OFF ROAD
FINAL ROUND / OCTOBER 25, 2015
JOHNSON VALLEY OHVA / LUCERNE VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
P76
downhill over here, I absolutely
gave it my all. It was either I was
going to pass him or go down!
I was banging off rocks and I
caught him and passed him, but
I went down the wrong line and
had to turn around and go back
up because [the course] split off
left."
Purvines Racing Beta's Axel
Pearson was a couple minutes
back for fourth place followed
by LG Electric Yamaha-mounted
Ryan Smith, FMF 250cc Pro
winner Dalton Shirey, Ramirez,
Max Eddy, Jr., David Kamo and
FMF 250cc Pro runner-up Nick
Stover. CN
back and forth with Argubright
faster in the valleys and Suther-
lin making up time in the rocky
technical sections. "It was just
cat and mouse all day," Suther-
lin said. "I was sucking dust all
day. I ended up going over the
bars twice on the third loop, just
some issues with my fork setup
that I messed up with.
"Then I ended up catching
him with four miles to go. He
made a bobble on a rock and I
passed him, then I fell over and
he was on me. It was a pretty
cool little battle at the end. We
both hair-balled it down the last
downhill and I think he ended up
falling over and I just cruised in
for second."
Argubright said, "This last
"Once we got around Skyler
who got the holeshot, I started
pushing and I think Jake started
getting into his own pace and
settling down. Once I passed
him, I really don't know what
happened to him. The first loop I
pushed really hard."
After a bad start, Motorex/
Bonanza Plumbing/Fox 450
XC-F-mounted Sutherlin wasted
no time in passing his way into
fourth behind Argubright, Bra-
bec and Howes. "I got stuck be-
hind Howes for a while and that
allowed Jake and Ricky to check
out. By the time I got around
him, I couldn't even see dust!"
But he kept charging and
eventually caught up to the Hus-
ky pilot, and they began to go
K E N D A / S R T A M A H A R E & H O U N D N A T I O N A L C H A M P I O N S H I P S E R I E S
Cole Timboe ran away
with the Pee Wee race,
moving him up one spot
to second in the final
Youth Hare & Hound
Pee Wee points.
