Extreme
Dirt Track
DURO ATVA Nationals
Round #1 - Ava, Missouri
Ozark Mountain Raceway
May 30, 2009
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ATV MAIN
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#25 Chuckie Creech makes the switch to KTM
for 2009 & he just missed a podium finish
in his orange debut |
Chuckie Creech made his first National appearance
aboard his new KTM 450SX. Creech was in 9th place
off the line in the Pro class and fought hard
to work through traffic. Creech had moved all
the way into the number five position and made
his way around Danny McGraw and began to pressure
Kendall Webb for third. “I got pinched off
in the start and just worked up. I caught up to
Kendall and was trying to pressure him, but I
ran out of time before I was able to make a clean
pass,” said Creech, who had to settle for
a fourth place finish.
Danny McGraw rounded out the top five, while
Zac Willett held on strong to take sixth place,
followed by Trent Powell in seventh and Kristopher
Bures in eighth.
Polaris’s Frank Batista was involved in
a tangle up with Darin Ogden, which put him to
the back of the pack and almost out of the race.
“Darin and I got caught up and I somehow
ended up getting a hole punched in my radiator.
I ran the whole race with almost no water, but
the Polaris held on and I still worked up to 9th
place,” said Batista who finished in the
number nine spot just before Brad Riley in tenth.
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#13 Frank
Batista makes his full time return to
Extreme Dirt Track racing after finishing
in the top 3 in 2007, but he skipped the
2008 race season, but he is back on the
Polaris Outlaw for 2009
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Another returning
name from the past is Darin Ogden, who
hasn't raced full season since 2005 when
he finished out the year in the top 3,
he will be back full-time on the #314
Honda TRX 450R for 2009
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Rage ATV's Harold Goodman picked up where
he left off in the Pro Lites Class with
yet another Holeshot & the win in the
Pro Lites Class, now he is off to Mexico
to compete in the Baja 500 next weekend
to defend his 2008 SCORE Championship |
The Pro Lites class was almost a repeat of the Pro
class when it came to the podium. Harold Goodman,
who walked away with the win in his Pro Lites heat
race, grabbed the holeshot once again in the Pro
Lites Main, with Kendall Webb Michael Coburn hot
on his heels. Goodman pulled away slightly while
Webb and Coburn battled it out, and held his lead
all the way to the checkered flag to take the win.
Michael Coburn Was third off the line and after
a brief battle with Kendall Webb for the number
two spot began to close in on leader Harold Goodman.
Unfortunately, Coburn ran out of time before he
was able to try for a pass and had to settle for
the second spot on the Pro Lites podium.
Kendal Webb, who claimed his Pro Lites heat win,
put up a good fight as he tried to hang on to
his second place spot in the Pro Lites main event,
but gave in to the pressure from Michael Coburn.
Webb stayed strong in third, holding off Frank
Batista to find himself in the third spot on the
podium once again.
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