in the early going held him back
before he got into a flow, saying,
"I finally started clicking off laps,
finding lines. Following Redondi
[near the end], I had to make
kind of an aggressive pass for
that win, but I had to take it."
Lynn's first NGPC win since
a Pro II triumph in 2020 moves
him to second in points behind
Dante Oliveira, who said losing
the front in a turn while leading
two laps before the finish was a
rookie move. He ended up mo
-
mentarily stuck in some brush,
which was all his competition
needed to scoot past, relegating
him to fourth.
A jubilant Redondi said, "I'm
super-stoked I was up front the
whole race! Me, Dante, Mateo and
Tyler, we were pushing very hard.
In the end, Lynn caught me when I
got bottlenecked a little bit. I was
feeling great the whole race, and
the results finally came!"
Though third after running
up front might've been tough
to accept, Red Bull/Motorex/
Alpinestars 450 XC-F-mounted
Mateo Oliveira saw the silver lin
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ing. "Here, we were on the limit
the whole time—that was pretty
crazy," he said. "A lot of mistakes
happening [by all four of us]. I'm
just stoked I'm on the podium
again. I can take that away from
today and not beat myself up too
bad because I would've killed for
these podiums last year."
Three consecutive podi
-
ums—3-2-3—put him third in
points at 67 behind Dante (78)
and Lynn (69).
Liqui Moly Beta's Dare DeMar
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tile found himself unable to ride
at his normal pace and settled
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for a lonely sixth ahead of Pro
II winner Mason Semmens. The
reigning Pro II champ grabbed
the lead shortly after the start,
and after that, no other Pro IIs
could keep him and his AEO
Powersports/Trail Jesters/
Moose Racing 250 XC-F in sight.
He said, "This is the first time
racing Glen Helen and working
with Bob [Bell of Precision Con
-
cepts]. Obviously, he knows this
place inside and out, and we've
done a lot of laps around here,
so that helped me for sure—sus
-
pension felt comfortable. And it
was more of a real off-road race
today. We had rocks, the Pro
section was sick, good up- and
downhills—it was more off-road,
which my GNCC [experience] the
last couple years really sort of
helped me in that."
Simi Valley Cycles Yamaha's
Justin Hoeft finished eighth
overall and seventh Open Pro,
followed by Pro II runner-up
Sam Pretscherer. The 3Bros/
Hatch Racing/Troy Lee Designs
Husqvarna rider was the caboose
in a train of Pro IIs behind Kai
Aiello, Cole Zeller and Colton Aeck
in the early going, but about an
hour in, he'd found a way past
them all and matched his class
runner-up from round two. Zeller
took the final podium spot and
10th overall on his Gainslinger Hu
-
man Performance/Lake Elsinore
Casino/O'Neal Racing FC 250.
In Pro Women, Nielsen and her
Progressive/Maxima/Alpinestars
CRF250RX faced a much sterner
test due to a combination of be
-
In the Pro II race,
defending class champ
Mason Semmens had
things under control
quickly and made his
way to seventh overall
and the class win.
