VOLUME ISSUE OCTOBER , P73
Though he trailed Walker by
only a few seconds for much of
the afternoon on his Berkeley
Yamaha/Precision Concepts/
O'Neal Racing YZ250F, a late-
race spill spoiled his rhythm and
left him with too large a gap to
surmount. Walker's teammate
Parker Ross also slipped past
him.
Recalling his equally poor
start aboard his Monster En
-
ergy/Lava Propane/Fly Racing
CRF250RX, Walker said, "My
sense of urgency to get to the
front has always been pretty
good so I just wicked it and got
to the front before the halfway
mark.
led the points until round eight.
"It honestly played out pretty
much how I expected. Me and
Kade always seem to find each
other on the track—not dirty or
anything like that. For some rea
-
son, we don't have the best of
starts, and we're always coming
through the pack together. He
didn't really make any mistakes
today. It was brutal out there,
and we had our tongue in our
sprocket."
ton and Pro II runner-up Parker
Ross.
In final Pro points, Dante
Oliveira came out on top with
232 followed by Surratt's 175
and Walton at 167.
There were several titles on
the line coming into the finale,
one of which was in the Pro2 di
-
vision. Purvines Racing Yama-
ha's Jack Simpson entered the
finale tied at the top with Slam
Life Racing (SLR) Honda's Kade
Tinkler-Walker at 186 points.
The math was simple: whoever
beat the other would earn the
championship.
"It was all just pretty much on
this race," said Simpson, who'd
Mikayla Nielsen (51) trailed Ava
Silvestri by a point in the Pro
Women's Championship. She went
on to take second on the day,
giving her the title.
