Roberts Rebounds for Golden Egg WHS Win
W
hile he's finished on the po-
dium every year since, Liqui
Moly Beta's Zane Roberts hadn't
enjoyed a win at any series visit
since 2021. Thus, he felt more
motivated than usual to win the
Lassen Motorcycle Club's Golden
Egg Hare Scramble, round three
of the AMA West Hare Scram
-
bles (WHS) Regional Champion-
ship Series, Presented by FMF,
April 19-20.
And after chasing series
points leader Mateo Oliveira
around for the first lap of the
mostly fast, flowy 18-mile loop,
he zipped past and led the rest
of the two-and-a-half-hour race,
finishing over three minutes
in front of Pro 250 riders Cole
Zeller and Ryder Thomaselli.
"The first lap around, it was
really dusty, so I kind of had to
see the course [for] a lap before
I would be comfortable trying to
make any passes in the dust,"
the FMF/Bridgestone/Klim-
backed 480 RR rider said. "Just
maybe two or three miles into
that second lap, I was able to get
around him going down a hill and
figured I should probably put a
little gap on him and kind of fall
into a pace after that."
FMF KTM Factory Off-road
Racing Team's Oliveira, however,
was compromised by a broken
hand, suffered in a simple crash
while practicing during the week.
Though he won round two with
a broken clutch hand, this time it
was a broken throttle hand that
would be surgically attended to
the day after the Golden Egg.
"The only motivation to race
today was to try to salvage some
points," he said. "I'm a little bit
bummed because my first two
laps went super-well. I don't know
what happened after that. Obvious
-
ly, my hand's broken, but for it to go
WIND
IN THE
P42
Zane Roberts grabbed
the lead and went on
to win the Golden Egg
Hare Scramble.
PHOTOS:
MARK KARIYA
