Team Yoshimura Suzuki's Doug Gust
Closes in on Top Spot after Mill Creek
Pell City, AL - (7/5/06) -The Mill Creek
Motocross Park was the stage for the 10th round of the
GNC National Championship. The temperature was 106º
making the event the most grueling yet for the riders
as well as the spectators. Team Yoshimura Suzuki, however,
was as hot as the blistering Alabama sun pulling two first-place
finishes and taking second and third position overall.
Coming out of Steel City, both Yoshimura Suzuki riders
were ready for the ongoing dogfight for points. As the
GNC series winds down inevitably the top four or five
contenders close in on each other. As the final flag
dropped, both Doug Gust and Jeremiah Jones had reduced
the distance needed to walk away with the championship.
The first moto found both riders in good starting position.
Jones passed a few riders and worked his way forward
positioning him in third behind Travis Spader. Jeremiah
finally passed Spader and early leader Harold Goodman
on the sixth lap and took off for the win. Doug Gust
was able to get in just behind Goodman and hometown
Alabama boy, Keith Little for fourth.
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The second moto found Doug second off the blocks. He
passed Little and just checked out in typical Gust mode!
Jeremiah took an early corner a little too hot and found
himself off the track after going over a berm. Once
back on the track he got bumped by another rider. The
collision bent J.J's nerf onto his leg and put him back
to last place. Although in pain and worried that the
nerf might break, Jones decided not to pull off but
to continue on.
It was another one of those come from behind races
for Jones moving off of dead last and picking riders
off one by one passing the last two riders in the last
lap to put him 5th across the line.Keith Little ended
up bagging the overall win with Gust second on the day
and Jeremiah 3rd. Both Joe Byrd and John Natalie had
rough days as far as points were concerned. Gust meanwhile
relentlessly continued his march forward into second
place in points, now only 13 points behind Byrd. It
looks like the championship is going to boil down to
the last race of the year.
Team Yoshimura Suzuki will be at the WPSA ATV event
on July 8th and 9th in Taylorville, IL and at the GNC
Nationals July 16 at Sunset Ridge in Walnut, IL.
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- Galfer - AC Racing - BMC Filters - Tag - Regina -
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