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BAYLOR PADS OMA POINTS LEAD
"I
knew I just had to get as big
of a points gap as I could
leading into this next round
where I won't be able to make it
[because of the ISDE], so I was
pushing for another win today,"
EverRev.com KTM's Steward
Baylor said after winning for the
fifth time in five rounds of the
Parts Unlimited Off-road Motor-
cycle and ATV (OMA) Nationals.
Hot, humid conditions at
the Big Bottom Cross-Country
National made practically every
racer thankful for the pair of
45-minute motos laid out in the
woods of the Brueggeman Fam-
ily Farm in Plainview, Illinois.
It's been a long time since Air-
group/Radiant Racing Husqvar-
na's Nick Fahringer has raced
an OMA, a knee injury and
subsequent surgery last year
putting him on the sidelines,
but he's back at the races now,
though he was unsure how he'd
fare with the new format.
Fahringer collected the $100
FMF Holeshot Award in both
motos aboard his FMF/Moose
Racing/MotorcycleSuperstore.
com-backed TE 300, eventually
finishing a 5-5 fifth overall after
spending time recently at the
Sturgis motorcycle rally.
In the first moto, JJR Off-
road KTM's Jimmy Jarrett got
off to a last-place start aboard
his Dunlop/Factory Connec-
tion 450 XC-F but somehow
passed everyone in front of him,
basically doing it twice since he
crashed once.
But that effort took a lot out
of him and a case of arm pump
saw him yield to Fun Mart
Cycles KTM's Adam Bonneur,
who piloted a Maxxis/RidePG.
com-sponsored 350 XC-F.
In the second moto, however,
it was Jarrett who edged Bon-
Steward Baylor (514) took the checkered flag first in both motos at the Big Bottom X-C
National, but Mike Witkowski (282) gave Baylor a good run in the second moto.
