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six-mile course, which included
the Wythe Raceway Mile. The
start was very "Daytona-ish"
with a mile of switchbacks and
long-banked turns. Most of the
starts went off without a glitch.
After the oval track, the racers
were treated to some Enduro X
and then off into the woods they
went. After the first lap it was
local favorite, Supermini 14-15
rider Justin Mutter leading, with
Jeff Macknik Jr. in second about
30 seconds back. Third place
was Hunter Thorne.
Mutter led it all the way to the
checkers, while Macknik and
Supermini 12-13 racer Thorne
battled for second. In the end,
Thorne won out after the adjust-
ed times were tallied.
The "C" riders ran an almost
identical six-mile loop. After the
first lap, it was morning Super-
mini racer Macknik, now on a
full-size bike in the C 200 class,
leading the way. Macknik was
pursued by Derek Mabe, also
from the C 200 line. The two
went back and forth for all three
laps, while Ryan Long, from the
Vet C class, was sneaking up
on them on adjusted time. On
the final lap, it was Long with the
overall win, Mabe in second and
Macknik in third.
The main event had a 1.5-mile
addition with some extraordinary
hillclimbs and downhills that the
promoter felt would have been
a tad too much for the previous
races given the slick conditions.
Nine AAs riders were doing
battle for both VCHSS points
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BY
CHRISTOPER
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Ethan Ficklin leads the AA class off the start.
and AMA East points. No throw-
aways for the AA's means every
round counts.
Right after the green flag
waved it was an extremely tight
race. By the time they got to the
Enduro X section, the top five
were separated by only the width
of the track. They were bar-to-
bar, three-to-four wide.
After the first lap, it was a
freight train with local favorite
Paddy Holloway in the lead.
Rounding out the top five was
McDonal.
On lap two, there was a
wicked pile-up involving the
front-runners. At this point, it
turned into a race of who could
get up and re-started the quick-
est. It was, as it turned out,
McDonal. He took the lead
from then on, and by the fourth
lap, he had a 30-second lead
on Brandon Nero and Ethan
Fickland. Keeping them honest
in fourth was Holloway. Nero,
Fickland and Holloway engaged
in a three-way dogfight for the
runner-up position, a battle that
McDonal wanted no part of and
maintained a healthy lead, which
he succeeded in doing.
Nero held on to second place,
while Holloway got around and
edged out Fickland for runner-up
honors.
Kenneth Held
OVERALL
1. Kyle McDonal (Bet)
2. Brandon Nero (Yam)
3. Paddy Holloway (KTM)
4. Ethan Ficklin (Hus)
5. Stephen Edmondson (KTM)
6. Derek Klotter (KTM)
7. Cody Gump (KTM)
8. Dylan Delacruz (KTM)
9. Henry Symanski (Yam)
10. Kyle Honeycutt (Yam)
