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Jones Sizzles
At Sunset Ridge
Cooks Competition
In One-One Sweep
Walnut, IL (7/19/06)
-Jeremiah Jones went 1-1 this weekend making the 11th
round of ATVA MX Nationals his own private playground.
Jones's back-to-back first place motos catapulted him
from fourth to second in overall points. Jones is well
and truly on a terror.
"In the first moto, I came out of the hole shot
in second behind Harold Goodman, with Doug (Gust) right
behind me. After we pulled past Harold, we put on one
heck of a battle."
Jones and Gust traded the lead for several laps. The
race seemed destined to recreate another one-two punch
from Team Yoshimura Suzuki. But with three laps to go,
teammate Doug Gust suffered an unknown problem and bailed
off of a large jump in mid-air. Fortunately, Doug was
able to get away from the quad and although battered,
suffered no serious injury.
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Doug Gust & #2 Jeremiah Jones |
"I got pretty banged up for sure." Gust
said. "I nearly endo'd the bike and went right
off the track. I went on to ride the second moto, but
it was tough."
"It's just the worst thing that can happen to
a rider," added Team Manager Wayne Hinson "You're
in the air and coming down knowing you're going to wreck,
time to bail out! Luckily, Gust is Pro enough to know
how to control a fall."
In the second moto, Jones hammered to the lead early
and never looked back. "I got the holeshot and
just ran a clean race from start to finish." The
competition was no match for Jones and his LT-R450,
and he finished in first place with 15 seconds between
him and the second place finisher.
Hinson had only a few words to describe Jones' back-to-back
domination: "Jeremiah just decimated them!"
Jeremiah was excited to have a third set of double
moto wins in a GNC Championship competition. "I
had a great day," Jones said. "The bike was
just haulin' for me and I was on!"
And so he was. With Jones now in second place with
219 points, he has become a serious contender for the
title. Given Jones early season point deficit it seems
impossible, but here he is. If Jones can pull this off,
it would be one of the biggest comebacks in GNC racing
history. Gust is not to be counted out with 217 points,
and the pair will surely continue to be a dangerous
duo as Team Yoshimura Suzuki continues to push for wins.
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