But it wasn't entirely void of
incident. "I could hear something
clanking [near the end of the first
loop], and I didn't know what it
was," he said. "I came into the
pits, and my exhaust had come
unbolted! So, I jumped off my
bike and had to run to my trailer,
find a 10mm T-handle, found
some random bike, took a seat
bolt out of it, bent the side panel
over, and then just put in the
exhaust bolt."
That ate most of the 1:02 lead
he had over the neck-and-neck
Walton and Wasson duel, and
Lynn managed to leave with a
five-second gap. He'd stretch
that to 23 seconds by the finish.
For Wasson and his Fiji Water/
Pirelli/Fly Racing 480 RR, it was
back to business at the front. "I
got the holeshot at the end of
the bomb-run flags, and I was
leading it for a little bit. I led for
probably three miles, maybe, and
then Tyler Lynn got around me.
He was just sending it through
the dunes!"
After slipping to fourth
through the dunes, Wasson
closed on third-placed Daemon
Woolslayer's Steadman's Yama
-
ha but took a while to find a way
past. By then, Lynn and Walton
had gapped him, but once in the
tighter, technical trails and trees
of loop two, he steadily reeled
them back in, powering past
Walton going up a rocky ridge.
While he soon saw Lynn's dust,
the course also started open
-
ing up in the final miles, and he
found it impossible to get close
enough due to the dust.
For Walton and his Motorex/
Motion Pro/Fly Racing FX 450,
it was another building block of
learning.
"I definitely did a lot better this
weekend on the start and I knew
it was going to be critical this
weekend, with the dust playing
a factor," he said. (This was the
first dusty race of the season.)
"I felt good and was able to
put in a good performance.
There are just little things we
need to keep working on, every
race just evaluating everything.
We need to work on that tight
stuff in the trees because these
guys are pretty darned good
there; that's where I can im
-
prove. In the fast stuff, I know
how to do that coming from
VOLUME ISSUE APRIL , P45
In four rounds, Sam
Pretscherer is a
perfect four-straight in
Pro 250 and finished
fifth overall for the
second round in a row.
