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Annual
AMA Dipt Track Grand
Championships
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Amateur
Flat Trackers
converge
on Duouoin
for
the 30th running
of
the
AMA
Sports Dirt Track
Grand
Championships.
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riders
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s the
United Shtes of America
celebrated its 230th
birthday,
Armteur
flat trackers from
all
over North
America - and
Held in the
same building as the
penuhi-
rnate round of the
2004 Ford
Quality
Checked Grand
Natpnal Championship,
the shon track was
groomed
ro
perfection
usir€
dirt from the
Mile, and although it was
blazing-hot outside, the
track \,tEs shielded
from
the sun, and
thus
required
liftle main-
tenance. The crushed-limestone
half
mile
was srnooth
and wide,
producing
some of
the week!
best racing. The TT
circut uti-
lized the front
straight and infield
of the half
mile, challenging
many where the
slrface
changed from
crushed limestone
to
packed
clay, and
also included a trght, lirst*ear
righVleft chicane. Finally,
the 2006
DTGC
concluded
on the Mile
(scene
of many
GNC evens over
the
years),
which
held
together remarkabt
well $roughout a
day
of racing that staned
early and
wem on
until
after midnigtr,
Action began
on Sunday with Group
One classes
- the 50cc Stock (4-6)
through
85cc l'4odified
(12-15)
classes - in
the
indoor
short-fa.k arena
On
lYonday,
both
ond Stevie Bonray
wolked
owoy
wins for thc
I
he world - celebrated
the
30th running of the
Al'4A
Sports Dirt Track
Championships.
After several
yean
Springfield, lllinois, the
event was relo-
cated in 2006
to a new
venue: the
DuQuoin
State
Fairgrounds in southem llli-
This
proved
to be
a
popular
change,
in attendance
were greeted
by
townspeople,
and flere was
a sce-
fully equipped lakeside
campground
walking distance
of all the facility's
racetracks.
order to decide
who was
the
"best
of
the
best"
in
various classes - ranging
from
th6e for 4-),ear-olds
on
50cc bikes to
tho6e for ride6
wer 50
years
old
on big
bikes
-
the nlcers
were split into
two
Sroups,
with the competkion
being
played
out orer four
track: an indoor
short track,
a
lirnestone
half mile, a techni
