NORMAN TOPS IN TEXAS
T
hough he's best known as
someone who excels in the
fast desert races like Baja, Kend-
all Norman proved he could also
hold his own in more technical
going like the Lone Star National
Hare & Hound, hosted by the Lub-
bock Trail Riders (LTR), March 11.
The race was round three of the
Kenda/SRT AMA Hare & Hound
National Championship Series,
Presented by FMF.
The 2010 series champ proved
that point in winning round two a
couple weeks ago and backing
that up with a runaway victory in
the first-ever AMA Hare & Hound
National in Texas, where the going
was much slower with constant
twists and turns making for a
significantly slower speed average
than usual.
That, of course, was not un-
expected, considering the LTR's
previous experience is putting on
both national and local enduros.
The club laid out two separate 40-
mile loops that in several instances
followed the trails used in a local
enduro the previous weekend.
Not that it seemed to matter to
Norman, who once again grabbed
the holeshot aboard his Choco-
late Mountain Ranch/Pro Circuit/
Alpinestars CRF450X over local
favorite Cole Kirkpatrick, Beta's
Chance Fullerton, 3 Bros. KTM's
Nick Stover, Beta's Joe Wasson,
Purvines Racing Yamaha's Nick
Burson and the rest of the field.
"I've heard stories from my dad
back in the ISDE Qualifier days
and he had some wild stories so
it's super-interesting to come here
and see what the terrain's like and
IN
THE
WIND
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The bomb run was
considerably shorter
than usual and more like
a hare scrambles start,
but Kendall Norman got a
great start ahead of local
fast guy Cole Kirkpatrick
(NT921) and Chance
Fullerton (X999).
