SUPERPRESTIGIO OF THE AMERICAS
VOL. 52 ISSUE 47 NOVEMBER 24, 2015 P63
Briefly...
have a shot of catching Jared Mees
and winning this year's champion-
ship. He was vocal about his feelings
of having such an important race on
an indoor short track. "I've still got a
lot to be proud of," Smith said. "I won
more than anybody else, so I'm pret-
ty happy about that, but I'm bummed
because I wanted to be able to fight
for the championship. When you
come to a roller derby with 50 fast
guys it's going to be a shit show and it
was. That's what happens on a short
track, somebody else controls your
destiny and that's kind of what hap-
pened to me. It sucks. I just plan on
coming back next year and winning
so much that I don't even have to
come back to race this bullshit short
track. I'll watch it from the stands."
Britain Oliver Brindley surprised by
putting his Kawasaki atop the charts
in the GNC2 class with a 10.352
second run. Justin Jones and
newly crowned GNC2 champ Davis
Fisher rounded out the top three.
In the last GNC race of the sea-
son, Sammy Halbert snuck past
Kenny Coolbeth Jr. for third in the
final GNC1 standings. "I'm happy to
at least get a solid result out of it,"
Halbert said of his fourth-place finish
in the finale. "But I'm definitely dis-
appointed after pulling a good start
and getting myself into second. Not
being able to capitalize and get a po-
dium spot was disappointing."
Kenny Coolbeth was disappointed
in his results Friday night, especially
considering the hours of work he's
put into preparing for this race. "I'm
kind of bummed," he said. "I've been
working on this for a month straight
qualifying races and Coolbeth
finishing ninth in the B Main, that
made Mees the champion be-
fore the green flag even dropped
for the final.
The championship battle
between Mees and Smith was
intense all season and at times
became contentious, but Mees
went on to say how bad he felt
about Smith's crash earlier in the
program.
"Bryan's a good competitor
and deep down a good friend,"
Mees said. "There's a rivalry
there of course, because we're
all going for the same thing.
and frequent.
With the unique track only 12
riders could ride in the main, so
a B Main was devised and the
top two riders from that trans-
ferred to the Main, and cham-
pionship points were awarded
to positions 13th through 18th
to those finishing third through
eighth in the B Main. So Jake
Mataya and Danny Eslick made
it to the Main event by finishing
first and second in the B Main,
while Brad Baker, who was third
in the B Main got 13th-place
points and so on.
With Smith crashing out in
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