|
AMA ATV Motocross Nationals
Round # 8 - Muddy Creek MX
Blountville,
TN
June 27-28, 2009
|
|
Dustin Wimmer Storms
Back Into Victory Lane with Muddy Creek Sweep
AMA ATV Motocross Championship
Series - Round 8 - Muddy Creek
| AMA
ATV Motocross Nationals
Round #8 - Muddy Creek MX |
|
|
|
|
|
|
#1
Dustin Wimmer Goes 1-1 at Muddy Creek for
his first Podium finish since his shoulder
injury in April |
Blountville,
TN – With
championship pressure mounting, Rockstar / Makita
/ Yoshimura Suzuki's Defending AMA Pro ATV MX Champion
Dustin Wimmer made a major statement by grabbing
two come-from-behind moto victories and the overall
win at round eight of the 2009 ITP Tires/Moose Racing
AMA ATV Motocross Championship presented by Parts
Unlimited. Tennessee's Muddy Creek Raceway hosted
the event, which also served as round seven of the
ATVA amateur tour.
"I felt great," said Wimmer, who also
grabbed the ATVSource.com Top Qualifier Award.
"I want to show these guys I can come back
and be number one."
Wimmer's dramatic return to victory lane came
less than two months after he dislocated his shoulder
in a practice crash, and then lost the points
lead while fighting to come back.
In Tennesse, he started moto one in 11th place
but charged through the pack. He began the last
lap in third place, but got around his teammate
Gust for second, and then pressured Can-Am's Jeremy
Lawson for the lead.
|
|
Motowork's
Jeremy Lawson held the lead for nearly
the entire race after passing Joe Byrd
in the 2nd lap, but in the final lap,
he had both Suzuki's Dustin Wimmer &
Doug Gust applying the pressure with Wimmer
charging his way through the pack from
a mid-pack start. In the final lap of
Moto One, Wimmer made his move on Gust
& passed Lawson by taking the inside
on a left-hand turn to claim the lead
just before the checkered flag. Amazingly,
Wimmer recorded the fastest laptime of
the Moto in the final lap of the race
with a 1:58.229
|
Wimmer nailed an inside line in a hard left-hand
turn to get the lead from Lawson and win the moto
by less than a second, with Gust right behind
them in third. Current series' leader Chad Wienen,
also suffering from a bad start, took fourth on
his Monster Energy/Kawasaki ahead of Can-Am rider
Cody Miller.
|
|
Joe Byrd's
DASA Powered Honda grabbed the Moto One
Holeshot closely followed by Honda's Josh
Upperman & Harold Goodman
|
|
