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Cycle News 2016 Issue 47 November 29

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MOTOCROSS THOR WINTER OLYMPICS, PRESENTED BY PRO CIRCUIT NOVEMBER 21-26, 2016 GATORBACK CYCLE PARK / GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA P50 one of the next stars of the sport. The young racer from California dominated the 65cc class by winning the 65cc (7-9), 65cc (7-9) Limited and 65cc (7- 11) classes. The Orange Brigade KTM rider was indeed impres- sive on the SX track. Factory Connection-backed Carson Mumford rode his very trick Honda CRF150R to the head of the class in both the Supermini 1 and Supermini 2 classes, and he also won the spots in a lot of the classes, but at the end of the day, a pattern of familiar names would claim the number-one plates on the SX track. There were three riders that had the trifecta on the day. One of those was Carter Halpain of Lubbock, Texas, who claimed the 250B, 450B and 450B Lim- ited titles on his EBR Yamaha. He also got a fourth-place finish in the 250B Limited class. Haiden Deegan is definitely This year's event saw an in- crease of more than 300 entries for the supercross segment and, as a result, many heats, quali- fiers and LCQs were needed to trim the field for the main events, which finally got going Wednes- day, when all of the supercross champions were crowned. The first gate for the super- cross racing dropped early in the morning and the racing was intense on the new track. There were many battles for the top

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