All
Terrain Vehicle Cross Country Series
Round #1 -
Red River Park
Bulcher, Texas
February 24th-25th |
By:
David Culpepper |
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Pro
Class Winner Shawn Hess |
Sunday morning, yes, the wind has finally reduced it’s
fury to only 10 mph gust. The 15 rider Pro class blast
off to find Josh Hahne with the holeshot. As the dust
clears we see Kyle Porter still sitting on the starting
line with his dad and some friends beginning to give him
a push to get his machine fired up. Before the riders
hit the woods Shawn Hess was able to put a pass on Hahne
for the lead. Shortly after entering the woods Hahne cased
out on a stump and got pitched over the bars for what
appeared to be a FX wrist. This kinda stacked the riders
up just momentarily but allowed Hess to stretch out a
huge lead while running up front in clean air. At the
end of the first lap Hess had pulled out to a minute and
half lead over Austin Aldridge and Garrett Oliver. Aldridge
and Oliver were hooked up and riding within seconds of
each other for the first two laps. By the end of the third
lap Hunter Miller entered the picture and took over 3rd.
Miller had rebounded from a poor start and worked his
way through the 15 rider field in commanding fashion.
Lap four had Oliver taking a spill that knocked him a
little silly and forced him to back off the pace so that
he could at least make the finish line. In the mean time
Scott Dunn, and the Moster brothers Charlie and Tony were
moving forward in the standings. Out front it was no contest,
Hess was on his game plan and no one was going to have
a chance at derailing him. His lead at the finish line
was over 6 minutes. While passing a lapped rider Miller
blew a turn that cost him a one lap penalty and a second
place finish. Even though the missed turn was not intentional
and did not save that much time the marked course is what
all riders are required to ride. Aldridge finished 2nd
in class followed by Charlie Moster, Scott Dunn, and Tony
Moster. Kyle Porter came back from dead last to finish
6th place.
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Austin
Aldridge |
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Miach
Ames |
In the Open class Lexie Coulter took the holeshot and
pulled out to a early lead that she held for 3 laps.
Josh Robinson reeled Coulter in and made the pass with
2 laps to go and took it home for the win. Coulter held
on to second followed by Brian Firth, Charles Carlock,
and Anthony Perry. In the Junior class Micah Ames had
the win in the bag but on the last lap a tool came lose
under the seat and shorted out the battery causing him
to lose a 9 minute lead over second place. Chad Tempel
capitalized on Ames misfortune and took the win. Ames
got going again and managed to chase Tempel down and
was right on his rear bumper at the finish. Jason Thomas,
Keaton Haverkamp, and Levi Mitchell finished out the
class. Dan King must have had his little friend with
him during the race this weekend. King took the lead
in the 30+ class and never looked back. Carlos, I mean
Brad Dunn tried everything he could to reel in King
but he was not going to be denied the win. Todd Clark,
Phil Enis, and Nick Harwell rounded out the class. In
the 40+ class
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Kyle
Porter |
Glenn Hess took the win followed b y Lorne Neu, and
Larry Gustine. The Open Int class was won by Austen
Gustine who had one heck of a battle with second place
finisher Marty Stone. For the first 3 laps these guys
were going at it, passing each other several times.
In the end Gustine kept it together and pulled of a
good win. Third went to Roman Solarczyk, Nate Campbell,
and Joe Becker. First race of 2007 is now in the books.
The next race is March 18, 2007 near Bryan Texas at
the Soggy Bottom ATV park. See ya there.
www.atvccs.com
200 Sharon Kay Drive
Longview, Texas 75604
903 295-0761
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