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combined 22 seconds to Strang
in those two tests alone.
At the end of day one, Strang
sat at the top of the leaderboard
with a six-second advantage
over Duvall, with Sipes another
20 seconds back. Behind the
top-three, a tight battle was rag-
ing between Cory Buttrick and
Layne Michael, as they finished
the first day less than three sec-
onds apart.
Sipes came out swinging on
day two, taking the first cross
test win by three seconds over
Strang and four seconds over
Duvall, then showed serious im-
provement in the enduro test by
taking the win in the first enduro
test of day two by one second
ahead of Duvall.
The third test of the day, the
cross test, would ruin Sipes'
chances of a run at Duvall and
Strang as a big crash resulted in
him dropping over one minute
to the two leaders and move
him back to fifth overall for the
weekend.
With his lead cut down to four
seconds, Strang rebounded
with wins in the third and fourth
tests and a second behind Sipes
in the fifth test to stretch his
lead out to 15 seconds ahead
of Duvall. A fourth place in the
final test of the weekend for the
Australian was good enough to
clinch the overall weekend win
by 10 seconds ahead of Duvall,
who took the final test win of the
weekend.
Layne Michael would edge
out Cory Buttrick for the final po-
dium spot by just eight
seconds with Ryan
Sipes rounding out the
top-five overall.
Billy Schlag took the
Open A class win, as
well as the top-amateur
spot, with an impres-
sive sixth place overall.
Luciano Benavides
finished second in
Open A and seventh overall,
with motocross legend Damon
Bradshaw finishing third in Open
A and eighth place overall in his
first-ever off-road race.
The tightest battle of the
weekend was in the Women's
Pro class as Becca Sheets and
Mackenzie Tricker battled to the
last test with Sheets taking the
overall win by just 1.4 seconds.
Wendy Jaudas rounded out the
Women's podium in third. CN
OVERALL RESULTS
1. Josh Strang (Hus)
2. Thad DuVall (Hus)
3. Layne Michael (Hus)
4. Cory Buttrick (KTM)
5. Ryan Sipes (Hus)
6. Billy Schlag (KTM)
7. Luciano Benavides (Hus)
8. Damon Bradshaw (KTM)
9. Braxton McGee (Hus)
10. Conner Smith (Hus)
(Above) Thad Duvall
gave chase and had to
settle for a close second.
(Right) Layne Michael
filled out the Sprint
Enduro podium.
