I
t
euzukr's
Ryan Hu8hes and Mike Kiedrowskiwenr
one-Nvo ro
r)sweep the second round
of the
World
Off-Road
Championship Series in Taft, California,
on
February
19.
HuShes showed he's not immune from making
mistakes,
stallinS his RM-2450 on the llrst l+ and losinS
the lead and sev-
eral positions, but it didn't take long for
him to make up for
the
gaffe and pass his way back into
the
lead
on the Honolulu Hills
Raceway track. His teammate Kiedrowski,
however, shadowed
him the entire way. making it a one-two finish for
the team-
It was Hughes'second consecutive win of th€ yount
season.
"We
just
stayed the same for an hour and 45
minutes,"
Hughes said.
"l
think right at the end, I pulled
out
a little
bit. lt
was a touSh ftrce, man. We went 95 percent for two hou6,
and
(hat's
touth. This track, I think it's one of the routhert
tra.ks
l've ridden in my life. lt was rough, rough, rough, routh!"
Thanks to brief showers on Saturday afternoon and atain
!ha( night,
(he
track was close to
pedect
on Sunday, thouth it
developed man), square-edted holes, as usual,
putting
a premi-
um on suspension setup and
physical
conditioning.
lndeed,
after llnishang a disappointint fourth at round one, Kiedrowski
went
stiffer on his suspension, and it
paid
off ar Taft.
After winning the openint round of the AMA National
Hare
Scramblqs Series the week before, Ricky Dietrich
wat
primed
to do well atain at the WORCS race,
and
for
much of
the
race
he sat in third
place
on his Carter Powersports/Pro
CircuiVARC fi450E That would've matched his round-one
WORCS finish,
but Dietrich stalled the bike on the last l+ in
the telephone-pole
section with the finish line in sight and for-
feited his
podium
spot to Bobby Garrison. who'd come up
throuSh the
pack
in
a last-half charSe on his Montclair
\amahalzip-I,l
k
inglMoose
YZ450E
"l got
a
gift
at
the end," Garrison admined.
Dietrich
got
his
bike
restaned
in time to salvage fifth
place.
as Mike Corder, on his Race
Tech/Dunlop/Iroy Lee Designs
KTM 450 XC, also squirted
past
Dietrjch to
grab
foufth.
Mork tGriyd
|!
(L.fr
ro righr)
Mike Kiedrowski, Ryon
Hughes
ond Bobby Gorrison mode lho
podium
ot the se
