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ROUND 4 / APRIL 6-7, 2024 TWENTYNINE PALMS MOTORSPORT COMPLEX /TWENTYNINE PALMS, CALIFORNIA OFF-ROAD I PARTS UNLIMITED AMA NATIONAL GRAND PRIX CHAMPIONSHIP (NGPC), PRESENTED BY FMF P76 for the whole class is, honestly, the highest it's been since I've been involved in it. It was a freight train. I thought we had a good chance at making a run at it about four or five laps to go and made a big push, got close." However, he wasn't able to thread his way through lappers as well as Oliveira and Walton but was satisfied at the finish. "I'm happy with how I rode these last few rounds," he said. "And I'm happy with where the bike's headed. The team's put in a lot of great work. We've got the bike in a great spot and I'm happy with it." Purvines Racing/Simi Val - ley Cycles Yamaha rider Justin Hoeft put in a consistent, solid ride for fourth overall followed by Liqui Moly Beta's Dare DeMartile, Hoeft's teammate Jack Simp - son, Dante Oliveira's brother Mateo and 3Bros./Hatch Racing GasGas rider Giacomo Redondi (who scored his fourth-straight triumph in 30+ Open AA the day before, that's 13 in a row if you count his undefeated 2023 run). Dante Oliveira has a perfect 120 points after four rounds, with DeMartile second at 81, Martinez third at 80, Walton fourth at 74 and Hoeft fifth at 72. Aeck was the first of a half- dozen Pro II riders to make it two in a row for the current runner-up in class points. "I've been working hard, and I'm really happy with the bike," the Atlas Powersports/The Racer's Edge/O'Neal Racing KX250 rider said. "Bob [Bell] from Precision Concepts has been putting in so many hours for me, so we've got a really good setting on the bike, Unfortunately for Walton, he strayed outside the course boundary in the dust at the end of the Pro section early on and received a two-minute penalty. Instead of being four seconds behind Oliveira, that officially shuffled him back to third. The beneficiary of this was Martinez, the Monster Energy/ Skechers/Fly Racing CRF450RX rider physically just 13 seconds behind Walton before the penal - ty. Third at round three, Martinez said, "I think the pace this year That effort didn't appear to have fazed him as he put in a strong ride, saying, "It was very, very physical, but I knew that I was ca- pable of what I needed to do and we obviously showed it today. "I was very happy to just make it as far as I did and not actually fully cramp to the point where it was bad-bad. I'm very, very happy with how I performed yesterday and today. It was awe - some to be able to push that kind of a pace, especially after what I did yesterday." Mikayla Nielsen dominated the Pro Women class.