Girroir Clinches U.S. Sprint Enduro
Championship
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MF/KTM's Johnny Girroir
clinched the U.S. Sprint
Enduro Series Championship,
Presented by Moose Racing, in
the Pro class two races early
with a second-overall finish at
the Promised Land MX U.S.
Sprint Enduro round in Oldtown,
Maryland, April 29-30. Chile's
Ruy Barbosa took the overall win
on his Phoenix Racing Honda in
very difficult conditions.
During the two-day event,
Saturday was a free-for-all, as
four riders went into the final test
with a legitimate chance to win
the day, but it was RPM Racing's
Angus Riordan who came from
behind to take the victory by 0.6
seconds over Phoenix Honda
Racing's Cody Barnes, both Pro
2 riders—quite different circum
-
stances from the previous race
in Virginia when Riordan held
a 12-second lead going into
the final test and threw it away
when he had a nasty crash. This
weekend, he entered Saturday's
final test trailing Barnes by four
seconds but emerged the winner.
"The final enduro course
was getting really rutted, and
it was really rocky with a lot of
exposed roots and in that last
time through I just slowed it up
a bit and rode smooth, and I
think I actually went faster," said
Riordan. "I just got outside of the
main lines and tried to square
everything up and be smooth."
Girroir was fourth overall on
Saturday but that was more than
enough to clinch the series title.
"It's good to get the title out
of the way," said Girroir. "I was
probably riding a little too cau
-
tious in the beginning. I was
1.2-seconds down going into
that last test and I missed a line
and got sideways in the rocks
and they got me. I think I missed
WIND
IN THE
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He didn't get the
win in Maryland,
but he did get the
title. Johnny Girroir
clinched the U.S.
Sprint Enduro
Championship with
two rounds still on
the schedule.
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