Shirey Superb At Lucerne H&H Finale
D
alton Shirey (3 Bros./Hatch
Racing Husqvarna), who
wrapped up the series cham-
pionship at the previous round,
didn't even have to show up to
the eighth and final round of the
AMA Hare & Hound National
Championship Series, Presented
by FMF. But that, of course,
didn't even enter Shirey's mind
and instead of merely going
through the motions, he rode the
100-mile-long California 100 55th
Annual National Hare & Hound
hosted by the 100s Motorcycle
Club in the Johnson Valley Off-
Highway Vehicle Area as if the
title was on the line.
Leading from start to finish,
he completed the three loops
(40, 35 and 25 miles long) in
two hours, 27 minutes and 13
seconds, finishing comfortably
ahead of LiquiMoly Beta's Zane
Roberts with Argubright Design
Co. Kawasaki rider Jacob Argu-
bright rounding out the podium.
"I definitely wanted to come
out here and win again (making it
four wins over the eight rounds,
the last three in a row) to show
I won this championship for a
reason," the FMF/P-Worx/Troy
Lee Designs-backed Husky FX
450-mounted Shirey said.
"I couldn't say my day was
flawless because I was blowing
turns," the two-time champ admit-
ted. "It was pretty hard to navi-
gate today—a little bit—because
there was a lot of virgin cross-
grain and stuff that zig-zagged a
lot so you'd blow the turn pretty
easily."
Roberts and his Dunlop/
DP Brakes/Klim 480 RR also
had some difficulty following
the course, high winds blow-
ing course marking away during
Saturday's Youth races a possible
explanation.
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A flag-to-flag lead netted
Dalton Shirey his fourth
win of the season,
though he'd clinched
the championship at the
previous round and is
now a two-time champ.
