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OFF.ROAD
Round 2
Feb.uo.y 12. 2006
AMA/FMF Racing National Hap€ f, Hound Series
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t didn't take Team Green's Destry Abbott long to
rebound from his second-place finish behind
defending series champ Russell Pearson
at
the
opener of the AMIVFMF RacinS National Hare &
Hound Series. Round two - the 55th Annual
Moose Run
put
on by the Four Aces Motorcy-
cle Club at the Spangler Hills' Wagon
Wheel
Staging
Area -
saw him turn the tables on
Pearson by
getting
a
great
start on his Pro
Circuit/Dunlop/THOR-backed KX450F,
iumpinS
out to an early lead and
stretching
it
from there to the finish.
Pearson, on the other hand,
struggled after
getting
a bad start
on his Montclair Yam ahalZip-Iy
Racing/Moose-sponsored
YZ450E Though he man-
aged to charge back
into
contention on the second
loop of the approximately
83-mile race. several mis-
takes
prevented
him from
getting
any further
up
the
pack
than third.
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Splitting the two was Honda's Kendall Norman and
his Precision Concepts/Pro
Honda
Oils/O'Neal
CRF450X.
Though he had st4€d in bed for most of
the week due to a cold, Norman
didn't show any ill
effects in his riding, and he stayed within a couple min-
utes of Abbott all the way in matching his career-best
runner-up
placing.
With
Southern California
in the midst of an unusual
winter drought, conditions
promised
to be
dry and
dusty,
putting
a
premium
on the start.
"l
knew the start wirs super imponant," Abbott
said,
"l
was on the
far right on
the startin8
line, and I
just
had a really
good
line that was basically straight to
the bomb.
"Kendall
Norman and I came together about
halfway down the bomb; I had about a half a bike-
length on him, and my bike was able to
pull
him
iust
a
little
bit so
luckily, I
gqt
him. I
got
to
the main trail that I wanted to,
and it worked out."
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