Pulled a gap and maintained,
and honestly, I'm pretty tired
right now. It's hot out here; tough
track, and for some reason it
really took it out of me. Usually
I'm pretty strong at the end, but I
had nothing [today]."
Semmens did have enough
to best class runner-up Parker
Ross by 26 seconds, the SLR
Honda rider taking eighth overall
with Purvines Racing/Simi Valley
Cycles Yamaha-mounted Jack
Simpson splitting them. Third
Pro II and ninth overall be
-
longed to another Aussie, Sam
Pretscherer on his Gol Gol Hotel
Husqvarna, while Hatch Racing
Kawasaki's Aeck rounded out
the top 10.
Nielsen's fifth straight Pro
Women-class triumph—and
seventh of the season—made it
a cinch to defend the number-
one plate on her Skechers/Pro
Circuit/Alpinestars CRF250RX.
Leading from just after the start,
she insisted she didn't know
clinching the championship was
a possibility. "I didn't want to as
-
sume anything!" Nielsen said. "I
didn't want to get my hopes up."
With a suspected kill-switch
issue causing her bike to run
less than ideally, she opted
to play it safe. "On one of the
jumps, it died, so that kind of
scared me, so I took the rest of
the race just rolling everything."
Mark Kariya
PRO OVERALL (Top 10)
1. Dante Oliveira (KTM)
2. Austin Walton (Hus)
3. Tyler Lynn (Hon)
4. Ryan Surratt (Hon)
5. Dare DeMartile (Bet)
6. Mason Semmens (KTM)
7. Jack Simpson (Yam)
8. Parker Ross (Hon)
9. Samuel Pretscherer (Hus)
10. Colton Aeck (Kaw)
WIND
IN THE
P38
With a possible kill-switch
issue causing the bike to die at
inopportune and unpredictable
times, Mikayla Nielsen played it
safe, yet still got the Pro Women's
class win and title.
