"He [Roberts] was coming
around the corner as I was drop-
ping down the hill to get back
on course—that's how close we
were with how nasty the dust
was," Oliveira said.
Woolslayer was understandably
fatigued after eight consecutive
100-plus-mile days pre-running in
Baja that culminated at the Rabbit
Creek 100, not to mention the
three-hour wait at the border to
catch two flights to Boise.
But once the banner dropped,
he put most of that out of mind,
jetting to third off the start
aboard his Blud Lubricants/
FMF/MSR FC 450. "I really
wasn't feeling it the first 20, 30
miles, so I actually kind of went
wide to let [Dalton Shirey] by,
and tucked the front end, and
crashed. So I just kept going,
and he got close here and there,
but I wasn't going to just pull
over and let him by!"
Shirey and his Western Ag Crop
Insurance Services/Hatch Rac
-
ing/Fast House KX450SR found
it impossible to punch through
the dust and settled for fourth, 14
seconds off the podium.
A late-race pass netted
Woolslayer's Norman Racing
Husqvarna teammate and San
Felipe partner Kayden Lynn his
first-ever Pro 250 win and fifth
overall by just eight seconds
over class runner-up Ryder
Thomaselli. One of the keys to
victory was the huge fuel tank
he'd fitted to his Dunlop/DDC
Sprockets/6D Helmets-backed
FC 250. Normally used just for
WIND
IN THE
P52
Kayden Lynn claimed
his first-ever Pro 250
win at the Rabbit Creek
100, some 24 hours
after racing the SCORE
San Felipe 250.
A quick check back
revealed no dust with
about 10 miles to go for
Ava Silvestri, who romped
to her third-straight
Pro Women win.
