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IN THE WIND P46 "We started off the line in sixth," he said. "I was able to pass all the up into the lead. As I was trying to pass Nic Garvin for first overall, we were coming down this really gnarly, rocky hill and he had no clue I was there. He just kind of kicked a rock straight to my front wheel and I went down real hard. "I got up [but] I couldn't use my front brake at all because my thumb hurt so bad. So I got it into race mile 80 and our front brake was out so my teammate actually rode the bike with no front brake all the way until race mile 240. There, we did a full service pit and got the brake and the tires and oil and everything [done], and got the bike all fixed up. I did some serious icing on my hand and I was supposed to take the San Felipe loop from, basically, Mike's [Sky Rancho] road all the back to Mike's road, so about 130 miles of gnarli- ness, just relentless stuff. I did that whole thing! I made it from 0 to 80 and 240 back to about 390; in the process I ended up passing 1X." It was for naught, however, as the 1X Ox Motorsports three- some of Penhall/Potter/Samu- els on their Jackson Motors- ports/AHM/Scorpion Helmets CRF450X ended up with the faster official overall time, 11:35:29-11:36:33. Being the last Pro Moto Un- limited team to start likely hurt their final result, with Penhall saying, "I was stuck in the dust at the very back just trying to stay steady and try to stay focused and not make mistakes. You can only go as fast as far as you can see out there. I got around a couple guys—unfortu- nately, not enough guys—but we had a few little mistakes. We've just got to work on the next race and hopefully we'll be back to win another." The Pro Moto Limited (un- der 401cc) winners Morgan Crawford/Justin Morrow/Kevin Murphy/Jim O'Neal winners took fifth overall on their Monkey Business Cleaning Products/ PCT/HP Race Development Husky FE 350 in 12:08:26 despite developing an injector issue that forced them to stop several times over the last half to clean it. Other class winners included Jim Holley/Ryan Senacal/Ja- son Thomas/Kenjiro Tsuji/Tony Wenck in Pro Moto 30 (riders over 30 years old) in 12:50:12 on their Hicklin Powersports YZ450FX; Jeff Kawell/Jano Montoya/Alberto Ruiz/Fran- cisco Septien in Pro Moto 40 in 12:22:47 on their PB Brown KTM 450 XC-F; Robert Gates/ Chris Goolsby/Bob Johnson/ David Potts/Doug Smith/ Steve Williams in 13:12:36 on their HelmetKits.com KX450F; Dennis Greene/Mark Hawley/ Andy Kirker/Dennis McLaugh- lin/Bill Tarling in Pro Moto 60 in 16:10:49 on their Tivoli CRF450X; Josear Carrasco in Pro Moto Ironman in 15:14:47 on his Too Much Fun Promotions RMX450Z; and Jose Galvan/ Adan Garcia/Cornelio Garcia/ Fermin Vargas in Sportsman Moto in 13:40:43 on their Pirelli- backed YZ450FX. Mark Kariya (Left to right) Nic Garvin, Ray Dal Soglio and Derek Ausserbauer rode a steady race that had them in the lead pack, but they couldn't stay with the 45X bike over the last half and settled for second.