I made a really dumb mistake
on my part," said Grant. "I just
IN
THE
WIND
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Grant Baylor scored
a narrow win at the
Cherokee National
Enduro in Georgia.
PHOTO: SHAN MOORE
