second behind Baylor, but a
mishap on a slick hill allowed
Ashburn to take second. Draper
spent the rest of the race riding
solo, finishing third in the XC1
Pro class and fourth overall.
"I got off to a good start," said
Draper. "I knew Stew was going
to have a good day, with the mud
and the deep roots. I wanted to
follow him, but I kind of screwed
up a hill and lost touch with him
and Jordan got around me. After
that, I just kind of rode by myself
for a while. Jordan pulled away
but then I got back close to Stew
and I just tried to put on a Sprint
in that last lap because I knew
the XC2 boys were coming. I
gave it all I had."
Phoenix Honda Racing's Cody
Barnes struggled with the deep
ruts and then lost about 30 sec
-
onds on lap four when his bike
died and was slow to start.
"I rode pretty good for the
most part," said Barnes. "I kind
of struggled a bit when the mud
tacked up and got heavy and the
ruts got long. I had a couple of
crashes from getting my legs
caught up behind me in some of
those long ruts and just having
tip-overs. That kind of kind of
threw my lead away in the XC2
class. I was challenging for the
lead, but I just had a little bit of
bad luck. My bike got so hot
because the mud was so heavy
that it ended up shutting off on
me. It wouldn't restart for a little
bit. I felt like I rode pretty decent,
I just need to keep working on
those ruts."
FMF KTM Factory Racing
Team Landers' Grant Davis, who
has been amazing this year, had
an off day, finishing sixth overall
and third in the XC2 division.
XC2 Championship competi
-
tor Jason Tino, of the Flatrock
Motorclub GasGas Factory
Team, suffered a torn ACL and
will have to sit out the rest of the
season.
Liqui Moly Factory Beta rider
Josh Strang beat out Rockstar
Energy Racing Husqvarna's Craig
DeLong by just five seconds for
seventh.
WIND
IN THE
P50
Angus Riordan was
third overall and first in
the XC2 Pro class.
