VOL. 54 ISSUE 42 OCTOBER 24, 2017 P73
down Josh Hill on his Alta Elec-
tric motorcycle, and McElrath
did away with Ronnie Mac.
The lone remaining two-stroke
in the Lites field, Sipes couldn't
quite handle Cantrell in the
semis
"Physically, it's super-easy,"
Sipes, now an off-road racer
who is used to racing for hours
at a time, said. "It's 40 seconds.
Your heart rate gets up, and
then it's over. But jumping the
jumps, I was actually doing the
quad—the big stuff—and a lot
of guys weren't doing it in the
Two-Stroke class. But then in the
night show, I just kept messing
up before it. And it got cold, and
we didn't have time to re-jet the
bike, so it started bogging. That
was my ace in my pocket, and
I couldn't jump it anymore. But I
still sort of got it, so I'm happy."
McElrath took down Martin,
setting the stage for a McElrath/
Cantrell final.
In the bronze-medal race,
Martin was able to hold Sipes
at bay for the final spot on the
podium, and then McElrath and
Cantrell faced off.
McElrath took the first race,
but Cantrell kept him in check
to win race two with a massive
scrub over one of the speed-
checks.
defending event champ Shane
McElrath.
Sipes put Colton Aeck away in
the first round going 2-0, and all
three TLD racers—Sean Cantrell,
McElrath and Alex Martin—did
likewise with their competition.
Cantrell eliminated KTM upstart
Enzo Lopes, while Martin took
LITES
The Lites class allows any kind
of 250cc motorcycle, so both
Ronnie Mac and Ryan Sipes
entered the Lites class on their
250cc two-strokes. Sipes even
snatched the top time in qualify-
ing by one-thousandth of a sec-
ond over TLD/Red Bull KTM's
Josh Hansen gave
Musquin a battle
for the win but
had to settle for
second.
