my hand and pushed my handle-
bar back into me and looped me
out. It was kind of frustrating with
a couple freak things like that, but
overall, it was a good day. I felt
good on the bike."
Coastal Racing GasGas' Ricky
Russell landed on the podium
for the second race in a row, his
third-place finish at the Muddob-
bers giving him back-to-back
third-place finishes in the series.
"I knew it was going to be
hard pack and slick, so I came
up early and rode a lot, so I was
prepared, and I felt good," said
Russell. "I started off strong and
was right in the mix all day."
Russell made what he called a
"stupid" mistake in the fifth test.
all hopes of collecting the bounty.
"Winning the first test felt
good, it was a pretty clean test
overall," said Toth. "In test two,
though, I just had a couple mis-
takes and went down twice. That
was kind of the story of my day.
I rode good and then I just had a
couple of freak incidents where it
just cost me time. I ended up hit-
ting my head real hard at the end
of test one, on tree we were go-
ing under. I just didn't see it and
it hit right on the top of my head.
And then I had kind of the same
situation in test five. It got lower
towards one side of the trail, and
I got too close to the low side and
just had no room for my left han-
dlebar to go, so it just clobbered
"I've never been in this situ-
ation, where I had the chance
to wrap it up early," said Grant.
"I think where I'm sitting now, I
should just be able to go to this
next one in Tulsa and kind of ride
it home and hopefully wrap it up.
If I do, I do, and if I don't, I don't.
But that's kind of how I went
about the day, as well."
Josh Toth won the Muddob-
ber's race in 2021. The FMF/
KTM rider came into the race
with a lot of confidence and
eyeing the $6000 bounty that
Enduro Engineering was offering
to anyone who could win all six
tests. Toth got off to a good start,
winning the opening test of the
day, but a crash in test two ended
ROUND 8 / OCTOBER 2, 2022
MATTHEWS, INDIANA
P72
OFF-ROAD I AMA ENDURO NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Josh Toth got off to a fast start
but he couldn't hold off Baylor.
