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or maybe a little bit past halfway
you could actually start feeling
the rain affect the track a little
bit," McAllister said. "At that
point the pace slowed down
quite a bit. I just tried to push a
little bit extra in certain areas to
make up a little bit of time. On
that last lap I really got lucky, we
were tiptoeing out there."
McLean is happy to take a
second-place finish back home
to Portland, Australia, and hopes
to find a ride for the rest of the
season. Butterman recovered to
still finish on the podium. The pair
of third-place finishes puts Butter-
man second in the points at 40;
McLean is third, also at 40.
Rounding out the top five
was Kearns and Intents Racing
Kawasaki's Steve Drew.
Lean Six Sigma Racing
Husqvarna's Josh Jackson
dominated the Pro Lites class to
take the win at home, while his
championship rival Nicky Reimer
struggled. Jackson got out to
the lead early and no one could
touch him.
"I've been thinking about this
race since we left Tuscon [the
2015 season finale] last Novem-
ber. I led almost the whole main
event and got passed on the last
lap and it's been eating at me,"
Jackson said. "So this was my
redemption day."
The battle for second was
between Dallas Daniels on the
Fatboy Racing Yamaha and
Cameron Welsh on the Damn
Dummy Racing Yamaha. Daniels
would come out on top, a solid
effort for the young
Mattoon, Illinois native's
first race in the champi-
onship.
In fourth was Answer
Racing Suzuki's Daw-
son Scheiffer and fifth
was Brady Tausan on a
Kawasaki.
It was a difficult night
for the reigning champ
Reimer, who suffered a
wrist injury earlier in the evening
during the first Pro Open main.
He toughed it out to salvage
some points in sixth.
Jackson's fellow Bakersfield
Supermoto rider Christian Payne
dominated the Amateur National
class. The Husqvarna rider led
straight away and had a near
perfect race until the very end,
also falling victim to the final dirt
section exit. His big lead that he
amassed saved him in the end.
"I got a little carried away and
opened up the throttle a little too
much and spun her out," said
Payne. "Luckily I grabbed the
clutch before I could kill it so that
helped a little bit, got back up as
fast as I could. He almost got me
though, I had my heart racing a
little bit right there at the end."
Completing the podium was
Tyler Smotherman on a Suzuki
and Monarch Honda's Malcolm
Barker. CN
Josh Jackson
dominated
the Pro Lites
class on his
Husqvarna.
The top Amateur-class rider
was Christian Payne.
