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Andrew
Short
gets
it done in
Southwick sand
Short started the first moto in fourth,
and then took
Kawasaki's Team
Green's Kyle
Chisholm and
Boost/Mobile Yamaha,ffamaha
of Troy's Andrew
McFarlane for second on lap four. Two laps
later he was
past
Alessi and into the
lead.
Alessi stayed
closed for a few laps, then Short was
gone, winning
by 5.057 seconds.
"l
iust
can't start back
there with those
guys,"
Short
said of not
getting
the holeshot,
"l've
got
to continue to
charge throughout the whole moto and l'll
be there
-
Got to improve
on the stafts."
Alessi kept
a steady second, even as HcFarlane's
teammate Brett Metcalfe and Star Racing Yamaha's
Matt Goerke made
a combined late run. But he
was
able to hold on and get
back up in the top three after a
disappointing second moto at HiSh Point Raceway-
"l
learned a lot last
year
about
iust
being
patient
and
iust
trying to
Eet
as
many points
as I can every week-
end," Alessi said.
'iAnd
it's
just
so much
about winning
every moto, it's
just
being up there
and being consistent
and
getting good
starts obviously, which I'm
good
at."
Metcalfe finished a second-plus
behind Alessi after
coming from l0th
on the first lap. When he
caught up
to Alessi, he had no
goggle
tear-offs.
"So
coming from the back like that, it
sort of
screwed my race up,"
he said.
Goerke was closing
on lt4etcalfe when he was
slowed by another rider
on the final lap, taking
a
secure
fourth, his
best of the season. lulcFarlane
was a distant
fifth.
Short had less luck in the second
moto, finishing
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Red Bull KTM's Mike Alessi won the
first three
motos of
the season.
The
next three motos
produced
three different
winners, And there have been different
overall winners in the first three races-
American Honda's
Andrew Shon
became the
newest member
of the 2006 overall club with a l-4 day
on the sands of Motocross 338 in Southwick.
"Consistency
is
going
to be the key," Short
said,
''especially
in our class. Everyone is so far up and down
everyweek. I had two bad motos at the start of the sea-
son
that
need
to be my last, and I'm looking forward to
the rest of the series.
"Last
year
I didn't score any
points
here.
lwas
pret-
ty far
back
in
the
poins.
l'm way ahead of where I was
last
year,
and
I
have a lot to build. lf I can keep
continu-
in8
getting
better week in and week
out, I think
I'll
be
there at the end. I
iust
know it's a long
series and
I know
no one can be up there
every weekend. l'm looking for-
ward to the rest."
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