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Oklahoma, and was hoping to continue his success in ldaho in
order to tie up a spot on the Trophy Team headed
to New
Zealand
this
fall.
Pearson, on the other hand, had
tasted over-
all
victory
at this
venue
before, having won the ldaho Cit/ 100
on two
previous
occasions, in 2003
and 2004. The KTIY-
mounted Pearson was hoping
to utilize his familiarity with the
event to add a third ldaho City 100 overall trophy to his long
list of accomplishments.
After two days of competition,
220 miles of trail and I 0 spe-
cial tests, Pearson edged Abboft by a meager 15 seconds for
the overall win. And had a test not
been thrown on day one,
only one second would have
separated the two riders.
Finishing
in third, 12 seconds ofl the
pace,
was Abbott's
Kawasaki Team Green teammate Ricky
Dietrich, while KTM's
Kellon Walch and Kawasaki's Nathan Woods
rounded out the
top five overall,
Earlier in the week it was looking like
the
qualifier
would be
hot and dusry The record snowfall
of the winter and hea$,
spring rains
were
in the
past
and recent hot weather had
quick-
ly dried the
ground
out. Then on Friday,
while
riders
were sign-
in8 up,
jetting
and impounding their
bikes, a storm moved in
and rain started falling.
By dark it was raining hard enough to
cause some conceTn that there would
be too
much
(an
inch or
more and the forest
service would have called the race). But
lresrry
Abbolt
oth Destry Abbott
and
David
Pearson came to the
Two-Day ISDE
Qualifier
in ldaho
City hoping to
capitalize on earlier wins. Abbott was on a roll
after taking the win
at the opening round of the
four-round
qualifier
series
iust
one
week
before in
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