Hymas Hauls at Dynamite Grand Prix
A
fter the AMA Amateur Na-
tional Motocross Champion-
ship at Loretta Lynn's Ranch,
Idaho's Chance Hymas decided
he wasn't 100 percent ready to
ride the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross
Championship just yet. So in-
stead of making the trip to round
10 at Budds Creek, Maryland,
he drove less than two hours to
the Cache Valley MX Park to do
some high-intensity endurance
training by racing the Dynamite
Grand Prix (a reference to the
Napoleon Dynamite movie which
was filmed primarily at Preston
High School), round seven of the
FMF AMA National Grand Prix
Championship (NGPC) Series.
It turned out to be a good
decision, as the teenager led all
90 minutes on his HRC Honda/
Monster Energy/Fly Racing-
backed CRF450R to win $2000
of the $8000 purse over Liqui-
Moly Beta's Dare Demartile and
Chaparral Motorsports/Precision
Concepts Kawasaki's Tyler Lynn.
Hymas is the first non-regular
participant to win in several
years.
Series points leader Dante
Oliveira got an uncharacteristic
mediocre start, with the FMF
KTM Factory Off-Road Racing
Team star finishing off the podi-
um in fourth for the first time this
season. However, he still fared
better than title rival Cole Marti-
nez, the Slam Life Racing (SLR)
Honda rider also recovering from
a bad start to finish sixth and
IN
THE
WIND
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After getting the holeshot,
Idaho's Chance Hymas
became the first non-regular
participant to win a NGPC
round in several years.
PHOTOS: MARK KARIYA
