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ii, lN RCA Dome SUPERCROSS Round 3 ^^o.rh 4. 2006 Amp'd Mobile AMA SX Lites €astern Regional Supercross Series Mv Owru Rece: 577 Hartin Davalos Firsr-)/ear pro Martin Davalos of Ecuador came into the RCA Dome on a roll afler finishing third in Atlanla and promptly went out and won his heaa race, passing Red Bull KTM's.losh Hansen in lhe proaess- However, rhe Star Racin8-baak ridor encounter€d problems in the main event and ended lhe night in 20th place. "The heat race was awesome," Davalos said. "l 8ot a decent start in fourth and came back to firs!. I fek pretry good and had some good lines out there, and I wa5 pumped for the main event. But I crashed in the firit comer in the main. I was just rhinking I had l5 laps to try and come back. But then my shifrer got bent, and I was stuck in first geai so it was over for me." Davalos now sits in ninth overall rn the Lites standinSs after rhe lndy round. 37 retty smtttr 4th Ptace After two straitht weeks of realty bad luck, Motospon/MDl(Honda rider Kelly Smith turned thin8s around with a fourth-place finish in the RCA Dome. Smith nailed the holeshot in his heat race and, afterJosh Grant went by, held ot{ Chris Gosselaar for second. ln the main, Smth 8or a decefi start and sat in founh after the fi6t lap. Srnilh held his Sround from there to finish fourth. "l iust had Sood srans all wcekend and everythin8 went so much better tha, th6 la$ two weeks, ' Smirh said. "l've just becn so frustrated lately, b€int in the wront place at the wrong time, durint the lirst two rounds. To come here and do so much better was iust a bit blessing. I am h+py to tet thinSs turned around, and now we've tot thrnts toint in th6 ritht direction." 54 Robert Kiniry 5th Place Robert Kiniry had his best finish to dare in Sup€rcross wirh a fifth in the Lites main. The Morospory'l'4DlvHonda-ba.ked rider has been improving each week and, most importanr- ly, he's been .onsistently racking up points and currently occupies the fifth-pla.e position in lhe series standingr, Like his teamma(e Kelly smirh, Kiniry capiralized on Eood sta.ls rn lndy, turning them into good fini.hes. "l loved the lrack - k was aechnicaland a litlle bit slip- pery bur t was good," Kiniry said. 'l tried some different thinEs in practice, and it went really well for me. I got the holeshot in rhe heat but dropped back to founh when I had a couple little problems - norhing with the bike or anything. I lixed them and went out for the main and gor a good stan. Me and Kelly lsmith] ried for the holeshor, bu! I kind ofgor pushed out wide and dropped back to lifth." 77 Tucker Hibbert 8th Place Moloworld Raciht.com/PPG,^(amaha's Tucker Hibbert is slowly moving up the ranks, fin- iihint eithth in lndy after a l9th in St. Louis and a lTth in Atlarlta. Hibtren rode a good race to win the LCQ over teim.nate ChadJohnson and linished up $r'ith a consistent race in the main. "l was almost las! tate pick, because I came rhrouth the LCQ, and ltot outside [on rhe line], but I was Mppy wlth that, because Sood thinSs were happeninE for me outtide," Hibbert said. "l had a realry slow .eaction time coming off rhe Eare, but my bike pulled real- ly hard down to the first turn and I almosr had the hol€shot, but I had to back out. I think I came out about I lth place on the firsa lap and just steadily worked my wq/ up. I moved up into seventh for a while, but then Branden rasseman Eor around me. and I finish€d eithth. I felt good. The last two weeks I crashed in the mains, so eithth place is good for m6 right now lt's nor where I want to be. but it is a srep forward for me. 20th Place .I ( t; I i ) Grart remounted in second, but Millsaps now had the lead and the momentum- Lapped traflic was now a factor on the one-line track, and t"lillsapc negotiated the backmarkers over the next five laps en route to a 2.3-second win over Grant. Gosselaar went the entire di$ance in third, while Motospon/MDK/Honda team- mates Smith and Roben Kiniry spent the nighr battling over founh. with Smith getting the nod at the finish. Red Bull KTM'S Josh Hansen, who \ras l'la$h* Goe.ke (Yam)r 7. ftoms Hahn (Ho.)i 8. Stephane Roncada Crah)j e. s€an Hambl.n (s@)i 10. Christopher Pusab (Kaw); ll. l'lichel Blore (Hon): 12. Ro} Honon {Hon); 13. Josh Uclftle flam)i 14- chad c@k (Hon)j 15. Tkk6 Hibb€rt (Yam)i 16. Losb a.l.nin (Hd): I 7. Tnmt Hmien (Hon)i I 8. (y'e chisholh (K:w); I 9. l6iuaSumm!, (Hon);20. Leishton UlliE (Hon). Ra6 tlm:5 mrn..3l.3 s. SX UTES HEAT r (6 Ugr, l-9 to Mi.r): l. fla.tin hvJ6 (rn); 2. D i MilkaF (Hon)i l. J6hu, Hffin (Knr)r 4. Rob€r Knir/ (Hon): 5. l'1an whlker Crm)r 6. BBdley Rapple (K ); 7. Donnie l'4.Gour, (X.w): 8. T6ddy Maier (Kaw); e. Gree s

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