Adelonro, CA
OFF.ROAD
?6th
Annual
Ad€lanto 6Pand
Prix
n estimated 25,000
sPectators
and
racen
descended on the ever-growing
High Desert
town
oI Adelanto for the
26th Annual Desen
Vipers Adelanto
rider
Justin
Soule
out
of Reno, Neyada, came
away
victorious.
After nabbinS
the holeshot, Soule
led the
pack
of 250cc two-strokes
on his
Team Green/GPMip
Ty Racing/Moose-backed
KX250
for haff a laP
before
Davis was
able to sneak by
him and
Put
a
2Gsecond
gap
on
him.
"l
kept Ty in my sighs the
whole tjme,''
Soule
said.
"l
knew if I could
say close, then I
migtrt have
a
chance to
get
b6ck around
him.''
That chance
came on the last
lap when the
rid-
ers encoumered
a
pack
of lappers, and Davis
was
forced to hit dle brakes.
"Ty
had
to brake, and I saw
my chance, so
I
iust
pinned
it and
went right around
him!" Soule said.
"They're
saying I dethroned
the King,
but I would-
nt
go
that far.
lt's weird riding against someone
like
Davis whose
(areer
I have
followed. I resPect
him
Prix.
This race has a long
his-
+.
tory of drawing record
numbers
of riders who
only race
this one event each
year,
and
this
year
proved
to be
no different
with many of the classes
sellinS out. The nine-mib course
was very similar
to the 2005
course and featured the
legendary
high-speed asphalt
start,
gear-to-the-moon
straightaways,
the infamous
mud
jump,
and
motocross sections.
Ty Drvis is
known as the
"King
ofAdelanto" but
there may
just
be a
young
prince waiting in the
wings to take
over the crown. Davis won every
sin-
gle
event he entered
over the
weekend except the
250 Expert mce. where l7-year-old
Team Green
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