and their battle for the lead moved them
slowly away from the pack.
"I started tightening up and getting arm
pump and I realized [Yorba] was starting
to come up so I made little mistakes be-
cause I was trying to keep riding through
my arm pump," Shirey admitted. "Then I
decided to back it down because I knew
he was still moving and I couldn't hang on
any more."
Yorba eventually took the checkered
flag alone after an hour, 33 minutes and
three seconds with Shirey almost two
minutes behind and Thompson taking
third just over two minutes behind Shirey.
Most important to Thompson, though,
was he maintained his hold on first in
points with 117, Yorba now at 108, unof-
ficially.
Rocky Mountain ATV-MC/Precision
Concepts Kawasaki teammates Justin
Seeds and Robby Bell took fourth and
fifth, a slight oil leak forcing Bell to nurse
his FMF/Ame Grips/MSR KX450F from
the first lap on.
Ryan Reina, Michael DelFante, Benny
Breck, Justin Wallis and Travis Damon
rounded out the top 10 overall followed
by the top three WCGP Pro 2 riders: CST
Honda's Beau Baron, CST KTM's Mitch
Anderson and 3 Bros. Husqvarna's Nick
Stover.
Mark Kariya
VOL. 53 ISSUE 17 MAY 3, 2016 P27
After slipping
off the WCGP
Pro 2 podium
for the first time
this season at
the previous
round, Beau
Baron passed
teammate Mitch
Anderson in the
last half of the
race to grab his
first class victory
of the year.
Tatum Sik proved unbeatable over the
weekend, winning both Women Expert and
WCGP Women Pro—the third time she's
performed that feat this season.
