some mistakes and I'll be better.
I lost the front end twice, and
that's what kind of did me in for
the overall on Saturday."
Barnes, riding a 450 this year in-
stead of his usual 250, missed the
podium by four seconds, although
he topped Davis in four tests.
Cody talked about how rough
the sandy course got. "It got re-
ally chewed up, and a lot of tree
roots got exposed and crossed
us up," said Barnes. "We ended
up getting a lot of big braking
bumps, and it ended up being a
super fun track. [I] like big sandy
corners, so the track was a lot of
fun. The track definitely got really
chewed up and a lot of tree roots
exposed."
FMF KTM Factory Racing
Team Landers' Cooper Jones
came out on top of a monumen
-
tal battle with Red Bear Team
Green Kawasaki's Collier Marti-
nez. The two were separated by
less than two minutes by the end
of the weekend.
Toby Cleveland (Husqvarna)
was seven seconds back in
ninth, while Colton Shields
(Husqvarna) won the Pro-Am
class with 20th overall.
KTM's Brandy Richards domi
-
nated the Pro Women's division,
winning all 12 tests of the week-
end. Rockstar Energy Husqvarna
Factory Racing's Korie Steed,
around three minutes back, was
second.
"The only crash I had was in
the first test of the first day," said
Richards. "I just kind of lost the
front end, and then after that, I
kind of just stayed up pretty much
full time and just flowed. The en
-
duro test, I would say, was like 70
percent sandy, and then there was
also some hard-packed black dirt
there with a bunch of nasty tree
roots. But it was mostly sand."
Phoenix Honda Racing's Tayla
Jones came home with third,
while Rachel Gutish (Sherco) and
Ellie Winland (Yamaha) rounded
out the top five.
CN
OVERALL
1. Liam Draper (Yam)
2. Johnny Girroir (KTM)
3. Grant Davis (KTM)
4 Cody Barnes (Hon)
5. Craig Delong (Hus)
6. Cooper Jones (KTM)
7. Collier Martinez (Kaw)
8. Gavin Simon (Hus)
9. Toby Cleveland (Hus)
10. Colton Shields (Hus)
WIND
IN THE
P46
Johnny Girroir 22-race
win streak came to an
end, but he still finished
a close second.
