ENDUROCROSS
GEICO AMA ENDUROCROSS SERIES
ROUND 8 / NOVEMBER 7, 2015
FORD IDAHO CENTER / NAMPA, IDAHO
P76
finish line. A few brake-checks
and look-backs later and
Haaker left with the lead as
Webb backed off—clearly riding
smartly for a championship-
winning finish but not risking a
DNF for block-pass retaliation.
It was an impressive charge from last to first
for Haaker and ultimately a smart race for Webb
to ride into second-place for the finish. The third-
place battle between Brown and Robert went
down to the last three laps when Robert took the
spot for good. Brown would fall back a few more
positions before the checkers flew.
Graffunder and Redmond rounded out the
top five. Gerston, Brown, Tremaine, Trystan and
Wyatt Hart rounded out the top 10, respectively.
Finishing the Pro Main event was Cullins, Abbott
and Aaron.
"I felt like I was riding great all night even
though my heat race didn't show it," Haaker
said. "I didn't get the start and from there I made
a few too many mistakes that cost me. Heat
races are so short that I can't make mistakes
and expect to recover. Still, I know if the heat
races don't go perfectly I can still win at the end
of the night. However, it doesn't help when I
miss out on those championship points.
"In the main I fell on the first lap and knew it
was time to go and I couldn't go anywhere but
forward. So, I just tried to make the fewest mis-
takes as possible. The woodpile was challeng-
ing but in the main event there was a smooth line
through it—which I finally found after following
some of the guys that weren't getting stuck."
"You never want to walk away with second
when you've been qualifying fastest all day,"
Webb said. "It's kind of embarrassing, really, but
I didn't quite have it every lap in the main event.
The Matrix was really slick and that's where I've
been breaking traction really badly between the
logs. It's been sort of my downfall lately. I was
losing a lot of ground there every lap. Then, I
finally found the freeway through the woodpile
Cory Graffunder
took the high
route en route
to a fourth-place
finish.
