ers, so it hasn't been easy to get
on the podium and I haven't re-
ally made it easy on myself, but
this round I was finally able to go
out there and ride a smooth race
and not make any mistakes."
(His only previous WHS podium
this season was at round two.)
For Washington resident
Dahners and his AmeriCool/
TBT Racing Suspension/Answer
YZ250FX, the tight woods were
right up his alley as he got a
good start and led every lap in
the Pro 250 class en route to
passing most of the Pro/AA
riders who'd started a minute
ahead of his row, giving him
targets to shoot for.
"It finally worked out; I'm
pretty excited," Dahners said.
"The last three laps [were the
best]. Zane was a big push on
me, following a real Pro."
Coincidentally, the last part of
the race was also the best for
Roberts who actually turned his
fastest lap on the final circuit
aboard his Enduro Engineering/
Seat Concepts/Klim 480 RR en
route to third Pro/AA and fourth
overall.
"Every time I come up to do
a Pacific Northwest race, I'm
like, 'Oh, I need to come up here
and train on this stuff.' I'm not
good at it—it takes me an hour
to figure out what I'm doing and
get moving," the Nevada desert
racer lamented. "To be honest,
I was a bit tired of traveling and
stuff so I didn't want to make the
28-hour round trip to Washougal
last weekend to race."
He added, "Those [Pro] 250
guys coming up [behind me], I
let both of them get by because
I didn't want to get in the way
of their battle but then I started
chasing them and I was like, 'Oh,
I can do this [pace]! That's kind
of what got me going. Physically
I got back by them, but Jaden
got me on [overall] time."
Redondi got to the finish in
time to salvage fifth overall
followed by JMC Motorsports/
Just1 GasGas rider Layton Smail
(the Pro 250 runner-up) and
MotoSport Hillsboro GasGas-
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IN THE
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Like Oliveira, reigning
Pro Women's champ
Ava Silvestri bounced
back from a subpar
round four to win.
