FAITH CAPTURES RICKY CARMICHAEL CUP
The final round of the AM-
SOIL Arenacross Race to the
Championship played out
inside the Orleans Arena in Las
Vegas on Friday night, May 6,
and Team Babbitt's/Monster
Energy/AMSOIL Kawasaki's
Chris Blose came away with
the overall victory after topping
both main events (as well as the
RMATV-MC Head 2 Head Chal-
lenge), but unfortunately for him,
it wasn't enough to overcome
the small eight-point deficit to
his teammate Gavin Faith in the
2016 Arenacross Champion-
ship. Blose managed to close to
within five points of Faith but that
would be it.
Faith, who finished second to
Blose in both mains at the Las
Vegas final, collected his first
career Arenacross Champion-
ship at the end of the night,
claiming nine main-event wins
over the course of the season,
while Blose won six mains.
Third in the championship
went to another Babbitts Kawa-
saki rider—Jacob Hayes. He went
3-3 on the night and finished out
the season with 10 main-event
wins. KTM rider Travis Sewell
(176 points/six wins) and Honda
rider Jace Owen (172 points/one
win) rounded out the top five in
the championship.
"I don't know if I've even
been so nervous coming into
a weekend," said Faith. "Chris
[Blose] has been riding great all
year and I knew he was going
to bring it tonight. It just feels so
good [to win the title]. I'm a little
speechless right now. It feels
incredible to win the Ricky Car-
michael Cup. I've been working
with Ricky and we're bringing it
back home to the Carmichael
Farm. It's awesome. It's been a
long season and we've worked
really hard for this, so to finally
make it happen feels incredible."
"I came out and did every-
thing I could tonight to win the
overall," said Blose. "I'm pretty
bummed to get second in the
championship, but we made a
lot of progression from last year
and we have to be proud of
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