IN
THE
WIND
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PHOTOGRAPHY
BY
MARK
KARIYA
THOMPSON TOPS WINDY STATE LINE WCGP
A
fter winning the season-
opening Adelanto Grand
Prix, bad luck hit Fasthouse
Honda's Blayne Thompson, as
he recorded finishes of 6-5-DNF
in subsequent rounds of the
AMA District 37/Maxxis Big 6
Grand Prix Series.
But he didn't let that dissuade
him and his persistence—as
well as his innate speed—paid
off with victory at the unpleas-
antly windy State Line Grand
Prix, May 6-7, hosted by the
Shamrocks Motorcycle Club,
and the AMA Big 6 West Coast
Grand Prix (WCGP) Series,
its 90-minute feature race. Ox
Motorsports Honda's Zach Bell
grabbed the lead briefly in the
middle stages but had to settle
for second, though he remains
the points leader. Defending se-
ries champ Eric Yorba claimed
third, the Maxxis/FMF/RPM
Racing KTM rider also spending
a few minutes up front at one
point.
"I just told myself like at the
Adelanto Grand Prix that we
needed to come out here and
win and catch up on points,"
Thompson said. "Yeah, we had
bad luck in the last two rounds."
The Maxxis/TBT Racing/Bell
Helmets CRF450R rider added,
"You always want to win, but this
time I had to make sure I had the
win out here. The other ones,
I was going, 'All right, we know
we have the speed and every-
thing,' but this one we made
