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WEBB TRIUMPHS AT LAST DOG STANDING
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actory Red Bull KTM's Cody
Webb made it three in a row
at the Prairie Dogs MC Last Dog
Standing when he swept both
races for a perfect overall vic-
tory at the extreme race at Glen
Helen Raceway, June 18. Webb
bested SRT KTM rider Cory
Graffunder and Beta USA's Kyle
Redmond in the final race of the
day, where the intense dust and
high temperatures pushed riders
to the limit. The trio was among
only five racers who recorded
finishes.
Webb received a challenge
from Redmond, Graffunder and
Rockstar Energy Husqvarna's
Colton Haaker throughout the
day, but in both scored races—
the one-lap LDS-2 race and the
more difficult two-lap LDS-3
race—he was able to pull a com-
manding lead. In the final LDS-3
race, his lead was especially
large after both Redmond and
Graffunder made spontaneous
pit stops early in the race.
Redmond started out strong
and began to mix it up with
Webb for the lead, but quickly
ran into a problem. "I got to this
one hill and my clutch went out,"
Redmond described. "It was
from the earlier crash [in LDS-2].
It knocked the clutch line loose
and we didn't catch it. I had to
go back to the pits and I prob-
ably lost 10 minutes."
Graffunder realized he had a
problem of his own, and came in
for a wheel change. "I switched
tires after LDS-2 and put on a
softer one thinking that it would
help, but it didn't work at all on
the loose, silty hillclimbs," Graf-
funder explained. "So after that
first hillclimb, I think it was really
worth my while to stop and put
my other wheel back on be-
cause I knew it works."
Cody Webb took another commanding win at the
Prairie Dogs Last Dog Standing.
PHOTOGRAPHY
BY
JEAN
TURNER
