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Mike
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tfre Leodhelr Norionol
Enduro
in lrli*ourl
second
win
of the
year
at a wet
and
muddy
fourth
round of the tour, held
at
Saint
Joe
State
Park in Park Hills,
Mis-
souri.
LafIerty,
who is in
pursuit
of
an
eighth
National
Enduro title, topped
fel-
low KTM
rider Russell Bobbitt
of GeorSia
by seven
points,
with
Stephen Edmond-
son of
Virginia,
also riding a KTM, anoth-
er
point
back.
New
Jersey's
Fred Hoess,
riding
a Gas Gas,
took fourth, with
Ohioan Cody
Mastin, on a KTM
in fifth.
"lt
was a
good
event,"
Lafferty
said.
"The
club did
a
great
iob
with the rain
and all.
The only
problem
was the
streams
weTe
Setting
deeP and
You
could water-out
if
you
weren't careful.
But everything went
good
for me.
"They
used a start
control here
for
Lhe
frrst
time,
so there
was no messrne
wirh check-ins,
you
iust
got
to
a starr
control and
you
lloored
it, and that
was the section," Lafferty
added.
'So.
basically.
you
didn't
have !o
keep time
going into
a section.
This
event was all
about racing."
With
four of ll
rounds
in the bool(s,
Lafferty now holds a
l3-point
lead over
Bobbirt
in the series standings,
106 93,
with Edmondson
in third, another
l6
points
back with 77. Hoess
is {ourth
with 59
and Rich Lafferty,
Michael's
brother,
is firth with 57.
An all-oight
rain set the
stage for a
muddy
event as
the host club, the
Missouri
Mudders, ran two
laps of 50
miles,
one of the few two-lap
courses
on the circuit,
guaranteeing that the sec-
ond lap would
be slightly
tougher than
the
first, considering
the added traffic.
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17,2006
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ichael
Lalferty
padded
his lead in the
AMA Fl'4F
Racing
National
Enduro
Series
overall
points
standings
by taking his
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