After suffering an injury over
the summer while back at home
training for the Hattah Desert
Race in Australia, dislocating
and fracturing his ankle, it was
Mason Semmens first race back
at WORCS to try to recapture the
lead in the Pro 250 points. Early
on, it was all Jake Alvarez on his
RPM FMF KTM-backed machine
as he grabbed the holeshot and
came out of the Pro section with
the Aussie duo of Semmens and
Sam Pretscherer behind him. Al
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varez held off the charging Sem-
mens for the first two laps of the
race until a minor mishap in the
Pro section allowed him to pass
for the lead. Once in the lead,
he hit his lines and made easy
work of the Pro section, putting
almost identical lap times down
for the remainder of the 120-min
-
ute Pro 250 race.
Meanwhile, the battles only
heated up behind him as the
race continued. The current
points leader, Colton Aeck,
started toward the back, sitting
in fifth place after lap one. Still,
he wasn't there for long as he
put down his fastest lap and
the quickest of his class in lap
two. Aeck moved up lap after
lap, passing his fellow competi
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tors until he and Alvarez started
to tangle with each other just
before the race's halfway mark.
Their battle lasted a few laps
before Aeck got around him for
good and began to set his eyes
on Semmens.
However, Semmens came out
on top and pulled the Pro 250
Championship even closer, sepa
-
rated now by only five points
coming into the final round in
Arizona at Lake Havasu City Oc-
tober 18-20. Alvarez landed on
the podium again, with Kai Aiello
and Pretscherer finishing in the
top five.
In Pro-Am, the name of the
game was the Pro section, and
whoever was able to get through
cleanly put themselves in an
excellent position to be a con
-
tender early on. Jackson Glathar
rocketed out to a holeshot but,
on the second lap, had trouble
making it over the final set of
tires and watched as Kayden
Lynn blasted over them, grabbing
the early lead.
Lynn and Racer Fry battled for
the first five laps until he had to
WIND
IN THE
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Mason Semmens won
the Pro 250 division.
