Cycle News - Archive Issues - 2000's

Russell Pearson chose a different spot on the start for his Zip-Iy Racing/l'lontclair Yamaha,/lYoose-backed YZ450E lining up on the far outside, ahd it worked in his favor, "The start was a long uphill drag and on the left it had. like, a lump on the top, and the right was smoother where you could keep power to the ground," he raid, Staying on the ground and on the gas, Pearson rocketed around the outside and swept into the lead, though it was short-lived as teammate Garrison would pass him, and then Hughes, when they dropped onto the motocross track. Dietrich also got around before the lap was up, with Kiedrowski lurking right behind in fifth. That settled the top three. Hughes maintained a comfortable lead of around 30 seconds for practically the whole way while Garrison held on to a solitary sec- ond spot, stretching his lead over Dietrich's Pro Circuit/Haxxis/ARC-spon- sored KX450F nearly every lap, owning a margin of over a minute for much of the last half of the race. "l'ml delinitely more lcompetitive] than the first couple rounds because [Hughes] beat me by a solid minute or two," Garrison observed. "Now it's get- ting down to 20 or 30 seconds. lf I can keep getting that number down, sooner or later, l've got to be able to beat him." "l don't thihk lslept well last night, and I felt kind of gro8gy all day," Dietrich said. "l [was] probably the most consis- tent 8uy out there all day and never made any mistakes or anything. t4K [Mike Kiedrowski] kept me honest there for a while, then in the end, Woods kept me honest. I always had someone behind me keepinS me honest the whole time, making sure I wasn't slacking." "l wanted to get Ricky, I wanted to get third; that was my goal - was to get on the podium," Team Green's Nathan Woods said after finishing fourth on his Pro CircuiVGPR/Moose KX450E "They didn't give us a two-lap signal - normally they do - and whenever they give me a two-lap signal, I usually tn/ to push those ZitrTy Ra.irE team bo66 Ty Davis was a no, show in ldallo due to a s€Frated shoulder he sufered two week ago at a Big 6 GP According to Zp-Ty RacinS's Kenny Pbrry, Davis wll most likely have corrEctive sJrsery on both shoriders saon in hop€s of beirE read), by Octob€n last two laps. When I came around and they iust said'last lap,' it was pretty much over at that point, You need at least two laps to catch him, especially lwith] the distance he had on me. They were good races today; everybody rode awesome. lt was pretty silty and the bike started run- ning a liftle rich at the end. Not much you can do about it iust try to miss all the powder but all in all it was a good day." Especially for Hughes, who noted, "lf I didn't feel good and I still won, then that's saying somerhing. The next race is Washougal; l've put many laps in there, l've won the [motocross] Nationals there before, so I think it's going to be a good weekend. I haven't ridden around the trails lan that area], but on the motocross course lbelieve lcan throw down some damn good laps because I know that course. Every IWORCS] track lcome to is new to me. and all these guys know where they're Soing - I don't know - so next year is going to be better for me, because I'll know exactly what to do. lt's still a little bit of [a] learning [curve], but l'm looking forward to the next race, for sure." CItl Honda's Rotty B€ll suflered a badly sprained right ankl6 durir8 Friday's pra.tice, forcint him into fie role of spe.lrcor on

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