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Cycle News 2016 Issue 39 October 4

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VOL. 53 ISSUE 39 OCTOBER 4, 2016 P35 home-field advantage]! [AMA] District 38 is way different than anything; it's a lot like northern Baja, a lot like San Felipe," Morgan said. "It's wide-open and you've got to know how to read terrain and see those road crossings coming up or a berm track or whatever it is out here." After wrapping up the Open A championship in both the WHS and H&H, Statley decided to make the Rattlesnake Chase his Pro-class debut and what a debut it was. "I got a first-kick start off the line so I was midpack," Moto- world of El Cajon/DP Racing/ Precision Concepts YZ450F- mounted Statley recalled. "By the time I hit the [dunes], I was battling for third with Nick Bur- son." Statley and Burson battled the first lap, but with Burson more concerned about the champion- ship and getting his FMF/Preci- sion Concepts/Klim 480 RR safely to the finish, he opted to let Statley go. "By lap three and four, I'd look back every once in a while and I didn't see anybody and I just started to get com- fortable and get in my groove," Statley said. "I didn't think [the pressure of the championship] would affect me too much, but it did," Burson confessed. "I wanted to put in two good laps and see where I was because I just needed to be near Justin Bonita, within three or four places unless he won. "It was weird. I didn't ride hard all day. "I was really surprised, actu- ally, where I finished on the day, coming in third. I don't feel I rode [fast enough] to [get] third place." He added, "It feels good to finally get it done." Rick's Custom Shutters & Blinds Yamaha-mounted Smith was a solid but solitary fourth with IRC Tires Yamaha rider Bonita fifth in his first D38 race. Austin Serpa won 250cc A and earned sixth overall followed by FMF Pro 250 winner Dante Oliveira, who clinched that class championship in doing so. Purvines Racing Beta's Damon Bush and Open A's James Sha- fer and Brad Millikan rounded out the top 10 overall. Mark Kariya Dante Oliveira won the FMF Pro 250 class again, thus wrapping up the class championship. The Purvines Racing Beta crew celebrates Nick Burson's third overall, which was enough to lock up the number one plate for the season.

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