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Buffolo Bill's Cosino Primm, N\/ SUPERMOTO Round I Agtil 7-9, 2006 sNV SupGrmoto Stat€lin€ Challenge/STTARS Southw€st Serics 3 I Sunday brought another win to the TLD team, as Carsidy Anderson dominat- ed the 250cc race and collected a chunk of the $1000 purse donated by SuperMoto Rocer maSaz ine- Graves Yarmha's Brandon Currie looked like he could match Andersorls pace, but a crash in the dirt put *le 2005 AMA Supermoto Lites runner-up out of contention. Mach I Yamaha's Danny Casey and KTM-mounted Leonardo Bagnis ioined Anderson on the podium, while Red Baron's David Pingree finished fourth in his 250cc debut, iust ahead of Currie, who rebounded ta fifth. Racers drew numbers from a hat to determine starting positions in the Nvo heat races for Sunday's Open Pro race, which featured a $5000 purce. Founeen- year-old Frankie "El Ni6o'' Garcia, who was banling with Fillmore for the lead in heat mce numLrer one, crashed out short- ly after returning to the paved section of the course. The crash brought out the only red flag ofthe weekend, and the race was restarted after a short delay. The 2005 AMA Supermoto Unlimited champion, Dymond, was sidelined with a broken triple clamp in his heat race and was then taken out by an overzealous competitor on the first lap of the last- chance semifinal. Dymond picked up his fiM and got it started as the pack raced off, leaving him half a lap behind the lead- ers, Dymond then went on a three-lap rampaSe that saw him miraculously catch allthe way back up to second place, which rransferred him to the last row ofthe main event's sta.ting Srid- ln the final, Fillmore got another holeshot, but this time Ward made it through turn one clean, passed for the lead before the halfway point of the race, and won the third race ofthe weekend for the TLD team. Fillmore hung on for sec- ond, with Herfoss, Nicoll and Drew rounding out the top flve. Seven-year-old Josh Serne raised money for the Cystrc Fibrosis Foundatron through his racing. At the Stateline event, his sponsors D&W lmages and Team65 helped arrange a raffle that raised $2000 for the cause. CN BuFraro BrLL's CattNo PRrMr,r, NTVADA RE5uLrs! APnrL 7-9, 2006 (RouND I ) lrllNl ln: l. GaSe McAllistec 2. RFn Han€r (Kaw)i l. HlNl atl25: l.l*m,.h SEerr: 2. Zah \ Lrnel (KTM): l. Dale Jalu.hu6. l.llNl 85: l. losy P:s.arella (KTl'1): 2. Ty'er oddn (Xtu); l. Rre Kaft. MlNl ilO: l. K.vio Hshme (Fron):2 8.ad EmmD (Krw): l. Matt Girb€.t {Hon). MlNl 16& l. MkhaelCardE;2. Odiy !^hlker (Hon)i l. Enc s.hettler (K,w). BEG| l. Robbie cdlo. 60?): l. Brd Mom; l. l&n NOY: L lon Firher,2 l''like !.dridA.:l. DarrlTenbr'nk Nr: L P.ul Um (H6). 2 Ousrin SullMn: 3. Chad Coe 210: l. Csidy AndeRor (Honr, 2 D&ny C@, (Yam): l. Leo Ba$is (KrM). 450: l. Chns Fillmre (Hon)ir. *evE D.Ew (KIM)j 3. Kun Nkolr (KrM). OPEN: Lleffv/ard (Hon):2. Chrk Frllmore (Hon)r 3. sPTsr.'lN: I- lon Fisher: 2. Oaryl Tnbrinki 2 Chad VET OVEA 35: r. 5t* Hr.h (KTl'l): 2. Troy LE (H@): I Danry walker (Hon) YET OVER 4tr I s(on Pode,rots (Hoh): ?. Tm HcArdlE (Hon), 3. Cary Dd. TEAH SPORTSI'IAIVBEG: I kon Hoflman/Gres Ferenstein (Hon): 2. Robbie co.lo.,/John risher (Suz); 3. ws Green4don T.ubey. TEAM INT: I Slh lohnto./RKh Sert: 2 Brtr Bartl@/Daryl Tenbrink. TEAM Ex: l. Trcy Herfoss/Da,d B.fleleuf (Hur. 2. Csey Yarrcw/D ny cey (Ym); 3. G!r/ Tdch/F6nkje E lla I t has been almost three vears since I =roaarnoao burst into the national ! spotlight with the inaugural AHA Pro I n .ing event held at Laguna Seca I Raceway. ln the shoft time since, the sport has grown in pro and Amateur rank alike, and has also become the premier event in the high-profile X-Games. Yet, the question is constantly asked, "ls super- moto here to stay, or is it just another trendy extreme sport that will fade away?" Anyone who was in Primm, Nevada, for the second annual Stateline Supermoto Challenge, presented by Maxxis and RideNgw Powersports, will tell you that supernoto is certainly here to stay. More than 500 competitors from Australia, Canada, France, Grear Britain. .lapan and 17 U.S. states converged on Buffalo Bill's Casino for the largest super- moto race to date. Southern Nevada Supermoto president''Mad Marche'' Karger built a course that treated two- and four-wheel racers to a variety of iumps and berms, multiple passing oppor- tunities, and a 60/40 pavement- to-dirt ratio. The weekend got off to an early start with four separate 40-minute The TrcY Lee Desions Tesm hitithe Trifect? ot the Supcrm.ob Srtiteline formance in the heat race, but a crash ih the dirt put the likable Aussie out of the race early- Gnrc FrnENstEtN Mrri Doun (Below leh) Josh Seme helped roise $2OOO for rhe Cysri< Fibrosis Foundotion. {Below righr) Ddnny Cosey rode hord oll weekend lor the Mqch I Motorsports teom, 54 MAY 3,2006 CYCLE NEWS I ID --, ': .| t- ol SNV Supermolo , a!,r d._ [ -.^./ E I 7^ I \ N L hallt;r a, team races on Friday afternoon. Every l0 minutes, a llag signaled racers to pull omo the NASCAR-style pit lane and into an assigned pir stall, where they met their teammate, who then took to the track, The Husqvama powerhouse duo of Troy Herfoss and David Baffeleuf established themselves as the men to beat for the weekend, as they handily won the Expert- division team race. ln Saturday's 450€c race, Troy Lee Designs' Chris Fillmore rocketed off the line with a perfectly timed launch and rounded turn one in the lead, while TLD teammate Jeff Ward got tangled up in a first-turn pileup, reioining the race at the back of the pack. Fillmore was pressured by Steve Drew, who was racing his new KTI''I for the first time, but he never relin- quished the lead. Fillmore led Drew, Kurt Nicoll, Micky Dymond and Gary Trachy to the checkered flag. GP I''lotorcycles' Herfoss was the pre-race favorite due to his dominatinS per- l, tD I Chris Fillmore (l l) leods Jeff Ward (3) in the 45Oc< moin, en ilule lo lhe win. 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