ATVA ITP Moose Racing National Motocross Series Round #9 - Muddy Creek Blountville, TN June 30th - July 1st, 2007

Photos By: Kenny Hill

Pro ATV Race Report - Continued

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In Moto 2, Byrd nailed the holeshot through the first section, and Lawson found first by the green flag, but Byrd had the lead on lap 2, leaving Lawson 0.277 seconds off. The next lap, Byrd turned the fastest time of the weekend with a 1:57.

Byrd turned the fastest lap time of the weekend with a 1:57		Michael Brown finished 5-5 for the weekend which puts him in 4th place in points for the series.

"Well, practice is practice," Byrd said. "Some people go hard in practice and some don't, but when the gate drops, that's when the race is on."

Lawson admitted that training stymied his efforts for the overall. "In the double-doubles over there, [Byrd] just went a little wide and I took the inside, that's about all I had," Lawson said. "I don't know what happened in the second moto. I wasn't riding over the edge; I wasn't making too many mistakes or crashing or whatever. I just didn't feel it-I just couldn't get my breath, I guess, so we'll go back and try harder. You can only go for so long, and it is motocross and you peak, and you try to peak again and it just happens. You get tired of training and you just have to take it and go again."

Pat Brown actually set the fastest lap time around 2:01 in practice

Brown prized the only Yamaha on the podium. "Yeah, it really worked in by the end of the day here. It got real, real slick, and it was just a good, hard racetrack. Third place isn't that bad. The bike just came in, and it was working great. It was all just coming to at the end of the moto. I wish I could have been up a little higher on the box, but third place, I will take it. It's not one of my favorite tracks out there, but I gotta race all of them-we all have our favorites."

"It doesn't mean everything," Brown said after practice. "We made some tire changes, and the Yamaha is hooking up good-it's just awesome in this slick stuff."

After the ATV Summer Nationals at Muddy Creek Raceway on 7/1/2007