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OFF.ROAD
Round
3
Morch 19, 2006
Rockg Mountain
Ary/MC World Off-Road Championship s€ri€s
ln what he
said was
one of
his
toughest
races
ever, Mike Alessi
hammered the
Havasu
whoops
en
route
to victory
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sand whoops, hard-pack,
rocks, teerh-iar-
ring
square-edged holes and
dust.
The
Red
Bull KTM motocrosser
was obviously
spent after riding - and winnirE
-
his first
WORCS race. the third round
of the
series, which was held
at the Crazy Horse
Campground
next to Lake Havasu.
Though Alessi led most
of the way on
his
Motorex,tFMF/Alpinestars-backed 250
SX-E his win was not a complete runaway,
as seveml others matched his speed and
hung
close until fatigue-induced spills or
bike
problems
took their toll- Fellow
Amp'd l4obile AMA
Supercross Lites West
competitor Breft l'letcalfe
ended up sec-
ond on his Yamaha
of Troy/Boost
Hobil{Fly
f2250[ flnishing some 24 sec-
onds behind Alessi's winninS time of
two
hours, seven minutes and
2l seconds.
Those two
stopped the win
streak of
Suzuki's Ryan Hughes,
who overcame
crashes and
a fading clutch on his
ECC/FMF/Moose RM-2450, to claim
third
a few laps from the end.
A record number
of riders,
estimated
bewveen
1300
and 1500 over
the week-
end, turned
out
for
the race. All
those
rid-
Ruls Peorson
(4)
rook ftc hoLrhor
ohood of hi5 tc.mmote
Eobby
Gorrison
(9).
Poqrron want
on
io
fiiish seventh.
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Molo.rErser Mike Alegri used the
Hovosu ro.e to stoy shorp during the
breok in the Lites
West Supercross series.
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