OFF ROAD
AMA/SRT HARE & HOUND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
ROUND 3/MARCH 23, 2014
MURPHY, IDAHO
P96
My Own Race:
6 JUSTIN MORROW 4TH O/A
"The start wasn't too good [for me] - I was outside the top
10 - and then just worked my way up, crunched down and
was passing like crazy. I got a little too hungry too early, I
think. I haven't been riding because my shoulder's been
pretty sore after I dislocated it at the Big 6 GP two weeks
ago. Everything was kind of coming together for me. I
caught up to Axel Pearson. He was riding good, though.
Once I got in front of him, it was getting close to the end of
the race, and me and Ricky [Brabec] went side by side up
a sand wash and he just kind of out-pulled me."
101 DAVID KAMO 6TH O/A
It's been almost 11 months since local favorite David Kamo
last raced a National, and despite racing two races in Ja-
pan a couple weeks ago, he found the pace faster than
he remembered. That, plus shoulder surgery in Decem-
ber, meant he couldn't maintain the pace when he found
himself in third off the start, though he didn't fade too badly
on his borrowed KTM 450 XC-F. "I got blisters the whole,
entire time! I was a little out of shape. I tried keeping pace,
but those guys go so fast in the dust and I felt like I was a
little out of my element because I haven't been racing des-
ert races for quite a while."
450 IVAN RAMIREZ 10TH O/A
The points leader coming into the race, Ivan Ramirez had
a day to forget after a bad start left him mired in a cloud
of dust most of the day. "It was a rough day for me; I was
stuck in the dust all day," he said. "I had a bad start - I was
maybe 30th or 40th off the bomb - and was in the dust all
day. It was hard to pass people; the track was kind of high-
speed and everyone was going fast. I passed some guys
in the tight stuff. It was just one of those days. You've got
to keep going forward and moving toward the next one. I'm
frustrated with myself, but that's part of racing."
After two DNFs to
start the series,
Jacob Argubright
finally got a race
in the books with a
second place.
