him to control the pace. Be-
ing familiar with Glen Helen
after years of racing GPs also
helped—and he needed it, as
Roberts was relentless on his
FMF/Bridgestone/Klim 480 RR.
"I was staying pretty close
until I had a little tipover [in the
first hour], and that kind of gave
us a bigger gap [to close]," Rob
-
erts said.
But he narrowed that chasm
until an off-course excursion
about 30 minutes later passing a
lapper left him stuck in the tena
-
cious brush that lines much of
the hilly trails.
"There's just not room for
those little mistakes right now,"
he said.
A look at the lap times
showed him closing right up to
Mateo Oliveira and spending the
final two laps of the race just
two seconds behind, waiting for
Mateo to make a mistake, which
ultimately didn't happen.
Mateo Oliveira's second win
of the season gives him a little
more breathing room at the top
of Pro/AA points over Roberts,
106-91, with two rounds left.
Just a couple of minutes be
-
hind came a battling group of Pro
250 riders. At first, it was round-
three winner Cole Zeller leading
that row on his Gainslinger Hu
-
man Performance Husqvarna.
However, he got held up in a
bottleneck while Dustyn Davis,
for whom Glen Helen is like a
second home, took an alternate
line that put him in front. The
Zip-Ty Racing/Pro Circuit/FXR
GasGas-supported rider had
started off third behind Zeller
and AMA Hare & Hound Pro 250
champ Sam Pretscherer, who
had to duck into the pits early to
replace a broken shifter on his
Hatch Racing/3Bros Husky.
From there, Davis sprinted
to build a lead of over a minute
on eventual Pro 250 runner-up
Colton Aeck, sliding into third
overall in the process.
The first-year Pro held that
lead to the finish line in only his
second WHS race (his first was
last year in the 250cc A class);
primarily a GP and MX racer,
Davis said, "I was excited [to
race this]. I like riding some tight
stuff, and definitely the length of
[a hare scramble] makes it hard.
It was straight from moto [last
weekend] to this—it's a lot differ
-
ent, but I really enjoyed it, though
the length of [a hare scramble]
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Dustyn Davis, in only
his second AMA WHS
and his first as a Pro
250 rider, won the
class comfortably and
finished third overall.
