AMA Southern
All-stars MX Tour
SAS South S€ni€s
Rounds 8/4: Laurcl Mountain
MX
McBride. Bell Rinq ln
with
Lourel
Mountoin
Wins
PHOTO
BY GAFY CBIOEB
Motosport Honda/RlqPro Element/Renegade
Suspension-backed McMichen
eamed the
Sold
via
his l-2 tally.
Shelby Dorsey won both motos,
ahead of
Danielle
Sparks, in the Women's
65-
l05cc
contest, Dorsey and
Sparks are nolv tied for
first in
the series
points
chase. Cll
iE
I
Gregory
Robertr won the
25occ B
ond Four"Slroka Amqteur
divisions
ot
round
eight of the ArvlA
Soulhorn All-Storr
MX Tour.
Auston Albers clashed in the hard-fought Four-
Stroke Pro and 250cc A contests. WBR
Suzuki/Dunlop-backed
Sipes won the Four-
Stroke Pro contest after holdin8 Albers
at bay
through two motos
of close racin8. Shane
O'Banion was third both times.
DurinS the final 25occ A moto,
l.lSR/
l'4axxis-backed
Albers
got
by Sipes for
rhe
moto win. Albers' 2-l score netted
the
Bold
in
a
points
tie over Sip€s. North Carolina's Steven
Houser earned the llnal
podium
spot, ahead of
O'Banion.
James
Singer of Pennsyivanra
rounded out the top five.
Sipes
leads
rhe series
in this class,
iusr
rhree
poinrs
ahead ofAlbers.
Chase Haiey and Tyler
Gillis dueled closely rn
both
50cc Shaft-D.ive motos. l"1oto one ended
in a near-photo-finish. with Gillis ahead. ln
the
op€ning moments of moto
two, Gillis and Haley
took
turns at the lead. Ar about
lhe
halfyvay
rna.k,
Gillis suffered a spill that set him back to
an eventual fifth-place finish, netting third
oveiell. Haley rode on to the moto win
aM the
class victory ahead of series leaderJax
Price.
Haley returned
to win both motos in
the
50cc
(4-6)
divisaon, aboard his
Cobra.
Trent Mc14ichen
and Adrian l'4oore
wrestled for the
point position
in the first moto
of 85cc
(
l2- l3) racinS until
Moore crarhed
back to a eventual fifth-place
linish. Mcl,lichen
held
on for the moto win. Moore
lvon the fina!
moto, and his
5-l score was
good
enough for
the
runner-up
honors, over Trent
Shuler.
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MAorsoNvrLLr, TENNtsst:
Rrsu[s: MaY
14, 2006
(RouNDs
8/4)
iIADISONVII.LE, IN, MAY 14
I
aurel
f'lountarn
HX was a
gold
mine for
l-eries
points
and awards
this
weekend.
There was
a
points-palng
supercross round
of
the
spin-off SAS South Senes held here on Fri-
day night. Then,
on
Sunday,
the track
pla)/ed
host to round eight of
the fourth annual Al{A
Southern All-Stars IYX Tour Sunday's evem also
did double-duty as round
four of the SAS South
Series.
ln
addition to the multiple
series
points
on tap,
generous
awards were
presented
all the
way ba.k to eithth place
in every class. Riders
from
nine states turned out for the
event,
Florida's
Chris l4cBride
Sassed
his KawEs€ki
to a clean sweep of all
(our
motos
in the 85cc
(14-lS)
and Supermini
clas,es. l4att Bell of
Tennessee was equally impressive, winning
three
out
of four
motos to .laim the
gold
in
Schoolboy Two-Stroke
and l25cc B racinS
aboard his Kirk's Cycbfthor-backed
Suzukii-
Ohio
speedster Egan Rosell swept
to
perfect
scores in
both the 85cc
(7-
I l) and 85cc
(9-13)
divisions. ln similar fashion, Geortia's
Grepry Roberts
won every moto in 250cc B
and
Four-Stroke
Amateur
racinE on his
Oakley/SYD/Fox-backed machine. l'lotorsport
Honda's
Gage
Hartman padded
his series
points
lead in the l25cc
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