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AHRMA National Mntage Motocross S€niEs Round 4: Cehuilla Cr€€k MX Park ANZA, CA, APR. 23 -he famed Cahuilla Creek soil w.as Dut to the tert this week- I end. The forecast of panly doudy skies wzs a big miss: lt staned rainint at around 2 a.m. Sunday mominS and didn't stoP until around 6:30. And then it snowed for about half an hour Practice w'as a little muddy, but by race time the track was as good as it gets. The day started with the man of the weekend, Bill Sllverthom, beint his normal. borin& li8htnins-fast selt, winning th€ Over 50 Expen alass. He aclually seemed to 8et ax.ited and spun the tire in the first moto while he was chasint Dan D'Amicol Though D'Amico won th€ first moto, and Charlie Richardson won the setond moto, Silverthom placed second in both, and when the points were totaled, he was the overall winn€r. How can somebo(t 80 so fast yet be so smooth? Jared LanSe showed why he spona dre number-one plate in the Cl.ssic 125.c Expert class. He managed to dominate that class and the Sportsman l25cc Expert class with a four-for-four moto-win performance. Craig Parkinson was mighty impressive in th€ Classic 125.c lntermediate contest, which w?s run with the Expert!. ln the first moto, he managed !o place third overall, b€atint a .ouple of the Experts, en route to the class win, A black stripe may be in his future... The previous day's "sportsman of the day," Jubal Brown, foiled Parkinson's bid for a double in the Sportsman l25cc lntermediate by tetdng past Pa.kinson in the se.ond moto for a 2-l tally, which beat Pbrkinson's l-2 lcore. i4orBan Pierce looked awfuly tood en rout€ to winnint both Over,t0 Exrert motos on his Husky, after chasint ht Fo6ter hom€ in dle Open Ate cont€6t. MoGan's wife,.l Ette, srys stE had to talk him out o{ havirE Sunday morning when t}te snow sterted fallint. "Methink he's happy he toughed it out," said Janette. who rode pretty well herself in the Women's lntermediate conleit, keepinS the Poole family woften honest. Race seven 'JYa5 the Classic 500cc contest, and the Expert class was basically the Doug Grant show. Grant took his DG Recing A.lS 370 (sponsored by Do'rB Gatnon) to the front at the start of both motoa, aod that was the last aryone saw of him. He later said that this wEs the first time in 39 years of racin8 that he .ould remember getting both holeshots and leadint every laP. The coolest sound of the day had to be Lance Brown screaming his 1962 Honda CL twin up the hill on the wa), to victory in the Premier Lithweitht Novice clals. The effort! of the folks at C:huilla Creek t'lx track, the scorers, checkers, and everyone who made this great weekend of racinS possible, are much appreciated, as are those oI Southwest AHR}4A coordinator extiaordinaire Mark Arsenault and, of course, Dave Boydstun, who does all of the stuff that makes thinSs work. Cll CAHU[,!a CIEEK ,YlX PArx ANZA, CauroRNta REsur,rs: APRrt 23, 2006 (RouND 4) fim Thomos (33U), George Gerttanbcrg (94X) ond Colin shonc (74N) chore ofter Doug Gronl in Clo$ic 5OO.G o.tion ot round four of th. AHR iIA Nolionol Vintoga r/tolocrcts Series. (fiM). SPTSHN tOO Cx: L Prt Foner (l'1r)r 2. Rob Nolin (Suz): l.l.I M.rby (Cz). SPTSiIN OPcN Tw INr: t. ve e Elltl@ (BlA): 2. Jc A!8Bdne Od). SPTSHN OPEN TW E)( L Oen.L sp.nce On). CISC 125 NOv: l. Briu Llen (C4; 1 Phir cusrm (C4i 3 Lou Fa,zh* (Rjc). cl"sc I15 lm. I cBis Pad{i66 (H6): 2. lim Dalhs (HE); I vrctor Hoiz (Pen). crSC I 2l Ex: I larEd Lffse (Y ); 2. ctEr,ie Rj

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