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BURSON BAGS ANOTHER
P
urvines Racing Beta's Nick
Burson kicked off the second
half of the Kenda/SRT AMA West
Hare Scrambles Championship
Series by dominating the Silver
State Trail Blazers' Sawmill Run
presented by Purvines Racing,
round five of the eight-race tour.
It marked his second win of
the season—the first rider to
achieve that distinction—but SRT
Off-road KTM's Cory Graffunder
held on to the series points lead
thanks to his runner-up finish.
Unofficially, Graffunder now
has 122 while Burson's 30-point
haul moves him into second with
111. FMF/Maxxis/RPM Racing
KTM's Travis Coy finished the
day third, dropping to third in
points with 105.
Race day included five
separate races, starting with a
30-minute Pee Wee competition
and ending with the two-and-a-
half-hour main event for Pros,
A's and B's. The Silver State Trail
Blazers came up with a course
nearly 15 miles long that in-
cluded a good mix of challenges
for the final, with a desert feel.
However, rain and even snow in
the weeks leading up to the race
made for conditions that, for the
most part, were far less dusty
and desert-y than one might nor-
mally expect.
When the green flag waved,
Alex Dorsey sprinted down the
short start straight and into the
lead aboard his Six Five O Rac-
ing KTM, though he wasn't able
to hold off the hard-charging
Graffunder.
"I passed for the lead in one of
the first sand washes; I was trying
to check out as much as I could,"
TBT Racing/Kenda KTM 300 XC-
mounted Graffunder shared.
"By the end of the first lap, I
could see Burson behind me. I
Nick Burson leads a
group of lapped riders
into the finish in his
second victory of the
season to date which
vaulted him past
Travis Coy, who was
third on the day, to
second in points.